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Fellow Q&A: WW Teaching Fellow Liz Gleixner

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) to some of the nation’s highest-need students. But what makes these Fellows tick? What inspired them to pursue a career in the classroom? In this WW Perspectives series, we hear from […]

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Highlights from President Levine’s Parchment Summit keynote

Yesterday, WW President Arthur E. Levine gave a keynote address at the Parchment Summit in Washington, D.C. The conference focused on innovations in academic credentials and featured conversations with technologists, users, higher education leaders, and non-profits. Dr. Levine spoke on reinventing credentials. Below is a sample of twitter highlights from Parchment Summit attendees. [View the story […]

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PEN Literary Awards nominates two WW Fellows

Two WW Fellows—Renata Adler and Benjamin Paloff—are among the illustrious authors and translators nominated for the 2016 PEN Literary Awards. Renata Adler, a 1959 Woodrow Wilson Fellow, is on the short list in the Art of the Essay category for her collection of non-fiction, After the Tall Timber. Spanning nearly forty years, the collection houses […]

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Fellow Q&A: WW Teaching Fellow Laura Cummings

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) to some of the nation’s highest-need students. But what makes these Fellows tick? What inspired them to pursue a career in the classroom? In this WW Perspectives series, we hear […]

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Kalinske Elected to Woodrow Wilson Board of Trustees

As 2016 gets under way, the Woodrow Wilson Board is welcoming a new Trustee. Tom Kalinske, who will attend his first WW Board meeting this month, is chairman of Global Education Learning, a start-up dedicated to helping young children in China learn various subjects. He also serves on the board of Cambium Learning Group and […]

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Fellow nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award

1964 Woodrow Wilson Fellow and author Leo Damrosch can add another item to his list of accolades. His most recent book, Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake (Yale University Press), has just made the short-list for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book is nominated in the criticism category along with some […]

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So That All of America’s Young People Will Have A Dream

Today, the nation remembers the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., including his commitment both to opportunity and to service. Congress, which created the MLK holiday in 1983, officially designated it a day of service in 1994. MLK Day aims to honor Dr. King’s vision of the Beloved Community—“a global vision,” the King Center […]

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Are we teaching STEM wrong?

WW President Arthur Levine was a panelist for a MIT Solve talk called “Are We Teaching STEM Wrong?” The discussion touched on topics such as assessment, advice for parents, and recruiting and retaining science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers. The panel was hosted by Google in Cambridge, MA, and included Chris Rogers of Tufts and Tina Grotzer of the […]

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A big year for Fellows, part III

In Part III of the 2015 list of Woodrow Wilson Fellows’ accomplishments, we feature Fellows whose books have received significant notice. Book Awards American Comparative Literature Association, Rene Wellek Prize Sixteenth Century Studies Conference: Roland H. Bainton Book Prize Trade and Romance Michael J. Murrin WF ‘60 Poetry Long-list, National Book Award Mistaking Each Other […]

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Fellow Q&A: WW Teaching Fellow Bethany Fowler

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) to some of the nation’s highest-need students. But what makes these Fellows tick? What inspired them to pursue a career in the classroom? In this WW Perspectives series, we hear […]

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