The Jefferson Scholars Foundation has announced the names of 29 students selected to receive one of its graduate fellowships; 25 selected to receive a Jefferson Fellowship and four selected to receive a National Fellowship.
The Jefferson Fellowship is the premier graduate fellowship offered at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Science. Recipients are selected based on their potential as scholars, teachers, public servants and business leaders and receive full financial support to attend the University for the fellowship period.
The National Fellowship supports outstanding scholars at leading institutions of higher education, including UVA, who are completing dissertations in United States politics, with an emphasis on historical and institutional analyses of politics, public policy and foreign relations. 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.
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Both Jefferson and National fellows contribute to the intellectual life of the University of Virginia 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.
The 29 selected students are:
Marc AidinoffNational Fellowship ProgramMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.A., Harvard University
Kathryn BabineauDepartment of SociologyB.A., University of VirginiaM.P.P., University of VirginiaM.Phil., University of Oxford
Salonee BhamanNational Fellowship ProgramYale UniversityB.A., Columbia UniversityM.A., Yale UniversityM.Phil., Yale University
Frederik BrondstedDepartment of ChemistryB.S., West Virginia Wesleyan College
Daniele CelanoDepartment of HistoryB.A., Purdue University M.A., University of Virginia
Bobby CervantesNational Fellowship ProgramUniversity of KansasB.A., University of TexasB.J., University of Texas
Xinlun ChengDepartment of AstronomyB.S., Tsinghua University
Meghan CostelloDepartment of PsychologyB.A., University of VirginiaM.A., University of Virginia
Kelvin EfemwenkiekieDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringB.E., Landmark University M.E., Covenant University
Salem ElzwayNational Fellowship ProgramUniversity of MichiganB.S., B.A., University of Nebraska
Amy FedeskiDepartment of HistoryB.A., University of Sheffield M.Phil., University of Cambridge
Daniela Fernández EstradaDarden School of BusinessB.A., Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
Daniel FishkinDepartment of MusicB.A., Bard CollegeM.A., Wesleyan University
Elise FooteDepartment of EnglishB.A., Davidson College
Jessica GettlemanDepartment of PsychologyB.A., University of Missouri - Kansas City M.A., University of Virginia
Benjamin GoffinCivil and Environmental EngineeringB.S., Bluefield State College M.S., University of Virginia
Meghan HerwigDepartment of HistoryB.A., University of North CarolinaM.A., University of Virginia
Megan HuntsingerDarden School of BusinessB.E., Vanderbilt University
Yen-Yu LinDepartment of SociologyB.A., National Taiwan University B.A., Waseda University M.A., National Taiwan University M.A., University of Virginia
Chang LiuDissertation Year FellowDepartment of ChemistryB.E., South China University of TechnologyM.S., The University of Akron
Kendra LiuDepartment of BiologyB.S., University of Arizona M.Phil., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Amanda McleanDarden School of BusinessB.A., Stanford University M.A., Stanford University
Courtney MorganDarden School of BusinessB.A., University of Virginia
Taylor NystromDepartment of BiologyB.A., University of Colorado
Wanyue QiDepartment of Systems and Information EngineeringB.S., University of VirginiaM.E., Cornell University
Allie SchaeferDarden School of BusinessA.B., Brown University
Kinsey TedfordDepartment of Environmental SciencesB.S., University of Central Oklahoma M.S., University of Central Oklahoma
Juan Carlos Vasquez Department of MusicB.A., Pontificia Universidad JaverianaM.A., Aalto University M.A., University of Virginia
Bingmu XiaoDarden School of BusinessB.E., Jilin University M.S., King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
For more information about the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, click here.
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