Truist Wealth has made a $1 million gift to the Walter N. Ridley Scholarship Program in honor of business and philanthropic leader S. Buford Scott and Scott & Stringfellow.
Eric Jang (Col ’23) is a recipient of the Captain Humayun Khan Memorial Bicentennial Scholarship. A member of the UVA ROTC and a psychology major—just like the late Humayun Khan (Col ’00)—Jang embodies the values this hero displayed on Grounds and throughout his life.
University of Virginia alumnus and Board of Visitors member John A. Griffin has given $5 million to endow a series of need-based scholarships for McIntire School of Commerce undergraduates and to support the school’s Next Century Building Fund.
This scholarship is being established by Tonya Russell, School of Medicine Class of 2006, and her father, Sidney Russell. The scholarship is named to honor Tonya’s two grandmothers who never had the opportunity as Black women from rural Virginia and North Carolina to pursue higher education or careers in medicine. The scholarship is in memory of these two women and will support underrepresented students at the SOM.
Blue Ridge Scholar Abiola Ogunkoya has a long list of accomplishments and aspirations. The daughter of a single mother, she excelled in high school and now intends to pursue a major in commerce.
While Magin Sanchez (Col '22) hails from Woodbridge, Virginia, his family has roots in El Salvador. Sanchez sees community service as a way to honor his family’s determination to seek a better life in the U.S.
