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Associate Professor of Chemistry Robert Bachman was recently elected to a three-year term as a Councilor for the Chemistry Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). Bachman, who earned both a B.
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Tennessee's Wild Side, which airs on public television stations throughout Tennessee and Kentucky, recently spotlighted the research of Sewanee biology students and faculty into the status of the box turtle in the south Cumberland plateau region. Watch the clip here: http://www.
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SEWANEE – The inaugural seasons for the varsity men’s and women’s lacrosse teams are underway, with the women coming off a tough opening loss to perennial powerhouse Washington and Lee last week, and Coach Marty Watters’ men preparing to take on Kenyon in the home opener Sunday, March 2, at 1 p.m.
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A few more days of watchful anticipation awaits three seniors at Sewanee: The University of the South who have received nominations for a prestigious year-long Watson Fellowship during 2008-09. “We’re into the nail-biting part of that process now,” said Stephen Miller, associate professor in the Music Department and the University’s Liaison to the Watson Foundation.
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Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008: 11:25 a.
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Last winter, someone lit a metaphorical candle among Sewanee students to shine a light on the plight of children displaced by civil war in Uganda. Now, this spring, more than 100 runners have pledged to carry the flame forward by raising money and running in Nashville’s Music City Marathon.
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The University of the South and The Land Trust for Tennessee today completed the purchase and permanent protection of nearly 3,000 acres on the South Cumberland Plateau in Franklin County from American Timberland Corp., a subsidiary of Regions Morgan Keegan Timberland Group.
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Essayist, poet and cultural critic Wendell Berry and Tennessee Governor Philip Bredesen will deliver the Convocation Addresses for the annual Opening Convocation of the Easter Semester at Sewanee on Tuesday, Jan. 22.
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Elizabeth C. Mansfield, Ph.
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Leaders of the University of the South and The Land Trust for Tennessee have announced a partnership to complete a $4.3 million purchase of nearly 3,000 acres of land lying adjacent to the Domain of the University.
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The Discernment Programs Office at the University of the South invites undergraduate students at colleges and universities across the nation to apply for the seventh Summer Discernment Institute to be held June 2 - July 26, 2008. Applications for 18 placement openings in this summer’s program will be due by Feb.
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Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham, C'91, urged more than 1,000 packed into All Saints’ Chapel for the annual Founders’ Day Convocation on Oct. 9 to meet the demands of our time with courage and grace by seizing history and shaping it for future generations.
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2006-07 campaign exceeds goal by raising just over $3.3 million.
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A Fourth of July service and an uphill ride mark the beginning of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the University's founding.
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Kelly brings over 20 years experience in higher education communications, marketing and public relations to Sewanee's integrated marketing and communications programs.
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Publisher Pearson Scott Foresman will use Sewanee's Cordell-Lorenz observatory to illustrate science and technology in fifth grade teaching resources
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On Saturday, May 12, friends of the late William Bonds, longtime classics professor, met to dedicate the Bonds Library in Gailor Hall.
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2007 Graduates Charita LeQuisse Roque and Bethany Davis, and Professor James Peterman, were awarded the prestigious scholarships for the coming year.
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Professor John Gatta, associate dean of the college for faculty affairs, has been appointed to become dean of the college later this year.
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Birmingham, Ala., student places second in national classical Greek translation competition
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About 350 people gathered in Guerry Auditorium in Sewanee on April 14 to hear V. Gene Robinson, C'69, speak. The Bishop of New Hampshire, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, is at the center of a heated debate in the Episcopal Church on clergy and sexuality.
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J. Theresa Bush, C'08, received the third place award in undergraduate costume design at the 57th annual Southeastern Theatre Conference in March.
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On March 28 nd 29, Dr. Greg B. Brown was a guest on campus as the Graham Executive-in-Residence. A successful physician and thoracic surgeon who left medical practice to pursue a career in finance, Brown spoke on the intersection of business and medicine. Brown also met with students throughout his visit, attending classes and talking with students one-on-one about career plans. His speech is available as a Quicktime movie at http://www.sewanee.edu/cae/brown
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Keen is the third Sewanee student to win the prestigious scholarship.
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Syeda Hamadani, Joshua Harris, and Benjamin "Luke" Padgett are three of 50 students from around the world honored with a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for international independent study.
