Question: Are University of Virginia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the same country?

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Nikolaos Mavridis (born April 28, 1973) is the founder and director of the Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML), and a PhD graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology He is also an assistant professor of research at the Computer Science department, New York University Poly, and adjunct researcher at NCSR Demokritos.  Before his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was awarded an M.Sc.  from the University of California Los Angeles, and a M. Eng.  (Summa Cum Laude) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.  His research interests include human–robot interaction, and especially verbal and non-verbal communication with robots, artificial intelligence, machine perception, and cognitive systems. Gilbert V. Rohleder (April 22, 1922 – January 30, 2016) was a 20th-century American pipeline executive, and one of the founding principals of the Mid-America Pipeline Company, founded in 1960.  During his tenure, MAPCO evolved into a Fortune 500 company that was ultimately acquired by the Williams Companies in Tulsa, OK.  Rohleder served in World War II as a First Lieutenant being wounded during the Normandy invasion.  Rohleder holds an engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was also selected in 1987 for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporate Leadership Award.  Rohleder also served as President of the American Pipeliner's Club, Director of the American Gas Processor's Association, and was a member of the business advisory council of Northwestern University.  Rohleder lived in Tulsa, OK with his wife Patricia until his death in 2016. Daniel A. Haber, Ph.D., M.D. is the director of Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, a Professor of Oncology at Harvard Medical School, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).  He earned his B.S. in life sciences and M.S. in toxicology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his M.D. and Ph.D. in biophysics from Stanford University School of Medicine under the mentorship of Robert T. Schimke.  He did his postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with David E. Housman. Nevin Stewart Scrimshaw (January 20, 1918 – February 8, 2013) was an American food scientist and Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Scrimshaw was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  During the course of his long career he developed nutritional supplements for alleviating protein, iodine, and iron deficiencies in the developing world.  His pioneering and extensive publications in the area of human nutrition and food science include over 20 books and monographs and hundreds of scholarly articles.  Scrimshaw also founded the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, and the Nevin Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation.  He was awarded the Bolton L. Corson Medal in 1976 and the World Food Prize in 1991.  Scrimshaw spent the last years of his life on a farm in Thornton, New Hampshire, where he died at 95. Flexible solar cell research is a research-level technology, an example of which was created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in which solar cells are manufactured by depositing photovoltaic material on flexible substrates, such as ordinary paper, using chemical vapor deposition technology.  The technology for manufacturing solar cells on paper was developed by a group of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with support from the National Science Foundation and the Eni-MIT Alliance Solar Frontiers Program. The University of Virginia (U.Va.  or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia.  Founded in 1819 by Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson, UVA is known for its historic foundations, student-run honor code, and secret societies. Alan H. Epstein is a distinguished aeronautical engineer.  He currently works at Pratt & Whitney where he is responsible for long-term technology and environmental strategy.  He is also Professor Emeritus at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He received his S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971, 1972 and 1975 respectively.  At M.I.T. he was the R.C. Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Director of the Gas Turbine Laboratory. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  It is often ranked as one of the world's most prestigious universities. Henry Winston Holt (September 14, 1864 – October 4, 1947) was born at Wakefield, Virginia in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, but was raised in Surry County, Virginia.  His preparatory education was received at Hanover Academy in Hanover County, Virginia after which he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years and Virginia Military Institute, from which he graduated in 1886.  Turning then to law, he entered Washington and Lee University where he received his law degree in 1888.  Upon graduation, he began to practice in Wichita, Kansas, but returned to Virginia in 1891 as Commandant of Cadets at Staunton Military Academy. The Journal of Accounting and Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on the fields of accounting and economics.  The editors-in-chief are R. L. Watts (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), J. L. Zimmerman (University of Rochester), R. W. Holthausen (University of Pennsylvania), S. P. Kothari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), J. Core (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), M. Hanlon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), W. R. Guay (University of Pennsylvania), and J. Wu (University of Rochester).

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The University of Virginia (U.Va.  or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.