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32 unusual facts about University of Virginia


2002 Virginia Cavaliers football team

The 2002 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season.

2003 Virginia Cavaliers football team

The 2003 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season.

2005 Virginia Cavaliers football team

The 2005 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia in the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season.

Al Cheznovitz

Recently, he has performed in numerous halftime shows with the University of Virginia Cavalier Marching Band in its second and third years (2005 and 2006) as well as in the halftime show for the 2007 Konica Minolta Gator Bowl, being featured alongside student soloists for Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood and Rhythm of the Night.

Alfred L. Rives

Being proficient in engineering, he determined to adopt that as a profession, and in 1848 entered the University of Virginia, where he remained one session, then accompanied his father to France.

Biographies of Exemplary Women

The online Chinese Text Initiative at the University of Virginia provides an e-text edition of the Lienu Zhuan, including both digitized Chinese content and images of a Song Dynasty woodblock edition with illustrations by Gu Kaizhi 顧凱之 (ca. 344-405 CE) of the Jin Dynasty.

Blenheim Vineyards

Harmon, one of several female winemakers in Virginia, is a graduate of the University of Virginia and studied under Virginia winemaker Gabriele Rausse at the Kluge Estate run by the deceased billionaire John Kluge's ex-wife Patricia Kluge.

Bob Gazzale

A native Californian, Gazzale is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where he helped to launch the Virginia Festival of American Film in 1988.

Charles Tart

Tart was the holder of the Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas and has served as a Visiting Professor in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, as an Instructor in Psychiatry at the School of Medicine of the University of Virginia, and a consultant on government funded parapsychological research at the Stanford Research Institute (now known as SRI International).

Cheryl Praeger

She had her first opportunity at teaching regular classes at the University of Virginia during the semester she worked there.

Danny O'Quinn

He also attended the University of Virginia's College at Wise in 2003-2005 but put his collegiate pursuits on hold as his professional racing career took off.

Elisabeth Scott Bocock

During the next decade, Mrs. Bocock attended classes at Mary Baldwin College, College of William and Mary, and the University of Virginia.

Ellen and William Craft

Their account was reprinted in the United States in 1999, with both the Crafts credited as authors, and it is available online at Project Gutenberg and the University of Virginia.

Happy Flowers

The musical group, Happy Flowers, was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, in 1983 by two members of the Landlords, John Beers ("Mr. Horribly Charred Infant", drums, vocals) and Charlie Kramer ("Mr. Anus", guitar, vocals), both students at the University of Virginia.

Imanol Ordorika Sacristán

In 2004 Ordorika received the Frank Talbott Jr. Visiting University Chair from the University of Virginia and in 2006 he was awarded the Alfonso Reyes Chaire des Etudes Mexicaines by the University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle).

James Deese

He joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1970 after having taught for many years (since 1950) at Johns Hopkins University.

James Q. Miller

James Q. Miller MD (1926 – May 15, 2005) was an American neurologist and educator in neurology based at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

His interests lead to his appointment as Assistant Dean of Students at the University of Virginia and to the state Council on Medical Education.

In his honor, the current multiple sclerosis program at the University of Virginia is entitled the “James Q. Miller Center for Multiple Sclerosis”.

In 1962 he was hired as a faculty neurologist at the University of Virginia.

He was one of the first neurology residents at the Department of Neurology of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Morris Plan Bank

Morris graduated from the University of Virginia and made donations at the end of his life to help fund a law library constructed in 1974 and named for him.

Raymond Mikesell

Mikesell joined the University of Virginia department of Economics as professor in 1946 and accepted the W.E. Miner Chair at the University of Oregon in 1957, where he taught until 1993.

Steve Gong

Gong was born in Beijing, China, raised in Rome, Italy, studied at the University of Virginia and graduated with degrees in Biology and Psychology, and obtained an M.A. in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication at the University of the Arts London.

Thomas Grogan

Dr. Grogan received a B.A. in biology from the University of Virginia, and then continued his education at George Washington University Medical School where he earned his M.D. He later completed a post-doctorate, hematopathology fellowship at Stanford University.

University of Virginia's College at Wise

Carroll Dale, a former NFL football wide receiver, serves as assistant vice chancellor for athletic development.

Holly Kiser was a student of UVa-Wise; she became the first winner of Make Me a Supermodel.

Volutions Magazine

Eventually, the Volutions project became a collaboration with artists and intellectuals in various schools in multiple countries, especially from poets and literary critics associated with the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (attended by Eduardo Ramos).

WCAV

Since 2006, the three have been the official flagships of University of Virginia sports.

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William J. Chiego

Chiego received a B.A. in history and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Virginia.

William M. Bass

Dr. Bass attended the University of Virginia for his undergraduate degree, and received his master's from the University of Kentucky.


Alexandra Ripley

Ripley was thrice wed; to Leonard Ripley, an early partner and recording engineer at Elektra Records, Thomas Garlock, and John Graham (1926-2007), a former professor at The University of Virginia, from whom she was separated at the time of her death.

Anheuser–Busch Coastal Research Center

The Anheuser–Busch Coastal Research Center is a biological field station located in Oyster, Virginia that is operated by the University of Virginia.

Apache Point Observatory

Four additional organizations have joined over time: the Institute for Advanced Study, Johns Hopkins University, University of Colorado, and University of Virginia.

Bevin Alexander

Bevin has served as a consultant and adviser to several groups due to his military expertise, including work for the Rand Corporation, work as a consultant for military simulations instituted by the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, and as director of information at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Bill Harman

After graduating from high school, he attended the University of Virginia, where he played basketball and baseball for the Cavaliers and was the student body president.

