The University of Virginia suspended a campus tour program that had been criticized for citing school founder Thomas ...

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals recognize the exemplary contributions of recipients to the endeavors in which ...

This year, the Thomas Jefferson Medals recognize landscape architect Walter Hood, lawyer Bryan Stevenson and U.S. Deputy ...

Earlier this month, the Cavalier Daily, the University of Virginia’s student newspaper, published a statement by its editorial board urging the university to bar former vice president Mike Pence ...

"Today, the University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted for commonsense saying NO to illegal discrimination and YES to merit-based opportunity. Students at Mr. Jefferson’s University—and ...

The foundation recognized the professors for inspiring students, conducting groundbreaking research and making an impact ...

John Casteen III served as president of UVA for 20 years and is largely credited with making the university what it is today.

He designed Monticello (1769–1809), his plantation home, and his ideal 'academical village' (1817–26), which is still the heart of the University of Virginia. Jefferson's use of an architectural ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character ... During his retirement, he also founded and designed the campus of the University of Virginia. Gravely ill by 1826, he began to slip in and ...

The statue of Thomas Jefferson is a gift from the University of Virginia. At the statue's dedication on November 11, 1992, U.Va. President John Casteen made note of Jefferson's $17,000 debt to the ...