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Neha Garg (M.Arch. ‘23), from her winning proposal for the 2023 RAMSA Travel Fellowship, Egypt’s Earth Architecture

The Architecture Department is pleased to promote selected external and internally-sponsored fellowships available to undergraduate and graduate students in architecture. Please refer to the fellowship websites and submission information packets for application requirements. For fellowships with an internal review and nomination process, program coordinators will email eligible students with information directly when deadlines and submission requirements are provided by the host institution.

Note that this is not a comprehensive list. There are many grants and fellowships available worldwide, and students are encouraged to research further opportunities.

Hart Howerton Travel Fellowship

Award: $7,000 research grant plus travel stipend, paid internship, travel and housing stipend

Due: January 2025

Eligibility: Graduate and undergraduate students in Planning, Architecture (B.Arch., M.Arch.), Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design in their penultimate year of study.

The Hart Howerton Travel Fellowship Program is an educational initiative to fund a select number of fellowship positions for students at design schools. Each summer, the fellowship allows the firm to offer internships in their New York or San Francisco offices to students in planning, architecture, landscape architecture, or interior design. The fellowship also provides funded travel for research on a topic the Fellow selects.

Submission Process: Submit all required materials directly through the website application. 

Fellowship Website

John Belle Travel Fellowship

Award: $10,000 Due (Internal): January 2025

Due (External): February 2025

Eligibility: Graduate students (M.Arch. or Ph.D.) in Architecture, Historic Preservation, and/or Urban Design in their penultimate year.

The purpose of the John Belle Travel Fellowship is to expand students' understanding of the public realm in existing cities through travel and research, and how the knowledge gained might be applied to contemporary urban needs and design challenges.

Submission Process: The AAP Competitions Committee will select a maximum of four (4) submissions to nominate for external review. Note the following deadline schedule

1. Submit all required materials as outlined in the fellowship info packet with upload instructions provided by your program coordinator. Note: incomplete or incorrectly formatted materials will not be considered.

2. Applicants will be notified if their submission will be nominated, or if it should be revised and resubmitted with recommended changes. Nominations will be reviewed by the Department Chair.

3. Submit revised materials (if applicable).

4 . External deadline. Competitions Committee to submit nominated proposals.

Summer 2025: Travel and research period.

RAMSA Travel Fellowship

Award: $15,000 research and travel grant and optional residency program with stipend

Due: March 2025

Eligibility: Graduate students in Architecture (M.Arch.) in their penultimate year.

The RAMSA Fellowship is a prize awarded annually by Robert A.M. Stern Architects for travel and research. The fellowship seeks to promote investigations into the perpetuation of tradition through invention — key to the firm's work — and is given to an individual who has proven insight and interest in the profession and its future, as well as the ability to carry forth in-depth research.

Submission Process: Submit all required materials directly through the website application.

KPF Travel Fellowship

Award: $10,000

Due (Internal):  March 2025

Due (External): April 2025

Eligibility: B.Arch. or M.Arch. students in their penultimate year of study.

The goal of the award is to allow students to broaden their education through a summer of travel and exploration before their final year at school. Recipients are awarded cash prizes to fund summer research on far-reaching topics that push the boundaries of critical thinking and architectural design, with winners determined by a jury of KPF Principals and industry leaders.

Submission Process:  The AAP Competitions Committee will select a maximum of two (2) submissions to nominate for external review. Note the following deadline schedule:

2 . Applicants will be notified if their submission will be nominated or if it should be revised and resubmitted with recommended changes. Nominations will be reviewed by the Department Chair.

3 . Submit revised materials (if applicable).

Summer 2025:  Travel and research period.

RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship

Award: £7,000

Due (Internal): Early May 2025

Due (External): Mid May 2025

Eligibility: M.Arch. students who have completed at least one year in the degree.

The RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship offers one scholarship to a student of architecture to support international research on a topic and at locations of their choice. The topic of the research should relate to the sustainable survival of cities and fall under one of the following themes:  learning from the past to inform the future;  the future of society; density of settlements; use of resources; quality of urban life; transport.

