More than 200 volunteers spent Saturday working at one of 29 Charlottesville-area job sites as part of the fifth annual BIG Event, sponsored by Madison House.

The UVA alum, one of the nation’s leading culture critics, talks about what he’s writing, reading and watching on television; who he thinks is “the greatest novelist in the English language”; and the best TV show he’s seen in a long time.

Miller, the Cary Johnson Jr. Professor Emeritus of History, revolutionized the study of the history of Africa, slavery and the slave trades, Atlantic history and world history.

For nearly two decades, Gregory has successfully recruited talented, underrepresented students to the University. For that dedication, she has received the 2019 John T. Casteen III Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Leadership Award.

Henry Martin, one of UVA’s best-known employees, began his life enslaved and died after working on Grounds as a free man for more than 50 years. English professor and former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove read her poem about him at UVA’s bicentennial celebration in October 2017 - and it was published in the New Yorker this week.

Among more than 130 programs, many will feature speakers and panelists with University ties, offering the public a chance to hear directly from faculty members in fields ranging from U.S. history to Latin American politics, and many more.

Book festival favorites Lee Smith, Adriana Trigiani and Douglas Brinkley return to spin their stories on Wednesday as part of the 25th annual Virginia Festival of the Book.

UVA leaders. including President Jim Ryan, served up appreciation for the contributions of employees who enjoyed breakfast with a smile Tuesday in Newcomb Hall.

Robert C. Vaughan III, who headed the foundation for 43 years before retiring in 2017, died Wednesday.

UVA’s new Walt Whitman exhibit shows how the great American poet explored the connections between all kinds of people, the human and natural worlds, that seem as relevant today as they were then.