In 2019, Magill replaced former UVA provost Tom Katsouleas, who left UVA to become president of the University of Connecticut. He stepped down less than two years later after tensions with its ...

After graduating from UVA in May 2020, Alec Husted (Col ’20) found himself facing two problems: He missed Grounds and, thanks to COVID, he had too much time on his hands. The solution? Recreate the ...

Graduating from UVA’s School of Architecture can be intense. But for these eight architects—and countless others—all those hours in the studio paid off. Here are some of the UVA-trained architects who ...

The School of Data Science’s new home—a four-story, 61,000-square-foot building at the corner of Emmet Street and Ivy Road—opened this spring. The interactive sculpture in the new Data Science ...

Editor’s note: This is a longform story. For an abridged version, click here. The latched door that opened by itself. The face peering over a shoulder. An unlit flashlight in an unoccupied room ...

Tina Fey usually arrived early to her classes at the University of Virginia. Drama professor Richard Warner remembers heading down early to Culbreth B006, a basement classroom, and finding Fey sitting ...

It would have made perfect sense for Kate Douglass (Col ’23, Grad ’28) to swim for Stanford University. The insider websites had her as either the No. 1 or No. 2 girls recruit in the country her ...

Rare is the person who can walk by the Pratt Ginkgo in late fall without stopping to stare at branches full of gold coins, shining in the light. And if you’re fortunate enough to be in the right place ...

The University’s Easters celebrations began innocently enough in the late 19th century as formal dances, held Monday through Saturday of the week following Easter Sunday. In those early days of ...

In September 2004, a UVA English department teaching assistant took 23 students to the decommissioned Blue Ridge Sanatorium out in the Charlottesville countryside and helped them climb over a ...

Here are some of the luminaries whose work graces Grounds, plus where you will find their work out in the rest of the world.