News & Notes

Three Marshall Scholarship winners demonstrate the Jefferson Scholar difference

December 4, 2017

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

October 27, 2017

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

October 26, 2017

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

October 26, 2017

Joe Riley, JS '13, featured in Harvard Business Review article

October 20, 2017

Lisa Spaar, recipient of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Faculty Prize, selected to speak at Fall Convocation

October 16, 2017

David Buckley, JS '04, examines the war on drugs in the Philippines—and questions if the Catholic Church can turn its moral standing into political influence

October 2, 2017

Jon Cohen, JF '18, explains why public officials should not turn to lotteries as a simple solution to complex financial problems

September 29, 2017

Jefferson Scholar alumna Melissa Murray selected as a 2017 JeffTalks speaker

September 29, 2017

Jefferson Scholars Foundation participates in United Way Day of Caring

September 28, 2017

Citizenship and leadership continue well beyond graduation for members of the JSF community

September 27, 2017

Gary Gallagher presents "How Americans Remembered the Civil War" as part of the Foundation's Warren F. Chauncey Lecture Series

September 25, 2017

Jesse Han, JS '20, receives the 2017 Ig Nobel Prize

September 20, 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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