The university's faculty includes a
National Humanities Medal and
National Medal of Arts winner and former
United States Poet Laureate, an awardee of the
Order of Isabella the Catholic, 25
Guggenheim fellows, 26
Fulbright fellows, six
National Endowment for the Humanities fellows, two
Presidential Young Investigator Award winners, three
Sloan award winners, three
Packard Foundation Award winners, and a winner of the 2005
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Physics professor James McCarthy was the lead academic liaison to the government in the establishment of
Suranet, and the university has also participated in
ARPANET,
Abilene,
Internet2, and
Lambda Rail. On March 19, 1986, the university's
domain name,
VIRGINIA.EDU, became the first registration under the
.edu top-level domain originating from the
Commonwealth of
Virginia on what would become the
World Wide Web.
