This is one of a series of posts featuring Fellows from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation network. The 2015 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellows come from a wide range of backgrounds. Graduate Fellow Youssef Elkei, originally from Cairo, Egypt, has always been interested in international affairs and the conduct of diplomacy. He hopes to channel […]
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has supported more than 22,000 Fellows throughout its history. Its programs prepare leaders to meet the nation’s most critical challenges across a range of fields, from K–12 education to foreign affairs to religious and ethical values, gender issues, and other key areas of doctoral study. Today on WW Perspectives, […]
This is one of a series of posts featuring Fellows from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation network. Sean Dowdy grew up on a small farm in central Illinois where, he says, he and his brother had to get creative in order to make the dull prairie life interesting. The new Newcombe Fellow and University of Chicago […]
One of the greatest challenges for new Fellows in the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship is making the shift from student to professional Foreign Service Officer. “The transition is not an obvious one,” says Ambassador James I. Gadsden, Senior Counselor for the Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship […]
From colleagues at Piedmont College in Georgia come these shots of a collaboration—real and virtual—where faculty rolled up their sleeves to develop a new, clinically intensive, academically rigorous preparation program for secondary STEM teachers in high-need schools. The WW Georgia Teaching Fellows at Piedmont will begin their work this later this year. After a […]
Newcombe Fellow and WW Women’s Studies Fellow Regina Kunzel CN ’86 WS ’87 was happy to recommend her student Jayne Swift WS ’15 for this year’s WW Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies. It’s not a responsibility she takes lightly. “I try to remember that I’m training grad students to become people who I would want […]
Working with her two mentors as a Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow at Purdue five years ago, Alyce Myers TF ’09 observed two very different teaching styles. One of her cooperating teachers used a very hands-on approach in the classroom; the other relied more on lectures. Watching and working with her mentors, Ms. Myers gleaned what […]
This is one of a series of posts featuring Fellows from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation network. Exploring the belief systems underpinning witchcraft has taken Rochelle Rojas to places she did not expect. The 2015 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow and history Ph.D. candidate at Duke has traveled to Hollywood to act as historical consultant […]
Helping Kids Find Their Passion “Mentoring is not a job,” says Willie S. Rockward CEF ‘01. “It takes extra time, extra energy—you’ve got to love it. It’s a labor of love.” Dr. Rockward is chair and associate professor of physics at Morehouse College, as well as Research Director of the college’s Materials and Optics Research […]
Mellon Fellow receives 2015 Carnegie Fellowship for work on U.S. policing, race, violence, and global governance Laurence Ralph, a 2004 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies, was recently named the recipient of a 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. An Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies at Harvard […]