Submission Process: The AAP Competitions Committee will select a maximum of one (1) submission to nominate for external review. Review the "Guidance Notes" on the fellowship website. Note the following deadline schedule:

2. Applicants will be notified if their submission will be nominated or if it should be revised and resubmitted with recommended changes. Nominations will be reviewed by the Department Chair.

4. External deadline. Competitions Committee to submit nominated proposals.

Summer-Fall 2025:  Travel and research period.

Robert James Eidlitz Travel Fellowship

Award: Varies, typically up to $5,000

Due:  April 2025

Eligibility: Graduating B.Arch. students; currently enrolled AAP graduate students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and History of Architecture and Urban Development; alumni of these programs who have graduated in one of the previous five academic years. 

The fellowship's purpose is to supplement the professional training — by foreign travel or in other ways — of those who could not otherwise afford it. The income of the fund may be awarded to one or more candidates. Award amounts will vary widely depending on the scope of the project proposed and the amount of support requested. Complete or partial funding may be awarded at the discretion of the committee.

Submission Process: Submit all materials via the portal on the department website . Note the following deadlines:

The AAP Competitions Committee typically awards several students. The number of students and funding awarded varies per year. Submit all materials via the portal on the department website. Note the following deadlines:

April 2025: Deadline for receipt of completed applications.

May 2025: Applicants to be notified if awarded.

Other Architecture Fellowships Opportunities

• Bauhaus Earth Fellowship Program
• Center for Architecture - Allwork Scholarship
• Center for Architecture - CFA Lab
• Center for Architecture - Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals
• Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Grant Program
• Gensler Rising Black Designers Scholarship
• Lyceum Competition and Fellowship
• SmithGroup Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship Program
• 'T'Space Architecture Residency
• Whitney Museum of Art Independent Study Program

Past Cornell Fellowship Recipients

• 2023 RAMSA, Neha Garg (M.Arch. '23)
• 2023 Hart Howerton, Zouhan Li (M.Arch. '23)
• 2021 KPF, Molly Meng Ma (M.Arch. '21)
• 2020 KPF (Honorable Mention), Rondell Almodovar (M.Arch. '20)
• 2019 KPF, Coco Tin (B.Arch. '19)
• 2019 KPF (Honorable Mention), Isabel Branas (M.Arch. '19)
• 2017 KPF, Justin Foo (B.Arch. '16)
• 2017 RAMSA,  Kyle Schumann (B.Arch. '13) (M.Arch. '17 - Princeton),
• 2016 KPF, Helena Rong, (B.Arch. '17)
• 2015 KPF, Hyemin Jang, (B.Arch. '15)

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Architecture Research and Study Opportunities

Thousands of study and academic opportunities in Architecture are available internationally. Conferences and summer schools in Architecture are organized regularly in the best academic centers of the world. The majority of universities and many foundations also offer BA, MA, and Ph.D. programs in Architecture as wells as postdoctoral research grants, awards, and fellowships. Below you will find the updated list of international opportunities available in Architecture.

Fellowships in Architecture

• AIA Architecture Grants and Fellowships
• LOEB Fellowships, Harvard Graduate School of Design
• Richard Rogers Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Design
• University of Wisconsin Department of Architecture One-year Fellowship 
• Society of Architectural Historians Fellowships and Grants
• McAslan Architecture Travel Fellowships, Architects Foundation
• CINTAS Fellowship in Architecture and Design
• Fellowships and Awards, Tulane School of Architecture
• Wortham Fellowship in Architecture, RICE
• The National Organization of Minority Architects Fellowships
• The James Harrison Steedman Memorial Fellowship in Architecture

Scholarships in Architecture

• Architecture Scholarships, Architects Foundation 
• DAAD Scholarships in Architecture
• LSU Architecture Scholarships
• Scholarships for the School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University
• Bachelor and Honours Scholarships in Architecture, Design and Planning, the University of Sydney
• Landscape Architecture Foundation Scholarships
• Architecture Scholarships, Ball State University
• Architecture Department Scholarships and Awards, Cal Poly
• Monash Art, Design, and Architecture Scholarship
• Gensler Scholarships, Bursary, and Prizes

If interested in Urban Planning Degrees in the United States check this Urban Planning Scholarship Guide . 

