Wien International Scholarship is a scholarship instituted by
Brandeis UniversityBrandeis University is a private research university with a liberal arts focus, located in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate...
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) for international undergraduate students.
The Wien International Scholarship was established in 1958 by
Lawrence A.Lawrence Wien was an American lawyer, philanthropist and real estate owner.-Early life:Wien was born in Manhattan, New York City, and received his bachelors degree from Columbia College in 1925 and his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1927.-Career:Wien served as the Chairman of the Board of...
and Mae Wien. The Wien family had three objectives: to further international understanding, to provide foreign students an opportunity to study in the United States, and to enrich the intellectual and cultural life at Brandeis.
The Wien Scholarship offers full or partial tuition awards; these awards are need-based and require the applicants to present outstanding academic and personal achievement.
Each year, the recipients of the scholarship take a week-long tour of a destination in the United States.
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Wien International Scholarship is a scholarship instituted by
Brandeis UniversityBrandeis University is a private research university with a liberal arts focus, located in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate...
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Waltham, MassachusettsWaltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, billed by the Chamber of Commerce as the "birthplace of the American industrial revolution", and an early center for the labor movement. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, the city was a prototype for 19th...
) for international undergraduate students.
Origin
The Wien International Scholarship was established in 1958 by
Lawrence A.Lawrence Wien was an American lawyer, philanthropist and real estate owner.-Early life:Wien was born in Manhattan, New York City, and received his bachelors degree from Columbia College in 1925 and his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1927.-Career:Wien served as the Chairman of the Board of...
and Mae Wien. The Wien family had three objectives: to further international understanding, to provide foreign students an opportunity to study in the United States, and to enrich the intellectual and cultural life at Brandeis.
Award
The Wien Scholarship offers full or partial tuition awards; these awards are need-based and require the applicants to present outstanding academic and personal achievement.
Each year, the recipients of the scholarship take a week-long tour of a destination in the United States. In previous years, the students have visited the
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, and have done relief work in New Orleans,
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In April 2008, the University hosted a 3-day long celebration for the 50th anniversary of the program. Several prominent alumni, as well as intellectuals like
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attended the event.
Prominent Awardees
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- Geir H. Haarde: Prime Minister of Iceland
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- Wakako Hironaka
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(1986-), State Minister, Director-General of the Environment Agency (1993-94)
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; director of MUT Theatre
- Osman Faruk Logoglu
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- Janet Akyüz Mattei
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- Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson
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- Vineeta Rai
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- Dimitrij Rupel
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- George Saitoti
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- Shen Tong
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protests in 1989