Alumni

Empowering first-generation college students

How the Walentas Scholars Program is supporting outstanding students at UVA

February 14, 2024

Scholar alumna continues to drive growth and change at Stony Brook University

Maurie McInnis, JS '88, has enjoyed a string of successes since being appointed president of Stony Brook in 2020

January 3, 2024

Jefferson Scholar alumnus wins prestigious award from the Association of American Law Schools

Xiao Wang will be recognized at the AALS annual meeting on January 4, 2024

December 28, 2023

Scholar alumna makes the 2024 Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ List

Marisa Reddy, the

December 13, 2023

Foundation launches new lecture series in honor of retired history professor Brian Balogh

Inaugural speaker Beverly Gage delivers a talk on her Pulitzer Prize-winning book about former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

June 6, 2023

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

May 23, 2023

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

May 8, 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

Three of the 18 UVA students offered Fulbright Scholarships in 2022 were Jefferson Scholars

February 13, 2023

Jefferson Scholar alumna Melissa Murray to deliver keynote address at the 40th anniversary Journal of Law & Politics symposium

February 10, 2023