Conferences in Architecture

• S.ARCH International Conference on Architecture and Built Environment
• Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Conferences
• Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Conferences
• European Association for Architectural Education Events
• International Civil Engineering and Architecture Conference
• Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting

Architecture Relevant Accounts on Twitter

• @architecturehub
• @architectmag
• @architects
• @Architecturlpic
• @MITarchitecture
• @HOUSEDESIGN
• @WACommunity
• @worldarchnews
• @USCArchitecture

Why Do Humans Need Architecture?

The definition that architects construct buildings is too naive; architects construct our life.

The convenience of millions of daily activities that people have is pre-calculated and pre-planned by architects. Where and at what kind of buildings we live, work and spend time isn’t randomly decided. It’s the result of architects’ hard work, and even the smallest comfortability nuances we don’t notice are considered by architects before building something. 

Imagine a wholly plane place where you should construct life from zero. Imagine satisfying billions of humans living and mobility needs with the possibilities and resources Mother Earth gave to us. 

That truly gigantic work is carried out on the shoulders of architects. Building infrastructures for organizing humans life, under the limitations and correct utilization of:

• cost of construction,
• functionality, etc. 

To sum up, the modern life convenience we enjoy and even more innovative solutions that will come ahead are architectural planning output.

Architecture Studies and Career Applications

Let me start simple: Architecture major will teach you to do everything described above. You will learn how to plan and construct buildings and infrastructures, considering safety and functionality aspects within the available construction budget. 

Besides, you will obtain many and strong soft skills. You don’t need a major to estimate the number of people working on each construction project, along with volumes of construction materials and billions of processes architects should follow up. For that, you will need exceptional multitasking, management, and negotiation skills. 

Architecture is one of the fields requiring the highest degree of responsibility and professionalism. That’s why both your studies and further career opportunities will differ from the majority of other disciplines. 

Firstly, in many countries, you will be required to study for 5 years , instead of the standard 4. Also, you will not be able to work as an independent architect right after completing the degree. To rise above assistantship and secondary jobs in the field, you will need to have an Architecture license : the official document proving your readiness to conduct A-Z architectural projects. 

The license and the ways of getting it differ in countries. You will learn the details when enrolled in any Architecture program offered by any university. In general, the common approach for granting a license will vary around checking the person’s experience in the field, conducting an individual project under the supervision of a licensed architect, and passing a test. 

But first, let me list the main courses and skills you will have if choosing Architecture as a major. Math is an essential subject both before applying to the Architecture program and during it. Other than that, you will study the following courses in the majority of programs :

• science (physics and engineering),
• statistics,
• computer science (3D modeling and linear programming),
• art (drawing),
• building science and technology, 
• visualization, 
• architectural design,
• environmental systems, etc. 

Upon completion of the courses, you will enrich your skills in the following directions:

• preparing the detailed drafts of the construction projects both by hand and with the help of computer programs, 
• familiarity with design and planning laws and regulations, 
• presentation of large projects and proposals,
• ability to work in and manage large teams,
• budgeting and costing skills, 
• meeting the client’s needs in the proposed deadlines. 

Ideally, and we wish that actually you will work as an independent licensed architect, as it’s the main goal of the major. However, you may utilize your Architecture skills in plenty of other working spheres, as many graduates do. 

In particular, you can work as an urban planner, civil engineer, building designer, mechanical engineer, designer, and anything else your skills will fit. 

In our turn, we hope the opportunities collected by ARMACAD will help you succeed in Architecture, a field that will never become outdated.

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2024–25 Architecture Research Fellowships Announced

The Rice University School of Architecture is excited to announce that Associate Professor Troy Schaum and Assistant Professor Maggie Tsang are the inaugural recipients of a Rice Architecture Research Fellowship (ARF). This program, funded by the Office of Research and debuting with the 2024–25 academic year, provides a $30,000 research grant and teaching leave, giving faculty the time and space to focus on major scholarly projects.

