Wednesday, April 15, 2015
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Program Announces 2015 Fellows
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, the premier graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants, announced their 2015 recipients. The thirty recipients, called "Fellows", were selected for their potential to make significant contributions to US society, culture, or their academic field, and were selected from a pool of 1,200 applicants.
"I admire the Fellows' ambition, accomplishments and work ethic," said Daisy M. Soros, who co-founded the Fellowship program in 1997 with her late husband, Paul Soros (1926-2013). "They underscore the importance of New Americans to this country." The couple, Hungarian immigrants, contributed $75 million to the organization's charitable trust....