Learning What You Love: Mentoring Students through the Fellowship Application Process with Matthew Loar

11/02/2025 36 min Episodio 42
Learning What You Love: Mentoring Students through the Fellowship Application Process with Matthew Loar

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In this episode, Matthew Loar, Director of Fellowships and Student Research at Washington and Lee University, shares his path from studying abroad in Rome to shaping the futures of current W&L students. He talks about how fellowships are transforming undergraduate experiences and why he is so passionate about the application process itself. We discuss Matthew’s work with programs such as Summer Research Scholars and Science, Society, and the Arts, and discuss how we at Lifelong Learning plan to introduce elements of these initiatives to our Lifelong Learning audience.

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