2016-17 Fellowships in the News

Echoing Green Fellowship Awards: Alexander ’13 & Reddy ’16 are chosen

The Echoing Green Fellowship provides seed funding of up to $90,000 for two years, to bolster the growth of leaders and organizations with significant potential. In addition, recipients are welcomed into a lifelong global network of philanthropists, investors, and entrepreneurs who help each other experiment with new ideas.

July 10, 2017

Beinecke and Boren Scholarships: Three Yalies awarded

Two Yale seniors, Shumayl Syed ’18 and Eric Sanderson ’18, received the Boren Scholarship for overseas study of languages deemed critical for national security. Syed is double majoring in biology and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and will study Arabic in Jordan. Sanderson, who is majoring in global affairs, will study Russian in Latvia. Yale junior Sergio Infante of Hopper College received the Beinecke Scholarship, which supports graduate education in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

May 3, 2017

Light Fellowships: Students awarded for language study in East Asia

136 Yale students will receive full funding to attend intensive language programs in China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. Each Light Fellow will spend a summer, semester, academic year, or combination of terms studying at some of the most rigorous language programs in East Asia, which are evaluated and approved through site visits conducted annually by Yale faculty and staff. One term at any approved program is equivalent to a full year of Yale language instruction.

April 18, 2017

Truman Scholars: Three Yale juniors are named

Andi Peng, David Shimer, and Malina Simard-Halm have been chosen as 2017 Truman scholars. Peng, studies how technological innovation and public policy intersect to shape economic prosperity, public health, and national security. Shimer is majoring in history with a focus on Russia and Eastern Europe. Malina Simard-Halm studies political science and economics at Yale with a concentration in mass incarceration.

April 17, 2017

Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Awards: Two aspiring journalists awarded

Seniors Yi-Ling Liu and Elizabeth Miles were awarded the Overseas Press Club Scholar Awards by a committee of leading journalists. Liu was awarded the Fritz Beebe Fellowship. Having grown up in Hong Kong, a sanctuary of free speech located next to an authoritarian country, Liu is fascinated by China, and its untold stories restricted by stringent censorship. Liu plans to combine rigorous reporting with new media forms. Miles was awarded the Flora Lewis Fellowship. The central theme of Miles’s reporting has been civil conflicts and their legacies.

March 13, 2017

Yale ranks 12th in Fulbright recipients

20 Yalies were awarded Fulbrights in 2016-17, making Yale the 12th highest producer of award recipients, among U.S. research organizations. Yale has regularly achieved high performance in academic pursuits despite its small student body. Students and faculty who were interviewed attributed this to Yale's guidance and dedication to helping students apply to the Fulbright, among other programs.

March 7, 2017

Luce, Michel David-Weill scholarships: Three Yalies to study overseas

Zachary Young ’17, Joshua Feinzig ’16 and Benjamin Fleischacker ’17 were granted postgraduate fellowships for study or work abroad. Young received the 2017 Michel David-Weill Scholarship; Feinzig and Fleischacker were named Luce Scholars. The Michel David-Weill Scholarship funds a two-year master’s degree in public policy at the Sciences Po School of Public Affairs in Paris. The Luce Scholars Program supplies stipends, language training and individualized professional placement in Asia.

February 24, 2017

Goldwater Scholar: Yale undergraduate Grace Pan (‘17) awarded

Yale Physics major Grace Pan, was selected for her research on the characterization and synthesis of materials. The Goldwater Scholarship was founded to motivate exceptional students to begin research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering, and to advance excellence in those fields. Pan plans to pursue a physics doctorate, continue research in experimental condensed matter physics, and to teach at the university level.

April 2, 2016