Virginia Magazine was granted rare access to UVA's secret spaces, including the frescoes of Pavilion VI, graffitied steam tunnels, enslaved people's quarters and the “sub-dungeons” of Old Cabell Hall.

To a generation of students, B.F.D. Runk (Col class of ’29, Grad class of ’30, class of ’39) loomed large over college life. He was the archetype of the old-school, Old U, dean of students. “Dee” Runk ...

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 ...

Hidden gardens tucked behind serpentine walls. Dorm rooms that date back two centuries. All add to the mystique surrounding the University of Virginia. What emerged was a version of Mr. Jefferson’s ...

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Rolling Stone magazine’s $1.65 million settlement with the UVA chapter of Phi Kappa Psi in June all but ends litigation surrounding the sensational and since-retracted December 2014 story, “A Rape on ...

Do you believe in ghosts? As Halloween approaches, this question pops up frequently. Virginia Magazine turned to UVA academics from six disciplines and asked them how each of their respective fields ...

Like college students nationally, UVA students are arriving on Grounds with needs beyond some cheap late-night takeout or a ride to the Corner. Rising living costs and wages that haven’t kept pace ...

Bonnycastle for Couric, Metcalf for Fey. “Old Dorms!” Fey cheered, pumping her fist and then high-fiving Couric. Dorm life shapes the college experience at any school. For generations at UVA, though, ...

As plans for the University of Virginia began to take shape in Thomas Jefferson’s imagination, he envisioned a lawn surrounded on three sides by housing for students and professors, connected by ...

To keep UVA warm for a week during a typical mid-winter cold spell, UVA facility workers first pile up more than 1.5 million pounds of coal, then pipe in some 25 million cubic feet of natural gas.

Editor’s note: Virginia Magazine published this story ahead of the Board of Visitors’ nearly unanimous March 1 vote to rename Alderman Library for former UVA President Edgar Shannon. See our Spring ...