Word: fellowships
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About 15 organizations, including Mission Aviation Fellowship, New Tribes Mission and JAARS, put up the financing to develop the prototype and created a trust to start product development. "It was a completely novel idea born out of the fact that I didn't want to raise venture capital and lose equity control of the company, nor did I want to have to pay back high-interest loans and executive salaries," Voetmann says. "Honestly, our aim was not to make money but to find a way to help others," says Hamilton...
...Pentagon's medical school, where he was enrolled from 2007 to 2008. Unlike most of the 50 people enrolled, Hasan went straight into the program from his residency at Walter Reed, the Army's flagship hospital. That meant he had spent nearly a decade - medical school, residency and the fellowship - largely as a student before heading to the Texas Army post in July. "The American taxpayer gave this guy advanced degrees, and the bastard murdered 13 people," says the first classmate...
...classmates dispute the suggestion, in the immediate wake of the shooting, that Hasan's counseling of returning combat vets might have given him "PTSD by proxy." They say his Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress fellowship was essentially a full-time job, meaning Hasan saw relatively few patients in the two years before he headed for Fort Hood. His particular fellowship focused on "preventive/disaster psychiatry," according to the center's website. "This two-year program is designed to provide military psychiatrists with expertise," it says, "on preparing for, and responding to, mass casualty events...
...aren’t going to give you a thousand bucks to build a sweet-ass thing in your living room and never show it to anyone,” says Blake.Josh Gordonson, a sophomore at MIT and the winner of October’s “Awesome Fellowship,” exemplifies the foundation’s desire to fund cool ideas—literally—with his cotton candy cannon proposal.“One day I got the idea, why does cotton candy need to come in a stick? It should probably come...
Veterans can also receive financial aid through dedicated Business School fellowships, such as the Timothy T. Day Marine Corps Entrepreneur Fellowship that helps pay for Crabbe’s time...