Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computer science concentrator, Brown has accepted a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship and will pursue a PhD at Berkeley in the fall...
...kicks off with prayers for a colon-cancer victim, is heavy with talk of illness and grandchildren. But as a grandfather of 10 gets up to testify, an unexpectedly joyful noise seeps through the floorboards--the sounds of salsa-inflected guitars and tambourines. The musicians, practicing in a basement fellowship room, belong to a fast-growing young Latino Baptist congregation that has shared Kingshighway's building for the past two years. After the old white folks leave, the Peruvian-born Rev. Amadeo Torres and his Spanish-speaking congregation go upstairs. The pews fill with worshippers from eight countries, including...
Sitting on the dais today, watching us enter "the fellowship of educated men and women," are some of America's most powerful and influential leaders. We've been trained to follow in their footsteps, and five years from now we will write entries for the Class Book detailing our material successes. At least one person, however, will step forward bravely and confess that his or her life hasn't turned out at all like expected. Our hearts will skip a beat as we wonder how our former classmate failed. The truth, of course, is that the only failure...
...first in his family to go to college, Gilmartin went on to work for Eastman Kodak for two years before heeding the fateful advice of a friend who had been accepted to HBS on a full-tuition fellowship...
...friend's success inspired Gilmartin to apply. Gilmartin also received a full-tuition fellowship, which made business school possible. Gilmartin praises HBS, "...and not because of brand name," he adds. He says the case-study system at HBS taught him to solve real-life problems without clear-cut answers...