Tuesday Nov 14 at 4:30pm, Fisk 201 The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, open to Wesleyan seniors, allows a group of daring young leaders from select US colleges and universities to travel the world for a year after graduation, pursuing a project of their own design, centered on their own personal passions. As a Watson Fellow,…
Written by Genesis Garcia ’22 Image (left to right): Fitzroy ‘Pablo’ Wickham, Indigo Pellegrini de Paur, Grace Lopez, and Will Briskin The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship is one of the many prestigious fellowships that Wesleyan students can apply to. National fellowships are completely funded programs that support independent study, exploration, research, or teaching for about…
Written by Kennedy Odede ’12 When Covid-19 hits Africa, will we be ready? This was a distant thought just one month ago. Now, as cases climb, we are braced for impact. As the crisis deepens in the world’s largest economies, taking up most of the media bandwidth, Africa hardly makes the headlines. In international news…
Contributed by Inayah Bashir ’20 On Wednesday, February 12, a few students of color gathered at the Resource Center for a panel discussion about the process of applying to fellowships. The event was co-sponsored by the Fries Center for Global Studies. Three women of color who are current fellowship applicants spoke candidly about their experience…
This has been a year of growth and change across all areas “global” at Wesleyan. After several years of modest declines, participation in study abroad went up significantly, enrollments in language classes ticked up, and the volume of international students continued to rise. We saw notable successes by our students applying for fellowships, including the…
