Summer 2006 Fellowship Recipients
Jacqueline M. and Donald L. Heywood ('50 B.S.,'54 Ph.D.) Fellowship for the Physical Sciences: Established in 2005, the Jacqueline and Donald Heywood ('50 B.S.,'54 Ph.D.) Fellowship for the Physical Sciences provides support for the participation of undergraduates in physical sciences research. The summer 2006 recipients are Emily Eames '07, Sofia Magkiriadou '07 and Axel Schmidt '09. Emily Eames will perform research on the interaction of inorganic titanium complexes with human plasma proteins. Sofia Magkiriadou will perform research on the measurement of optical forces in micromechanical systems at ultra low temperatures. Axel Schmidt's research will be focused on the analysis of nuclear structure by measurement of the lifetimes of excited nuclei.
Sheffield Society Undergraduate Research Fellowship: The Sheffield Society House Prize is awarded annually to the Residential College with the highest standing in scholarship in courses in Group IV. For the 2004-2005 academic year, this distinction went to Morse College. Income from the Sheffield Society Trust provides support for a summer research fellowship in the sciences for a student in the College that has been awarded the Sheffield Society House Prize in the preceding academic year. The 2006 Sheffield Society Research Fellow is Tina Liu '08, whose research will focus on the use of a combinatorial approach to create novel proteins that bind specifically to a peptide of choice.
OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM REPORT
2005-2006
THOMAS C. BARRY TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS
Established in 2002, the Barry Fellowship supports volunteer projects, other work, or purposeful travel in developing countries. This year, six awards were made: Emily Biesecker (Silliman College '08), who will intern with two environmental organizations in the Philippines and examine the success of their programs in ecosystem preservation, sustainable livelihood training, and ecotourism ; Avani Dholakia (Trumbull College '09), who will volunteer with a public health program in Mumbai, India, that serves the underprivileged population ; Samantha Hennessey (Morse College '08), who will intern in Mexico for a USAID-funded project to combat human trafficking; Annie Hirschhorn (Timothy Dwight College '08), who will volunteer for WorldTeach's summer teaching program in the Cape Town region of South Africa; Kelsy Sargent (Pierson College '08), who will teach and volunteer in Kenya with an orphanage for children who have lost their parents to AIDS; and Bethany Shady (Jonathan Edwards College '08), who received partial funding (to be combined with a Kingsley Trust Association Summer Travel Fellowship) to study Jainism, travel to important Jain sites in India, and research the stories of medieval Jain texts, temple iconography, and oral traditions in contemporary Jain communities.
CHINESE CULTURAL SCHOLARSHIP
New in 2005, the Chinese Cultural Scholarship supports year-long study of Chinese at an approved Chinese university. This year Yale's nominees include: Jeehye Kim (Branford College '07); Lynn Feng (Calhoun College '06); Eric Tung (Branford College '06); Lisa Chan (Trumbull College '06); and Seockhwan Hwang (Calhoun College '06).
WINSTON CHURCHILL FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS
A Churchill Scholarship funding one year of engineering, mathematics, or science study at the University of Cambridge, was awarded to Joanna Mattis (Pierson College '06), who will pursue an MPhil in Biological Science.
CLASS OF 2004 TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP
The Class of 2004 Travel Fellowship Fund was established this year to support undergraduate students at Yale pursuing study, work, travel, research opportunities or language programs in a country where Spanish is the primary language. Four awards were made: Christina Davidson (Ezra Stiles College '09), who will take classes and then develop and implement a community plan as part of the Georgetown University "Understanding Development" Program in Quito, Ecuador; David DeCarlo (Saybrook College '08), who will intern with the Mexican state government of Nuevo Leon and examine assumptions about the desirability of increased security on the U.S. border with Mexico; Megan Fountain (Trumbull College '07), who received partial funding (to be combined with a Yale College Dean's Research Fellowship) to intern with theater companies in Nicaragua and Peru to study community theater programs that address histories of civil conflict and transitions to peace and democracy; and Jessica Johnson (Morse College '08), who will investigate issues of educational development and sustainable agriculture with residents of León, Nicaragua and then assist with improvements in those areas by implementing programs with the support of the New Haven/León Sister City Project office.
COHEN PUBLIC SERVICE FELLOWSHIPS
Established in 2005, the Cohen Public Service Fellowships support up to a full year of purposeful public service activity in the U.S. or abroad. Three awards were made this year: Elizabeth Ashamu (Berkeley College '06), who received partial funding (to be combined with a Parker Huang Undergraduate Travel Fellowship and a Charles P. Howland Fellowship) to research, analyze and collect testimonies, and prepare materials for publication to document the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as part of her internship with African Rights in Kigali, Rwanda; Nilakshi Parndigamage (Trumbull College '06), who received partial funding (to be combined with a Charles P. Howland Fellowship) to intern at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague in the Netherlands, and at the War Crimes Registry in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina; and Eric Vandenbrink (Saybrook College '07), who will intern with CARE Cambodia and work with villagers to identify, prioritize, and implement solutions to development problems in rural Cambodia.
JACK KENT COOKE GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS
The Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarships support up to six years of graduate study in any discipline. Yale's two nominees this year are Alonso Emery (Davenport College '02) and Noelle Layer (Calhoun College '05). Awards will be determined by the Cooke National Scholarship Review Panel in June and winners notified by mid-July.