These awards will support the architecture faculty as they continue to lead the way in research encompassing various forms of thinking, making, and discourse. The establishment of the ARF demonstrates Rice’s commitment to scholarly distinction by supporting the architecture faculty in tackling, holistically and imaginatively, the most pressing issues of our planet and to contributing to thriving urban communities.

Schaum’s research project, “Conservation Entanglements,” investigates how political entanglements and contradictions contribute to the design of buildings and cities and, particularly, how they contribute to the conservation and preservation of cultures, buildings, and communities. With a focus on Marfa and West Texas—or North America’s “Middle Landscape”—the project will result in a two-part international symposium and exhibition at the Chinati Foundation and Rice Architecture.

Referencing the seminal architecture text Learning from Las Vegas , Tsang’s proposal, “Learning from the Swamp,” examines the inscrutability of the swamp and its instrumentality to the urban and environmental history of the American South, where it has long functioned as an ecologically complex site offering alternative ways of seeing, knowing, and representing more-than-human relationships and worlds. The project will include articles, presentations, and, ultimately, a book-length study of swamps as a framework for examining not only natural but also cultural and built environments.

Reflecting on the inaugural ARF projects, Executive Vice President for Research Ramamoorthy Ramesh observed, “This new initiative will be truly transformative for the school and the university, allowing us to expand the breadth of scholarly inquiry across the entire spectrum of the university, including architecture, urbanism, and the built environment more broadly.”

“The Architecture Research Fellowship recognizes both the importance of scholarly inquiry in our field and its immense diversity,” said Igor Marjanović, William Ward Watkin Dean of Rice Architecture. “Research in architecture encompasses a broad spectrum of inquiry—from design to history, theory, and technology—including many methodologies and scales, from local to global, from the scale of individual objects to that of the entire environment. I am delighted that our first cohort of ARF fellows also exemplifies that breadth, clearly demonstrating why architecture matters in a changing world.”

The Architecture Research Fellowship awards will be presented during Rice Architecture’s annual awards ceremony in Farish Gallery, MD Anderson Hall, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. A reception will follow the ceremony.

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AIA College of Fellows Latrobe Prize

The Latrobe Prize is a biennial $100,000 award from the AIA College of Fellows to support a two-year program of research leading to significant advances in the architecture profession.

Latrobe Prize submissions

The Latrobe Prize is a biennial $100,000 award from the AIA College of Fellows to support a two-year program of research. The grant, named for architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, is awarded for research leading to significant advances in the architecture profession.

Proposals for the 2022 Latrobe Prize must explore buildings at the intersection of planetary health and human health. Planetary health is a new field of research that connects two pressing issues: Climate change and health equity.

• First Stage: Open for all submission from which three submissions will be chosen
• Second Stage: Invited submission only for an in person interview with the jury

Buildings ∩ Planetary Health and Human Health

Proposals for the 2022 Latrobe Prize should aim to explore positive outcomes for people, communities, and the planet resulting from architectural design excellence.

The 2022 Latrobe Prize encourages investigations on architecture in the built environment at the intersection of climate action, climate justice, environmental justice, public health, and health equity.

Multiscale Thinking: Research teams should establish a perspective on the design of buildings as integral and contributing to the health of individuals, communities, regions, and the planet and may explore proposals to pilot near-term solutions on a range of topics:

• Climate Change Adaptation, Health Equity, and Health Access
• Nature-Based Solutions
• Ecological and Community Wellbeing and Resilience
• Food Security, Food Systems, and Access
• Energy Systems, Vulnerability, and Access
• Circularity, Material Assemblies, and Material Flows
• Housing Equity and Sustainable Design
• Public Open Space, Wellbeing
• Labor, Automation, and AI

Submission process: Closed

For more information, please contact Muza Conforti, Director, Fellows & Strategic Council.

AIA Fellowship is AIA highest membership honor, recognizing members for their exceptional work and contributions to architecture and society. Only 3% of AIA members earn this distinction.

