The Honors college enrolls 3523 undergraduate students, 613 of whom are National Merit Scholars.

Now known as The Macaulay Honors College University Scholars Program, it graduated its first class in 2005, attracting students with a mean high school GPA of 3. 5 and SAT scores of 1365 for the Class of 2009.

As an incentive to students, University Scholars receive a free tuition, a laptop, a " cultural passport " that offers free or reduced-admission to various cultural institutions and venues in New York City, and a $ 7500 expense account that may be used for research and / or study abroad.

* The Hayek Fund for Scholars of the Institute for Humane Studies provides financial awards for academic career activities of graduate students and untenured faculty members.

Scholars believe that Rashi's commentary on the Torah grew out of the lectures he gave to his students in his yeshiva, and evolved with the questions and answers they raised on it.

Scholars believe that the commentary which appears under Rashi's name in those books was compiled by the students of Rabbi Saadiah of the Rhine, who incorporated material from Rashi's yeshiva.

As of 2011, 107 Stanford students or alumni have become Rhodes Scholars.

The new Donna Garff Marriott Honors Residential Scholars Community, a dormitory for honors students, is to be completed Fall 2012.

* Washington University counts more than 114, 000 living alumni, 26 Rhodes Scholars, and 22 Nobel laureates affiliated with the university as faculty or students.

In April 2011, the University of Calgary launched the Scholars Academy Program: a program for bright, dynamic students that excel beyond just mere academics.

Top students in the Schulich School of Engineering are recognized as Schulich Scholars and are awarded prestigious Schulich Entrance Scholarships.

From their 312 Alumni, they have had 5 National Merit Scholars and 11 students who received Letters of Commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Up to this point all undergraduates were Scholars, but soon after 1637 the practice of admitting students other than Scholars commenced.

The McNair Scholars program supports first generation college students and African American, Native American, and Hispanic students who wish to attend graduate school.

The Arrupe Scholars Program recognizes John Carroll students for their significant commitment to two interrelated values of John Carroll's mission: intellectual inquiry that demands critical thinking, and engaging in social justice and community service that leads to social action.

In February 2008, the College eliminated offering financial-aid loans to students from families with incomes under $ 60, 000 ( and for international students and Davis Scholars ) and it lowered the total amount of student loans by one-third ( to a maximum of $ 8, 600 total over four years ) to students from families with incomes between $ 60, 000 and $ 100, 000.

The Gates Millennium Scholars program is another minority scholarship funded by Bill and Melinda Gates for excellent African American, American Indian, Asian Pacific Islander American and Latino students who enroll in college.

Graduate students of the Advanced Scholars Exam would come here to this monastery in order to inscribe their names.

* The Pavilion of Buddha's Tooth, located in a monastery where graduate students of the Advanced Scholars Exam could enjoy their ' cherry feasts ' in honor of their academic success.

Scholars House provides lodging for 115 students who are Honors Program participants or Presidential Scholarship recipients.

SPU offers an four-year alternate series of general education classes for honors students called University Scholars that revolves around a Great Books reading list and the writing of a lengthy senior dissertation.

Scholars have also discussed “ constitutional transformation … occurs when a constitutional provision has lost its effectiveness but has been replaced by a new meaning .” The Liberal Democratic Party has interpreted Article 9 as renouncing the use of warfare in international disputes but not the internal use of force for the purpose of maintaining law and order.

There is also a post graduate programme and an international section involving: International Labour and Trade Union Studies ; Webb and Chevening Scholars.

Scholars and historians have seen the Congress system as a forerunner of the modern, arguably more effective collective security, international unity, and cooperative agreements of NATO, the EU, the League of Nations, and the United Nations.

The international body of Information Systems researchers, the Association for Information Systems ( AIS ), and its Senior Scholars Forum Subcommittee on Journals ( 23 April 2007 ), proposed a ' basket ' of journals that the AIS deems as ' excellent ', and nominated: Management Information Systems Quarterly ( MISQ ), Information Systems Research ( ISR ), Journal of the Association for Information Systems ( JAIS ), Journal of Management Information Systems ( JMIS ), European Journal of Information Systems ( EJIS ), and Information Systems Journal ( ISJ ).

Fairfield academics are notable for its science programs which have produced a MacArthur Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow and its international programs which have produced sixty-two Fulbright Scholars since 1993.

Scholars from Aletheia University ( formerly Oxford College ) came to Queen's University ( Kingston ) in 2009 for an international Mackay workshop.

Scholars of the faculty organize international scientific-research conferences on the problems of teaching Russian as a foreign language and interdisciplinary communication.

According to Walter Reich, psychiatrist and then senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, one-time director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and now professor of international affairs at George Washington University: The primary motivation for most deniers is anti-Semitism, and for them the Holocaust is an infuriatingly inconvenient fact of history.

The Kluge Scholars ' Council is a body of twenty-one distinguished international scholars, convened by the Librarian of Congress to advise on matters related to the John W. Kluge Center and the Kluge Prize.

Scholars in international law have noted that " in accordance with Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, the settlement of Russians in the Baltic States during the period was illegal under international law " (" The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies ").

