Dr. Charles T. Pepper earned his medical degree in 1855 from the University of Virginia Medical School, then served as a surgeon for the Confederacy during the Civil War. After the war, Pepper moved ...

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 ...

Parents often spend a fortune on pretend kitchens, toy tools and other playthings to help children emulate adults. But when ...

When Alexis Ohanian (Com ’05) was a UVA history major with dyed “iguana-green” hair who loved Metallica and video games, it may have been hard to imagine that in just a few short years Forbes magazine ...

Beta Bridge, UVA’s community bulletin board, just seems to know when it’s time to clear its cache of messages.

Inside President Ryan’s ambitious plan for UVA to be a better neighbor—one of 10 key initiatives in the university’s 2030 ...

Dr. K. Craig Kent, UVA’s executive vice president for health affairs and CEO of UVA Health, resigned his position in late ...

Walsh set 11 world records and won seven world titles on her way to being named Best Female Swimmer in the six-day event in ...

With 600 members, the UVA Pickleball Club is the largest club on Grounds. It’s also a burgeoning business, with and an annual ...

UVA researchers are working to unlock what’s triggering long COVID in patients’ lungs and, more importantly, how to treat it.

Dr. Vivian Pinn (Med ’67) says she will never forget her first day of medical school—when she sat in the back of her class and waited for another woman or person of color to arrive. “I thought they ...

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 ...