Department: Features
Bud Life
Along winding walkways and serpentine walls, our photo essay leads you down the gardens’ paths.
Summer 2018
Faces of Grounds
They have long tenure, but they don’t grade and they don’t judge. They make you feel at home.
Spring 2018
Antiwar Stories
May Days 1970: The week that would change UVA forever, through the eyes of those who were there.
Spring 2018
Color Bind
Excavation uncovers a dilemma: Should the colonnade be the bright white of our time or the unpainted tan of Jefferson’s?
Spring 2018
Calm Amid the Chaos
From meditation to monitoring social media: How the UVA E.R. team prepared for the worst of a tragic weekend’s violence.
Winter 2017
When Speech Meets Hate
The First Amendment was a major player in the events of August 11/12. A UVA legal expert shows how, and also asks some whys.
Winter 2017
Emergency Medicine
A doctor thought she’d donate blankets and socks during Hurricane Harvey and ended up contributing so much more.
Winter 2017
Getting a Read on Ryan
UVA's incoming president checked all the boxes the search committee was looking for. He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and a commitment to the student experience.
Winter 2017
Quests & Answers
From workplace productivity to global health, from cybersecurity to yogurt serenity, UVA researchers reached across disciplines, schools and the world.
Fall 2017
Griddle Me This
For decades, it cheered our hearts, warmed our blood and hardened our arteries. The origin story and afterlife of the Grillswith. And also the recipe.
Fall 2017
Exactly what he didn’t want. Exactly what UVA needed.
Finding the University’s first president took 80 years—give-or-take, heeding Jefferson, or not.
Fall 2017
The First President
UVA’s first president introduced the modern era, but some of Edwin Alderman’s progressive notions were anything but.
Fall 2017
Visitor in Chief
The Board of Visitors’ new rector talks about where we’re going, how he likes to manage and what he’s looking for in the next president.
Fall 2017
North of Eden
Old vs. new, UVA past vs. UVA future: North Grounds gives a nod to Jeffersonian design, but at a distance.
Summer 2017
Next Chapter
The quiet spaces inside UVA’s 14 libraries take on new relevance in the digital age.
Summer 2017
Lights Out
No UVA team before or since has had consecutive undefeated seasons. Boxing went four years without a loss. Then it went away.
Summer 2017
Integrating from Behind the Scenes
A look at the quiet effectiveness of Paul Saunier, an administrator who helped desegregate UVA.
Summer 2017
Pigments of Your Imagination
Let our adult coloring book help you find your happy place. We have just the place in mind. A few of them, in fact.
Spring 2017
Unquoting Jefferson
At the University of Virginia, the postelection ignited a distinctly UVA form of protest: an outbreak of remarkably civil discourse about Thomas Jefferson.
Spring 2017
Streak Show
An update on a running University tradition, stripped to its bare essentials.
Spring 2017
Theatre of the Macabre
Jefferson’s Anatomical Theatre gave way to grave robbers, the student Cadaver Society and, eventually, the wrecking ball.
Spring 2017
Shoot to Thrill
UVA sports photographer Matt Riley shares some of his favorite photographed moments from the past decade.
Winter 2016
The Jefferson Curating Society
In the end, the need to preserve the artifacts of UVA’s oldest student group was beyond debate.
Winter 2016
National Treasure
UVA poet and National Book Award finalist Rita Dove shares stories of her family, writing career and teaching at UVA.
Winter 2016
NASA’s Unseen Heroes
Margot Lee Shetterly discovered an important part of American space race history in her own childhood neighborhood.
Winter 2016