If you are considering developing a project-based fellowship, note that public interest organizations are eager to hear from you.
After arriving in Kenya for a research fellowship, noting the ubiquity of mobile phones, and recognizing that the country has only one doctor for each 6,000 citizens, Lester and his team developed a communication link with HIV-positive patients at three health centers, asking them weekly by text message whether they needed any assistance with their antiretroviral drugs (ARVs).
Preference will be given to students who have some background in the subject areas of the Fellowship; note that areas of study can include any aspect of history, art, or culture in the Dutch and Flemish Golden Age, for example: history of science, horticulture, or cartography; the art market; economic history; or the technologies of print making and book production.
When she presented her research proposal for the Berkeley fellowship, she noted that the professors were embarrassed "as the words 'oral,'analal,'genitalal'... were tossed off so blithely by me.
Take a shot at the Thiel Fellowship!" [Note: Judging by the text on the Fellowship site and this email, it's obvious that the Thiel Fellowship needs to more clearly communicate its age limit. Still, I apologize for spreading the confusion.].
Brett Anderson, the paper's restaurant critic who recently began a Nieman fellowship at Harvard, noted that the storm brought out the best in his colleagues, whether they were leaving or staying.
Note: Fellowship must provide full support at the 10-unit tuition level, and allow the student to pursue degree-related research in addition to his/her fulltime course enrollment.
Although the overall Fellowship contained few noted scientists, most of the Council were highly regarded, and included at various times John Hadley, William Jones and Hans Sloane.
The study may have significance far beyond Arabidopsis; Dr. Bomblies, who last year won a MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her research, notes that breeders have noticed the withering of different strains' offspring in a variety of species, including wheat, tobacco, cotton and the houseplant Streptocarpus.
He's ecstatic when chosen for a Nieman fellowship at Harvard but notes two pages later that "the novelty of the Nieman wore off.
