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Sam Crowe, a fourth-year UVA student from Chesapeake, has been named the university’s 57th Rhodes Scholar. The award funds two or more years of postgraduate study at the University of Oxford. Crowe, who studies astronomy-physics in the Distinguished Majors Program and history, will pursue a doctorate in astrophysics. 

11/18/2024

Medical student Magdalene Kwarteng, left, and UVA graduate Hannah Zaveri will study overseas as Rotary Scholars.

07/30/2024

Justin Vinh, a rising fourth-year biomedical engineering student at the University of Virginia with a data science minor, aspires to be a physician-scientist pursuing cancer research, continuing the work he has started at the University and the National Cancer Institute.

06/26/2024

UVA graduates Nathan Abraham and Amelia Faraco-Hadlock have been named Knight-Hennessy Scholars to pursue graduate study at Stanford University.

05/09/2024

Lisa Kopelnik is one of 60 new Truman Scholars who will receive funding for graduate studies, leadership training, career counseling, and special internship and fellowship opportunities within the federal government.

04/17/2024

Goldwater Scholars Catherine Cossaboom, left, is investigating the arithmetic statistical interactions between sets of restricted partitions, while Samuel Crowe works with data of a massive star-forming region in the galactic center of the Milky Way galaxy.

04/16/2024

Kristin O’Donoghue, a fourth-year student double-majoring in political and social thought and history at the University of Virginia, has received a one-year James C. Gaither Junior Fellowship at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she will assist a Carnegie senior scholar in research.

04/09/2024

University of Virginia Fulbright recipients are working and conducting research around the world. 

02/14/2024

Isabella Dressel is a fourth-year at the University of Virginia with a self-designed interdisciplinary major in atmospheric and environmental science, chemistry and physics. She will pursue a master’s degree in chemistry next year at Churchill College, Cambridge, under the supervision of Alex Archibald, a professor in atmospheric chemistry modeling at the University of Cambridge.

01/16/2024

Mithra Dhinakaran will study global affairs at Beijing’s Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar. With a UVA degree in economics and global studies focusing on security and justice, Dhinakaran said her Schwarzman experience will further her in a career helping to shape foreign policy.

12/07/2023

Grant GianGrasso, a scientist and musician who helped organize jazz performances at La Maison Française, the University’s French House, will study clinical medicine at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

11/14/2023

Rujula Upasani will pursue a master's degree in infection and immunity at the University College London as a Rotary Global Grant Scholar.

08/08/2023

The Goldwater Scholarship was designed to foster and encourage students to pursue research careers in natural sciences, engineering and mathematics. UVA’s 2023 winners are, from left, Isabella Dressel, Dawn Ford and Deniz Guney Olgun.

04/19/2023

Luce Scholar Ibby Han will investigate how grassroots social movements shape the political landscape in Asia.

03/21/2023

The U.S. Department of State has named the University of Virginia as a Fulbright U.S. Student Program Top Producing Institution for the 2022-23 academic year.

PHOTO: Benjamin Hazelton teaches English in an indigenous Paiwan community in Taimali, Taiwan, as part of the Fulbright program.

02/10/2023

Courtney Hill, who graduated from the University of Virginia in 2020 with a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering, will be a science and technology fellow at the U.S. State Department’s Office of Japanese Affairs, starting in January, thanks to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

12/16/2022

Ryan Buscaglia, a 2021 University of Virginia graduate with a degree in political and social thought and foreign affairs, has been named the University’s 12th Schwarzman Scholar. The Schwarzman Scholarship is a one-year, fully funded master’s program in global affairs at Schwarzman College in Tsinghua University in Beijing.

12/12/2022

After helping NASA translate interplanetary mission data, Zachary Yahn, a fourth-year University of Virginia student majoring in computer science and computer engineering, will research artificial intelligence in Dublin as a George J. Mitchell Scholar.

12/07/2022

Zachary Yahn, a fourth-year double major in computer science and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, has been named a George J. Mitchell Scholar to study in Ireland.

11/21/2022

Theo O’Neill, a rising fourth-year astronomy-physics and statistics major, will continue exploring space as an Astronaut Scholar.

07/06/2022

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