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Six MIT affiliates have been selected for the newest cohort of the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholars program. Kofi Blake, Orisa Coombs, Jierui Fang ’20, Max Kessler ’20, Claire Lazar Reich ’17, and Kyle Swanson ’18, MEng ’19 will begin graduate studies at Stanford University this fall.
Founded in 2018, the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program seeks to cultivate a diverse, multidisciplinary community of future leaders and prepare them to address global challenges. The highly competitive fellowship, which fully funds graduate studies in any field at Stanford University, attracts applicants from around the globe.
In addition to funding, Knight-Hennessy Scholars receive leadership development training, mentorship, and experiential learning opportunities. Since the program’s inception, 11 MIT affiliates students and alumni have been awarded Knight-Hennessy Scholarships.
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Six MIT affiliates have been selected for the newest cohort of the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholars program. Kofi Blake, Orisa Coombs, Jierui Fang ’20, Max Kessler ’20, Claire Lazar Reich ’17, and Kyle Swanson ’18, MEng ’19 will begin graduate studies at Stanford University this fall.
Founded in 2018, the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program seeks to cultivate a diverse, multidisciplinary community of future leaders and prepare them to address global challenges. The highly competitive fellowship, which fully funds graduate studies in any field at Stanford University, attracts applicants from around the globe.
In addition to funding, Knight-Hennessy Scholars receive leadership development training, mentorship, and experiential learning opportunities. Since the program’s inception, 11 MIT affiliates students and alumni have been awarded Knight-Hennessy Scholarships.
UWâMadison senior wins prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarship
In the rural area of Kenya where Cheryl Mulor grew up, many of the buildings are constructed from materials tied to the landscape, such as clay and grass.
It is these traditional, locally acquired resources that Mulor thinks about when she considers the career she would like to pursue.
âI respect these natural materials, and I respect that kind of construction,â says Mulor, a UWâMadison senior majoring in civil engineering. âThe company that I hope to own someday would make use of these resources to build more sustainable, long-lasting housing options for rural communities.â
Stanford University March 30 announced the winners of the 2020 university awards, among them its Indian American alumnus Aditya Grover.
The awards handed out by Stanford honor faculty, students and staff for exceptional service, for distinctive contributions to undergraduate education and for excellence in teaching, the university said in a news release.
The process of selecting the winners of the Kenneth M. Cuthbertson Awards, the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Awards and the Walter J. Gores Awards for the 2019-20 academic year was delayed by the pandemic, it said.
Grover, who earned a masterâs degree and a doctorate in computer science in Stanfordâs School of Engineering in 2020, and is now on the UCLA faculty, was honored âfor his immense contributions to the creation of âCS 236: Deep Generative Models,â including syllabus and course material design, and teaching alongside Professor Stefano Ermon.â
Earth Day destroyed more of America than any environmental catastrophe ever could. Fri Apr 23, 2021
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Grouches complain that a lot of fake holidays are created by companies, but Earth Day is actually a fake holiday created by a sharp Madison Avenue ad agency, and the name comes to us from the same guy who coined, “Timex: It takes a licking and keeps on ticking . The Earth takes a licking much better than Timex watches, but it’s the job of ad agencies to convince us that consumer products are permanent, while the world is ephemeral.