2015 was a big year for three Fellows who garnered national honors. Here, in Part II, we look at Fellows who have received major awards and prizes. Medals and Major Awards MacArthur Fellowship Ellen Bryant Voigt WF ‘64 Pulitzer Prize Elizabeth A. Fenn CN ‘98, History, Encounters at the Heart of the World David Kertzer […]
Digital humanities originated in rooms occupied by giant computers, Claire Potter CN ’87 notes, and the questions raised and practices developed by scholars in early humanities computing laid the groundwork for the field today. Now, in a world where people have access to a wealth of knowledge in the palms of their hands, she considers […]
In 2015, the Foundation marked the 70th year since the first Woodrow Wilson Fellowship was awarded. Every year since 1945, Fellows have demonstrated the brilliance and leadership that first brought them to a selection committee’s attention, achieving national and international recognition along the way. This year once again saw a number of Fellows do great things. Over […]
When Dr. Mary Beth Norton applied for the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in the fall of 1963, her advisor at the University of Michigan warned her that “girls” didn’t usually win such awards. “To be awarded one was thrilling,” says Dr. Norton. The Woodrow Wilson Fellowship led to a five-year Harvard University fellowship where Dr. Norton […]
Digital humanities, Thomas Bartscherer CN ’02 notes, is less an entirely new field than “a new set of questions, possibilities, and problems to investigate and work with within traditional fields.” Dr. Bartscherer is an assistant professor of humanities and literature at Bard College and co-editor of Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities […]
In a growing number of contemporary classrooms, students do lessons on notebooks and tablets and smartphones. According to a recent survey on mobile learning from Project Tomorrow, 64 percent of middle school students agree that effective technology use increases their interest in what they are learning at school. This past spring at STEAMM @ Hartford […]
The 2015 Career Enhancement Fellows gathered with their mentors in Wesley Chapel, Florida, in August for the program’s annual retreat. Fellows had opportunities to network with other academics, present their fellowship year projects, take part in team-building events, participate in tours, and work closely with mentors. The 24 Fellows—all early tenure-track professors at some of the […]
Sociology as Much as Technology: Martha Nell Smith WS ’84 on Digital Scholarship “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense,” Gertrude Stein wrote in 1946, when Alan Turing was developing his machine. If today’s burgeoning online resources in the humanities create a sometimes bewildering deluge of information, they […]
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 […]
If you’re active on social media or a WW Perspectives follower, you may have noticed a certain hashtag going around. Today is #GivingTuesday—a day meant to encourage giving during a consumer-driven holiday season—and today Woodrow Wilson needs your support. WW has been encouraging scholars, supporting teachers, developing leaders, and changing lives for seven decades. With […]
