Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to adding his tremendous scholarship to Harvard, the appointment of Wilson is a "wonderful step" toward making Harvard's faculty more diverse, Carnesale said in an interview yesterday...
...effort to synthesize ethnic studies with Afro-American studies and labor history, he has also taken on the formidable task of examining the political, social and intellectual history which confirmed discrimination along color lines after blacks had begun to form a middle class. It's not enough that scholarship from the likes of Peter Wood and Kenneth Stampp established that slavery itself was market driven; Ignatiev also wants to explain how nominally free states failed to assimilate blacks in the 18th and early 19th centuries, and to do that, he insists, one must understand the role and impact of Irish...
Paul A. Bohlmann, director of fellowships, said the purpose of the Rockefeller scholarship is to inspire students to explore other cultures...
...Rockefeller's family and friends sit on the scholarship board and they are looking for a spirit of adventure and travel that will satisfy the student's own personal needs," Bohlmann said...
Although Miller has a definite plan of study, Adonica Y. Lui, assistant director of fellowships, said that scholarship recipients "are not required to pursue a specific degree at Cambridge, but instead can feel free to explore a variety of interests...