University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.
The buildings designed by Jefferson are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[1]
History
It was founded by Thomas Jefferson. It was conceived by 1800 and established in 1819.
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University of Virginia Rotunda logo
University of Virginia logo
Thomas Jefferson, the university's founder, by Charles Willson Peale (1791)
University of Virginia Rotunda in 2006
James Madison was the second rector of the University of Virginia until 1836.
Edwin Alderman was UVA's first president between 1904 and 1931, and instituted many reforms toward modernization.
President Sullivan speaking with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in front of the Rotunda in February 2013
The Rotunda, as painted by American modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe in the early 1910s when she was a Summer Session student
Winter view toward the South Lawn
University of Virginia School of Law, Library
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Related pages
- Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, part of the University of Virgina
- List of World Heritage Sites in the United States
References
- ↑ UNESCO, "Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville"; retrieved 2012-4-19.
Other websites
Media related to University of Virginia at Wikimedia Commons
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