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...making the short walk between Eliot House and Harvard Yard each morning, Cristiana Strava ’09 will spend her next year trekking across the Sahara Desert with a semi-nomadic tribe in Morocco. Strava is one of the six seniors who received the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship for a year of post-graduate exploration of another culture. The six senior recipients, chosen from among 87 applicants, include Strava, Lauren E. Brants, Wilmarie Cidre, Nicholas A. Rizzo, Nora A. Sluzas, and Brittan Smith.Each recipient will receive $18,000 to travel abroad to a country...
...turn up the volume” on non-traditional careers. “Right now, there’s no movement to fund domestic experiences,” Saunders says.Even in cases where funding is available, students struggle to coordinate job opportunities with the timing of fellowship decisions. Rinzler is experiencing this frustration first-hand. “Basically by the time I’d find out if I got the fellowships [for culinary school], I’d need to have a job lined up,” he says. “Do I take a crapshoot...
There is an effort afoot to rectify that problem. Brown University's Jenny is one of roughly 250 pediatricians across the U.S. whose specialty is the identification and prevention of child abuse, and the field is gaining momentum - and standardization. By 2012, a three-year postresidency fellowship will be required of all new pediatricians who wish to specialize in child abuse. And the National Association of Children's Hospitals has advocated requiring all children's medical institutions to have a child-abuse specialist on staff...
...seniors “discover and clarify the purpose of [one’s] life” through cultural immersion and field studies—the David Rockefeller grants are designed to sponsor a wider swath of programs, including internships and coursework studies at other universities. The Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship prohibits such academic endeavors and activities spent in the practice or furtherance of a professional career,” according to the fellowship’s Web site. “We run the gamut from direct coursework for credit to experiences that are based on internships, but what...
...secretary of the College Events Board. Charles T. James ’09-’10, a Leverett resident and member of SAC, is in his first year on the UC. He is the Leverett HoCo social chair, and a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship as well as the Black Students Association. He has also participated in “On Harvard Time.” The other end of his ticket is Max H. Y. Wong ’10, an Eliot resident who has been an advocate of Administrative Board reform, which has recently been...