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IIE-SRF was founded and endowed in 2002, [2] when IIE's trustees committed to making scholar rescue a permanent part of its work. As of 2023, IIE-SRF has provided over 1,700 awards with the collaboration of over 480 institutions from 55 different countries. [5]
After a years-long wait, Cameroonian scientist Henry Meriki arrived at Wesleyan University in Middletown this fall through a fellowship program that helps accomplished scholars facing life ...
In 1932, at age 24 and well before he began his broadcast career, the Institute of International Education appointed Edward R. Murrow to the position of assistant director by its founder and Director, Stephen P. Duggan. Late in 1933, Murrow also became (without pay) the Assistant Secretary of the Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars. [5]
In 2002, SAR partnered with the Institute of International Education which was then establishing IIE's Scholar Rescue Fund. [6] The Fund provides financial support to scholars facing grave threats so that they may escape dangerous conditions and continue their academic work in safety. [6]
The institute was established in 1919 at the cessation of World War I. Nobel Peace Prize winners Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, Elihu Root, former secretary of state, and Stephen Duggan, Sr., professor of political science at the College of the City of New York (and IIE's first president) formed the Institute of International Education with the idea that educational ...
In 2010, Marc van Roosmalen received a grant from the Scholar Rescue Fund of the Institute of International Education in NY. He was appointed as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence for the 2010-2011 academic year at Bard College. [10] Van Roosmalen's dwarf porcupine and Van Roosmalen's dwarf marmoset are discovered by and named after him.
CIES is a division of the Institute of International Education (IIE). Over 800 Fulbright Scholar awards are granted annually to U.S. scholars and professionals to lecture, research or do both for a semester or an academic year. Awards are granted in all academic disciplines and a variety of interdisciplinary fields.
The fund is named after her own adorable rescue pup named Clyde and a children's book she wrote inspired by Clyde entitled Clydeo Takes a Bite Out of Life which releases October 1.