University of Virginia facts for kids

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.

History

It was founded by Thomas Jefferson. It was conceived by 1800 and established in 1819.

Related pages

• Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, part of the University of Virgina
• List of World Heritage Sites in the United States

Images for kids

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  Thomas Jefferson, the university's founder, by Charles Willson Peale (1791)

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  James Madison was the 2nd rector of the University of Virginia until 1836.

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  Edwin Alderman was UVA's first president between 1904 and 1931, and instituted many reforms toward modernization.

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  President Sullivan speaking with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in front of the Rotunda in 2013

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  Winter view toward the South Lawn

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  Inside the Law Library

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  Recessed windows of the monolithic Hereford College, which won praise from The New York Times as "more different from Jefferson than anything built at the University in generations, but it rises to challenge him."

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  Alderman Library is home to 1.7 million books. It is one of eleven libraries at UVA, and hosts one-third of the 1.9 million visitors to the system each year as of 2018.

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  Recent UVA research "redrew the map" of the human lymphatic system, shown here in the 1858 Gray's Anatomy.

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  The mark of one out of many secret societies active on Grounds at the university

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  Northline Express (NLX) bus of the University Transit Service, with signage celebrating victory at the 2019 NCAA Tournament Championship ("March Madness")

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  UVA lacrosse has won 11 national championships, including nine national titles since NCAA oversight began.

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  Tony Bennett has a winning record against each of UVA's official ACC rivals.

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  Kathryn C. Thornton, mechanical engineering and aerospace engineering professor, held the record for most NASA spacewalks by a woman until 2006.

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  English professor Rita Dove is the first African American United States Poet Laureate and has been awarded the National Humanities Medal, National Medal of Arts, and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

See also

In Spanish: Universidad de Virginia para niños