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The Jefferson Scholarship is a merit scholarship that provides four years of fully funded study at the University of Virginia in the United States. Considered one of the world's most prestigious [citation needed], the scholarship covers tuition and room and board, and also provides money for summer travel, independent research, and study abroad.
Gordon-Reed is noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson regarding his relationship with Sally Hemings and her children. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History and the National Book Award for Nonfiction and 15 other prizes in 2009 for her work on the Hemings family of Monticello.
This is a list of Rhodes Scholars, covering notable people who have received a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford since its 1902 founding, sorted by the year the scholarship started and student surname. All names are verified using the Rhodes Scholar Database. This is not an exhaustive list of all Rhodes Scholars.
Dumas Malone (DEW-mah; [1] January 10, 1892 – December 27, 1986) was an American historian, minister, [2] and biographer. A professor by occupation, Malone spent the majority of his career teaching at the University of Virginia (UVA), where he served as the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History.
The Jefferson Awards Foundation was created in 1972 by the American Institute for Public Service. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Jefferson Awards are given at both local and national levels. [ 3 ] Local winners are ordinary people who do extraordinary things without expectation of recognition.
Jordan was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to a long line of scholars and liberal thinkers. He was the son of Henry Donaldson Jordan, a professor of 19th-century British and American politics at Clark University, and Lucretia Mott Churchill, great-great-granddaughter of the Quaker abolitionists and women's rights advocates James and Lucretia Coffin Mott.
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This is a list of awards that are named after people. A Award Named after Field Achievement Source Abdus Salam Award Abdus Salam Science Awarded to Pakistani nationals for achievement in the field of chemistry, mathematics, physics, or biology Abel Prize Niels Henrik Abel Mathematics Awarded for outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics, often described as the "mathematician's ...