A judge gave Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. the maximum sentence for the murders of football players Devin Chandler, Lavel ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

After the Supreme Court decision last June banning race-based admissions, students and admissions officers navigated a more complicated admissions process this year as application numbers continue to ...

As midnight neared, 2,000 antiwar activists surged up Carr’s Hill to the steps of the University president’s darkened mansion. The radical lawyer William Kunstler spurred them forward, shouting, fist ...

Running back Wali Lundy (Col class of ’06) burst into the end zone, adding to the Virginia onslaught and further souring the mood of thousands of West Virginia fans on hand in Charlotte, North ...

The atmosphere inside Scott Stadium was electric, as fans and players describe it 30 years later. The sellout crowd of 44,300 on Nov. 2, 1995, packed the stands. Students had claimed every ticket ...

They burned flags at American University in Washington, D.C., after the presidential election. At the University of Virginia, the election ignited a distinctly UVA form of protest: an outbreak of ...

For many former students, the sight of a blue (or green) examination book might cause stomachs to churn and bring back memories of frantic essay writing and cramped hands. With the permission of some ...

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Rector Helen Dragas gathers UVA deans and vice presidents together to announce that Sullivan has agreed to resign. "The Board feels the need for a bold leader who can help develop, articulate and ...