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The University of Virginia is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia, founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson.

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Jefferson was intimately involved in the university to the end, hosting Sunday dinners at his Monticello home for faculty and students until his death.

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In the year of Jefferson's death, poet Edgar Allan Poe enrolled at the university, where he excelled in Latin

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The university welcomed Teresa A. Sullivan as its first female president in 2010.

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The UVA campus, referred to locally as the Grounds, straddles the border between the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

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The first library at University of Virginia was the Rotunda. Rather than a chapel or other religious structure, the university was built around its library

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Today the University of Virginia Library System consists of a dozen libraries and holds over 5 million volumes

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Billionaire John Kluge donated 7,379 acres (29.86 km2) of additional lands to the university in 2001.

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There are three residential colleges at the university: Brown College, Hereford College, and the International Residential College

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Student life at the University of Virginia is marked by a number of unique traditions.

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Many events take place at the University of Virginia, on the Lawn and across Grounds.

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Recently three football players were killed and two more people were injured following a shooting at the University of Virginia on late Sunday night

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The suspected shooter, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., is in police custody