Jefferson Scholars Foundation Awards Fellowship to 35 Graduate Students
The Jefferson Scholars Foundation has announced the names of 35 exceptional graduate students selected to receive Jefferson and National fellowships.
Thirty-two of this year’s recipients were awarded Jefferson Fellowships, the premier graduate fellowship offered at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and School of Engineering and Applied Science. Three were awarded National Fellowships, which support outstanding scholars at leading higher education institutions completing dissertations in United States politics, emphasizing historical and institutional analyses of politics, public policy, and foreign relations.
Selected based on their potential as scholars, teachers, public servants, and business leaders, Jefferson Fellows receive full financial support to attend the University for the fellowship period. National Fellows receive support for up to two years of dissertation research and writing and are paired with a renowned senior scholar in their field, who serves as a mentor to the student.
Both Jefferson and National fellows contribute to the intellectual life of the University and have use of the foundation’s 40,000-square-foot facility in Charlottesville, which includes multifunctional spaces for research presentations, conferences, lectures, and individual study.
Thirty-two Jefferson Fellows and three National Fellows representing 41 universities will join the Foundation community this fall.
Jefferson Fellowship Recipients
- Kathryn Babineau, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Sociology)
- Diego Briones, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Economics)
- Frederik Brondsted, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Chemistry)
- Wesley Brown, Darden School of Business
- Johanna Chajes, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Psychology)
- Veronica Collins, Darden School of Business
- Emma Cook, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Chemistry)
- Cam Copeland, Darden School of Business
- Jason Evans, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Religious Studies)
- Kayleigh Granville, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Environmental Sciences)
- Elizabeth Harper, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (French)
- Alice King, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (History)
- Ekim Koca, School of Engineering and Applied Science (Systems and Information Engineering)
- Cherrie Kwok, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (English)
- Lauren Mandaville, Darden School of Business
- Ellie Marsh, Darden School of Business
- Matthew Martello, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (English)
- Keegan McBride, Darden School of Business (Darden)
- Lauren Mehfoud, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese)
- Jirayu Mongkolkiattichai, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Physics)
- Meghan O’Donoghue, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (French)
- Hannah Richstein, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Astronomy)
- Chris Robinson, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Biology)
- Sean Sawaya, School of Engineering and Applied Science (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)
- Yaolong Shen, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Mathematics)
- Marina Stam, Darden School of Business
- Justin Stec, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (English)
- Drew Thede, School of Engineering and Applied Science (Biomedical Engineering)
- Tracey Wang, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (English)
- Kate Hughes Watkins, Darden School of Business
- Lingyu Yang, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Physics)
- Eben Yonnetti, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (Religious Studies)
National Fellowship Recipients
The National Fellowship supports outstanding scholars at leading higher education institutions, including UVA, who are completing dissertations in U.S. politics.
- William Robert Billups, Emory University (History)
- Syrus Solo Jin, University of Chicago (History)
- Sam Schirvar, University of Pennsylvania (History and Sociology of Science)
