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Soros Fellows receive funds for graduate school
Three Princetonians this year have been awarded Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans for graduate study:
Tamar Friedmann '98, a second year doctoral candidate in physics; graduating senior Luis Garcia; and Neysun Mahboubi '97.
Tamar Friedmann
The Soros Fellowship Program, which was founded to
support graduate education for outstanding children of
immigrants, provides 30 grantees a year with half the cost
of graduate study at any institution of higher education in
the United States, as well as an annual grant of $20,000,
for two years.
Friedmann, who was born in Jerusalem, moved to Princeton at the age of 13 and graduated from Princeton High School. She received her certificate in violin from the Juilliard School's College Division in 1995 and then attended the University, majoring in math and earning a certificate in applied and computational math.
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Luis Garcia
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Mahboubi, who is now a student at Columbia Law School, was a politics major at Princeton and earned a certificate in East Asian Studies. He was born in Philadelphia to Iranian parents.
This year's Soros Fellowship winners were chosen out of 740 applications from 380 colleges and universities. The applicants represented 137 national origins. Only 13 of the award winners were born in the United States, and only four speak English as their first language at home.
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