Another OP-ED article by John Villasenor has been published online.  He discusses how, in an era when nearly everything we do is recorded, we have less control over what we choose to remember, and perhaps more crucially, what to forget. John, a Jefferson Scholar Alum, is a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA and a [...]

Kaz Komolafe ’14 and Conor Sheehey ‘14, second year Jefferson Scholars, are elected to the 123rd staff of the Cavalier Daily. Read the article:  http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2012/01/30/paper-elects-123rd-staff/

Forrest Brown, Class of 2015, discusses rowing with Row2k. Forrest is the current Ann Vernon and Gilbert J. Sullivan Jefferson Scholar. Excerpt:  “I’d actually say being a good student has been my biggest strength as an athlete. I’m a believer in the philosophy that success isn’t something you achieve in isolation- if you’re working hard [...]

Excerpts from this year’s President’s Report: In the course of their explorations, many students show exceptional promise, as demonstrated by the honors and awards they received. A political and social thought major in the College of Arts & Sciences, Laura Nelson was one of just thirty-two students nationwide to win a Rhodes Scholarship to study [...]

Meghan O’Leary has always been a jock, but when she picked up an oar she found her true passion and possibly a path to the Olympics.  Meghan is the 2007 Hilliard Family Jefferson Scholar. Read the full story at http://espn.go.com/espnw/athletes-life/7345949/meghan-oleary-rowing-newbie-olympic-caliber-talent

“Justin is the cofounder of EdTechTeacher, a social venture devoted to helping teachers and schools leverage technology to support student-centered, inquiry-based learning environments.”  He is the 2000 Reginald S. and Julia W. Fleet Foundation Jefferson Scholar in memory of Alexander Frederick Fleet.  He is currently an Ed.D candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. [...]

Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, discusses the results of a new survey examining the link between parenthood and marriage. The report finds that “a hybrid model of married life appears to be the best path to successfully combine marriage and parenthood for today’s parents,” said Wilcox, the report’s lead author. Brad Wilcox [...]

In Darden’s current edition of Pillars, meet Julia Abell and read how she wants to help companies reduce their environmental impact.  Julia’s article can be found at the top of page 2. Download the article (PDF) >>

Read about Jia Tolentino’s first week in the Peace Corps during which the April 2010 coup in Kyrgyzstan occurred. Read the article from UVa Magazine >>

Four OP-ED articles by John Villasenor have been posted online recently, covering several fascinating technology issues.  Read about online education, the right of citizens to access wi-fi, the next homeland security threat, and reverse obsolescence. John, a Jefferson Scholar Alum, is a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA and a nonresident senior fellow at the [...]

View videos of current and recent scholars discussing leadership, their decisions to come to the University, the selection process, and what makes the Jefferson Scholarship unique. Click an image above to watch the video of each Scholar’s story.

Whitney Hawkins, the 2010 Mary Tilman Corson Jefferson Scholar from Waynesboro ,VA has begun her second year as a member of the College Advising Corps. Members of the Virginia College Advising Corps are stationed in the guidance offices of 19 high schools and three community colleges in Virginia, helping students who might not ordinarily consider [...]

Matt Nicholson, the 2002 Robert P. Crozer Family Jefferson Scholar and a 2009 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, will clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during the 2011-12 term, joining three other U.Va. law alumni clerking at the nation’s highest court. It will be the third time since the 2006-07 [...]

Hannah Barefoot, the Lawrence Lewis Jr. Jefferson Scholar from Winston Salem, NC, has been selected as one of seven winners receiving grants from the Undergraduate Award for Arts Projects program. Funded by the Office of the Provost, the grants are designed to support projects of creative expression, such as filmmaking, writing and dance. Barefoot is [...]

Sarah Munford, the Norfolk Academy Jefferson Scholar; and Laura Nelson, the Thanksgiving Foundation Jefferson Scholar, were two among many graduates of the class of 2011 to receive additional awards and funding. “Munford, 21, of Virginia Beach, a global development studies and foreign affairs double major in the College, was awarded a 2011 Davis Projects for [...]

UVA Today May 13, 2011 — Danna Thomas’ innovative spirit fuels her passions – jazz music, feminism, mental health issues and education. Both an Echols scholar and the Robin Ashley Morgan Jefferson scholar at the University of Virginia, Thomas combined her interests to create an interdisciplinary course of study in arts administration, music, poetry and [...]

On Sunday, May 15th, Youth Orchestras of Central Virginia present an encore performance of original works by UVA graduate student composers Lanier Sammons, the Edgar Shannon Jefferson Fellow in Music, Aurie Hsu, the D.N. Batten Jefferson Fellow and Steven Kemper. Prelude Flutes, Flute Choir and Flute Ensemble directed by Angela Kelly & Margaret Newcomb. Clarinet [...]

State Bar of Texas – May 2, 2011 C.E. Rhodes is U.S. Operations and Compliance Counsel to Baker Hughes, Inc. in Houston, where he advises management and employees. He currently serves as the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Representative for south and central Texas and as a liaison to the TYLA Board. A TYLA [...]

