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University of Virginia undergraduate Attiya Latif has been named a Harry S. Truman Foundation Scholar and will receive $30,000 toward graduate school and the opportunity to prepare for a career in public service leadership.

04/12/2017

Bridget Andersen explores the universe and studies how galaxies form.

04/07/2017

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.

04/05/2017

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.

04/04/2017

From left, Davis Prize for Peace winners Madeline Curry, Jillian Randolph, Sophie Binns and Nanki Kaur will work in South Africa this summer.

03/31/2017

From left, Sarah Koch, Abraham Axler and William Henagan each received Marshall Scholarships to pursue graduate study in the United Kingdom.

11/28/2016

University of Virginia students Aryn Frazier and Lauren Jackson are among the 32 American students named as 2017 Rhodes Scholars.

11/20/2016

Eight University of Virginia students and alumni will pursue their work on foreign shores with the help of the Fulbright US Student Program. 

06/07/2016

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.

06/02/2016

University of Virginia student Dominick Giovanniello will study Arabic for a year in Amman, Jordan.

05/05/2016

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.

04/22/2016

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.

04/01/2016

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.

01/20/2016

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.

11/23/2015

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.

11/23/2015

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.

05/28/2015

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.

05/20/2015

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.

04/15/2015

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.

04/13/2015

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.

04/09/2015

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