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December 9, 2016

Chancellor's Fellowship Program in the News

The Chancellor's Graduate Fellowship Program is featured in an article in Washington Magazine, highlighting the CGFP's 25th Anniversary.  Take a look at how the program has changed so many lives in 25 years. 

October 27, 2016

Grossman Challenge Gift

Special thanks to those of you who supported our 25th Anniversary Celebration and Alumni Reunion held October 13-15, 2016 in St. Louis.  In celebration of our 25th Anniversary, Jerrold and Marsha Grossman, long-time supporters of the Chancellor's Graduate Fellowship, offered us a generous $10,000 challenge gift.  As we met and exceeded the challenge with over $20,000 in donations from alumni and friends, we secured the impactful Grossman $10,000 challenge gift. Thank you to the Grossmans and all of our supporters for your gifts! 

click here to learn more about CGF giving opportunities

October 18, 2016

Aaron Coleman wins the Cincinnati Review's Robert and Adele Schiff Award

Congratulations to Aaron Coleman whose poem  "Very Many Hands" won him The Cincinnati Review's Robert and Adele Schiff Award.  The journal's poetry editor Don Bogen describes being "struck by the fine combination of unity and variety among the paragraphs-we're always in one poem, but it stays fresh over the long haul, with room to shift and surprise."  Read the rest of the editor's comments as well as Aaron Coleman's explanation of the poem here.

Aaron is also the author of the recently released chapbook St. Trigger.

September 26, 2016

New CGF Logo Comes to Life

Yvonne Osei, ’16, Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow alumna in Visual Arts, has created a new vibrant CGF logo using not just her superior design skills, but also her deep understanding and love for the Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship.

Read more to learn about Yvonne’s creative process….

March 30, 2016

Chancellor's Graduate Fellows Alumni Initiative

As part of its 25th anniversary celebration, the Chancellor's Graduate Fellowship Program in conjunction with the Office of the Provost has created the Chancellor's Graduate Fellows Alumni Initiative.  The aim of the program is to bring these remarkable scholars back to Washington University to share their current work with our academic departments and schools and also to provide professional development advice to current Chancellor's Fellows.

 

March 25, 2016

Alumna Alice Kim Wins Prestigious Award

Alice Sola Kim, a 2011 graduate in the Creative Writing Program and Chancellor's Graduate Fellow alumna, is one of ten new Whiting Award Winners.  She is being recognized for her outstanding work in Fiction.  

March 29, 2017

Phillip B. Williams wins Whiting Award

Poet Phillip B. Williams, an alum of The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, is among 10 recipients of the 2017 Whiting Award.  This $50K prize is among the most prestigious for emerging writers.

March 29, 2017

Portia Adams awarded funding from the Department of Justice

CGF and Brown School alumna, Portia Adams, received a $341,500 grant from the Department of Justice.  The Next Steps 4 Healthy Families was one of the first reentry programs for justice-involved young mothers to receive funding.

 

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