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The National Arbor Day Foundation names Sewanee "Tree City USA" for its commitment to community forestry.
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Eliza Greenman, C'06, participates in the 2007-08 U.S. Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals.
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Robert S. Lancaster, historic leader of the University of the South, died February 21 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was ninety-seven years of age and had been a deeply valued mentor and friend for many Sewanee students, alumni, and colleagues for more than seventy-five years.
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The Discernment Programs at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., invite undergraduate students at colleges and universities across the nation to apply for the sixth Summer Discernment Institute to be held May 28 – July 21, 2007. Applications for 18 placement openings in the Institute will be due by February 19, 2007.
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Sixteen members of the Sewanee Parents' Council met on campus in early December to call parents of current Sewanee students about the importance of the Sewanee Annual Fund. Their efforts broke previous phonathon records.
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When Julia La Roche, C’10, applied to college, she was probably the only prospect who put herself down as the CEO of her own company. She definitely was the only entering freshman who could claim to have won $20,000 for inventing a new product. On December 15, La Roche was featured on The Montel Williams Show for her entrepreneurship.
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Since 1999, Sewanee's Bridge Program has offered a research-rich educational experience to rising high school seniors from diverse backgrounds interested in experiencing a taste of college life and advancing themselves in science and math.
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A Sewanee-sponsored internship took Sallie Hart, C’06, to Bangladesh to work at the Grameen Bank, where she experienced firsthand the joy as the Nobel Peace Prize was announced for Muhammad Yunus, H’98, and the pioneering micro-lending institution he founded.
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The Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association recognized Jim Davidheiser for years of outstanding service in higher education.
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Professor of French is the third Sewanee professor to win the national award in five years.
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The Alumni Awards Breakfast and meeting of the Associated Alumni took place at Homecoming on Saturday, October 28. A highlight of this meeting is the presentation of annual awards by the Associated Alumni. These four awards recognize distinguished careers, active community service, and exemplary service to the University.
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Senior Natasha Cowie places second in her division.
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A gift to The Sewanee Call campaign will establish a new program designed to launch students on successful business careers. The grant from Kitty and David Beecken, C’68, will provide a substantial part of the tuition for Sewanee students to attend a non-credit, intensive business training session especially designed for liberal arts students. The program will be part of Sewanee’s new Center for Applied Economics.
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Senator John C. Danforth, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and peace envoy to Sudan, gave the 2006 Founders’ Day address and received an honorary degree from Sewanee on October 10.
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Yasmeen Mohiuddin, Ralph Owen Distinguished Professor of Economics, wasn't at all surprised when it was announced that Muhammad Yunus, H’98, founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, was the winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Mohiuddin has been friends with Yunus for years, and she takes her Sewanee students to Bangladesh each summer to see firsthand how the Grameen Bank is helping millions out of poverty.
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An exhibition of ornithological watercolors by Edward von Siebold Dingle as well as John James Audubon's original masterpiece, Winter Hawk will remain on view until September 28th in University Archives (formerly the Kappa Sigma House). The Woodpeckers of North America illustrates twenty-five specimens in watercolor and gouache by Edward von Siebold Dingle (1893-1975).
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The University Library has received two separate grants from the Appalachian College Association (ACA) to fund new workflow initiatives. The first grant, for $3500, will allow staff to experiment with automated methods of conducting inventories of books.
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Marjorie Palmer, a member of the University of the South’s Class of '06, and a political science major, has won the national Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science Honor Society) Best Undergraduate Class Paper competition this year for her paper entitled, "Religion and Environmentalism in America: An Analysis of Green Consciousness Among the Christian Right." Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, is the only honor society for college students of political science and government in the United States.
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It's real life CSI for dinosaur detectives By Peggy Mihelich CNN HELL CREEK FORMATION, Montana (CNN) -- In a desolate landscape, under a hot sun, college students are on their hands and knees poking and brushing away at the ground. They are here to solve a mystery buried for 65 million years, trapped in rock and layers of sediment.
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The University of the South's Nabit Art Building has received an award for its design from Metal Architecture Magazine.Click on the link to download a PDF of the magazine award layout.
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A lecture by Daniel F. Chambliss, the Eugene M.
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In this new series, Archivist Annie Armour shares interesting stories from Sewanee's archives: There can be unpleasant tasks to do in the Archives from time to time, but it can never get boring. Maybe that’s why fourteen (count them – Fourteen) of my student assistants have gone on to graduate school or other jobs in related areas.
