Bennett walks away at the relatively young age of 55 as Virginia basketball’s winningest coach.

UVA head basketball coach Tony Bennett announces his retirement on Oct. 18, 2024. UVA Athletics In the same room where he was introduced as Virginia’s men’s basketball coach in 2009, Tony Bennett sat ...

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 ...

Its wonder is realized in the embracing stillness one senses within moments of entering the University of Virginia Cemetery. The nearby commotion of traffic and student life is somehow held at bay, ...

A place with a 200-year history like UVA is bound to have tales to tell—tragedies, untimely deaths, unsettled lore. UVA has begun offering “tech sabbatical” courses, requiring students to put away ...

“The most important thing to point out,” says Michael Suarez, director of UVA’s Rare Book School, “is that despite lots of writing to the contrary, the book is not dead.” Suarez notes that in 2010 ...

UVA lacrosse coach Lars Tiffany spends a Saturday morning in January chopping and loading firewood for Start a Spark, a Virginia nonprofit. After a year of isolation for some and the loss of regular ...

The year before the founding, Thomas Jefferson declines a prominent planter’s suggestion that he expand his revolutionary ideas about education to encompass women. Jefferson notes the rigorous ...

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 ...

Red Cross nurses tend to wounded soldiers during World War I. When Arlene Keeling (Nurs '74, '87, Grad '92), a UVA nursing professor, was completing her Ph.D. coursework at the University, she took a ...

Most music fans are familiar with the concept of a supergroup—MVPs from several successful bands combining to form a new one. But far less well-known is the term’s inverted twin: the utterly unknown ...