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Ferguson, a third-year materials science and engineering and nanotechnology major, with an engineering business minor, said the Truman Scholarship will assist her in her graduate research on solar photovoltaic cells.
Henry Sarpong (left) of Ghana, Diana Wilson (center) of Newark, New Jersey, and Sheila Otwe of Alexandria, will be going to Ghana this summer to work with civic engagement of students.
Fourth-year student Benjamin Harris, 22, of Grundy, and 2010 alumnus Mostafa Allam, 26, of Cairo, Egypt, have received Schwarzman Scholarships. They will live in Beijing for a year of study and cultural immersion, attending lectures, traveling and developing a better understanding of China.
Charlie Tyson graduated from UVA in 2014 with a B.A. in political and social thought and in English. He is currently working toward his second master’s degree at the University of Oxford.
Bogue - a fourth-year honors politics student who also is studying Mandarin Chinese - is planning to study political theory at Oxford, pursuing a master’s of philosophy in political theory, followed by a doctorate in philosophy.
A record number of U.Va. alumni and graduate students will pursue their work on foreign shores with the help of the Fulbright US Student Program this year.
Five University of Virginia students will spend their summers immersed in foreign cultures and languages, thanks to the Critical Language Scholarships from the U.S. Department of State.
Lia Cattaneo, 21, of Falls Church, a civil and environmental engineering and environmental sciences double major, and Russell Bogue, 21, of Guilford, Connecticut, a politics honors program major, will each receive about $30,000 toward their graduate education.
The recipients are Catherine C. Henry, 20 of Great Falls, a third-year biomedical engineering major in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Kathryn Marqueen, 20, a third-year student studying chemistry and economics in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Ashley Blackwell, 21, of Charlottesville, a fourth-year Urban and Environmental Planning major in the School of Architecture, has received the Humanity in Action fellowship and the Congressional Hunger Center’s Bill Emerson National Hunger fellowship.
Anna Cait Wade plans to implement a leadership development and mentoring component to a foundation’s program for girls in the Dominican Republic.
Two University of Virginia students will study in Turkey and China next year.
Evan Behrle, left, and Charlie Tyson first crossed paths as first-year students taking a Tibetan Buddhism course. This fall, the two are headed to Oxford.
Fourth-year student Wonman Joseph Williams has received a Humanity in Action Fellowship, which will allow him to travel to a European capital and study human rights.
U.Va. undergrads (L-R) Lauren Baetsen, Emily Nemec and Amanda Halacy will travel to Africa this summer to work with the Special Hope Network, a Zambian organization that educates children with disabilities.
Evan Behrle and Charles Tyson, both fourth-year students at the University of Virginia, have received a 2014 Rhodes Scholarships. The scholarships fully fund two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England.
Six May graduates and an alumnus from 2009 have received Fulbright Scholarships.
Charles Tyson, 21, of Chapel Hill, N.C., a double major in political & social thought and English in the College of Arts & Sciences, is one of 20 winners from across the country to receive the Beinecke Scholarship.
The recipients are Davis Blalock, 21, of Charlottesville, a third-year electrical and computer engineering major, and Ellen D. Zhong, 20, of Vienna, a third-year chemical engineering major. The two are among 271 students nationwide who received scholarships, given by the Goldwater Foundation to second- and third-year students who intend to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering.
Sarah Deal, a fourth-year student in the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences, will study human rights in Poland this summer as a 2013 Humanity in Action Fellow.