
Groovin’ on Grounds
Alumni share their favorite college-year bands
When we asked alumni about their favorite college-year bands, the answers ran the gamut. Here’s a selection.
When we asked alumni about their favorite college-year bands, the answers ran the gamut. Here’s a selection.
For 30 years, UVA’s scrambling Pep Band managed to stay one punchline ahead of the authorities.
Amid the fervor of the Great War, UVA rid itself of a journalism school, and the pacifist it rode in on.
Forty years ago, UVA’s basketball team rose to No. 1 for the first time, paving the way for the top-ranking teams of recent years.
Shops on the Corner do their best to keep doing business amid the challenges of Covid.
‘Hitting the Alderman Stacks’ used to be just a figure of speech. Here's a look inside the beginning of the 3-year renovation.
Plans for the key connection between Central and North Grounds are moving forward.
College life returns. Sort of.
UVA’s board votes for more diversity, less Confederacy and new context for a Jefferson statue.
How one woman became the ACC’s first female varsity athlete—on the men’s tennis team.
Our timeline follows women’s 200-year journey for influence, an education and equality at UVA.
Women talk about what it was like in those early years of coeducation.
Before granting women full admission to the College, UVA needed a little persuading—in the form of a federal lawsuit.
Students treasured the writer’s time on Grounds—and so did he.
Before women came for college, they came for careers, often in support roles.
From Honor chair to editor of the Cav Daily, these students are going out on top.
The building will carry the name of the first African American to graduate from UVA.
Plans for a different kind of fall sharpen into focus as the semester approaches.
Across six decades, alumni recall the exact moment history intersected with their time on Grounds.
From the spring quarantine to the fall quandary, how UVA is confronting the coronavirus.
High-contrast infrared images by Charlottesville photographer Andrew Shurtleff show Grounds in a nearly dreamlike state.
The story behind the mediocre band that prepped the stars of Pavement and Silver Jews for success.
University commits to shrinking its carbon footprint while expanding its physical one.
In the race for the A-bomb, Jesse Beams, UVA’s resident centrifuge expert, may have promised more than he could deliver.
A UVA landmark comes back to life following a rich history and a $14M renovation
From academic research to rollicking fiction, UVA alumni and faculty members have been churning out books on a variety of topics. Here’s a look at some of them.
Students return for another unusual semester on Grounds, marked by limited group sizes and regular testing, even as in-person classes continue.
In a hard year, some UVA notables found comfort and escape in books, music, movies and the woods. Here are the good things that have helped them through.
For some UVA students, isolation and quarantine have brought new challenges to an already unusual year.