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Subject: fwd: Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:48:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Linda A Hegrenes <lindabel@u.washington.edu>
To: all CFR graduate students <gradcfr@u.washington.edu>
Subject: fwd: Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (fwd)


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>     Application Deadline: March 30, 1998
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>     The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is a new=20
>     program that will provide selected students in graduate and=20
>     professional degree programs (regardless of discipline) with half=20
>     tuition and maintenance support. To qualify, a student must be a "new=
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>     American," i.e., an individual who has applied for naturalization, ha=
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>     been naturalized as a U.S. citizen, or is the child of two parents wh=
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>     are both naturalized citizens. Applicants must either have a=20
>     bachelor's degree or be in their final year of undergraduate study.=
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>     Those who have a bachelor's degree may already be pursuing graduate=
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>     study and may receive fellowship support to continue that study.=20
>     Applicants must be 20 to 28 years of age.
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>     Tuition support is determined by the cost of tuition, not including=
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>     fees, at the institution the fellow attends. The maintenance grant is=
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>     $20,000, paid in three installments. The program expects fellows to=
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>     complete payment of tuition costs with money from other sources, such=
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>     as employment, other grant programs, or matching funds from their=20
>     institutions, and may adjust the grant so that the fellows' total=20
>     award package doesn't exceed full tuition and required fees, plus=20
>     $20,000 for maintenance.  Each fellowship will be for two years, with=
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>     the possibility of a third year where necessary and appropriate. For=
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>     more information, please see the program announcement (coming via=20
>     Campus Mail) or contact the program: Warren Ilchman, Director, (212)=
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>     333-9741, pdsoros_fellows@sorosny.org, http://www.pdsoros.org. You ca=
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>     download application materials from the website or obtain them=20
>     (including printed envelopes for applications and reference letters)=
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>     from the Office of Research Support, 684-3030.=20
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>     Notes:=20
>     =FA This is the pilot of what will be an annual program with a fall=
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>     deadline hereafter. Ten fellowships will be granted at this time, but=
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>     30 will be made with each subsequent award cycle. The program=20
>     anticipates beginning this annual cycle in the fall of 1998.
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>     =FA The program is not part of the Soros Foundations, founded by Geor=
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>     Soros (who is Paul Soros's brother).
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Dorothy C. Zbicz
Duke University
dzbicz@acpub.duke.edu




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