March
29, 2002
Mount
Holyoke Students Invited to Participate in Churchill Foundation
Scholarship Competition
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Winston
Churchill
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Mount Holyoke has
been invited by the Winston Churchill Foundation to be one of
the institutions participating in the Churchill Scholarship competition.
This is the first time the College has received such an invitation.
Says Katya King, assistant director for fellowships and scholarships
at the Career Development Center, "The award is very prestigious
and includes the cost of tuition and a stipend at Cambridge University's
Churchill College for a year of study." The scholarship is
open to senior math, science, and engineering majors. Eleven scholarships
were awarded last year. Beginning this fall, Mount Holyoke may
nominate two students each year, and it is expected that the deadline
for applications will be mid-November.
Churchill College
was founded in 1959 to provide a new center of excellence at Cambridge
for teaching and research in science and technology. Its goal,
in the words of Sir Winston Churchill, is to "offer an education
as high as any that exists to meet the challenge of the new age
of technology." Two-thirds of the students at the college
study engineering, mathematics, and the sciences; the remainder
are in the social sciences and humanities. Approximately one-third
of the students do graduate work. The college, whose founding
Churchill inspired, was designated Britain's national memorial
to him.
The Winston Churchill
Foundation of the United States was established in 1959 as an
expression of American admiration for Sir Winston Churchill. With
his endorsement, the foundation undertook to encourage the exchange
of knowledge and the sharing of ideas in science and technology
between the United States and Great Britain. To this end, it adopted
two programs, one of which is the Churchill Scholarship Program.
It was designed to enable outstanding American students to do
graduate work in engineering, mathematics, and the physical and
natural sciences at Churchill College. The Churchill Fellowship
Program enables American professors to spend a period of time
in research at Churchill College.
The foundation also
financed the construction of the Archives Center at Churchill
College to house the papers of Sir Winston Churchill and many
of his contemporaries. It also confers the Winston Churchill Award
from time to time upon men and women of great achievement. Recipients
of the award include W. Averell Harriman, former Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher, H. Ross Perot, and former presidents Ronald
Reagan and George Bush. The foundation is supported by contributions
from individuals, corporations, and foundations. To learn more
about the award visit http://members.aol.com/churchillf/.
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