[ALBSA-Info] Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship For New Americans seeks Albanian applicants

[krenar at juno.com]

From: Adnan Derti <adnan at genetics.med.harvard.edu>


The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans is actively seeking 
Albanian candidates. The deadline is November 1, so please broadcast 
urgently (my fault, not theirs).

The fellowship provides two years of support (full stipend plus half 
tuition) for graduate school (science, law, medicine, art, architecture, 
music etc.). Applicants must be enrolled in graduate school or attending 
next year, must be US citizens or legal residents (i.e., green card 
holders), and must be immigrants or children of immigrants. The 
fellowship is awarded to candidates with unusual accomplishments for 
their given circumstances. Besides the funding, the fellowship is a 
fantastic experience and involves many excellent dinners. Fellows gather 
in New York annually and are visited at their universities by the 
directors of the fellowship, who are deeply committed to the 
intellectual development of the fellows. For example, the fellows at 
this fall's conference will meet Samantha Power, Jhumpa Lahiri and Yale 
Law School Dean Harold Koh. Fellows meet with New Americans as diverse 
as Yo-Yo Ma and Nobel laureate Torsten Weisel, and are exposed to the 
cultural richness of New York, from a private tour of the Met with its 
director to theater to opera.

Paul is the brother of George Soros. While George concentrated on 
initiatives abroad, Paul and Daisy established the fellowship as a 
response to an anti-immigration wave in the 1990's.

For more information: http://www.pdsoros.org

Thanks.

Adnan Derti