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.
Horace Ballard (Col ’06), curator of American art for the Williams College Museum of Art, received the Keller Award as an undergraduate double major in English and American studies.
In 1944, UVA alumna Lottie Pugh Colley began her career as a professional nurse. This is the story of her three sons who are honoring their mother’s memory by endowing the Colley Class of ’44 Scholarship in the UVA School of Nursing. One son is also supporting research into cardiology, hearing loss, and Alzheimer’s disease.
University of Virginia President Jim Ryan announced to the Board of Visitors an additional investment of $30 million in strategic matching funds to support need- and merit-based student scholarships at UVA and UVA’s College at Wise.
Latrell Lee cites Corporate Resilience and Sustainability as his most fulfilling class at the McIntire School because of its emphasis on how businesses can adapt to and prevent climate change.
