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Berea College senior awarded $28,000 Watson Fellowship for International Travel

4/22/09
Berea College senior Salome Kiwara has been awarded a 2009-2010 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for independent study and travel outside the United States.  The $28,000 fellowship will allow Kiwara to spend a year exploring a topic of her choosing, beginning this summer.

The fellowship is one of only 40 awarded annually by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation to students from the 50 eligible private liberal arts colleges and universities in the United States.  Winners are selected on the basis of character, leadership potential, willingness to immerse him or her self in new cultures and personal significance of the project proposed.

Kiwara, who is from Kikuyu, Kenya, is an art history major with a minor in French at Berea. Traveling to South Africa, Tanzania, Mali, Niger, Egypt and Cambodia, Kiwara will explore the formation of identity in different communities in relation to their objects and monuments of cultural heritage.

The Watson Foundation is a charitable trust founded in 1961 by the widow of Thomas J. Watson Sr., to honor her husband, the founder of IBM.  In 1968, their children established the fellowship program in recognition of their parents’ longstanding interest in education and world affairs.   Berea College has been involved in the Watson Fellowship Program since 1988.   For additional information on the Watson Fellowships, visit www.watsonfellowship.org
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