In 2019, Magill replaced former UVA provost Tom Katsouleas, who left UVA to become president of the University of Connecticut ...

In 2019, Magill replaced former UVA provost Tom Katsouleas, who left UVA to become president of the University of Connecticut ...

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 ...

A place with a 200-year history like UVA is bound to have tales to tell—tragedies, untimely deaths, unsettled lore.

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 ...

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

The year before the founding, Thomas Jefferson declines a prominent planter’s suggestion that he expand his revolutionary ideas about education to encompass women. Jefferson notes the rigorous ...

When the University of Virginia intensified efforts to recruit African-American students in 1969, it didn’t hold back. Nor did it hide the sentiments of the few black students already enrolled. The ...

There are 100 jokes that begin with “A guy walks into a bar.” So far as I know, there are no jokes that begin with “An economist walks into a law firm.” But on more than one occasion, I have walked ...

Chip Apperson ate his first Grillswith when he was 17. The high school senior had finagled a visit to UVA in 1973 for that once famous, since-disbanded annual party weekend known as Easters. He ...

To tell the story of Carr’s Hill, we should start with the murder. On June 25, 1906, New York celebrity architect Stanford White, he who had redesigned the Rotunda after the fire and closed off the ...