{"id":6730,"date":"2017-03-04T10:15:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T10:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.YourChennai.com\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2017-03-04T10:15:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T10:15:04","slug":"uva-monticello-announce-recipients-2017-thomas-jefferson-foundation-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/04\/uva-monticello-announce-recipients-2017-thomas-jefferson-foundation-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"UVA, Monticello Announce Recipients of 2017 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On <span data-term=\"goog_1692110767\">April 13<\/span>, the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello will present their highest honors, the 2017 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals in Law, Citizen Leadership, Global Innovation and Architecture, respectively, to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Law: Loretta Lynch, the first African-American female attorney general in U.S. history, known for her impressive career prosecuting cases involving narcotics, violent crimes, public corruption and civil rights.<\/li>\n<li>Citizen Leadership:\u00c2\u00a0 Alice Waters, founder of the Edible Schoolyard Project, chef, author, food activist, founder and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California, who has championed local, sustainable agriculture for more than four decades.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Global Innovation:\u00c2\u00a0 N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian entrepreneur and visionary leader who founded and grew Infosys into an information technology powerhouse through the design and implementation of the global delivery model for outsourcing services. (More information Attached)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Architecture:\u00c2\u00a0 Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, Irish founders and directors of Grafton Architects, renowned for their creative and visionary academic and educational buildings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6731\" src=\"http:\/\/www.YourChennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/N-R-Narayana-Murthy-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"N R Narayana Murthy\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/N-R-Narayana-Murthy-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/N-R-Narayana-Murthy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/N-R-Narayana-Murthy-768x772.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/N-R-Narayana-Murthy-215x215.jpg 215w, https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/N-R-Narayana-Murthy.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals recognize the exemplary contributions of recipients to the endeavors in which Jefferson \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the author of the Declaration of Independence, the third U.S. president and the founder of the University of Virginia \u00e2\u20ac\u201c excelled and held in high regard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s medal recipients represent a remarkably broad range of human endeavor. The common denominator is that all of them have ascended to significantly high levels of achievement in their respective fields,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said UVA President Teresa Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The medals are the highest external honors bestowed by the University, which grants no honorary degrees. The awards are presented annually on Jefferson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday, <span data-term=\"goog_1692110768\">April 13<\/span>, by the president of the University and the president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the independent, nonprofit organization that owns and operates his home, Monticello. <span data-term=\"goog_1692110769\">April 13<\/span> is known locally as Founders Day, celebrating Jefferson and his founding of UVA in Charlottesville in 1819.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s medalists embody Jefferson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vision of global citizenship and his relentless dedication to human progress and innovation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Leslie Greene Bowman, president and CEO of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bowman and Sullivan will present the medals, struck for the occasion, to the recipients at a luncheon in in the Dome Room of the Jefferson-designed Rotunda at UVA. The medalists in Architecture, Law, Citizen Leadership and Global Innovation will each give a free public lecture at UVA, and will be honored at a formal dinner at Monticello.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The complete schedule of events for Founder\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginia.edu\/foundersday\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.virginia.edu\/foundersday&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1488707618194000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFNp3K182TzQ4jdn7JDuXwFLadz2w\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Citizen Leadership medalist, Alice Waters, will also be the featured keynote speaker at Monticello\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/visit\/events\/jeffersons-birthday-celebration\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/visit\/events\/jeffersons-birthday-celebration&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1488707618194000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHeulX1AVRI03UY9lnClKBgjsecAA\">commemoration of Jefferson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 274th birthday on April 13\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>at <span data-term=\"goog_1692110771\">10 a.m.<\/span> on the West Lawn of Monticello. The celebration is free and open to the public. The ceremony will be live streamed online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monticello.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.monticello.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1488707618194000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHmU3fis8lAw7BxuY_53jSxZH7seQ\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s medalists join a distinguished roster of past winners that includes architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, I.M. Pei, Frank Gehry, Toyo Ito and Zaha Hadid; seven former and current U.S. Supreme Court justices; former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher;\u00c2\u00a0Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Defense Fund; Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America; Alan\u00c2\u00a0Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve; former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano;\u00c2\u00a0and several former and current U.S. senators and representatives, including John Lewis, John Warner, George Mitchell, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sam Nunn and James H. Webb Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 13, the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello will present their highest honors, the 2017 Thomas Jefferson Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,30],"tags":[8968,8970,8967,8971,8969,8966],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-companies-economy","category-news-business-political-national-realestate","tag-2017-thomas-jefferson-foundation-medals","tag-loretta-lynch","tag-monticello","tag-narayana-murthy","tag-university-of-virginia","tag-uva"],"views":1365,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Thomas-Jefferson-Foundation-Medals.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6733,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions\/6733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourchennai.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}