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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 [...]