UVA Graduate Heads to China as Schwarzman Scholar

Vilas Annavarapu is going to China to learn how to alleviate poverty and build a clean-energy economy. Annavarapu, a 2020 politics honors graduate from the University of Virginia, is now the University’s latest Schwarzman Scholar. He joins 150 scholars from 105 universities in 38 countries in attending a one-year, fully funded master’s degree program in global affairs at Schwarzman College, part of Tsinghua University in Beijing.