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Faculty Excellence

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Documents

Bicentennial Professors Fund

The Board of Visitors has committed funds from the Strategic Investment Fund to create the Bicentennial Professors Fund. You can ensure that UVA continues to provide critical support to recruit and retain outstanding faculty by contributing to this matching gift program.

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Center for Teaching Excellence

The Center for Teaching Excellence is key to preserving UVA’s extraordinary culture of learning and strong student-faculty interaction. By offering services designed to enhance the teaching abilities and professional development of faculty and graduate teaching assistants, CTE keeps alive the magic that occurs when committed, impassioned teachers challenge bright, eager students in the classroom and beyond.

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Undergraduate Student Opportunities in Academic Research (USOAR)

For our undergraduates, the link between the classroom and UVA’s research enterprise is USOAR, the Undergraduate Student Opportunities in Academic Research program. Through USOAR, students engage in research investigations alongside faculty mentors who are renowned experts in their fields.

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Articles

Portrait of Dean Stephanie Rowley
Faculty Support
Five Questions: Stephanie Rowley
Five Questions with Stephanie Rowley, Dean of the School of Education and Human Development
Joseph Williams
Faculty Support
The Gift of Education: Joseph Williams
Joseph Williams is an Associate Professor in the School of Education and Human Development
Jill Tietjen, Leader in Philanthropy
Faculty Support
The Power Generator
Trailblazing engineer, author, and advocate Jill Tietjen is ensuring that future engineers have the tools to succeed.
Rotunda on a sunny day
Update  •  March 4, 2022
Nau Foundation Supports Establishment of 10 New Democracy Professorships at UVA
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors approved a resolution authorizing the establishment of 10 endowed professorships in the College of Arts & Sciences to be allocated among the history, politics, classics and philosophy departments.
Aerial view of Lawn
Faculty Support
New University Professorship Will Encourage Cross-Grounds Entrepreneurial Efforts
The $5 million gift, from alumni Donna and Richard Tadler, will be matched with $5 million from the University’s Bicentennial Professorship Fund to support a distinguished scholar in the field of entrepreneurship.
Thomas A. Saunders III
Faculty Support
Saunders Family’s $10M Gift Creates Inaugural Endowed University Professorships
The gift will be matched by UVA’s Bicentennial Professors Fund, for a total investment of $20 million in the two inaugural University Professorships.