News & Notes

Scholar alumna makes mark in New York City theater scene

Lear deBessonet, JS '02, named first resident director of Encores! at New York City Center

January 21, 2019

Jefferson Fellow alumna writes award-winning book

Cynthia Nicoletti, JF '07, receives the American Society for Legal History’s Cromwell Book Prize

December 19, 2018

Varun Sharma, JS ’19, wins Schwarzman Scholarship to study in China

December 7, 2018

Jack Brake, JS '18, awarded Marshall Scholarship to study at University of Cambridge

December 3, 2018

Jefferson Scholars Foundation and U.Va.’s School of Medicine work together to attract internationally renowned neuroscientist who has devoted his career to studying autism

November 26, 2018

Watch 2018 Shadwell Speaker Anne-Marie Slaughter present "Global Hot Spots & Blind Spots: The Geopolitical Landscape"

September 26, 2018

General Robert B. Neller, 37th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, will speak at the Foundation as part of the Warren F. Chauncey Lecture Series

September 18, 2018

Three Jefferson Scholars offer words of advice to the incoming students

August 24, 2018

Foreign policy expert and former top official at the U.S. State Department, Anne-Marie Slaughter, invited to speak to U.Va. community

August 13, 2018

Kevin Cao, JS '17, receives a Rotary Global Grant to pursue a master’s degree at Oxford

August 7, 2018

Madison Smither, JS '21, selected as one of 10 finalists for a prestigious science innovation award

August 6, 2018

Andy Oldham, JS '01, is confirmed to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals

July 18, 2018

City of Chattanooga names street in memory of Jefferson Scholar alumna Glynn Key

June 19, 2018

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The Jefferson Fellowship is the premier graduate fellowship offered at the University of Virginia. Based solely on merit, the Fellowship seeks to attract Ph.D. and M.B.A. candidates.

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