UVA Today - August 2, 2010 — Eight University of Virginia students, most of whom are recent graduates, have received Fulbright scholarships to study abroad. They will be going overseas to further their education in such topics as philosophy, biology, architecture, languages and art.
The Fulbright Program is an international educational exchange program sponsored by the [...]

By Deborah Heishman (English ’02)
Arts & Sciences Magazine - posted May 28, 2010 -
It’s a universal image: A child looks out her bedroom window, elbows propped on the sill, wondering if, at that very moment, another child from a faraway place can see the same stars. Perhaps earlier that evening she’d seen a PBS documentary [...]

Part of the reason that Shakespeare remains one of the handful of writers who engage generation after generation of readers has to do with the way he is taught, or, at least, was taught in the New York City public-school system of my youth. Back then, in the mid-seventies, students balanced their attempts to understand [...]

The morning commute looked a little more interesting for ten University of Virginia students who traded in their usual summer jobs for an international service learning project last month with Jifundishe! The ten students, accompanied by two leaders, spent all of June in beautiful Tanzania visiting cultural tourism sites, climbing Kilimanjaro and volunteering with Jifundishe. [...]

May 13, 2010 — Ian Czekala came to the University of Virginia intending to follow the “typical path” to a career in engineering. Along the way – ever looking upward – he discovered a way to merge a passion for understanding the universe with the technical knowledge to accomplish it.
Czekala is scheduled to receive two [...]

May 19, 2010 — The University of Virginia’s Class of 2010 include winners of two Udall Scholarships, a Gates Scholarship, a Luce Foundation Scholarship, a Truman Scholarship, a Goldwater Scholarship; a recipient of the Davis Prize for Peace; and at least four Fulbright Scholars. Five students have received University Awards for Undergraduate Arts Projects, and [...]

May 20, 2010 — It’s probably premature to declare any 21-year-old a polymath. But Rahul Gorawara is at least a budding polymath, having earned degrees from the University of Virginia in engineering, public policy and economics in four years by taking roughly double the typical class load, thereby demonstrating one quality common to polymaths – [...]

May 19, 2010 — This year’s University of Virginia Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award recipients – undergraduates Courtney Mallow and Ben Chrisinger, and head swimming and diving coach Mark Bernardino – have contributed to the University community through tireless dedication, compassion for others and tremendous creativity. They will receive their awards at Valedictory Exercises on May [...]

May 14, 2010 — Caroline Siobhan Ryon [JS '10] is moving from the footlights to the bar.
Graduating May 23 from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in English and drama, Ryon started as a stage actress, interned with a film producer and now will start law school at U.Va. in the fall.
“I saw [...]

May 11, 2010 - Last May, Aaron Gonzalez-Rodriguez was pulled over in Charleston for turning left on a yellow arrow.
For most people, it would have been a nuisance, a fine to pay or fight.
For Gonzalez-Rodriguez, it was a life-altering mistake.
He ended up in a Pennsylvania jail, staring helplessly at his wife and two young daughters [...]

April 20, 2010 — A University of Virginia undergraduate has won a prestigious Coro public affairs fellowship.
Charles Gamper, a fourth-year political and social thought major, is one of 68 recipients chosen from across the nation.
The Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs is a full-time, nine-month, graduate-level experiential leadership training program that seeks to prepare participants [...]

Issue #22.16 :: 04/20/2010 - 04/26/2010
Brad Wilcox, Sociologist
The media’s go-to guy on happy marriage
BY C-VILLE WEEKLY WRITERS
As if marriage and money weren’t complicated enough, Brad Wilcox will tell you that a recession can cut to the heart of a couple’s stability. That’s because money, apparently, leads to happiness.
Wilcox is the Director of the National Marriage [...]

The American Academy in Rome recently announced the winners of the 2010-2011 Rome Prize.  The Rome Prize is awarded annually through an open national competition that is juried by leading artists and scholars in the fellowship categories. Forty-eight individuals were invited to make up nine peer juries to review the applications this year.  The Academy [...]

Service Helps to Link Ex-Military M.B.A.s
By JANE PORTER
Wall Street Journal - February 18, 2010 - For military veterans in business school, making the transition to the corporate world often means navigating the uncharted terrain of résumé writing and networking.
While traditional M.B.A. students typically step into the job search with four to six years of private [...]

Will Jacobs (2010), the Ann Vernon and Gilbert J. Sullivan Jefferson Scholar, a fourth-year engineering and physics major, has been selected as one of 29 American students to receive the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
February 12, 2010 — The Gates Cambridge Trust, established by a donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, awards scholarships for graduate [...]

February 9, 2010 — Michelle Henry [Philadelphia Alumni Club Jefferson Scholar], a fourth-year student at the University of Virginia, has received a 2010 Luce Foundation Scholarship.
Henry, 21, who will graduate in May with masters’ and bachelor’s degrees in environmental science, will be able to work in Asia for a year with the Luce award.
“When I heard [...]

U.Va. sociology professor and Jefferson Scholar alum W. Bradford Wilcox is the director of the National Marriage Project.  Founded in 1997, the National Marriage Project is a nonpartisan, nonsectarian and interdisciplinary initiative located at the University of Virginia. The project provides research and analysis on the health of marriage in America (including the annual “State [...]

Ever stumbled across a piece of wisdom or know-how in your day-to-day life and thought to yourself, “That’s something I really need to pass on to my kids?” This is, in essence, what parenthood is all about.

On a rainy Wednesday on Broad Street, there’s a “shadow play” rehearsal being conducted on a makeshift stage with taut bed sheets on wires substituting for scrims.
“The action goes like this,” says the director, New York’s Lear deBessonet, in a soft voice that manages to echo through the room. “A woman beating a child. A [...]

photo credit: Dan Addison
This spring, one University of Virginia class set a goal that many people would envy: to become financially literate enough to be able to critically read and analyze articles in The Economist.
In the process of bringing 35 students closer to that goal, the class’s teachers, fourth-year economics majors Grace Ng and Vadim [...]

By D. Rachael Bishop
More than a dozen engineering students cut the rug, in both practical and aesthetic senses, this fall as U.Va. First Year Players performed an emotionally invigorating rendition of the musical “Footloose.”
Engineers served in such varied roles as prop charge, master carpenter, publicity chair and director. Others played in the orchestra and three [...]