Word: fellowships
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...work was supported by the NewSchools Venture Fund, a philanthropic investment fund started by two venture capitalists and Kim Smith, who launched it as her project when she had a fellowship at the Aspen Institute, of which I am president. For the past three summers, fund members have convened a meeting in Aspen of educational entrepreneurs, and at the July 2006 gathering, they decided to make New Orleans a focus of their involvement. Some were worried initially that the task would be too daunting. I argued that if they were not willing to take on such a challenge, they should...
...hair and professorial mien, he was nicknamed "the Genius." His main invention was the West Coast offense, a now widely practiced style of play that eschewed long passes and runs up the middle in favor of short, surgical passes that dissected countless defenses. Equally indelible was the Minority Coaching Fellowship Program, started by Walsh in 1987, that helped launch Tyrone Willingham of the University of Washington and the Cincinnati Bengals' Marvin Lewis. Walsh, whom Joe Montana called "the most influential person in my life" aside from his dad, found out he had leukemia two years...
Started in 1938, the Nieman Fellowship offers seasoned journalists a chance to study at Harvard for a year in their field of choice...
...Knight Fellowship director James R. Bettinger was less willing to chalk the decrease up to a simple ebb and flow of the applicant pool...
...fellowships saw falling numbers in 2007, however. The Shorenstein Fellowship, a Kennedy School program which invites applicants to spend a semester at Harvard writing about the press and politics, did not notice a decline in applicants, according to Shorenstein Center Fellows and Programs Administrator Edith M. Holway...