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In the News

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