普林斯顿大学设有一个叫“马丁·戴尔1953”的奖学金，鼓励学生自己独立设计一个研究项目。当时有1200名学生申请，最终李飞飞凭借课题“藏医药学和西医学上的医理比较”拿到了奖学金。之后，她独自一人前往西藏，在那里呆了一年时间。她深入藏民生活，探寻神秘古老的藏医药文化，用一个独特的视角探寻东西方哲学的本源。这顿经历给了李飞飞极为重要的影响。

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The Martin A. Dale ''53 Summer Awards provide financial support to enable a small number of Princeton University sophomores to pursue worthy projects that provide important opportunities for personal growth, foster independence, creativity, and leadership skills, and broaden or deepen some area of special interest. The project must be undertaken for at least eight weeks.

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The Martin A. Dale ''53 awards carry a stipend of $6,000. Students receiving Princeton grant aid who win the award will have their expected summer earnings replaced. (Please note: The $6,000 stipend is treated as taxable income by the Internal Revenue Service.) The Dale award must be the only Princeton-sponsored program in which the student participates in the summer for which the award is granted. Students accepting the Dale award are required to withdraw from any and all other Princeton programs. Potential conflicts should be addressed in the application for funding.

https://dale.princeton.edu/summer-award#:~:text=The%20Dale%20award%20must%20be,and%20all%20other%20Princeton%20programs