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Deborah McGrath, assistant professor of biology, attended the 91st Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Memphis earlier this month, as one of the featured speakers during a gathering of some 3,000 scientists. Professors McGrath, who co-wrote the presentation with Ken Smith, chair of the Department of Forestry and Geology, discussed the findings of a study they conducted with their students that examined the economic and ecological costs of two models of development in the southern Cumberland Plateau region: converting upland forest to low-density homes and the subdivision of valley farmlands.
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Natasha Cowie, a rising senior, took 2nd place while representing Sewanee at the USA Cycling National Mountain Bike Championships in Sonoma, California on July 14th. She distinguished herself by placing 2nd overall while racing in the Women's Expert class; ages 19 -24.
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If you could design your ideal place to learn a foreign language, what would it look like? According to the group of German language teachers participating in this year’s “Sommer in Sewanee” (that is, Summer in Sewanee) seminar, it would not look like a classroom.
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A Reunion for the Future Most graduating classes celebrate their significant reunions by looking backward, by remembering the past and celebrating its experiences. The Sewanee Class of 1961 has found a new way – by looking to the future.
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Iconography of the Christian Church 1450–1710 Through the recent generosity of the Rt. Rev.
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The Sewanee Theological Review was recently the recipient of three Polly Bond Awards at the Episcopal Communicators Conference held in Sarasota, Fla., April 21, 2006, for work produced in 2005.
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Valedictorian Amy Metzger exhorted her classmates to carry the Sewanee character with them as they make their way into the world, as she addressed the Class of 2006 at the University of the South's May 14 College of Arts and Sciences commencement. Read the entire text of Metzger's address.
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Sewanee senior student Amy Metzger has been awarded a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) graduate fellowship to study German political history through the architecture of Berlin next year. The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is a publicly funded independent organization of higher education institutions in Germany.
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The University of the South has received a $6 million gift, from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous, to help fund the construction of a state-of-the-art addition to Sewanee’s Woods Laboratories science building. “Sewanee is an extraordinary institution of higher learning with a powerful vision for the future.
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Safia Swimelar, assistant professor of political science, at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for the 2006-07 academic year. Swimelar will travel to Bosnia, where she will continue work on her research project that is examining the process of human rights change in post-communist Europe.
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The Rev Tom Macfie, Jr., has been nominated by Vice Chancellor Joel Cunningham to become the next Chaplain of the University of the South subject to election by the Trustees when they meet at Sewanee on May 4.
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A compound with its roots in your backyard that could fight bird flu, the use of nanoparticles to clean up contaminated soil and a potential new treatment for life-threatening infections — these are a few of the findings chemists presented at the 231st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Atlanta, March 26 – 30. Chemists will present research in health, medicine, food, agriculture, energy, materials, nanotechnology, biotechnology, green chemistry and the environment.
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The University of the South appears in Southern Living magazine’s current list of 40 things that Southerners “ought to do,” and Abbo’s Alley, a ravine garden that meanders through the middle of the campus has been named to the periodical’s list of 205 favorite places in the South. According to the magazine, “we’d suggest you visit Sewanee, the University of the South in Tennessee.
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The University of the South is the nation’s #8 best value private college according to The Princeton Review. The New York-based education services company features it on its "Top 10 Best Value Private Colleges" ranking list and profiles the school in the 2007 edition of its book, America’s Best Value Colleges, which is now available.
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Sewanee Students to Kickball for Cancer Sewanee sophomore Alex Caffey has organized an all-campus fundraiser to benefit cancer research. The event, called “Kickball for Cancer,” is a 24-hour kickball marathon that Caffey hopes can raise some $30,000 for cancer research.
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Sewanee Senior Prashant Shukla has been named one of just eight Claremont National Scholars. The award provides full funding for Shukla to pursue a doctoral degree in any of 19 disciplines available at the Claremont Graduate University, and an annual stipend.
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One of the lab assignments in Physics 251 lab, the advanced astronomy lab here at the University of the South, is to image and report astrometric positional data for a fast moving Near Earth Asteroid (NEA). Such data is used to improve future orbit calculations, helping to give advanced warning of any future impact hazards.