Alex Eschenroeder, Christiana White, and Lily Bowles, are among the students working on “Grand Aides in Inner Mongolia”, winner of the Jefferson Public Citizens Scholars’ top prize in group public service.  A $500 award will be given to their community partner, the Inner Mongolia Medical College, to continue its work with the grand-aides program. The [...]

Laura Nelson, the Thanksgiving Foundation Jefferson Scholar, has been selected as the 2011 recipient of the Ernest H. Ern Distinguished Student Award.  The Distinguished Student Award, established in 1966 and later named in honor of longtime University professor and administrator Ernest H. Ern, is conferred annually upon a member of the student body who has [...]

Emily Charnock (JF ’11), the Gregory L. and Nancy H. Curl Jefferson Fellow, has been selected as one of nine recipients of the 2011-12 Miller Center National Fellowship.  The award comes with a one-year, $20,000 grant to support research and writing on U.S. politics, foreign policy or global politics. Each fellow will also be guided [...]

Yixao Min (JS ’12) the Havens Family Jefferson Scholar, Carolyn Pelnick (JS ’13) the Virginia and Alfred L. Munkres Jefferson Scholar,  Joseph Riley (JS ’13) the Betty and Jack Blackburn Jefferson Scholar are three of twenty-four University of  Virginia students receiving Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards for independent research this summer.  Mary Catherine Kinniburgh (JS ’12) [...]

UVA Today Matt Kelly April 7,  2011 – A University of Virginia student video has won the top prize in RecycleMania’s video contest. Parodying a ubiquitous insurance commercial and lampooning cinematic love scenes, “U.Va. Recycling Love Story” was “liked” by 1,215 users on Recyclemania’s Facebook page, beating two much-larger schools: the University of Houston, which [...]

U.Va. Today reported that Ben Wallace (Col ’12), the C.D.L. and M.T.B. Perkins Jefferson Scholar, is a 2011 Truman Scholarship winner. The annual award, provided by the Truman Foundation, 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 [...]

U.Va. Today reported that Sarah Munford, the Norfolk Academy Scholar and member of the 2011 Jefferson Scholars class has received a Davis Projects for Peace award along with a fellow fourth year undergraduate student. Sarah and her project partner will share the $10,000 prize, which they earned with their original business plan proposing the development [...]

A University of Virginia student has a bright idea: ‘Flash seminars’- February 20, 2011 By Daniel de Vise Washington Post Staff Writer Flash mobs assemble in public spaces to dance, protest or do battle with lightsabers. And at the University of Virginia, thanks to Laura Nelson, they gather to learn. Once or twice a week, [...]

Laura Nelson, 4th Year Jefferson Scholar from Dedham, Massachusetts, was this past weekend selected as a Rhodes Scholar.  She is the 5th Jefferson Scholar so chosen. U.Va. Today reported on November 22 that Laura, “a fourth-year political and social thought major in the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences, was been awarded a [...]

At UVa, flash mobs learn for sake of learning Daily Progress – by Brian McNiell – October 23, 2010 Taking a page from “flash mobs” — those sudden assemblies of people brought together by social media — University of Virginia students and faculty are gathering outside the classroom for special lectures simply for the sake [...]

Top 40 Under 40 2010: the young men and women transforming Richmond – October 12, 2010 by Scott Bass, Brent Baldwin, Vernal Coleman, Peter Galuszka, Don Harrison, Jack Lauterback, Melissa Scott Sinclair, Megan Southall, Deveron Timberlake, David Timberline and Sara Dabney Tisdale Lawson Wijesooriya, 30 Executive Director Blue Sky Fund The boy had never watched [...]

September 28, 2010 — This year, 21 University of Virginia graduates will influence the lives of thousands of potential college students. Members of the University’s College Guides program, they will be stationed in the guidance offices of 19 high schools and three community colleges in Virginia, helping students who would not ordinarily consider going to [...]

Nature Volume: 467, Pages: 272–273 Date published: (16 September 2010) DOI: doi:10.1038/467272a Published online: 15 September 2010 Tanzania’s iconic national park must not be divided by a highway, say Andrew Dobson, Markus Borner, Tony Sinclair and 24 others. A route farther south would bring greater benefits to development and the environment. Plans for building a [...]

The Hacker in Your Hardware: The Next Security Threat As if software viruses weren’t bad enough, the microchips that power every aspect of our digital world are vulnerable to tampering in the factory. The consequences could be dire. Your once reliable mobile phone suddenly freezes. The keypad no longer functions, and it cannot make or [...]

September 15, 2010 — While most University of Virginia students are sleeping in, catching up with friends or cheering on the Cavalier football team on any given Saturday, the nearly 50-member cast and crew of “Musical: The Online Musical” are hard at work. The musical, written and produced by College of Arts & Sciences fourth-year [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]