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Alex MacKay

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

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National and Jefferson Fellow alumna Emily Charnock examines U.S. politics in a new podcast

January 22, 2018

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2011 National Fellow Francesca Russello Ammon writes award-winning book

January 12, 2018

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Jefferson Scholars Foundation funds U.Va.'s first Science Policy Symposium

January 3, 2018

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2017 National Fellow Leif Fredrickson receives award for writing the nation's top humanities dissertation

December 11, 2017

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Jack Wilkins, JS '20, and Mary Grace Sheers, JS '18, come together to help launch a new student initiative

December 8, 2017

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Jack Brake, JS '18, wins a Schwarzman Scholarship to pursue graduate studies in China

December 5, 2017

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Three Marshall Scholarship winners demonstrate the Jefferson Scholar difference

December 4, 2017

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Lisa Manning, JS '02, receives prestigious physics award from American Physical Society

October 27, 2017

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Watch 2017 Shadwell Speaker Jonathan Haidt present “America’s Escalating Outrage: Why is it Happening and How Can We Reverse It?”

October 26, 2017

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Meghan O'Leary, JS '07, receives 2017 Fans' Choice Award in USRowing

October 26, 2017

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