A Tibetan New Yorker wins prestigious graduate scholarship at Oxford University, England[Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 9:06 a.m.]
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| Kunchok Dolma |
NEW
YORK: Kunchok Dolma, a former student of Honors College at Lehman, City
University of New York, has won a prestigious Clarendon Scholarship to
pursue graduate studies at Oxford University, England.Kunchok will be pursuing her M.Phil in International Relations at Oxford University.Clarendon
Scholarships are awarded to academically excellent students with the
best proven and future potential. The Scholarships cover tuition and
college fees in full and a generous grant for living expenses, and are
open to students starting a new course at Oxford. They are highly
competitive, with less than 10% of applicants selected for the
scholarship. http://www.clarendon.ox.ac.uk/According to
Clarendon House, a distinguishing feature of Clarendon scholarships is
that scholars are selected from the leaders in their field – that is,
academic departments nominate whom they believe are the most deserving
of their place at the University of Oxford based on their academic
record and ability to contribute significantly to their field of study,
both in the present and future. This feature ensures the best and
brightest minds are selected as Clarendon scholars.Earlier,
while pursuing her undergraduate studies at Leman, Kunchok won the
Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship, which provides internships, mentoring,
and enriched educational opportunities to promising New York City
undergraduates with the goal of increasing their life choices and
developing their capacity to make a difference in their own and others’
live. As a JK Watson Fellow, she completed a ten-week summer
internship with the United Nation’s Population Fund in New York (2006),
the New York State Supreme Court (2007), and Department of
International Relations and Information of the Central Tibetan
Administration (2008). Speaking to Tsewang Phuntso of the
Office of Tibet in New York of her Oxford scholarship, Kunchok said:
“I wanted to thank you for the opportunity to intern at the CTA in
Dharamsala in my third year as a Watson fellow. It was a great learning
experience, and this along with many other opportunities I have
received through my mentors, school and various programs have made me
competent for such scholarships and fellowships”. Kunchok has
just recently completed her Urban Fellowship at the New York City
administration. It is a program sponsored by The City of New York and
administered by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services
(DCAS), and is designed to introduce America’s finest college students
and graduates to local government and public service.–Report filed by Tsewang Phuntso, Liaison Officer – Latin America
