Erika Eiffel, nÃ©e LaBrie, is a US citizen of Italian descent. She has also lived in Japan during the early stages of her career in world-class archery, and trained as an offiâ¦cer in the US military until her career was cut short by a serious sexual assault when she famously defended herself with a Japanese training sword.
First universities in the Western Hemisphere. The first universities in the Western Hemisphere were established by the Spaniards: the University of Santo Domingo (1538) in what is now the Dominican Republic and the University of MichoacÃ¡n (1539) in Mexico.
University of Louisville is a large, public research university located in Louisville, KY. When founded in 1798 as the Jefferson Seminary, UofL was the first city-owned public university in the U.S. Over 200 academic programs are available, and students are most likely to major in business, parks and recreation and engineering.