University leaders broke ground Thursday for a proposed $80 million football operations center scheduled to open in 2024. It is the planned centerpiece of an athletics complex being built on North Grounds.
Robert Ruff’s previous support of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers and his backing for the subsequent programming for that space was a precursor to his current gift.
The University bestowed its highest awards for excellence in scholarship and excellence in service upon two faculty members.
UVA looks back to Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to the University in 1976, her love of corgis and the Lawn’s magnetic draw of the low-riding, butt-wiggling creatures.
Nana Boateng’s efforts to get to UVA during the pandemic paid off: She received the prestigious Henfield Prize in fiction last month, with the judge writing, “This text left its fingerprints all over my heart.”