endowments

9 years ago

Raju and Bala Vegesna Foundation Supports Enhanced Learning for Teachers

This article originally appeared in the winter 2015 Harker Quarterly. For some time the Raju and Bala Vegesna Foundation has generously supported various professional development…

endowments, Faculty, Performing Arts

10 years ago

Music Teacher Travels to Oxford for Summer Conducting Institute

This past summer, upper school music teacher Susan Nace attended the residential Choral Conducting Institute at St. Stephen’s College of Oxford University through the…

endowments

10 years ago

Endowments Expand Learning Opportunities for Students and Now Teachers

This article originally appeared in the summer 2015 Harker Quarterly. Generous endowments to Harker have made a significant impact in 30 students’ lives over…

Corporate Home Page, endowments, Harker Giving

10 years ago

Endowment Recipients Continue to Present Outstanding Research

Each year a set of seniors receives funds to research and write papers on topics of choice and this year’s array of papers continues…

endowments, Research

11 years ago

Near & Mitra Endowments Broaden Student and Teacher Horizons; More than a Score of Papers Produced

This article was originally published in the fall 2014 Harker Quarterly. Since their foundings in 2009 and 2011, respectively, the John Near history endowment…

Corporate Home Page, endowments, Harker Giving, Research

11 years ago

Historical Research Papers by Endowment Scholars Range from Development of the Constitution to the Viability of the Bitcoin

Eight more students walk away from Harker this year, each having contributed a unique historical research paper to the growing archive housed in the…

endowments, Research

12 years ago

Endowment Scholars Study Artists, Duels, Composers, Nazi Errors, ERA and Economics in Their Historical Analyses

Harker’s maturing endowment program produced six scholars this year, all seniors, who each presented their papers in late April to fellow students, parents, faculty…

Corporate Home Page, endowments, Harker History, Research

12 years ago

Alumna and Mitra Scholar Sarah Howells Wins Inaugural Churchill Research Paper Competition

Sarah Howells ’12, now a freshman at Princeton University, recently won first place in the Churchill Research Paper Competition sponsored by the University of…

endowments, mitra, near

13 years ago

Humanities Endowments Produce Four Scholars: Papers Cover Charter Schools, Special Forces, Nuclear Policy and Churchill’s Public Relations

This article originally appeared in the summer 2012 Harker Quarterly. The Mitra Family Endowment, established last year, has borne its first fruit. Sarah Howells,…

endowments, Harker Giving, Science

13 years ago

Eight 2012-13 Near and Mitra Endowment Scholars Named by History Department

The history department is pleased to announce the 2012-13 recipients of the John Near and Mitra Family scholar grants, all rising seniors. 2012-13 John…