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Two Walentas Scholars find a home at UVA School of Architecture

First-year Walentas Scholars Kaitlyn Johns and Julia Miller are UVA School of Architecture's first Walentas Scholars

October 6, 2026

Walentas Scholars Program continues to expand as it enters its second year

June 1, 2023

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Foundation has announced the names of 57 high school seniors selected to join the Jefferson and Walentas Scholars’ Class of 2027

May 24, 2023

Jefferson Scholar alumnus Xiao Wang to join faculty at UVA's School of Law

May 23, 2023

Foundation awards $35,000 to six outstanding UVA faculty members

May 9, 2023

National Fellow alumna awarded Pulitzer Prize for biography of J. Edgar Hoover

May 8, 2023

Foundation professor JC Cang brings distinction to UVA's neuroscience program

May 4, 2023

Scholar alumna directs Broadway play that earns six Tony Award nominations

Lear deBessonet, the James J. Bailey III Jefferson Scholar from the Class of 2002, earns Tony Award nominations.

May 3, 2023

Foundation professor elected to the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences

April 24, 2023

One Jefferson Scholar transitions role as Chair of University Judiciary Committee to another fellow Scholar

April 24, 2023

First-year Jefferson Scholar receives the Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship

April 4, 2023

Scholarships

Learn more about the selection process and nomination for the Jefferson Scholarship and the Walentas Scholarship from the Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia.

Fellowships

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Faculty Support

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