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Dara Drake ’23 Named the University’s First Knight-Hennessey Scholar

Tuesday, May 13, 2025, By Kelly Homan Rodoski
Alumna Dara Drake ’23 has been named as a 2025 Knight-Hennessey Scholar, the first from Syracuse University. Knight-Hennessy Scholars is a multidisciplinary, multicultural graduate scholarship program at Stanford University. Each Knight-Hennessy scholar receives up to three years of financial support...

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