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Website. www .gmu .edu. George Mason University ( GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia, in Northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C. [ 9 ] The university is named in honor of George Mason, a Founding Father of the United States. The university was founded in 1949, and it became an independent university in 1972.
Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC; which is informally known as NOVA) is a public community college with six campuses and four centers in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. Northern Virginia Community College is the third-largest multi-campus community college in the United States, and it is the largest educational institution in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Website. www .fxua .edu. Fairfax University of America ( FXUA, formerly Virginia International University) is a private university in Fairfax, Virginia. It was established in 1998, and then as a non-profit 501 (c) (3) university in 1999. [ 1] The university is certified to operate in Virginia by the State Council of Higher Education for ...
The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university, killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with ...
Laurel Ridge Community College, formerly Lord Fairfax Community College, is a public community college with multiple campuses in the Shenandoah Valley and Piedmont regions of Virginia. It is part of the Virginia Community College System and operates four locations — the Fauquier and Middletown Campuses, the Luray-Page County Center, and a ...
Virginia Military Institute. / 37.790; -79.440. The Virginia Military Institute ( VMI) is a public senior military college in Lexington, Virginia. It was founded in 1839 as America's first state military college and is the oldest public senior military college in the United States. In keeping with its founding principles and unlike any other ...
The school was known as Ferrum Junior College between 1940 and 1976. It was founded by the United Methodist Church and gradually developed from primary to post-secondary education. Today, Ferrum enrolls around 800 undergraduate and graduate students and offers over 54 undergraduate majors and four graduate programs.
Carleigh Bennett Frilles (born April 11, 2002) is a footballer who plays as a midfielder or forward for the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams. [4] Born in the United States, she represents the Philippines women's national team .