Recent recipients & juries

CommonSENSES: Standards for ENacting Sensor networks for an Equitable Society

Principal investigators : Michelle Laboy, M.Arch., MUP, PE, School of Architecture; Amy Mueller, PhD, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Marine and Environmental Sciences, and Northeastern’s Environmental Sensors Lab; Dan O’Brien, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Director of the Boston Area Research Initiative; and Moira Zellner, PhD, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and Director of Participatory Modeling & Data Science, College Social Sciences & Humanities. 

The team will use the grant towards demonstrating how sensor networks can inform architects , and the communities they work with, of hyperlocal variations in environmental quality. The research will also explore the potential for green infrastructure to produce more equitable health outcomes. Before-and-after project data and models about factors affecting neighborhood climate, resilience, health, and equity will generate insights on how smarter green infrastructure can support a more accessible, equitable, and inclusive design process. The resulting CommonSENSES Architectural Playbook and film, and the collaborative modeling platform (Fora.ai) adapted for this project will empower current and future architects, planners, and educators to advance the role of design in urban equity.

Billie Faircloth, FAIA, Chair

Roger Schluntz, FAIA, 2022 Chancellor

Ronald Blitch, FAIA, Bursar

Dr. Malo Hutson

Alison Kwok, FAIA

Vivian Lee, FAIA

Dr. Upali Nanda, Assoc. AIA

Addressing a Multi-Billion Dollar Challenge

Principal investigators : Bruce Levin, J.D. Associate Clinical Professor, School of Education, Drexel University and Sean O’Donnell, FAIA, Perkins Eastman

The research will endeavor to advance the knowledge of how well-designed educational facilities positively impact students. Over the next two years, the findings from this research will be applied to a set of design guidelines to be shared with architects and school districts.

Marilyn J. Taylor, FAIA, Chair

John Castellana, FAIA, Secretary

Edward A. Vance, FAIA, Chancellor

Gordon Chong, FAIA

Billie Faircloth, FAIA

Curtis W. Fentress, FAIA

Marvin Malecha, FAIA

Future-Use Architecture – Design for Persistent Change

Principal investigators : Peter Wiederspahn, AIA, Michelle Laboy PE, and David Fannon, AIA

The selected Latrobe Prize proposal seeks to answer questions related to how to best design buildings and cities for unknown future uses and how to help initiate more informed development practices and regulatory frameworks for adaptive reuse and regeneration.

Kate Schwennsen, FAIA, Chair

Raymond G. Post, FAIA, Vice Chancellor

Lenore M. Lucey, FAIA, Chancellor

Stephen T. Ayers, FAIA

Frank M. Guillot, FAIA

Sylvia Kwan, FAIA

Jud Marquardt, FAIA

Marilyn Jordan Taylor, FAIA

Drylands Resilience Initiative

Principal investigators : Peter Arnold and Hadley Arnold

Research focused on developing and testing Hazel, a powerful new digital design tool, and bringing transformative public design strategies to dry cities in the US West and around the world.

David Cronrath, Chair

John R. Sorrenti, FAIA, Bursar

Al Rubeling, FAIA, Vice Chancellor

Bill Stanley III, FAIA, Chancellor

Larry Speck

Stephen Ayers

Roger Schluntz, FAIA

Angie Brooks

Kate Schwennsen, FAIA

Urban Sphere: The City of 7 Billion Principal investigators : Bimal Mendis and Joyce Hsiang The research studies the impact of population growth and resource consumption on the built and natural environment at the scale of the entire world as a single urban entity.

Jury John T. Regan, Chair Ronald L. Skaggs, FAIA, Chancellor William J. Stanley III, FAIA, Vice Chancellor Harold Adams, FAIA Wayne Drummond, FAIA Henry Green, Hon. AIA Laura Lee, FAIA Monica Ponce de Leon

Public Interest Practices in Architecture Principal investigators : Bryan Bell, Roberta Feldman, Sergio Palleroni, and David Perkes, AlA

Research centered on needs that can be addressed by public interest practices and the variety of ways that public interest practices are operating.

