Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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Simon winner targets poverty

Staff Reporter
Published Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Rebekah Emanuel ’07 was named the national winner of the Simon Fellowship this week, an award of $40,000 to recognize and support her “noble purpose.”

Each year, the William E. Simon Fellowship for Noble Purpose designates one $40,000 recipient and two $5,000 recipients from among a pool of over 1,000 current college seniors nationwide. Emanuel, who has spent time in Uganda working on AIDS care, submitted a proposal to help Ugandan family caregivers maintain their work and education plans instead of abandoning their goals to care for sick family members.

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