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...Chair of the event, Ofole U. Mgbako ’06, said that the theme of this year’s festivities was “supreme perseverance.” Seven Harvard seniors were celebrated for exemplary leadership, a high school senior was presented with a $2,000 scholarship, and Pamela G. Carlton, co-founder of Springboard-Partners in Cross Cultural Leadership, was honored with the Woman of the Year Award. The Senior Leadership Awards were given to seniors who had “contributed to Harvard and the world,” said BMF officer Bryan C. Barnhill...
...program has already brought more than 6,600 Saudis to campuses in nearly every state--including one in Nevada, previously off limits to scholarship recipients because, says a Saudi embassy spokesman, "the chances of focusing on studying there seemed small"--boosting the number of Saudi students in the U.S. above pre-9/11 levels. Marshall, West Virginia's second largest university, now has more than 30 Saudis--nearly four times as many as last year--making them the fourth largest foreign contingent in a student body...
...fellowships. He said the Italian Ministry was aware of the importance of research and had given a “pretty broad mandate in this area.” “This is path-breaking in the sense that it puts the funding where the forefront of scholarship and work in the field is, rather than into conventional silos,” said William Clark, the Brooks professor of international science, public policy and human development. Clark said the fund would be at the “interface of scholarship and practice.” In addition, Hausmann said...
...fraught with jarring references to “commodity fetishization”, “hedz”, and “dookie chains.”Though the course flirts with under-explored theoretical issues of space and performance, the pedagogy plays into existing paradigms of hip-hop scholarship: only the music of the Beastie Boys and Eminem is featured in a lecture on “whiteness” in the genre. This atomistic treatment does a disservice to rap elders like the white MC Serch of old-school group 3rd Bass—who helped break...
...unsure how long he will remain a part of the denomination. Nelson says he is able, however, to take this discrimination in stride, because he sees his future not as a minister, but rather outside the ecclesiastical sector. “I feel like my calling is for scholarship more than organized religion,” Nelson says. He hopes that education policy may provide a route to thwart discrimination against gay men and women. STOPPED AT THE ALTARAllison L. McNeill, a first-year MDiv student, finds herself in an even more vexing predicament: she grew up surrounded...