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Road Scholar is an American not-for-profit organization that provides educational travel programs primarily geared toward older adults. The organization is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. From its founding in 1975 until 2010, Road Scholar was known as Elderhostel. Road Scholar offers study tours throughout the United States and Canada ...
Oxford, England. Established. 1902. Website. www .rhodeshouse .ox .ac .uk. The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world's most prestigious ...
U.S. Senator for Arkansas (1945–1974), originator of the Fulbright Fellowship program Mason Hammond: Harvard University: Balliol: 1925 United States Latin and Roman Empire historian Wilson Lyon: University of Mississippi: St John's: 1925 United States President of Pomona College (1941–1969) John Olmsted: Deep Springs College
2010 Presidential Scholars with President Barack Obama. 2005 Presidential Scholars with President George W. Bush. The United States Presidential Scholars Program is a program of the United States Department of Education. It is described as "one of the nation's highest honors for high school students" in the United States of America.
The Olmsted Scholar Program was founded in 1959 by the George Olmsted Foundation (later the George and Carol Olmsted Foundation). Utilizing General Olmsted's initial $80,000 grant, the Foundation's Board of Directors and the Department of Defense authorized the establishment of Scholar Program. The first six scholars were selected in October ...
The Fulbright Regional Network for Applied Research (NEXUS) Program is a network of junior scholars, professionals, and mid-career applied researchers from the United States, Brazil, Canada, and other Western Hemisphere nations in a year-long program that includes multi-disciplinary, team-based research, a series of three seminar meetings, and ...
The PLATO Society of Los Angeles (formerly the PLATO Society of UCLA) is a lifelong learning institute in Westwood, south of the UCLA campus, that focuses on small peer-led study discussion groups. About 400 members attend 70 or more study discussion groups every year, year-round, that are designed and led by the members themselves.
Omar H. Ali. Omar Hamid Ali (born February 10, 1971) is an American historian of the African diaspora who specializes in the history of independent black political movements in the United States, Islam in the Indian Ocean world, and black resistance to slavery in Latin America.