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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.
Evan Behrle, left, and Charlie Tyson first crossed paths as first-year students taking a Tibetan Buddhism course. This fall, the two are headed to Oxford.
Fourth-year student Wonman Joseph Williams has received a Humanity in Action Fellowship, which will allow him to travel to a European capital and study human rights.
U.Va. undergrads (L-R) Lauren Baetsen, Emily Nemec and Amanda Halacy will travel to Africa this summer to work with the Special Hope Network, a Zambian organization that educates children with disabilities.
Evan Behrle and Charles Tyson, both fourth-year students at the University of Virginia, have received a 2014 Rhodes Scholarships. The scholarships fully fund two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England.
Six May graduates and an alumnus from 2009 have received Fulbright Scholarships.
Charles Tyson, 21, of Chapel Hill, N.C., a double major in political & social thought and English in the College of Arts & Sciences, is one of 20 winners from across the country to receive the Beinecke Scholarship.
The recipients are Davis Blalock, 21, of Charlottesville, a third-year electrical and computer engineering major, and Ellen D. Zhong, 20, of Vienna, a third-year chemical engineering major. The two are among 271 students nationwide who received scholarships, given by the Goldwater Foundation to second- and third-year students who intend to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering.
Sarah Deal, a fourth-year student in the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences, will study human rights in Poland this summer as a 2013 Humanity in Action Fellow.
Lacey Williams (left) and Carolyn Pelnik are recipients of the 2013 Davis Projects for Peace award for a micro-financing and agricultural education program designed to empower women in Tanzania.
Bissell, 21, of Fairfax Station, is a double major in politics honors and Russian language and literature in the College of Arts & Sciences. He will be able to work in Asia for a year with the Luce Scholarship.
Riley, 21, is majoring in Mandarin Chinese and the politics honors program in the College of Arts & Sciences and is a cadet in U.S. Army ROTC program. He plans to complete a master’s and doctorate in international relations at Oxford and have a career as an infantry officer.
Hurd, 21, will pursue a master’s degree in international relations at Cambridge University and peace and conflict studies at the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland.
Ellen Zhong, a rising third-year chemical engineering major in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, is the University of Virginia's 2012 recipient of the Astronaut Scholarship.
Four graduate students, three undergraduates and an alumnus have received the Fulbright US Student Award. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is a federally sponsored international educational exchange program designed to increase mutual understanding among Americans and people of other countries.
Twelve University of Virginia graduate and graduating fourth-year students have earned National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships beginning this fall.
Two University of Virginia fourth-year students have received the Davis Projects for Peace to create a health education and water filtration program in San Lucas Tolimán, Guatemala, a rural lakeside town.
Eight University of Virginia students are among approximately 575 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who will go overseas this summer to study languages with Critical Language Scholarships from the United States Department of State.
University of Virginia undergraduate David Wu has received a research scholarship from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.