U.S. Congressional Chaplain, Methodist Bishop, President of Transylvania University 1842–1849. Robert Hamilton Bishop, first president of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio Henry Clay, seminal law department professor Charles Caldwell, physician and founder of the University of Louisville School of Medicine Daniel Drake, taught materia medica from 1817 to 1818, dean from 1825 to 1827 Maurice Manning, poet Charles Martin "C. M." Newton, TU basketball coach, 1956–68 Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, professor of botany, buried on campus Charles Wilkins Short, American botanist Elisha Warfield, doctor and noted horse breeder, selected as the first Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics at the (then-) newly established medical school at Transylvania University In popular culture Robert Penn Warren set part of his 1946 novel All the King's Men at Transylvania University. Robert Lowell referred to the university in his sonnet "The Graduate (Elizabeth)." The poem states gleefully that "Transylvania's Greek Revival Chapel is one of the best Greek Revival things in the South." A 2004 robbery at Transylvania University's special collections library was the subject of the true-crime drama film American Animals, released in 2018. It was also the focus of Episode 3 of the Audible podcast "Heist with Michael Caine," as well as a memoir written by one of the culprits involved in the heist titled Mr. Pink: The Inside Story of the Transylvania Book Heist. Transylvania is home to the Judy Gaines Young Book Award, given annually to honor an excellent work of fiction or poetry written in the Appalachian region in the prior two to three years. See also List of presidents of Transylvania University Transylvania (colony) Judy Gaines Young Book Award References Notes Further reading Cousins, James P. Horace Holley: Transylvania University and the Making of Liberal Education in the Early American Republic (U Press of Kentucky, 2016). 297 pp Peter, Robert. The history of the medical department of Transylvania University (1905) online. Peter, Robert, and Johanna Peter. Transylvania University: Its Origin, Rise, Decline, and Fall (1896) online Sonne, Niels Henry. Liberal Kentucky, 1780–1828 (University of Kentucky Press, 1968) Wright, John, Jr., ed. Transylvania: Tutor to the West (2nd ed. 1980) External links Official athletics website Educational institutions established in 1780 1780 establishments in Virginia Universities and colleges affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Universities and colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Universities and colleges in Lexington, Kentucky Liberal arts colleges in Kentucky National Register of