Word: scholarship
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...spouse is admitted to Harvard, he or she would also receive a fellowship to cover educational expenses. As Harvard students hail from over 120 countries, Dominguez said that the University is redoubling its efforts to obtain necessary funding to support international students. Currently, Harvard has entered into fellowship or scholarship agreements with 18 countries, including Chile. “We want to make it possible for all to attend Harvard schools without financial constraints,” Dominguez said. “Obviously, there is a lot of work ahead.” —Staff writer Athena...
...collaborating to make a major push for open access to scholarly research. The five-member compact on open-access publication, signed on Tuesday by Harvard, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, and the University of California at Berkeley, marks a growing consensus on the need for a fairer system of online scholarship. The agreement on open-access publication makes current scholarly research available for all readers online at no cost. Though the new open-access model of online publication eliminates traditional subscription and processing fees, it maintains essential features of journal publication such as peer review and the “author-pays?...
...inadvertently hilarious ("Newly hired security guard Alfonso Nuñez carefully studied the male visitor now approaching his checkpoint ..."). And the unfortunate sentence "His massive sex organ bore the tattooed symbols of his destiny" should itself be forcibly tattooed on Brown's massive sex organ. Worse, Brown's scholarship reads like the work of a man who believes what he reads in Wikipedia. In particular, the book suffers from an ill-advised fling with something called noetic science, which explores the idea that human consciousness can affect the physical world, thereby providing (as we are reminded twice in the space...
...Committee. She’s also worked for political strategist James Carville and contributed to his new book. “I know that I want to end up in Washington, probably on the Hill, or maybe working in the administration on policy,” this 2009 Truman Scholarship winner said. “I love it there.” Wanna be like these girls? “I encourage anyone at Harvard who’s trying to figure out what they want to do, to listen to their gut and their heart, and follow their dreams...
...people across all of these categories supported - was the idea of a year of national service for young people, either post-high school, between high school and college, or sometime during high school that would either be civilian service or military service in exchange for an educational grant or scholarship. Now, they didn't want government to make it mandatory; they wanted it to be voluntary. But I'm wondering, how do you feel about that? How do you both feel about that? And is there anything that the federal government can do - The President: Well, there are elements...