President's Fund for Excellence (University of Virginia)

Invest in the power of knowledge: support the President's Fund for Excellence

The President’s Fund for Excellence is an opportunity to provide much-needed support for the core academic and student-life programs at the University of Virginia. It’s a new and vital resource that can be used as needed to sustain a superb faculty, launch new ventures in science and engineering, enrich the humanities, enliven the arts, expand international activities, and foster the University’s tradition of student leadership and self-governance. The President’s Fund for Excellence also supports ACCESS UVA, an unprecedented financial aid program that will make a University of Virginia education affordable for all qualified students, regardless of their financial means.

“I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue, and advancing the happiness of man.”

THOMAS JEFFERSON, 1822

Jessica Tarleton:
Public Health Around the World

Increasingly, undergraduates are playing a central role in our pursuit of new discoveries. With funding from a Harrison Research Award, human biology major Jessica Tarleton (College ·04) traveled to Bangladesh this past year to assess the effects of diarrheal diseases on mental development in children. Read More.

Building for Tomorrow

The University has embarked on a program of construction and renovation unprecedented in its history. Twenty-two major projects are under way or on the drawing boards, including a $60.8 million medical research building, a $66 million expansion of the hospital, the $130 million John Paul Jones Arena, and the $160 million South Lawn Project. Read More.

Access UVA

ACCESS UVA is a financial aid program that will make a University of Virginia education affordable for all qualified students, regardless of their financial means. Read More.