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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.
Three University of Virginia scholars will spend the summer immersed in foreign cultures and languages, thanks to the Critical Language Scholarships from the U.S. Department of State.
Joshua Zabin, left, and Katherine Gasser received scholarships to support their study in Tajikistan and Poland, respectively.
From Left, Cameron Bertron, Molly Magoffin and Simranjit “Simmy” Bhatia want to use a Davis Projects for Peace grant to break cycles of sexual exploitation.
University of Virginia students Chris Li and Sebastian Haney have received scholarships from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
Fourth-year Austin Owen of Vestavia Hills, Alabama, has been named a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Every morning, Emily Cox goes on a run in Port Meadow, a vast green expanse beside the River Thames in Oxford, England dotted with ponies, picturesque bridges and the towering ruins of Godstow Abbey.
Madeline Rita, a University of Virginia fourth-year global development studies major, does not yet know in which Asian country she will live after she graduates, but she knows she will be working with a partner organization in a health care field.
The department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs ranked UVA on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2017-18 Fulbright scholars.
John Brake will pursue a one-year master’s degree in global affairs in China with a Schwarzman Scholarship.
From left: 2016 graduate Porter Nenon and fourth-year students Attiya Latif and Jack Chellman will study in the United Kingdom.
Three University of Virginia scholars – all with ties to the University’s political and social thought program – have earned Marshall Scholarships, paying their way for graduate study in the United Kingdom.
Schuyler Miller wants to help societies better govern themselves and he plans to use a Mitchell Scholarship to learn how to do this. The U.S.-Irish Alliance awarded Miller, who graduated from the University of Virginia in 2015.
Stephen Stetzler is seeking to use his passion for physics and computing to “push fundamental particle physics beyond the standard model.”