Thomas Fisher, Assoc. AIA, Chair Chet Widom, FAIA, Chancellor Norman Koonce, FAIA, Vice Chancellor Peter Bohlin, FAIA Sheila Kennedy, AIA Henry Koffman Sharon Sutton, FAIA, PhD Kim Tanzer, AIA

Growing Energy/Water: Using the Grid to Get Off the Grid

Principal investigators : Martin Felsen, AlA, and Sarah Dunn

Stephen Kieran, FAIA, Chair

Donald J. Hackl, FAIA, Chancellor

Edward J. Kodet, Vice Chancellor

Cecil Balmond

Michelle D. Addington

Thom Mayne, FAIA

On the Water, A Model for the Future: A study of New York and Jersey Upper Bay

Principal investigators : Guy Nordenson with Stanley T. Allen, AlA, Catherine Seavitt, AlA, James Smith, Michael Tantala, and Adam Yarinsky, FAIA

Daniel S. Friedman, PhD, FAIA, Chair

Frank E. Lucas, FAIA, Chancellor

Martin Fischer, PhD

Leon R. Glicksman, PhD

Frances Halsband, FAIA

James Timberlake, FAIA

Developing an Evidence-Based Design Model that Measures Human Response: A Pilot Study of a Collaborative, Trans-Disciplinary Model in a Healthcare Setting

Principal investigators : Chong Partners Associates, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc., and University of California-Berkeley

Marvin Malecha, FAIA, Chair

Lawrence J. Leis, FAIA, Chancellor

Michael Graves, FAIA

Jack Hartray, FAIA

John Zeisel, PhD

Fundamental Neuroscience Research and Development for Architecture

Principal investigators : John Eberhard, FAIA, of the Academy of Neurosciences for Architecture in collaboration with the New School of Architecture

Development of new course curriculum, creation of a CD, and publication of the white paper titled A White Paper

Cynthia Weese, FAIA, Chair

Sylvester Damianos, FAIA, Chancellor

Thomas W. Ventulett, FAIA

Robert Geddes, FAIA

Robert A. Odermatt, FAIA

Refabricating Architecture

Principal investigators : Steve Kiernan and James Timberlake in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania

Research into new material development and application, concluding with the publication of Refabricating Architecture.

Harrison Fraker, FAIA, Chair

Harold Roth, FAIA, Chancellor

Cesar Pelli, FAIA

Charles Redmon, FAIA

Henry Cobb, FAIA

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The Loeb Fellowship offers a transformative year of study and engagement at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and a powerful worldwide network of over 450 colleagues.

Loeb Fellows are exceptional practitioners whose work is advancing positive social outcomes through the shaping of the built and natural environment in the US and around the world. Urban planners and designers, public artists, real estate developers, landscape architects, journalists, civic leaders, architects, policymakers, social entrepreneurs, and more, these proven leaders step away from their professional lives for one academic year to strengthen their knowledge and impact, to broaden or refocus their careers, and to encourage deeper social engagement with their work.

Each year, Loeb Fellows are selected through a highly competitive global application process.

Visit our website for information on how to apply . Bios and contact information for Current Fellows can also be found there.

While in residence at the GSD, Fellows audit classes at the School and throughout the vast network of Harvard and MIT. They engage with faculty and students, participate in public programs and Fellowship events, and collaborate with their peers. They become part of a powerful, ever-growing network of colleagues passionately committed to revitalizing communities.

“The Fellowship has an important role in the design world,” says Loeb Fellowship curator John Peterson. “For almost 50 years the Fellowship has steadfastly championed those who are shaping the built environment as significant players for positive social outcomes.”

The Loeb Fellowship traces its roots to 1968, when John L. Loeb was directing a Harvard GSD campaign themed around “Crisis: The chaos in our cities, the loss of control over our environment, the urgent need for leadership for the future.” Loeb saw the American city in disarray and believed Harvard could help. He imagined bringing highly promising innovators of the built and natural environment to the GSD for one year, challenging them to do more and do better, convinced they would return to their work with new ideas and energy.  Now in its fifth decade, the extraordinary, transformative learning experience that is the Loeb Fellowship continues to have a critical role to play in preparing leaders to address these urgent concerns and instigate important future advances through their work in the built and natural environment.

More information on the Loeb Fellowship, including how to apply, visit the Loeb Fellowship website .

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