Word: fellowship
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Harvard Law School has unveiled a new public service fellowship that will fund legal work in the public interest sector, an addition to the school’s long list of initiatives that encourage students to engage in public service...
This latest initiative, the Holmes Fellowship, will give approximately 12 students up to $35,000 to pursue public interest law in the year immediately following graduation, but only after students demonstrate that they have been unable to secure funding through other means...
...time when demand for fellowships has been rapidly growing and funding for public interest work has generally been cut, the Holmes Fellowship will serve as a backstop for students interested in public interest work, said Alexa Shabecoff, the Law School’s assistant dean for public service...
...fellowship might mitigate some of the anxiety that Law School graduates have experienced since large law firms—predominant employers of HLS grads—have been particularly hard hit by a sharp fall in demand for legal work in the financial industry during the recent recession...
...attitude towards religion is at times problematic. “At Harvard, we are told to think critically about every aspect of our lives, except for faith and religion”, said Stephanie M. Cole ’11, a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship...