1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (154+ words) UVA Today News in brief: UVA Today returns to regular schedule This week, one of the most iconic traditions in Charlottesville unfolds at the University of Virginia. The Lawnies move into their new homes within a UNESCO World Heritage Site....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (437+ words) When Jackson Sleadd arrived at the University of Virginia from Louisville, Kentucky, in 2023, he wasn’t sure UVA was the place for him. He’d removed the University from his college list. Then a high school college counselor encouraged him to take…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (280+ words) Nearly 30 years after publishing a memoir about her Alabama upbringing, Deborah E. McDowell still remembers the explanation one of her former teachers gave during a hometown celebration in her honor. McDowell, the Alice Griffin Professor of English at the University of…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (457+ words) For Neha Jagasia, the path to Sunday’s Final Exercises ceremony was paved with coincidences. She was randomly matched with her first-year roommate. She applied and was accepted to the McIntire School of Commerce. She put herself out there in classrooms,…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (554+ words) After their introduction, the pair said they clicked instantly. They lived in the same dorm their first year, lived together their second and third years, and will soon move out of UVA’s Lawn, where they both live on the east…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (395+ words) Quana Dennis still remembers the energy of walking the Lawn at his 2023 University of Virginia Final Exercises – the cheers; the school bus and apple balloons marking his elementary education degree; his grandmother, sisters, mother and aunt cheering him on from…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1163+ words) Every year, UVA Today highlights a selection of soon-to-be University of Virginia graduates and tells their stories. This year, we decided to revisit a handful of the most-read graduating student profiles from last year and catch up with those young…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago   (733+ words) Student: This year was my favorite year at UVA. Student: This year, some of my favorite memories were being at the Lawn, seeing the Rotunda every day on my walk to class. Student: I feel like I’ve grown up a…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (462+ words) Do you ever get the feeling your student isn’t telling you something? And that something is pretty important? Like, how many tickets does your family get for Final Exercises? Well, UVA Today’s got your back. Bookmark this story for your…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (522+ words) Brian Wright is a self-described “nontraditional academic.” He says his younger self would be surprised to see him teaching at the University of Virginia’s School of Data Science, which he helped launch a few years ago. “I never saw myself…...