U.S. History teachers from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania are headed back to school this fall with a toolbox full of game-based learning strategies. Nearly 50 Fellows in the 2017 class of HistoryQuest Fellows gathered in Princeton, NJ, this summer for the week long institute where they relied on design thinking to create games. Developed […]
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 Hannah Scheidt, a doctoral candidate in religious studies at the Northwestern University: For years I have used new […]
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 Kalonji Nzinga, a doctoral candidate in learning sciences at Northwestern University. Below, Mr. Nzinga explores the areas that […]
Each year, Woodrow Wilson hosts two-day Graduate School Bootcamps in two of the four main Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) regions. The event provides Fellows with in-depth, individualized feedback on their graduate school applications and helps inform their program choices. The Mellon Mays Fellows Professional Network (MMFPN), based at WW and charged with supporting MMUF […]
The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies supports the final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses women’s and gendered issues in interdisciplinary and original ways. The 2017 class of Fellows includes English doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center Danica Savonick. Her dissertation, The Promise of […]
It is easy to assume that public and private schools are too different to compare, especially when considering the challenges of public school reform. But, as WW’s Acting President Stephanie J. Hull writes in Education Week, the two may have more to learn from each other than it would seem: A number of the ways […]
The annual Career Enhancement retreat brought Fellows and mentors to Wesley Chapel, Florida, this August. The 2017 Fellows presented their current research projects, worked with their mentors, and networked with fellow academics, all while having a little fun, as seen in the photo gallery above. The 30 Fellows—early-tenure-track professors at some of the nation’s top […]
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for Ph.D.doctoral candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values. The 2017 class of Fellows includes Jennifer Quigley, a Th.D. candidate at Harvard Divinity School. Ms. Quigley talks about the experiences that influenced her […]
The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies supports the final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses women’s and gendered issues in interdisciplinary and original ways. The 2017 class of Fellows includes University of Arizona, School of Middle Eastern and North African studies doctoral candidate Tatiana Rabinovich. […]
In this video, WW Georgia Teaching Fellows share the results of their 2016-2017 WW + Goizueta Microgrant Projects. In 2015 the Goizueta Foundation made a three-year, $910,000 grant to provide professional enrichment for WW Georgia Teaching Fellows working in the metro Atlanta area. The funding aims to benefit not only the Fellows, but also the […]
