GSAS Matching Fellowships
SIF193 GSAS Matching Fellowships
Graduate & Postdoc Affairs College & Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Project Manager: Mark Luellen
Approved: Spring 2023
Project Start Date: 2/1/2023
Total Funding: $16,000,000 ($9,071,103 repurposed funding from closed and modified SIF awards, $6,928,897 new funding).
Current Status: Active
A $10 million pool of matching funds has been allocated by the Provost to The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences to incentivize gifts of endowed graduate fellowships. As with Bicentennial Professorships and Bicentennial Scholars Funds, we propose variable matching rates, based on the size and purpose of donors’ gifts.
- Graduate Education Matching Fund Initiative created in October 2022 with $10 million in matching funds allocated. The signature program incentivizes gifts for endowed graduate fellowships at the College of Arts & Sciences.
- $10 million pool of matching funds allocated in October 2022, and then an additional $6 million allocated in October 2023.
- To date, aliumni, parent and friends of the University have committed approximately$13 million (in signed and verbal commitments) and have leveraged approximately$11 million in matching funds for a total impact of nearly $24 million in endowed graduate fellowships at the College of Arts & Sciences.
- Total scholarship fund endowments established with funds pledged: 26
A&S Grad Excellence Campaign Awards 19 New Graduate Fellowships
March 31, 2025
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences recently announced that it has awarded 19 named fellowships to graduate students to recognize their excellence in graduate research and academic achievements. The fellowships are supported through endowments raised through the Graduate Excellence Campaign, a bold initiative of UVA’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the College Foundation focused on strengthening and expanding graduate education.
The inaugural cohort of 19 graduate fellows represents the best of the school’s graduate research, instructional and academic community. The selected graduate student recipients represent a wide array of research interests across the sciences, arts and humanities, and the social sciences. T. Brent Gunnoe, interim associate dean for graduate education and Commonwealth Professor of Chemistry, said a new cohort of fellows will be selected each year as part of the program’s commitment to elevating graduate education and fostering transformative educational experiences and innovative research, scholarship and teaching. Read more...
