Though we are still working our way there, friends who have finished the route tell us their lives have changed, enriched by the lessons of le chemin: that the path of our lives is dur (tough), delivers the unexpected, merits ongoing reflection, is nurtured by the fellowship of others and is a great blessing to be able to pursue.
In 2002, with the support of the Japanese business executive Tomio Taki, she founded the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship, which nurtures talented young women and gives them performance opportunities.
The Japan Program of the Council on East Asian Studies has established the Summer Fellowship in Japan to nurture interest in Japan and Japanese studies among undergraduates.
Mr Tchenga, who has spent the last few months in the US participating in a fellowship programme aimed at nurturing the next generation of African leaders, is in a reflective mood.
In Dixwell, a neighborhood buffeted by need in the shadows of Yale, he is rewriting the script with NXTHVN (for "Next Haven"), a $12 million nonprofit arts incubator and fellowship program he founded to nurture rising talents.
So while it may look as if Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth and Davidson fellowships are nurturing gifted children, they are in fact simply "growing" others like themselves: mechanically dexterous conformists.
Indeed, our fellowship program for UC Berkeley students has helped nurture the next generation of researchers exploring happiness, compassion, and altruism.
Six months into the Fellowship, I've discovered the amazing learning environment nurtured by the Digital Department.
The Loeb Fellowship Program, established in 1970, is designed to nurture the leadership potential of promising men and women in design and other professions related to the built and natural environment.
I knew, however, that this fellowship offered a tremendous opportunity for me to nurture my career as a visual and performance artist: a unique chance to deeply investigate the historic representation of my primary artistic medium -- the body.
A Fulbright Fellowship enabled him to go to Paris, where he won the notice and nurturing of celebrated avant-garde composers such as Pierre Boulez and Luciano Berio.
