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...Minority student" is a label that Rodriguez dislikes and regrets having accepted for himself, first at Stanford, then as a graduate student at Columbia. By the time he won a Fulbright scholarship, he was in no way "socially disadvantaged." Yet in 1976, when fellow graduate students were scrounging for teaching jobs, Rodriguez found himself overwhelmed with offers from top universities, not because he was a skillful scholar-teacher-which he was-but simply because he was a member of a racial minority. Disillusioned by what he regarded as the unfairness of academic affirmative-action policies based solely on race...
Born in Italy, Giacconi completed his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Milan in 1954 and continued his studies in elementary particles at the University of Indiana and Princeton University with a Fulbright Fellowship. In the late fifties he joined American Science and Engineering Corp., where he began work in x-ray astronomy which led to the discovery of the first x-ray star...
Young Caroline meets Ivan during a Roman holiday in the late 1950s. At 29, he is one of those postwar perennial students, a Fulbright scholar studying the relationship of architecture to the rise and fall of empires. His real talent, he believes, lies elsewhere. "I think," he says to Caroline, "I would be good at telling people how to go about getting what they want. That's if they know what they want to begin with...
Dana Leifer '80 won a Fulbright Grant for graduate study abroad during the 1980-81 academic year...
While the rest of his classmates rushed into the world of corporate law, Bok traveled to Paris on a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at the Institute of Political Science. Still unsure of his career plans, Bok spent the year studying. There he met a young Swedish student named Sissela Myrdal--daughter of sociologist Gunnar Myrdal. The two were married later that year...