Four Fellows have recent work nominated for a National Book Award. Frank Bidart WF ’62 is a finalist in poetry for his collection Half-Light. Two Fellows are finalists in non-fiction: Erica Armstrong Dunbar CEF ’03 for Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, and Nancy MacLean CN ’88 for Democracy […]
As the Career Enhancement Junior Faculty Fellows gathered for their annual retreat this summer, WW Perspectives sat down with some current and former Fellows to hear about their experiences. In this video, hear from Fellows about why the Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty is such a crucial opportunity. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon […]
This past month, the WW Academy welcomed its 10 Design Fellows—a creative, entrepreneurial group of recent college grads and professionals, passionate about teaching—to its Cambridge campus. During their first few weeks in residence, Design Fellows learned about design thinking, got to know each other, and began working with students and observing teachers to establish a […]
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has been addressing the nation’s most pressing educational challenges for over 70 years. In the process, the Foundation’s network of more than 22,000 Fellows have accomplished some incredible things as teachers, scholars, and leaders. At WW, we’re proud of each and every Fellow and grateful for their commitment. The Foundation’s ongoing cultivation of outstanding 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 Debby Sneed, a doctoral candidate in archaeology at the University of California—Los Angeles. My dad tells this story […]
In September 2015, two massive detectors—one in eastern Washington and one in Louisiana, each 4km long—simultaneously confirmed the existence of gravitational waves, recorded direct evidence of black holes, observed two black holes colliding, and launched a new discipline, gravitational wave astronomy. It was a remarkable day’s work for Kip S. Thorne WF ’62, Feynman Professor […]
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 […]
