galvanizing impact on the academic community," she says. "We're feeling very happy as we make our plans for next year."

Dunn and the research center heads will be meeting next week to discuss how those fellowships will be apportioned. But Brock says that Dunn has committed to paying for all 40 of the Bunting fellows.

"Every fellow who comes here will get the funding she needs up to a certain amount," Brock says. "It allows us to say that our top choices can all come even if there are too many in a particular area."

The Schlesinger, the Murray and the Public Policy Center will share in the largesse as well. All will now have several funded fellowships each, their first such ever.

The funding helps defray living expenses and thus gives the research centers the flexibility to invite fellows from foreign countries, those just starting in their fields and those with young children.

"We have international fellows every year who have to find their own housing and buy warm clothing...and they get the same stipend as someone who lives in Cambridge," Brock says. "We would at least provide them a living so they don't go broke living in Cambridge."

But the centerpiece of the new Radcliffe Institute will be a group of senior scholars--prominent academics at the forefront of their fields--appointed for short terms in Cambridge. While they will work with the research centers, their primary affiliation will be to Radcliffe as a whole.