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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.
Each year the Carnegie Endowment offers up to 12 one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified students who have graduated during the past academic year. Carnegie Junior Fellows work as research assistants to the endowment's senior associates.
Sprague, 20, of Richmond, is a third-year student researching the relationship between engineering and sustainable agriculture.
Joseph Riley, a third-year student in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences, has received a 2012 Truman Scholarship. Given by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, the award goes to college juniors who exhibit exceptional leadership potential and who are committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in public service.
These graduates and students are among more than 1,500 U.S. citizens who will study, research, and teach English abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Biomedical engineering major Hannah Meredith is the first University of Virginia student to receive a scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.
Nine UVa students are among approximately 575 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who will be going overseas this summer to study languages with Critical Language Scholarships from the U.S. Department of State. These students will spend seven to 10 weeks in intensive language institutes and in cultural immersion in countries where these languages are spoken.
Kim, 20, of Annandale, is a third-year biology major in the College of Arts & Sciences.
The Truman Scholarship provides financial support for graduate study and leadership training. Wallace, who is double-majoring in politics and economics, plans to pursue a law degree and a master's degree in public policy, with a career goal of becoming a prosecutor.
Two University of Virginia students have been awarded a 2011 Davis Projects for Peace award for their program to create a business training curriculum in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Nelson, a fourth-year political and social thought major in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences, has received a Rhodes Scholarship.
Eight University of Virginia students and alumni have received Fulbright scholarships. They will be going overseas to further their education in such topics as philosophy, biology, architecture, languages and art.
NSF fellows receive a three-year annual stipend of $30,000, along with a $10,500 annual cost-of-education allowance for tuition and fees, a one-time $1,000 international travel allowance and the freedom to conduct their own research at any accredited U.S. or foreign institution of graduate education they choose.
Matthews has received a Fulbright US Student Award to study "Transformations of Public Space in Turkish Ottoman-Byzantine Cities: Istanbul, Bursa and Iznik."
"I am very honored to receive this award," said Heil, a third-year student. "It represents my commitment to the environment and provides me with an avenue to meet similar students at a four-day conference in Tucson, Ariz."
The four are among 278 students 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.