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Prior Fellowship Recipients

The following descriptions of prior Fellowship recipients can help to illustrate the creative intellectual qualities sought for in this award.

Engineering: 

• Example 1:  Development, construction, and flight test of a novel vertical Takeoff Aircraft Concept

• Example 2: Development of strategies and techniques to ensure clean drinking water in an area environmentally affected by gold-mining processes in Honduras.

Science:

• Example 1:  A chemistry project investigating previously unexplored issues surrounding anomalies found in the electrolytic oxidation of aluminum.

• Example 2: Development of a biological register through the application of site-specific Recombination for the Construction of Biological Memory.

Humanities:

• Example 1:  A creative writing project to produce a collection of short stories as a means for preserving the oral heritage of Karanga people of Southern Zimbabwe.
  
• Example 2: An anthropological study of Traditional Life and Technological Change with the Dine people.

Arts:

• Example 1: Development of screen-play and storyboards for a film about the relationship of a young man and his father surrounding the father’s possible involvement with the Viet Cong during the Vietnam Conflict.

• Example 2:  Development of a novel glass sculpture installation for exhibit at MIT.

See Prior Winners for a list of former recipients names.