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Henrique Sosa, a 2016 economics and foreign affairs graduate of the University of Virginia, has received a 2020 Schwarzman Scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in global affairs.
Eileen Ying, a fourth-year honors politics and English (modern and global studies) major, will pursue Master of Studies degrees in world literatures in English and in women’s studies.
Fourth-year chemical engineering student Jonathan Zheng was recently honored by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, promoting technology and innovation across the U.S.
Anthropologist Roberto Armengol and Courtney Hill, a doctoral candidate in the School of Engineering, have been awarded Ford Foundation Fellowships.
Monica Sandoval-Vasquez, of Manassas, will study engineering at Valencia Polytechnic University in Spain, while Jenna Owens of Perris, California, will travel, study and work on an independent study in Kenya.
Twenty-two University of Virginia alumni and graduate students have received Fulbright Scholarships for research, study, and teaching. This represents the largest cohort of Fulbright recipients from the University in one year.
University of Virginia student Hanna Davis is taking the road to Morocco on a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.
From left, Chelsea Li, Jonathan Zheng and Karl Westendorff received Goldwater Scholarships to support their studies in science and engineering fields.
India Brahm and Patrick D. Robinson will use Davis Project for Peace funds to work with community organizations in Ecuador.
Aryn Frazier, a 2017 University of Virginia graduate, is one of 69 Knight-Hennessy Scholars from around the world who will receive full funding for graduate study at Stanford University. Frazier will attend Stanford Law School.
Irene Cheng, Danielle DaCrema, Chris Fu and Kassandra Grimes are Mirzayan Fellows at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
Sam Campbell is serious about wildlife preservation – and now he has an avenue by which he can seriously pursue it.
Brian Seymour will earn his degree in physics and mathematics in May and plans to continue studying gravitational physics at Cambridge in the fall.
Three University of Virginia students will pursue master’s degrees in global affairs, concentrating on public policy, at China’s Tsinghua University next year as Schwarzman Scholars.
Jack Brake, a May graduate of the University of Virginia, receives a Marshall Scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in politics and international studies at the University of Cambridge.
Religious studies grad student Devin Zuckerman won a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowship, and will use it to conduct eight months’ worth of research in Nepal.
Olivia Grotenhuis, a third-year student majoring in foreign affairs and East Asian studies, spent her summer in Gwangju, South Korea, studying the Korean language and culture at Chonnam National University as part of the U.S. State Department’s full-immersion Critical Language Scholarship program.
Three recent University of Virginia graduates will continue their studies this fall in the United Kingdom with Rotary Global Grants of $40,000.
Seventeen University of Virginia alumni and graduate students will pursue their work on foreign shores with the help of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program this year.
Brian C. Seymour of Ruckersville, a rising fourth-year student at the University of Virginia double-majoring in physics and mathematics, has received an Astronaut Scholarship.