The Scholars ' College hosts many food fairs throughout the year ; these events invite students and teachers to cook in a shared potluck ( very often, the food fairs are themed and have included vegetarian, international food, Halloween, and Christmas food fairs ).

Scholars have explored the social potential of the semantic web in the business and health sectors, and for social networking.

Founded in 2005, the Business Scholars Program at Hanover College is an experiential business education program that lets students practice business skills and apply knowledge taught by faculty with extensive industry experience.

In addition to traditional coursework, Business Scholars complete a project-based internship, analyze business cases, participate in a consulting project for a real business, meet with numerous executives and not-for-profit leaders and, participate in a variety of workshops, including resume writing, networking, interviewing, personal finance and creative problem solving.

* Global Leadership Scholars, an undergraduate business honors program at University of Tennessee

Scholars trace the first cultivation of rice and the first bronze making in Southeast Asia to these people.

Scholars like Rudolf E. Kalman and Aleksandr Lyapunov are well-known among the people who have shaped modern control theory.

Scholars like Joana Breidenbach say that the Yugur's culture, language, and religion are closer to the original culture of the original Uyghur Karakorum state than is the culture of the modern Uyghur people of Xinjiang.

Upon his departure, then-Secretary Tommy Thompson remarked " I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply, because it is so easy to do ..." Scholars concur, arguing that an attack on food ( particularly milk ) could affect approximately 100, 000 people.

Scholars believe that the people offered human sacrifices as part of a dedication when buildings were expanded or constructed.

Scholars suggest that Maimonides instigated the Maimonidean Controversy when he verbally attacked Samuel ben Ali Ha-Levi al-Dastur (" Gaon of Baghdad ") as " one whom people accustom from his youth to believe that there is none like him in his generation ," and he sharply attack the " monetary demands " of the academies.

Scholars believe that in 1890 chief Kicking Bear introduced the concept to his people, the Lakota Sioux.

Scholars suspect that it simply means priest, either as a loan word from the Minaean lawi ' u, meaning priest, or by referring to those people who were joined to the ark of the covenant.

Scholars see Matthew as casting Jesus in the role of being a second Moses: like Moses, the infant Jesus is saved from a murderous tyrant ; flees the country of his birth until his persecutor is dead and it is safe to return as the savior of his people.

Scholars such as Schütte and Kendrick have pointed out that there was probably an even earlier mention of the people of Öland in 98 AD, by Tacitus, who called them the " Aviones ":

The Christian Scholars Group on Christian-Jewish Relations is a group of 22 Christian scholars, theologians, historians and clergy from six Christian Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church, which works to " develop more adequate Christian theologies of the church's relationship to Judaism and the Jewish people.

* German Scholars Agency or German Scholars Boston, an organization of German speaking people in Cambridge and greater Boston, USA

Scholars like Pál Nyíri and Joana Breidenbach say that the Yugur's culture, language, and religion, is closer to the original culture of the original Uyghur Confederation at Karakorum, than the culture of the modern Uyghur people of Xinjiang.

Scholars do not know which, if any Native American groups, are the living descendants of the people who originally built and lived at the Mound site, although many are plausible.

The Kaiser Family Foundation currently operates the Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars, a fellowship designed for people of color who are college juniors, seniors, and recent graduates as a summer experience working in a congressional office.

Scholars supporting the " continuity theory " argue that the Romanians descended from the Daco-Romans, a people emerging through the cohabitation of the native Dacians and Latin-speaking colonists in the one-time Roman province of Dacia north of the river Danube.

In 1952, for example, the Court accepted the claim of the Dean of Westminster to advise the Queen on the proper procedure during the ceremony ( for nearly a thousand years he and his predecessor abbots have kept an unpublished Red Book of practices ), the claim of the Lord Bishop of Durham and the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells to walk beside the Queen as she entered and exited the Abbey and to stand on either side of her through the entire coronation ritual, the claim of the Earl of Shrewsbury in his capacity as Lord High Steward of Ireland to carry a white staff, and the claim of the Queen's Scholars of Westminster School to be the first to acclaim the monarch on behalf of the common people ( their shouts of " Vivat!

Scholars have pointed out that these five prophets exemplify the early prophetic missions: The prophet would be sent to his community ; the community would pay no attention to his warning and would instead threaten him with punishment ; after years of preaching, God would ask him to leave his community and his people would be subsequently destroyed in a punishment.

Scholars now believe that the Beeliar people may have been a family subgroup of a larger tribe whom Daisy Bates called Beelgar.

Scholars currently support the theory that the main method was that the moai were " walked " upright ( some assume by a rocking process ), as laying it prone on a sledge ( the method used by the Easter Islanders to move stone in the 1860s ) would have required an estimated 1500 people to move the largest moai that had been successfully erected.

Scholars believe that the Dorset and the later Thule people were the peoples encountered by the Norse who visited the area.

Scholars now believe it developed independently and was descended from the Hopewell culture ( 100 BCE – 500 CE ), also a mound builder people.

Scholars in this field have consensus that prehistoric Newar ( Newari ) were originally interconnected to the ancient Kirat people ( Kiratis ).