The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship is a grant that enables graduating seniors to pursue a year of independent study outside the United States. The Fellowship Program was established by the children of Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM. The fellowship itself grants recipients money to spend one year traveling in pursuit of their projects. Recipients are forbidden from reentering the United States and their home country for one year.

Thomas Jeffery Cole (born April 28, 1949) is a politician from the state of Oklahoma, currently representing Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Cole, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), is the fourth-ranking Republican leader in the House. He also serves on the Armed Services Committee and the Natural Resources Committee, and is a Deputy Minority Whip.

John Garang de Mabior was the vice president of Sudan and former leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army.

Pianist and composer Kevin McHugh has performed in a variety of groups and with notable musicians including the drummer Billy Hart, saxophonist Gary Bartz (both members of Miles Davis groups), Marcus Belgrave, Jovino Santos-Neto (flutist and pianist for Hermeto Pascoal), Robin Eubanks, Peter Evans, Salah Ragab (Egyptian drummer for Sun Ra), Andy Hunter, Zé de Riba, and Coco, the Chinese jazz diva. Besides working on solo electronic music, ballet accompaniment, …

Ian Kerner, Ph.D., FAACS, is an American sex counsellor and author.

Corey Harris (Born February 21, 1969 in Denver, Colorado) is a Bates College educated anthropologist and blues musician. Currently residing in Virginia, Harris is constantly on tour and is proud to carry the tradition of classic African-influenced blues music into the 21st century. Harris was featured on the acclaimed 2003 PBS television mini-series "The Blues" in an episode directed by Martin Scorsese.

Mat Johnson (born in Philadelphia August 19, 1970) is the author of Drop and Hunting in Harlem. He was raised in Germantown and Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mat is thought by many of his fellow writers and fan base to be a fresh voice within the African-American literary tradition. Like many black American writers before him, notably Claude McKay, Mat developed his writing skills while living in Harlem, …

Michael Noer (born March 21, 1969) is an American business writer and editor. He has worked for "Forbes Magazine" and "Wired Magazine", and is currently the executive news editor for Forbes.com.

Kai Bird is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist, best known for his biographies of political figures. Bird received his BA from Carleton College in 1973. He has written for "The Nation", and his biographical works include "The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms" (Touchstone, 1998), "The Chairman: John J. McCloy and the Making of the American Establishment" (Random House, …

Edward Hirsch (born January 20, 1950) an American poet and academic who wrote a best seller about reading poetry. He is the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City.

Nicolas Collins (born March 26, 1954 in New York City) is an composer of mostly electronic music and former student of Alvin Lucier. He often uses home-made electronics and found sound such as skipping CD players or radio broadcast and is currently Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Music Journal. He is also the chair of the sound department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a member of The Impossible Music Group with David Weinstein, David Shea, …

Pianist Barbara Higbie (b. 1956) is a folk, smooth jazz, pop and fusion singer-songwriter, noted for her highly melodic, smooth jazz piano performances. She has played music in the San Francisco Bay Area since the early 1980s. An early performer on the Windham Hill record label she formed and played with the group Montreux along with Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Todd Phillips, and Michael Manring.

Timothy Ferris (born August 29, 1944) is the best-selling author of twelve books, including "Coming of Age in the Milky Way", for which he was awarded the American Institute of Physics Prize, and a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Ferris produced the Voyager phonograph record, an artifact of human civilization containing music, sounds of Earth and encoded photographs launched aboard the Voyager interstellar spacecraft.

Chris Kratt (b. July 19, 1969 in New Jersey) is an American host of children's television programs "Kratts' Creatures" and "Zoboomafoo" as well as "Be the Creature", which runs on the National Geographic Channel. Chris holds a B.A. in biology from Carleton College. In all of his educational childhood programs Chris co-hosts with his brother Martin Kratt. In 1990, he served as an intern at Conservation International in Washington, DC. A year later, …

Verlyn Klinkenborg (born 1952, Boulder, CO) is an American non-fiction author. As of 1997, he has been a member of the editorial board for "The New York Times". His books include "The Rural Life", "Making Hay", "The Last Fine Time", and "Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile". He has published articles in "The New Yorker", "Harper's Magazine", "Esquire", "National Geographic", "Mother Jones", …

Jackie Diamond Hyman (b. 1949) is an American author and former Associated Press reporter and columnist. She has published under the names Jacqueline Diamond, Jacqueline Topaz, Jacqueline Jade, and Jackie Hyman. Hyman was born in 1949 in Menard, Texas. She is the daughter of the late Maurice Hyman, M.D., former chief of psychiatry at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, …

Dr. Eileen B. Wilson-Oyelaran (born 14 November 1947) is the 17th President of Kalamazoo College, succeeding Dr. James F. Jones. She is the first female president, as well as the first African-American president of the school. A native of Los Angeles, California, Dr. Wilson-Oyelaran earned her B.A. in sociology from Pomona College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in education from the Claremont Graduate University.

Reetika Vazirani (1962-2003) was an American poet. On July 16, 2003, while housesitting in Washington, D.C., she murdered her two-year-old son, Jehan, and took her own life, both by stabbing. She was born in India in 1962, came to the US with her family in 1968. After graduating from Wellesley College in 1984, she received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel to India, Thailand, Japan, and China.

Marc Acito (born January 11 1966 in Bayonne, NJ) is a U.S. novelist, humorist, and screenwriter. His comic novel "How I Paid For College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theatre" won the Oregon Book Awards' 2005 Ken Kesey Award for Best Novel, was voted a 2005 "Teens Top Ten for favorite young adult book" of the American Library Association, and was the subject of a popular VidLit.

Steven David Raichlen is an American barbecue chef, author and TV host. He is the author of twenty-five books, mainly centering around barbecue techniques and receipes. His first book, "Miami Spice: The New Florida Cuisine" was published in 1993. "The Barbecue Bible" (1998) was Raichlen's description of the fours years he spent on the road studying grilling around the world. In 2003 his show, "Barbecue University with Steven Raichlen", debuted on PBS.

Peggy Pettitt (born 1950), is an African American actress, dancer, teacher, playwright and storyteller. She is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. Pettitt's grandparents were a big, early influence, telling her memorable stories. As a child, Pettitt also observed various types of people who lived in her neighborhood. She valued greatly the sincere integrity of the working people who made up her community.

David Feldman is the author of the Imponderables series of books. He holds a bachelor's degree in literature from Grinnell College, as well as a master's degree in popular culture from Bowling Green State University.

Peter Child is an American composer. He is Professor of Music and MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT, where he chaired the department of Music and Theater Arts from 1996 to 1999. He joined Reed College in 1973 through an exchange scholarship from Keele University in England and received his B.A. in music from Reed in 1975. After studying Karnatic music in Madras for a year through a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship (1975-76), …

Watson Fellow Assistant Professor

I am. I think. www.lakemonsterculture.com. Yay for expats! Message me if you're nearby.;.

A 2nd year med student at Tulane, and let me just tell you: Second year is a bitch! Work, work, work, work, work. But it's soooooo interesting. A lot to learn, thats for sure! Miss you Ahyeah. 6/23/21-6/6/06 Go Sox!

adventurous! always like to try new things, go new places, and meet new people - i'm a complete jack ass, so they say.... right now in cairo...or copenhagen...or dubai...or tanzania...or capetown...who knows? my webpage (kind of)....http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte657v/watson/;.

studying throat-singing here and there for a year -- http://throat -singing.blogspot.com.

I am disorderly conduct. And I roam. But most important, the women I've known I wouldn't let tie my shoe. Otherwise all you need to know is on my website, www.chasingtheflame.com.