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A new CD on the Naxos label by Professor of Music and University Organist Robert Delcamp has recently been released. The new CD, "Organ Music of Alexandre Guilmant", was recorded in All Saints' Chapel in October of 2004 on the newly-renovated Casavant organ, and contains a selection of organ pieces by this significant late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century organist, composer, and teacher.
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Faculty, staff and students participated in a week-long celebration of the Sewanee Call capital campaign that spanned from late January to early February. Through a series of afternoon events, and a pair of luncheons, members of the campus community learned more about the campaign’s goals and the impact that it already has had on Sewanee.
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The Sewanee School of Letters is the newest literary initiative on a campus known for them. Encouraged by the long success of The Sewanee Review, the nation’s oldest continuously published literary quarterly, and the more recent success of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the University of the South has established a summer Master’s Degree Program on its campus atop the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee.
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The University of the South is one of the nation’s top performing colleges in terms of student engagement according to the 2005 edition of the National Survey of Student Engagement, or NSSE. NSSE was created to focus discussion on the importance of student engagement and to help guide institutional efforts for improvement.
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Babson Challenge Enhances Pre-Business Education A dozen friends of Sewanee joined with Nick Babson C’68 this fall to help create a new Center for Applied Economics. The Center will serve as a support organization for pre-business programs, hosting guest speakers, providing funds for course development and research, and developing new curricular and co-curricular programming.
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BH FAIRCHILD IS THE NINETEENTH RECIPIENT OF THE AIKEN TAYLOR AWARD The latest Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry was presented to BH Fairchild on November 29th University of the South Vice Chancellor Joel Cunningham. Mr.
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Katharine Wilkinson, a 2005 graduate of the University of the South, has become Sewanee’s 25th Rhodes Scholar. (SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE TO HEAR KATHARINE TALKING ABOUT HER SELECTION) Wilkinson, of Atlanta, Georgia, graduated from Sewanee summa cum laude, was valedictorian of her class in 2005, and majored in religion.
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The University of the South will soon include a Center for Applied Economics (CAE) among its ancillary programs. Funded by a gift from Nicholas and Mary Babson, of Chicago, in support of the Pre-business program in the College of Arts and Sciences, the CAE will provide encouragement and advice to pre-business students, work with the Career Services Center and the Economics faculty to enhance students’ internship opportunities, assist graduating students seeking business-related jobs, arrange and host distinguished business visitors on campus, and organize summer programs that bring students, visitors, and faculty together in conferences or workshops.
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Mallory Ervin: from the Mountain to the National American Miss Pageant By Alex Pappas “I am Miss Kentucky. It still sounds so weird to say that,” says Sewanee sophomore Mallory Ervin, who was crowned that title this July.
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Dr. Major McCollough, Director of the Sewanee Preservation Program at The University of the South, and David Michaels, Assistant Director of the Sewanee Preservation Program, are part of the Berry College team that has been awarded a Getty Campus Heritage Grant, which was offered by the Getty Foundation, the philanthropic division of the J.
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The University of the South is one of just 37 colleges and universities across the country that have received grants from Lilly Endowment Inc. to sustain their efforts in programs that help prepare a new generation of leaders for church and society.
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Not the Typical Fall Break: Geology students make presentation to over 6,200 geoscientists by Alex Pappas, C'09 For the typical Sewanee student, the much anticipated fall break is a time to vacation from academics. This is not the case for a group of geology students, who under the guidance of Professor Donald Potter, will travel to Salt Lake City and in the words of Senior Kevin Hobbs, “show off” their geological skills.
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With a three-year grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund and matching funds from The University of the South and the Franklin, Grundy, Marion and Moore County School Districts, we will create a network of teachers in Moore, Franklin, Grundy, and Marion Counties. The 300 high school teachers in these counties will form The South Cumberland Rural Teacher Network.
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Summer Construction Update It has been a busy summer for construction projects on campus. From the transformation of the old Gailor dining hall into a new center for languages and literature to the construction of a new studio art facility, the Nabit Art Building, Sewanee’s campus has been buzzing with construction sounds and sights.
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Interesting. New.
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Lillian Azevedo-Grout, a 2005 graduate of the University of the South, was among 76 recipients who were awarded Jack Kent Cooke Scholarships. The 76 new recipients of the Foundation's graduate and professional scholarships were chosen after a nationwide selection process that drew 1,290 nominees from more than 600 colleges and universities across the country.
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