Evan Scott, the Thomas A. Saunders III Family Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished University Professor, recently led a study in which he and fellow researchers used nanoparticles to make the cells of transplanted hearts in mice resistant to attack by their immune system.
A UVA alum, Alexander MacKay returns to join the College’s Department of Economics as the James H. and Elizabeth W. Wright Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor
Andrew Preston will join UVA’s Corcoran Department of History as the W.L. Lyons Brown Jr. Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor in Diplomacy and Statecraft
Learn more about the selection process and nomination for the Jefferson Scholarship and the Walentas Scholarship from the Jefferson Scholars Foundation at the University of Virginia.