[The Year in Review 2024-2025]

Alinor Smith: This past year at UVA has been such a great year. It’s been a whirlwind.

Second-year student: The last year has been really busy.

Alisha Whirley: I mean, I’m a first-year, so it’s definitely a lot of adjusting, learning the ropes.

[We Moved In]

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[We Discovered]

Trent Weiss: If you can push these systems to their absolute limit and they still function, you can be pretty sure they’re going to work on the highway.

[UVA Today: Robot Car Wins Test of Speed, Safety]

Jeffrey Saucerman: We’ve identified a number of drugs that have been already approved. We’re finding new uses for them in heart disease.

[UVA Today: Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate New Heart Treatments]

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[UVA Today: Anne Verbiscer to Join Asteroid Mission]

[UVA Today: Danielle Citron Tops Legal Scholars List]

[UVA Today: Catherine Bradshaw Named Fellow for Education Research]

[UVA Today: UVA Engineers Solve Hypersonic Flight Problem]

[We Built]

[New Fairfax Campus]

[Biotech Accelerator]

[Shumway Hall]

[Hardie Football Operations Center]

[Number 1 Hospital in Virginia, Newsweek]

[Number 1 Public Business School in the World, Financial Times]

[Number 1 Public Law School, U.S. News & World Report]

[Number 1 Public School 4-Year Graduation Rate, U.S. News & World Report]

[Number 1 Public School for Financial Aid, Princeton Review]

[Number 1 College in Virginia, Forbes]

[We Played]

[Reactions to UVA’s Social Post on Trick or Treating on the Lawn]

[Love this. That’s my brother as Beetle Juice.]

[The crayon pack forever.]

[My little chicken!]

[Whooshing]

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Cedric Rucker: I’m learning how to be.

Matt Vogel: Oh, but isn’t that true of all of us, Peter Peter?

[Laughter]

[We Served]

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[UVA Today: UVA Supports Neighbors With ‘Give Where You Live’ Campaign]

Jim Ryan: On your mark, get set, go.

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[We Honored]

Patti Fralix: We had to be rebels. We had to be gritty.

[Reactions to UVA’s Social Post on the Class of 1974 Celebrations]

[Here’s to the trailblazing women from UVA’s Class of 1974!]

[Proud of being the first class of undergraduate women at UVA in 1970, graduating in 1974!]

Betty Shotton: It was the most wonderful experience of my whole life.

[All these women are my heroes. Thanks for blazing a trail for us to follow in!]

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[Presidential Portrait Series: Ken Elzinga]

[Presidential Portrait Series: Katie Couric]

[Presidential Portrait Series: Ralph Sampson]

[UVA Today: UVA Celebrates 200 Years of Classes]

[UVA Today: UVA Student is Latest Rhodes Scholar]

[UVA Today: Research Earns Students Goldwater Scholarships]

[UVA Today Faculty Spotlight: For Martin Wu, Microbiology is All Around]

[UVA Today Faculty Spotlight: Evangelia Gazaki Makes Math Fun]

[UVA Today Faculty Spotlight: William Brady Trains the Next Generation of Doctors]

[UVA Today: President Emeritus John T. Casteen III, 1943-2025]

Jim Ryan: John made UVA a place of large ambitions. He did nothing shy of helping to build the financial, physical and intellectual foundation on which the present version of UVA rests.

[UVA Today: Mike Hollins Receives Inspiration Award From NCAA]

Mike Hollins: It’s not a Mike Hollins award. The inspiration goes to the players, my brothers, that I lost. I wake up every day and just want to keep that flame going.

Tony Bennett: It was the time of a lifetime, to get to coach all these guys. I think we touched greatness.

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[UVA Today: Women’s Swimming Wins Fifth Straight NCAA Title]

[UVA Today: Men’s Golf Wins First ACC Title]

[UVA Today: Women’s Tennis Doubles Are NCAA Champs]

[UVA Today: Men’s Distance Medley Relay Breaks NCAA Record]

[UVA Today: Shane Cohen Wins 800-Meter NCAA Title]

[UVA Today: UVA Sets School Medal Record in Paris Olympics]

[UVA Today: Jade Hylton Breaks UVA’s Home Run Record]

[UVA Today: Alexis Ohanian Makes Gift to Women’s Basketball]

Alexis Ohanian: UVA women’s basketball has such an amazing legacy. I felt this door opening for the women’s program here.

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[We Welcomed]

Student 1: It’s there.

Mother of Student 1: Are you sure?

Student 1: View update. Wait, wait, wait, no.

Student 2: My heart is pounding out of my chest so.

[Student 1 Laughs]

Mother of Student 1: I need my glasses

[High school students cheering when they learned they were admitted to UVA.]

[UVA Today: Ryan Odom Is New Men’s Basketball Coach]

Ryan Odom: This is the place that I fell in love with basketball. This is the place I was shaped in so many ways.

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[UVA Alumni and Howler Brothers Co-Founders Drop Exclusive Collection]

[lululemon Meets UVA]

[We Celebrated]

Alinor Smith: As a fourth-year getting ready to walk the Lawn, the University does feel different. I can’t believe that I’m not going to be here. I’m so glad that I got to experience all of the traditions, and I just love all of it. And I’m so sad to leave it.

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