Metro Atlanta WW Teaching Fellows were able to expand their classroom learning experiences this school year through the WW + Goizueta Microgrants. The microgrants, established in 2015, allow for Fellows to attend or present at professional conferences, buy teaching materials for their classrooms, or complete community-based service learning projects. The microgrants benefit not only the […]
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship fosters the original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. The 2018 class, announced by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, includes Joseph Bartzel, a doctoral candidate in religious studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Joseph’s dissertation, titled From […]
Mission to Diversify the Teaching Population: Blake Nathan’s TF ’12 Educate ME Foundation It was 2015. Blake Nathan TF ’12 was in just his second year of teaching at an Indianapolis middle school, fresh from Harvard’s Urban Principal National Leadership Institute, and working towards a second master’s degree in Education Leadership from Indiana University–Purdue University […]
In this interview, U.S. Ambassador Edward J. Perkins talks about the origin of the Pickering Fellowship program with Ambassador James I. Gadsden. From 1992-2016 the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation recruited for the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship. The Fellowship provides graduate students with financial support, mentoring and professional development to prepare them academically […]
The Mellon Mays Gap Assistance Program (GAP) was launched this year to help Mellon Mays Fellows who have recently graduated maintain their graduate school ambitions and progress towards an academic career. To help Fellows in the process of applying for graduate school, the Mellon Mays GAP hosts graduate school bootcamps each spring and fall. The […]
Mellon Fellow takes the helm at the Aspen Institute “At their best,” observes Daniel R. Porterfield MN ’89, “nonprofit institutions serve the larger public and all individuals without a preset agenda that causes them to favor special interests over the larger collective. That’s critical to our mission—to participate in the building of a good society […]
WW Teaching Fellows come from many different backgrounds but are united by a single goal: to teach science, technology, engineering, and math (the STEM fields) in some of the nation’s highest-need schools. But what makes these Fellows tick? What inspired them to pursue a career in the classroom? In this WW Perspectives series, we hear […]
The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies is the only national dissertation award for doctoral work on women’s and gendered issues. The 2018 Fellows include Allegra Midgette, a Ph.D. candidate in education at the University of California, Berkeley. The award will support Allegra’s final year writing her dissertation, titled Gendered Household Labor Distribution & […]
As one of the nation’s oldest learned societies, The American Academy serves the nation as a champion of scholarship, civil dialogue, and useful knowledge. Out of the 177 Fellows elected to the Academy in 2018, 10 came from Woodrow Wilson Foundation programs. Robert Audi WF ’63 • University of Notre Dame Sylvain Cappell WF ’66 […]
Metro Atlanta WW Teaching Fellows were able to expand their classroom learning experiences this school year through the WW + Goizueta Microgrants. The microgrants, established in 2015, allow for Fellows to attend or present at professional conferences, buy teaching materials for their classrooms, or complete community-based service learning projects. Some of this year’s projects included […]
