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University of Virginia. / 38.03556°N 78.50333°W / 38.03556; -78.50333. The University of Virginia ( UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and contains his Academical Village, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The original governing Board of Visitors ...
Father of the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson was the first and only President of the United States to found an institution of higher learning. On January 18, 1800, Thomas Jefferson, then the Vice President of the United States, alluded to plans for a new college in a letter written to British scientist Joseph Priestley: "We wish to establish in the upper country of Virginia, and more ...
On the night of November 13, 2022, a mass shooting took place at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which three people were killed and two others were injured. [ 1][ 2] Four of the victims, including the three who died, were members of the UVA football team. [ 3] The suspect, 22-year-old Christopher Darnell Jones ...
The University of Virginia has terminated a second campus fraternity after an investigation found stomach-turning hazing incidents earlier this year. The Theta Chi fraternity is the second at U.Va ...
An external investigation of the events surrounding the shooting that killed three University of Virginia student-athletes and wounded two others on campus last year has been completed but won't ...
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business. / 38.052096; -78.513901. The Darden School of Business is the graduate business school of the University of Virginia, a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. The school offers MBA, PhD, and Executive Education programs. The school was founded in 1955 and named after ...
The Universty of Virginia is a public university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Following is a partial list of its notable alumni, faculty, board members, and rectors.
The University of Virginia School of Medicine ( UVA SoM) is the graduate medical school of the University of Virginia. The school's facilities are on the University of Virginia grounds adjacent to Academical Village in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, UVA SoM is the tenth oldest medical school in the United States.