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The Colton Scholarship Fund
was founded in 1988 by Stewart and Judy Colton of the U.S.
The fund encompasses all the academic disciplines at Tel-Aviv University.
The purpose of the donors is to help young scholars of outstanding academic
merit and potential to advance in their respective fields without the
necessity of looking for additional sources of income, while completing
their doctoral studies.
The Colton Scholarship is granted for three years for doctoral students and
will be in the amount of $21,000 a year, plus an additional $3,000 for
those who have one child or more.
The Colton Scholarship Fund has granted 51 scholarships to date, 38 for
doctoral students, 6 for young scientists and 7 students from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music – 6 M.A. students and 1
Ph.D. student.
The recipients in 2011 – 1 young scientist, 4 doctoral students, 2 students
from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music – 1 M.A.
student and 1 Ph.D. student.
29 in Sciences and 22 in
Humanities, Arts, Social sciences, Management and Law.
15 former recipients are members of the Tel-Aviv University academic
faculty.
Furthermore the Colton Fund has allocated $10,000 per year to assist former
Colton recipients who are present Tel-Aviv University academic faculty for the
purpose of going abroad for conferences, publishing books, etc.
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