New England Board of Higher Education » Princeton University http://www.nebhe.org NEBHE Wed, 16 Oct 2013 02:48:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Rhodes Scholars Abound in New England http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/rhodes-scholars-abound-in-new-england/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rhodes-scholars-abound-in-new-england http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/rhodes-scholars-abound-in-new-england/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:52:19 +0000 Shoshana Akins http://www.nebhe.org/?p=7007

Ten of the 32 new Rhodes Scholars are from New England or studied in the region.

They are: Mark Jia and Nicholas DiBerardino, both of Princeton University; Laura Nelson of the University of Virginia; Zachary Frankel, Daniel Lage and Baltazar Zavala of Harvard; Alice Baumgartner and William Zeng of Yale; Gabrielle Emanuel of Dartmouth; and Jennifer ...]]>


Ten of the 32 new Rhodes Scholars are from New England or studied in the region.

They are: Mark Jia and Nicholas DiBerardino, both of Princeton University; Laura Nelson of the University of Virginia; Zachary Frankel, Daniel Lage and Baltazar Zavala of Harvard; Alice Baumgartner and William Zeng of Yale; Gabrielle Emanuel of Dartmouth; and Jennifer Lai of MIT.

Chosen from regions across the United States, these students will be funded for two to four years of study at the University of Oxford in England, thanks to the British colonialist Cecil Rhodes, who created the scholarship in his will in 1902.
Though it is a national scholarship, New England has heavily populated the Rhodes Scholarship since is inception more than 100 years ago. The colleges with the highest number of scholarship-winners are, not surprisingly, Harvard and Yale. Other New England colleges have been rising in the ranks of recipients: Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth, Wheaton and Williams each have received three or more scholarships in the past decade.
]]> http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/rhodes-scholars-abound-in-new-england/feed/ 0 New Faces in NE Prez Offices http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/new-faces-in-ne-prez-offices/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-faces-in-ne-prez-offices http://www.nebhe.org/newslink/new-faces-in-ne-prez-offices/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:55:08 +0000 John O. Harney http://www.nebhe.org/?p=7010

World-class and working class New England colleges made changes at the top today.

Tufts University, the world-famous research university centered in Medford, Mass., announced its next president will be Anthony P. Monaco, pro-vice-chancellor for planning and resources at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. A neuroscientist, Monaco identified the first gene specifically involved ...]]>


World-class and working class New England colleges made changes at the top today.

Tufts University, the world-famous research university centered in Medford, Mass., announced its next president will be Anthony P. Monaco, pro-vice-chancellor for planning and resources at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. A neuroscientist, Monaco identified the first gene specifically involved in human language. He will succeed Lawrence S. Bacow next summer. Though he spent 20 years at Oxford, Monaco is a native of Wilmington, Del., and was a first-generation college student at Princeton University.

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Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, a two-year technical college in Boston, named George C. Chryssis as its next president effective Jan. 1, 2011. Chryssis founded several high-technology companies, including some specializing in fiber optics and software. Most recently, he served as vice president of executive affairs at Wentworth Institute of Technology and oversaw Wentworth's Center for Community Learning & Partnerships.

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