CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – It’s Founder’s Day today at the University of Virginia, an annual event commemorating Thomas Jefferson’s birthday on April 13, 1743.
The marquee event on Grounds is awarding of Thomas Jefferson Medals at a Rotunda Dome Room luncheon honoring achievements in architecture, law, and citizen leadership.

The recipients also deliver individual remarks at Founder’s Day events:

Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter who won the Jefferson Medal for Citizen Leadership, the keynote morning speaker at Monticello.
The Jefferson Medal in Architecture winner, Andrew Freear, an afternoon speaker at Old Cabell Hall.
The Jefferson Medal in Law honorees, Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju, could not be here to speak because of a change in the court date for a case they are arguing in the Supreme Court of India.

Their recorded remarks were featured at the luncheon.