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February 21, 2003|Volume 31, Number 19



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Jennifer Staple '03 of Timothy Dwight College and Andrew Klaber '04 of Trumbull College



Students chosen for All-USA
College Academic First Team

Two Yale students -- Jennifer Staple '03 of Timothy Dwight College and Andrew Klaber '04 of Trumbull College -- have been named to the 2003 All-USA College Academic First Team sponsored by USA Today.

First Team members represent academic excellence in a wide range of disciplines, from biomedical sciences to the humanities. This year 20 students nationwide were chosen to receive the award from among 500 students nominated by their schools. Winners receive a trophy and $2,500.

Staple is an an anthropology and biology major from Newtown, Connecticut. As founder and president of Unite For Sight (www.uniteforsight.org), Staple designed and implemented programs and recruited 30 Yale student volunteers to work in soup kitchens, schools and libraries to screen visual acuity, provide health education and promote the importance of physical examinations by physicians. She established a lecture series to bring renowned anthropologists to speak to the community and is currently co-editing a book based on the series with Yale professor Rebecca Hardin. She is the founding president of the Yale Anthropology Society and the Yale Journal of Student Anthropology, which publishes papers by undergraduate and graduate students.

"I am honored and humbled to be named one of the top 20 college students in the country by USA Today," says Staple. "My experiences as a Yale undergraduate have been most rewarding and life-shaping. I have gained an incredible depth and breadth of knowledge, and I have enjoyed the many opportunities for close work with professor-mentors."

Klaber, an ethics, politics and economics major from Buffalo Grove, Illinois, is a member of the varsity lightweight crew and the Yale Precision Marching Band. He founded Orphans Against AIDS (OAA) and rode in the Habitat for Humanity Bicycle Challenge during the summer of 2001 on a 4,200-mile ride from New Haven to San Francisco. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in September and is the founder of The Yale Politic, a quarterly, non-partisan journal that documents current political, social and economic trends through articles written by eminent politicians, professors, activists and students. He received the President's Environmental Youth Award in April 2001, a Morris K. Udall Scholarship in August 2002, and a Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Scholarship in April 2002.

"There are hundreds of other college students equally deserving of the honor," says Klaber. "I try to live the Yale experience to the fullest by balancing my work with everything this wonderful University has to offer. Without the support of my family and the friendship of my classmates, teammates, professors and coaches, this honor never would have been possible. Everyday, I feel inspired and challenged by my peers."


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Students chosen for All-USA College Academic First Team

Adrienne Rich wins prestigious Bollingen Prize for poetry

Kannan has been appointed to Lanman chair

Activists urge students to join 'struggle' for social justice

Symposium to honor 'Yale's greatest scientist'

Symposium to explore rebuilding post-conflict states


MEDICAL CENTER NEWS

Journalists Carlson, Kaufman to be next Poynter Fellows

Lecture series offers inside perspective on 'Managing the European Union'

Celebrating Black History Month

Three-day conference explores the musical traditions of Greece

Biologist John Trinkaus, expert on cell migration, dies

Friends recall life of graduate student Tom Casey, who died in kayaking accident

Digging the snow

Norbert Hirschhorn honored for pediatric research

Organ student Paul Jacobs garners music award

Connecticut-based ensemble to perform in campus concert

Yale Books in Brief


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