Ryan Odom at a March 24 event at John Paul Jones Arena announcing his hire as UVA head basketball coach UVA Athletics During an interview for the men’s basketball coaching job, UVA President James E.

As Claire Curzan (Col ’26) talked about achieving Virginia’s fifth straight women’s swimming and diving national championship, she caught herself accidentally underselling the magnitude of the moment.

The Cavaliers had their moment yet again at this year’s NCAA Division I national meet, becoming the third program ever to claim five consecutive crowns.

Citing the Trump administration’s efforts to end “illegal discrimination,” UVA’s Board of Visitors unanimously approved a resolution to dissolve the Division of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and ...

For a full obituary, please see the Summer 2025 issue of Virginia Magazine. John T. Casteen III (Col ’65, Grad ’66, ’70), a first-generation college student born in Portsmouth, Virginia, who rose to ...

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 ...

If history is “an argument without end,” as the historian Joseph Ellis says, then the dispute over whether Thomas Jefferson had sexual relations with his slave Sally Hemings might rank as one of the ...

Some of Thomas Jefferson’s first teachers shaped his rationalistic approach to religion, which in turn shaped his concept of the University of Virginia. His most influential early mentor, the Rev.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...