But the lack of funded fellowships was felt most keenly across all of Radcliffe's research centers.
Until this year there were only 18 funded fellowships in the four research centers--the Bunting, the Murray, the Schlesinger and the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute (or the Public Policy Center, as it's now called).
That shortage hindered Radcliffe's ability to draw fellows from far-flung places.
"We've been appealing to local scholars and independent scholars," Knowles says. "This will bring us to a national pool of scholars."
Deck the Halls
The biggest gifts under the Institute's tree are 34 newly funded fellowships, bringing the total to 56. Dunn, the acting dean of the Institute, estimates that next year's fellowship budget will be nearly four times larger than the current one.
"It makes us very desirable in everybody's eyes, so it has an instant
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