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The Davis United World College Scholars Program is the world’s largest privately funded international scholarship program. [1] [2] It awards need-based scholarship funding, aka the Shelby Davis Scholarship, to graduates of schools and colleges in the United World Colleges (UWC) movement to study at 106 select partner universities in the United States.
Hans Ostrom, poet, novelist, and scholar, author of The Coast Starlight [196] Louis Owens, novelist and scholar [197] Chris Ransick, writer of literary fiction and poetry [198] Shawna Yang Ryan, novelist, author of Water Ghosts (2009) and Green Island (2016) [199] Max Schott, author of short stories [citation needed]
Stanley Barron Freeborn, UC Davis chancellor and entomologist, namesake of Freeborn Hall and the mosquito species Anopheles freeborni; Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology; Paul Knoepfler, professor of cell biology and human anatomy; Robert Laben, professor of animal sciences (late) Johanna Schmitt, botanist and professor of evolution and ecology
More recently, the Davis-UWC Scholars Program was launched by Shelby M.C. Davis in 2000 and now supports UWC graduates to study at 99 selected US colleges and universities, and has grown to become the world's largest, privately funded, international scholarship programme. [36]
This is a list of Rhodes Scholars, covering notable people who have received a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford since its 1902 founding, sorted by the year the scholarship started and student surname. All names are verified using the Rhodes Scholar Database. This is not an exhaustive list of all Rhodes Scholars.
Davis was a 1996–1997 Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute [38] and received a MacArthur Fellowship Award in 1998. [1] He won the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2007. [39] Davis was Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, and an editor of the New Left ...
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Jack Douglas Forbes (January 7, 1934 – February 23, 2011) was an American historian, writer, scholar, and political activist, who specialized in Native American issues. He is best known for his role in establishing one of the first Native American studies programs (at University of California Davis).