MEDIA ADVISORY


	A U.S. Supreme Court justice and a Brazilian environmental
political leader and architect known for his environmental vision will
be honored and will give public lectures as part of the University of
Virginia's Founder's Day celebrations.

	Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a pioneer for women in the legal
profession who in 1993 became the second woman appointed to the
Supreme Court, will receive the 21st annual Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation Award in Law.

	Jaime Lerner, governor of the state of Parana, Brazil, and
former mayor of the city of Curitiba, who has attracted worldwide
attention for making that city an environmental model, will receive
the 32nd annual Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal in
Architecture. 

	The awards will be presented at a private luncheon in the
Rotunda, commemorating the University's Founder's 254th birthday. The
awards recognize distinguished contributions in two fields that were
of deep interest to Jefferson and are the highest outside honors
conferred by U.Va., which awards no honorary degrees. The prizes are
sponsored by the University and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation, which owns and operates Monticello, Jefferson's home.

	Lerner will give a public lecture at 5 p.m. Sunday, April 13,
on the north steps of the Rotunda. (Rain site: Minor Hall.) He will
also give a public talk in Old Cabell Hall Auditorium at 1 p.m.
Monday, April 14. 

	Ginsburg, appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill
Clinton, has long worked toward ending institutionalized
discrimination against women. A native of Brooklyn, she was educated
at Cornell University and the law schools at Harvard and Columbia
universities. She taught at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963
to 1972, and then returned to Columbia Law School where she became the
first tenured female professor there. Between 1973 and 1976 she argued
six cases on women's rights before the Supreme Court and won five of
them.

	Jaime Lerner, a native of Curitiba, trained in France as an
architect and urban planner. As mayor of the growing capital city of
the state of Parana, in southeast Brazil, for more than two decades,
he gained international attention among environmentalists for finding
answers to problems caused by rapid urban development. 

	Following the April 12 luncheon, a tree will be planted at
Carr's Hill in honor of Meade Palmer, who taught landscape and
planting design in the School of Architecture from 1961 until 1995. A
fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Palmer has won
numerous awards, including the American Society of Landscape
Architect's highest award, the ASLA Medal in 1991. Others include a
National Landscape Award for the LBJ Memorial Grove in Washington and
Honorable Mention for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Competition in
Washington.

	Palmer, President John T. Casteen III and other University
officials will be at the tree-planting ceremony, to be held at
approximately 2 p.m. at Carr's Hill.

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April 9, 1997