MIT AND HARVARD TO EXPAND KENNEDY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME

The Kennedy Memorial Trust is delighted to announce that Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have agreed, as part of the celebrations of the Trust's 40th anniversary, to raise new endowment funds for up to two additional Kennedy Scholarships at each university.

The announcement of the new scholarships was made by President Derek Bok of Harvard and President Susan Hockfield of MIT at a meeting at MIT with Senator Edward Kennedy and Kennedy Trustees, on April 13 2007.

'It is an honor to be able to play a role in preserving the strength of the Kennedy Trust Scholarship Program, and I am confident that these actions are a significant step toward ensuring the Trust's continued vitality', President Bok said at the meeting.

President Hockfield said that 'The Kennedy Scholarships offer exceptional students unique opportunities to broaden their intellectual and personal horizons, in ways that are more important than ever in an era defined by global interaction'.

For further information please see:

• MIT News
  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/kennedy-schol.html
  
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• Harvard University Gazette Online
  www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/04.19/99-kennedy.html