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Five Princeton graduate students receive DAAD awards for research and study in Germany

By
Karin Dienst, Office of Communications
on Aug. 10, 2017, 11:32 a.m.
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Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications

Five Princeton graduate students have received grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst — DAAD) for research and language study in Germany for the 2017-18 academic year.

Three students have received graduate scholarships: Paul Babinski, Department of German; Thomas Benfey; Department of Near Eastern Studies; and Irina Simova, Department of Comparative Literature.

Michael McGovern in the Program in History of Science and Rhiannon Pare in the Department of Art and Archaeology have received intensive summer language course grants.

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