The School of Engineering and Applied Science will be better able to attract some of the country's best graduate students thanks to recent gifts totaling $200,000 that will be used to endow two new graduate student fellowships. "Other great universities offer outstanding graduate students fellowships, so in order to compete, we do, too," said Dean Richard Miksad. "Support for graduate research is one of our top funding priorities." The endowed fellowships were established through a $100,000 unrestricted gift from the estate of John Bell McGaughy and through $100,000 in funds given by Engineering School alumni. McGaughy, a Norfolk native, was the great-grandson of John Bell, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. McGaughy attended classes at the U.Va. Engineering School in the early 1900s.