Ian Baucom, UVA’s executive vice president and provost, will leave UVA in March to become president of Middlebury College in Vermont. Baucom’s tenure at UVA began in 2014 when he joined as dean of the ...

Curry School of Education assistant professor Daphna Bassok didn’t buy in to media reports that redshirting—delaying children from entering kindergarten for one year—was gaining popularity with ...

When Ryan Hammons was 4 years old, he began directing imaginary movies. Shouts of “Action!” often echoed from his room. But the play became a concern for Ryan’s parents when he began waking up in the ...

This collection of historical objects contains some of the tangible reminders of the University’s past that can be found on, or nearby, Grounds. From a lock of Thomas Jefferson’s hair cut off just ...

In the early part of the 20th century, Thomas Jefferson’s notion of the Lawn as a place where professors and students lived and studied together was a grand idea in decline. The University had higher ...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have made headlines for all sorts of reasons during their relationship, but their latest stint on the cover of gossip magazines was for something that shouldn’t be all ...

When an act of school violence makes headlines, reporters and policy makers alike look to Dewey Cornell for answers. As a forensic clinical psychologist and a professor at UVA’s Curry School of ...

Red Cross nurses tend to wounded soldiers during World War I. When Arlene Keeling (Nurs '74, '87, Grad '92), a UVA nursing professor, was completing her Ph.D. coursework at the University, she took a ...

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 ...

In 1925 “The Cavalier Song,” written in 1923 by then-student Lawrence Haywood Lee Jr., was chosen in a College Topics contest as UVA’s best fight song. The song inspired a moniker for the athletic ...

When Katie Couric (Col ’79) hosted Tina Fey (Col ’92) on her syndicated talk show in 2013, the conversation inevitably turned to UVA nostalgia. It helped that Fey was promoting Admission, a movie set ...

In the words of Mark Twain: “Prediction is difficult—particularly when it involves the future.” But what about when it’s informed by research and scholarship? Surely then prediction is less perilous?