News & Notes

Brian Mitchell, JS '18, earns a spot on Poets & Quants' "Best and Brightest 2018" list

April 5, 2018

Austin Owen, JS '18, named a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

March 28, 2018

National Museum of African American Music has named Steven Lewis, JF '18, as its inaugural curator

March 16, 2018

Brad Braxton, JS ’91, leads efforts to honor religious legacy of African Americans at Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

March 16, 2018

Neurobiology professor recruited and funded by the Foundation makes his mark on the University

March 4, 2018

Maddie Rita, JS '18, is one of 18 students across the country to receive a Luce Scholarship

March 2, 2018

Three Jefferson Scholars receive Harrison Undergraduate Research Awards

March 2, 2018

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

January 22, 2018

2011 National Fellow Francesca Russello Ammon writes award-winning book

January 12, 2018

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

January 3, 2018

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

December 11, 2017

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

December 8, 2017

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

December 5, 2017

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David and Jane Walentas

A transformational gift for UVA — $100 million to benefit first-generation students

The Jefferson Scholarship is the premier undergraduate scholarship at the University of Virginia. Scholars are selected through a rigorous selection process that is based on exceptional performance in the areas of leadership, scholarship, and citizenship.

Legacy

The Jefferson Scholars Foundation, like its namesake, knows that virtue and talent come from all walks of life. Indeed it is this knowledge that drives the Foundation to search the world over for its recipients.

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