Word: mellons
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...Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship program announced last week its selection of 15 fellows for the academic year...
Richard M. Hunt, director of the Mellon program and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), said yesterday the fellows were chosen from a "highly competitive" group of 185 applicants from universities across the United States...
Most of the fellows contacted expressed an interest in conducting freshman seminars, a choice which has been popular among Mellon Fellows in the past, Hunt said...
Hanfstaengl became famous as Hitler's piano player, the U.S. went to war with Germany, and the offer of a German traveling scholarship to commemorate "Putzy" was never accepted. Indeed, an offer by another by another Harvard grad, Paul Mellon, who was careful to point out that he had not ties to the Nazis and didn't embrace their creed, to replace the scholarship with an exact duplicate funded by him was also rejected by the University...
...geniuses in the social sciences," says Harvard Economist Otto Eckstein. 'The one man in the world who has come closest to being a Renaissance man," opines Richard Cyert, president of Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU). These were some of the reactions to the surprise award last week of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Economics to Herbert A. Simon, 62, a professor of psychology and computer science at CMU. Choosing Simon may be an attempt by the Nobel committee to broaden the basis for the economics prize, which has come under muted criticism for being too narrowly focused...