Jennifer “J.J.” Wagner Davis, executive vice president and chief operating officer, will serve as acting president before an ...

Virginia Anne “Ginger” Scott (Col ’73, Grad ’80, Educ ’89) showed extraordinary self-possession at 19. Maybe it was her nature. Maybe it was her circumstances. After her mother died, she dropped out ...

Then Douglass paid a visit, and seeing was believing. In DeSorbo’s office, she saw just how much the coach believed, both in the program and in her. She listened as DeSorbo, in his comfortably ...

6 Construction starts on the Anatomical Theatre, which Jefferson designed, deeming it essential for medical classes. The building across the street from the West Range is in use by early 1827. In 1886 ...

Tucker, one of the only scientists in the world studying the phenomenon, says the strength of the cases he encounters varies. Some can be easily discounted, for instance, when it becomes clear that a ...

By all accounts, Elkins was excelling as an RA. The panel ultimately recommended that Elkins remain on the job, and Hereford agreed. “There was a lot of support there, and I never thought I did ...

The Board of Visitors has unanimously endorsed the Ryan administration’s broad outline to achieve racial equity, remedy problematic monuments and institutional names, and put the University of ...

In a change both stunning and at least 50 years in coming, the University of Virginia Honor System will no longer expel students who violate the Honor Code. Following a University-wide student vote ...

As they did last year before the Tokyo Olympics, members of the UVA women’s swimming and diving team again used the NCAA championships as a warmup for international competition, winning seven medals ...

Robert Pianta, who has led the School of Education and Human Development since 2007, will step down as dean at the end of the coming academic year, he announced in an email this week. “After almost 14 ...

They weren’t the only ’Hoos to recently square off against each other. Hobbs and Shannon Hart (Educ ’18) were two of three contestants during an October 2020 episode of Wheel. At the time, Wheel and ...

For the first time in 22 years, the Virginia baseball program has new leadership. Just over a week after the departure of longtime coach Brian O’Connor, who led the Cavaliers to seven College World ...