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Foundation announces results of its 2025 selection efforts

Eighty-eight exceptional leaders, scholars, and citizens will join the Foundation community next year as the newest cohort of Scholars, Fellows, Distinguished Professors and Faculty Fellows

July 8, 2025

Foundation-funded professorship brings leading AI ethics and philosophy scholar to UVA

David Danks appointed the William L. Polk Jr. and Carolyn K. Polk Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science

July 5, 2025

Foundation-funded professorship brings national leader in AI and journalism to UVA

Seth Lewis appointed Elcan Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Media Studies

June 20, 2025

Jefferson Fellow receives 2025 UVA Engineering Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award

Ben Goffin, JF '25, among three Ph.D. candidates recognized for meaningful contributions to their fields

May 29, 2025

Jefferson Scholar helps commemorate the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case

Pria Dua, the Joseph R. Daniel Jefferson Scholar from the Class of 2028, co-leads effort to honor Virginia's school integration legacy

May 21, 2025

Jefferson Scholar alumnus receives Knight-Hennessy Scholarship to study law at Stanford

Jaden Evans, JS '23, will continue his graduate studies at Stanford after earning a master's degree in international relations at Johns Hopkins

May 21, 2025

Foundation-funded professor shares his vision for new groundbreaking biotech institute

Mark Esser will drive innovation in biotechnology at UVA and beyond

May 21, 2025

Jefferson Scholar alumnus thrives as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University

Grant GianGrasso, JS '23, will receive two graduate degrees from Oxford before attending medical school

May 15, 2025

Foundation-funded professor and notable economist honored by the American Economic Association

Alex MacKay is among two UVA faculty members to receive a 2025 AEJ Paper Award

April 26, 2025

Foundation-funded professorship brings inaugural leader of the Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology to UVA

Mark Esser joins UVA faculty as the Thomas A. Saunders III Family Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished University Professor

April 15, 2025

Jefferson Scholar alumna recently inaugurated as Yale University's 24th president

Maurie McInnis, JS '88, brings more than three decades of experience to the position

April 9, 2025

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.

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Faculty Support

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