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Ashley Ferguson (left) will study at the University of Cambridge’s Medical Research Council Cancer Unit and Sasheenie Moodley will pursue a Ph.D. in African studies at the University of Oxford.
After she graduates next month from the University of Virginia, art history major Emily Cox will continue her studies at the University of Oxford in England as UVA’s first participant in the Mica and Ahmet Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities.
From left, Davis Prize for Peace winners Madeline Curry, Jillian Randolph, Sophie Binns and Nanki Kaur will work in South Africa this summer.
From left, Sarah Koch, Abraham Axler and William Henagan each received Marshall Scholarships to pursue graduate study in the United Kingdom.
University of Virginia students Aryn Frazier and Lauren Jackson are among the 32 American students named as 2017 Rhodes Scholars.
Eight University of Virginia students and alumni will pursue their work on foreign shores with the help of the Fulbright US Student Program.
Eight University of Virginia students will spend their summers immersed in foreign cultures and languages, thanks to Critical Language Scholarships from the U.S. Department of State.
University of Virginia student Dominick Giovanniello will study Arabic for a year in Amman, Jordan.
Ferguson, a third-year materials science and engineering and nanotechnology major, with an engineering business minor, said the Truman Scholarship will assist her in her graduate research on solar photovoltaic cells.
Henry Sarpong (left) of Ghana, Diana Wilson (center) of Newark, New Jersey, and Sheila Otwe of Alexandria, will be going to Ghana this summer to work with civic engagement of students.
Fourth-year student Benjamin Harris, 22, of Grundy, and 2010 alumnus Mostafa Allam, 26, of Cairo, Egypt, have received Schwarzman Scholarships. They will live in Beijing for a year of study and cultural immersion, attending lectures, traveling and developing a better understanding of China.
Charlie Tyson graduated from UVA in 2014 with a B.A. in political and social thought and in English. He is currently working toward his second master’s degree at the University of Oxford.
Bogue - a fourth-year honors politics student who also is studying Mandarin Chinese - is planning to study political theory at Oxford, pursuing a master’s of philosophy in political theory, followed by a doctorate in philosophy.
A record number of U.Va. alumni and graduate students will pursue their work on foreign shores with the help of the Fulbright US Student Program this year.
Five University of Virginia students will spend their summers immersed in foreign cultures and languages, thanks to the Critical Language Scholarships from the U.S. Department of State.
Lia Cattaneo, 21, of Falls Church, a civil and environmental engineering and environmental sciences double major, and Russell Bogue, 21, of Guilford, Connecticut, a politics honors program major, will each receive about $30,000 toward their graduate education.
The recipients are Catherine C. Henry, 20 of Great Falls, a third-year biomedical engineering major in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Kathryn Marqueen, 20, a third-year student studying chemistry and economics in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Ashley Blackwell, 21, of Charlottesville, a fourth-year Urban and Environmental Planning major in the School of Architecture, has received the Humanity in Action fellowship and the Congressional Hunger Center’s Bill Emerson National Hunger fellowship.
Anna Cait Wade plans to implement a leadership development and mentoring component to a foundation’s program for girls in the Dominican Republic.
Two University of Virginia students will study in Turkey and China next year.