The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values. The 2017 class of Fellows includes Alexander McKinley, a doctoral candidate in the graduate program in religion at Duke University. Mr. McKinley shares what […]
For 72 years, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has been developing and supporting leaders in various fields through its Fellowship programs. This year, like most years, WW Fellows made discoveries, published important research and work, made advances in their careers, and helped shape their disciplines. Here is a look at the books that garnered […]
For 72 years, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has been developing and supporting leaders in various fields through its Fellowship programs. This year, like most years, WW Fellows made discoveries, published important research and work, made advances in their careers, and helped shape their disciplines. Here’s a look at some of the major awards, […]
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values. The 2017 class of Fellows includes Arthur Zárate, a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia University. When I was young I would have never […]
Since 2015, WW Georgia Teaching Fellows have had the opportunity to apply for WW + Goizueta microgrants. The microgrants benefit not only the metro Atlanta Fellows, but also the schools and communities where they teach, their students, and the other educators with whom they work, providing rich opportunities unusual in high-need schools, even for veteran […]
Animals have held complicated positions in Indian Buddhism. Being reborn as an animal is considered a durgati or a most “unfortunate destiny,” begot from bad karma and lack of moral character. But, descriptions of Buddha’s past lives include wise and virtuous animals, critical of mankind’s failings. In her new book, Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the […]
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values. The 2017 class of Fellows includes Daisy Vargas, a doctoral candidate in history at the University of California—Riverside. As I drove across the Southwest […]
The Aspen Institute, a non-partisan think tank for values-based leadership and the exchange of ideas, has named Dan Porterfield as the new president and CEO. Dr. Porterfield is currently the president of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, and will succeed Walter Isaacson in June of next year. He is a 1989 Mellon Fellow […]
Fellow Leads Development of Next-Generation NASA Observatory Five years ago, John C. Mather WF ’68—Nobel Laureate in Physics and Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center—talked with Fellowship about the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), on which he is Senior Project Scientist. “I would think if we were really […]
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values. The 2017 class of Fellows includes Sabine Tsuruda, a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of California—Los Angeles. […]
