Rosana Glancy is a fourth year double-majoring in International Relations and Latin American studies with a minor in Spanish. During her time at UVA, she has studied abroad in both Spain and Argentina and is now an Education Abroad intern spreading the word to other students about her experiences, which she plans to use to build a career in international development consulting.
Andreja Siliunas joined the Global Studies program this fall as joint faculty with the Engagements program. A qualitative researcher, Siliunas uses archival, interview-based, and ethnographic methods to study inequality, memory politics, and nationalism in a globalizing world. In 2023, she earned her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University and, following that, taught in UVA’s Sociology department during the 2023-24 academic year.
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.
The Graduate and Professional Students of Africa (GAPSA) hosted its inaugural ball and awards ceremony this month. Founded just two years ago as part of the International Student Citizen Leader Fellowship, GAPSA began as “a small, informal gathering of African graduate students sharing food and fellowship in their apartments during the pandemic,” said Nnenna Onyima, a Nigerian PhD candidate in French and GAPSA’s founder. Today, GAPSA is a registered CIO with over 100 members and a six-member Executive Board representing diverse programs across Grounds.
This fall, the University of Virginia welcomed 416 students from India to Grounds, a significant increase from previous years and part of a larger trend in international education in the US.
In Fall 2024, the Center for Global Inquiry + Innovation awarded its latest round of grants to support impactful global research endeavors led by faculty and graduate students. The grants awarded included 24 Graduate Global Research (GGR) grants, seven Center Grants for individual faculty research, and three Global Programs of Distinction (GPOD) grants.
Omokolade Omigbule is a third-year anthropology doctoral student and an interdisciplinary doctoral fellow in Indigenous studies at the University of Virginia. He is a budding Black Atlantic archaeologist from Osun state, southwest Nigeria. In this interview, he discusses his journey into archaeology and his hopes to empower communities through history, and the importance of open-mindedness in the pursuit of knowledge and cross-cultural connection.
The University of Virginia's Democratic Futures Project (DFP) will bring the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Felix Maradiaga the university's research community the spring semester of this academic year. While at UVA, Maradiaga will continue to develop his End Arbitrary Detention Campaign.
