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 ...

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

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 ...

The search for knowledge has drawn both Trella and Wattenmaker to Upper Mesopotamia, which spans modern Iraq and part of Syria and Turkey. Here, in the Fertile Crescent, humans first domesticated ...

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 ...

Tri-captain in 1980-1981 with Val Ackerman and Dori Gamble All-Conference ACC Honors, 1980 Memorable moment: Beating No. 11 Maryland, 71-57, in January 1981, in front of a rowdy crowd at U-Hall. Gunn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...