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WW HistoryQuest Institute 2016

Professional development for teachers isn’t all fun and games, unless you’re a WW HistoryQuest Fellow. This summer, more than 50 New Jersey social studies teachers came together in Princeton, N.J., for a week long course in game-based learning practices. Led by the Institute of Play, the WW HistoryQuest Institute taught Fellows the elements of the […]

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Meet the Fellows: 2016 Women’s Studies Fellow Joshua Hubbard

This is one of a series of posts featuring Fellows from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation network. 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 2016 class […]

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From the newsletter: Creating—and Patching—the Pipeline

“If we haven’t fully provided opportunities for diverse, talented students to pursue advanced degrees and ultimately become faculty themselves, we will make only incremental progress,” notes Chiquita Collins, a 2004 WW Career Enhancement Fellow who is now Associate Dean for the Office of Diversity and Cultural Competence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. […]

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From the Newsletter: WW’s Most Senior Fellow

An Unanticipated Turn: Beverly S. Ridgely WF ’46, the Most Senior Woodrow Wilson Fellow Seventy years ago, Beverly Ridgely was admitted to Harvard Law School. Like many of his Princeton classmates, he anticipated a career in the law. But, at the suggestion of some faculty members in Princeton’s French and Classics Departments, Dr. Ridgely applied […]

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Meet the Fellows: 2016 Newcombe Fellow Annie Galvin

This is one of a series of posts featuring Fellows from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation network. 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 2016 class of Fellows includes University […]

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MIT Technology Review: How Should We Teach the Teachers?

In the 21st century, with its ever-changing technologies and at-your-fingertips information, how does education reinvent itself? The Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning and its collaborators at MIT are working towards answering that question and developing some game-changing approaches to teaching teachers in the digital age. In a profile of those efforts by the […]

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Profiles in giving back: Dr. Allison Blakely

As a junior at the University of Oregon, Allison Blakely WF ‘62 got a big surprise: A professor and mentor had nominated him for the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. When he accepted, he recalls, he “still didn’t have a good sense of how important an award it was.” Unsure about where he wanted to take his […]

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From the newsletter: WW MLK Fellows Provide Four Decades of Leadership

Established in 1968, the Martin Luther King Jr. Fellowships offered Black veterans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces during the Vietnam Era the opportunity to pursue graduate or professional degrees. The 245 MLK Fellows went on to flourish in a range of fields, from law to medicine, social work to public administration. For Indiana Supreme […]

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Meet the Fellows: 2016 Women’s Studies Fellow Julia Bowes

This is one of a series of posts featuring Fellows from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation network. 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 2016 class […]

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