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...these frustrations, why did we decide to study at Oxford? Until we arrived, these issues weren’t even on our radar screen. Before the Rhodes interview, the focus was on winning the scholarship, not on evaluating if Oxford was the right place for us. While some Harvard fellowships tutors might advise on such issues, others do not. And even if the help received from Harvard or elsewhere enables you to win the scholarship, little advice will be available from the University after the night of selection. Harvard’s fellowship advising system is not designed to help...
...Pagano ’06-’07 and Nen Cao ’06-’07 were assigned to the same small, tight-knit Mass. Hall dorm their freshman year. Their friendship blossomed into romance sophomore year, and last year they both won a fellowship to study abroad in China for a year, where they grew even closer. On their second anniversary, Pagano told Cao that he had made reservations for dinner at the restaurant Upstairs in the Square, when in fact he was planning a candlelit dinner in Randolph Courtyard of Adams House. Pagano told...
...sciences institution.”When Faust took over Radcliffe in 2001, the school was still trying to redefine itself after more than a century as a women’s college. Now, the Institute for Advanced Study receives about 800 applications every year for 45 to 50 prestigious fellowship positions. This year, about one-third of the spots are occupied by scientists, engineers, and mathematicians.Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, the dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, said yesterday that he has worked closely with Faust and trusts her leadership.She may not know...
...purposes were desperately needed,” Kerber says. “The institution itself needed to be transformed to serve new purposes because answers had been achieved to the old questions.” Though the institute had a library, a research center, and a 40-year-old fellowship program, Radcliffe alumnae were confused by the merger agreement that had made their alma mater into just another unit of Harvard. University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who served on the committee that appointed the Radcliffe dean and is also a reknowned Americianist in the History Department, said that Faust...
...York City Teaching Fellows In the spring of 2000, the NYC Teaching Fellows program was launched to address the most severe teacher shortage in New York City's public schools in decades. The Fellowship recruits mid-career professionals, recent graduates, and even retirees to teach in high-need schools in the nation's largest school system. Today, the NYC Teaching Fellows program is the largest alternative certification program in the country and among the most selective. For more information, visit www.nycteachingfellows.org...