College Academic Team
Three Yale students have been named to USA Today's All-USA College Academic Team, giving the University the highest representation of any school in this year's competition.
The three -- seniors Daniel Clemens and Aaron Tang and junior Sarah Stillman -- were among the 10 women and 10 men selected from 602 nominees nationwide for the prestigious honor. Among the other winners, only the U.S. Naval Academy garnered more than one place on the team, with two of its students being selected.
Now in its 16th year, the USA Today student recognition program awards winners a trophy, $2,500 in cash and a profile in the newspaper.
Clemens, who was recently selected a 2005 Rhodes Scholar, is from Redlands, California. He will receive both a B.A. and M.A. this year in political science. He founded a preventive health care program in New Haven called Lift for Kids and has written a book on the health supplement industry. In 2002, he attended the Universidad de Habana in Cuba, where he studied the Cuban preventive health care system. He has served as an election analyst for NBC News and as a manager and nationally ranked member of Yale's varsity tennis team. As a Rhodes Scholar, Clemens intends to pursue a D.Phil. in comparative social policy at Oxford University. He aspires to a career that involves improving health and education policy.
Stillman, who is from Washington, D.C., is also working toward a joint B.A./M.A., with an interest in the field of anthropology. In addition to maintaining a 3.95 grade point average, Stillman co-founded a tutoring program at three local prisons and started Reunite, a free prison transportation service for families. She also edits a feminist journal and created a multimedia sculpture show recasting Barbie dolls as feminist figures. In addition, Stillman gives speaking tours to promote two books for girls that she wrote in high school. She is currently writing a book on corporate globalization's impact on young women. Her articles have been published in national anthologies and campus publications, and she has won school-wide journalism and composition prizes. Her summer research has included investigations of women's issues in China and Guatemala.
Tang, from Painesville, Ohio, is majoring in political science. Last year, he won a Truman Scholarship, which provides funding for senior-year and graduate study as well as other training and internship opportunities in the federal government. With four fellow Yale students, Tang founded a non-profit organization called Our Education, which aims to give students a voice in their K-12 education. Tang also publishes a student magazine and has an online forum that helps to get high school students elected to their local school boards. Over the summers, Tang has participated in an enrichment program for inner-city middle school students in Cleveland. He plans to use his Truman Scholarship to obtain a joint degree in law, focusing on issues of dispute resolution and education and concentrating on issues of policy. His other honors include the College Mock Trial Northeast Regional Best Attorney Award.
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