Cabell R. Berry

He was raised on a plantation and educated at Higginbotham Academy, a preparatory school of the University of Virginia.

Carroll Dale

Dale currently resides in his birthplace, Wise, where he serves as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Athletic Development at the University of Virginia's College at Wise.

Digital humanities

An example of this is The Valley of the Shadow project at the University of Virginia or the Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular at University of Southern California.

Donal O'Donnell

He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and was educated at St. Mary's Christian Brothers' Grammar School, Belfast, University College Dublin, King's Inns and the University of Virginia.

Edward Slaughter

In March 1931, Slaughter was hired as an assistant football coach at the University of Virginia, where he was put in charge of the linemen under new head coach Fred Dawson.

Eric H. du Plessis

After graduating from VCU with a degree in philosophy, he studied at the University of Richmond, where he received a master's degree, and then went on to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia, where he obtained his Ph.D. He then relocated to College Station, Texas where he became an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.

Eric Williams Memorial Collection

Angela Davis, civil and women’s rights activist, was the featured speaker in 2003, and in honour of the Haitian Bicentennial, University of Virginia political scientist Robert Fatton, Jr., and prize-winning author Edwidge Danticat spoke in 2004.

Fred Allison

After several years there (teaching at Emory and Henry and working on his Ph.D. in alternate years) he switched to the University of Virginia, and receiving his Ph.D. in physics in 1920 while working with Jesse Beams.

H. Richard Winn

H. Richard Winn, MD, trained in Neurological Surgery at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville under John A. Jane, MD, PhD.

Hearing Health Foundation

In the late 1980s, both Dr. Edwin Rubel (then at the University of Virginia and now at the University of Washington) and Dr. Douglas Cotanche (then at the University of Pennsylvania and now at the Harvard School of Public Policy) discovered that even after chickens hair cells had been deliberately destroyed in their labs, the cells grew back.

Henry M. Mathews

Born in Frankford, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, he received an A.M. from the University of Virginia and B.L. from Lexington Law School.

Houston Christian High School

Student matriculation after their time at HC includes top universities in Texas and throughout the nation including but not limited to Davidson College, Texas A&M University, University of Texas, Cornell University, Vanderbilt University, and UVA.

Inova Fairfax Hospital

Inova Fairfax Hospital is also a satellite clinical campus for students from Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Medicine and hosts residents from universities such as the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, and George Washington University.

Island of Kesmai

In the summer of 1980 University of Virginia classmates John Taylor and Kelton Flinn wrote Dungeons of Kesmai, a six player game inspired by Dungeons & Dragons which used Roguelike ASCII graphics.

Jackson T. Davis

The Jackson Davis Collection of over 5,000 photographs and numerous manuscripts and documents housed at the University of Virginia is one of the more comprehensive archives available for research on the topic of minority education during the Jim Crow era in the southern United States.

James F. Jones

Jones holds Master's and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, a Master's degree from Emory University and a Bachelor of Arts and GDIship from the University of Virginia, from which he graduated cum laude; while at Virginia he was assistant director of the Virginia Glee Club.

Jennifer Loven

A Matthews, North Carolina native, Loven graduated from East Mecklinburg High School and then attended University of Virginia and Northwestern University, where she was graduated from the Medill School of Journalism.

John Henry Ingram

Sarah Helen Whitman correspondence with Ingram, with her letters from Poe and a daguerrotype portrait, was added to the library of material he was assembling; Ingram's Poe collection is now held at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.

John Unsworth

From 1993-2003, at the University of Virginia he served as the first Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and as a faculty member in the English department.

Johnson N. Camden, Jr.

Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Camden Jr. attended Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, Columbia Law School in New York City, and the law school at University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement

The principal interviews with Bond used in the film were conducted at Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington D.C., and at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Kütahya Dumlupınar University

The university has established and is keeping up close ties with universities abroad including University of Virginia in the USA, Brunel University in the United Kingdom, University of Pécs in Hungary and universities located at the member states of the former Soviet Union.

Melanie Kok

Kok earned a B.A. at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she rowed as a varsity athlete for each of her four years as an undergraduate.

National Commission on Federal Election Reform

As a result of this contentious election, the National Commission on Federal Election Reform was formed by the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs and The Century Foundation.

Peter Vaghi

Back in America, he attended the University of Virginia Law School and worked as an attorney and staffer to Senator Pete Domenici in Washington, D.C., before being assigned as a seminarian to the North American College, Vatican City, and attending the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy in preparation for the priesthood.

Philip Brodie, Lord Brodie

Brodie grew up in Alloa, Clackmannanshire and was educated at Dollar Academy in Clackmannanshire, and studied the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh (LL.B.) and the School of Law of the University of Virginia in the United States (LL.M.).

Sandy D'Alemberte

In 1955, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science with honors from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and also attended summer school at Florida State University and the University of Virginia.

St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church

The church and school buildings on the St. Robert Bellarmine campus are modeled after colonial American buildings, including Monticello, Independence Hall, Mount Vernon and the library at the University of Virginia.

Tavin Marin Titus

Tavin grew up in Brentwood, California and graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelors of Arts degree in English Language and Literature.

Transfer admissions in the United States

In Virginia, the University of Virginia, which has approximately 14,000 undergraduate students, had 2,434 transfer applications in 2008, and of these, admitted 958, an acceptance rate of 39%.

William Sanders Scarborough

However, in 1892, Scarborough gave a lecture on Plato at the University of Virginia with pictures of Jefferson Davis and other confederate leaders on the walls and no other African Americans allowed into the room except as servants.