ROBERT LYONS DANLY 1969 MEMORIAL TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP
New in 2006, the Robert Lyons Danly 1969 Memorial Travel Fellowship was established to support undergraduate students at Yale pursuing research or study in Japan during the summer. One award was made this year to Alice Izumo (Jonathan Edwards College '07), who will examine the government's response to public opinion vis-à-vis immigration policy in Japan.
DONALD L. DELL AWARD
Offered biennially, the Donald L. Dell Award supports post-baccalaureate study, an internship, or other activity that demonstrates a continued commitment to excellence. The award is designated for a graduating senior who displays a capacity for discipline and leadership in his or her chosen field and sportsmanship in the Yale tradition. This year's recipient is Pascal Noël (Timothy Dwight College '06) who will pursue an MSc in Economics for Development at Oxford.
JEHIEL R. ELYACHAR FOUNDATION SUMMER TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP
Established in 2005, the Jehiel R. Elyachar Foundation Summer Travel Fellowship supports summer research or projects on topics related to Judaic studies, including Jewish history and culture, Jewish communities around the world, and studies related to Israel. This year's winner is Sophie Perl (Ezra Stiles College '07), who will travel to Germany to study Holocaust memorialization in Berlin, followed by an internship at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
JOHN A. FRANCISCUS '54 AND JAMES G. FRANCISCUS '57 SUMMER TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
New in 2006, the Franciscus Summer Travel Fellowship in Entrepreneurship supports summer projects by juniors with an expressed interest in entrepreneurship. This year's winner is Eset Akçilad (Trumbull College '07), who will research the success of congestion pricing in Oslo and London as a means of solving heavy traffic and pollution problems and then build a model for Istanbul based on his findings.
FULBRIGHT GRANTS
Fifty-eight seniors submitted applications for Fulbright Grants; three withdrew to accept other awards. Of the remaining fifty-five applicants, twenty-six were recommended by the National Screening Committees to the Fulbright Commissions abroad. Sixteen seniors have received awards to date: Jennifer Barnes (Ezra Stiles College), who will pursue an MPhil in Experimental Psychology and conduct research at Cambridge University's Autism Research Centre in the United Kingdom; Henri Benaim (Morse College), who will study the role of art museums in the shaping of cultural identity in China; Sarah Cannon (Silliman College), who will work with community-based organizations to study Ghanaians' perceptions of and participation in the economic development processes in Ghana; Alexander Dadok (Davenport College), who will examine the impact of grassroots participation on the quality of policymaking in Lima, Peru; A. Chinyere Ezie (Timothy Dwight College), who will study the effects of global legislation on both economic development and the textile industry workers in Mauritius; Nahaliel Kanfer (Jonathan Edwards College) who will first study Arabic literature and literary theory at the University of Damascus before translating a major Syrian collection of short stories; Daniel Levin-Becker (Branford College), who will study the genesis and subsequent success of the avant-garde literary movement OuLiPo in France; Molly Lubin (Morse College), who will study the perceptions of and attitudes toward disability in the frontier town Kalimpong in the northeastern Himalayas of India; John Murray (Trumbull College), who will join a research group at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan in France to study quantum cryptography; Andrew Paster (Silliman College), who will work with townspeople, a local university, and other Peruvian organizations to introduce a number of advances in sanitation and energy efficiency in order to improve the municipal water system in a rural town in Peru; Argenta Price (Morse College), who will investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying antigenic variation in the intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia, which causes widespread chronic infection in much of the developing world, at the Ferreyra Institute in Argentina; Tammer Qaddumi (Jonathan Edwards College), who will examine the social effects of urbanization and the role of private and state initiatives in the development of the city of Damascus from the end of the Ottoman rule to the present in Syria; and Emily Wang (Jonathan Edwards College), who will research language acquisition and the social roles that language serves beyond its function as a basis for communication at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
Fulbright Teaching Assistantships were awarded to Conroy Chow (Davenport College) for Taiwan; Olivia Haesloop (Pierson College) and to Leslie Root (Trumbull College) for Russia. In a separate competition, an Austrian Government Teaching Assistantship was awarded to Meaghan Burke (Silliman College).
Two recommended students withdrew to accept other awards. Three applicants have been named alternates. Results are pending for one country's competition.
GOLDMAN SACHS GLOBAL LEADERS AWARDS
The Goldman Sachs competition is conducted in selected countries to identify one hundred sophomores who have demonstrated outstanding leadership abilities. One of the sixteen awards earmarked for students in the United States went to Marcus Boeckmann (Timothy Dwight College '08).
BARRY M. GOLDWATER SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
Goldwater Scholarships are merit-based awards supporting one or two years of study for American undergraduates with demonstrated interest in and potential for careers in the natural sciences and mathematics. Three of Yale's nominees were named Goldwater Scholars: Luciano Custo Greig (Timothy Dwight College '07), Daniel Rosenfeld (Ezra Stiles College '07), and David Weinberg (Davenport College '07).
GORDON GRAND FELLOWSHIPS
The Gordon Grand Fellowship is a post-baccalaureate award established by the Council of Masters to honor Gordon Grand, Jr., a distinguished member of the Yale College Class of 1938. The fellowship supports a year of travel, work, or research abroad or in the United States. Four awards were made this year: Paige Austin (Davenport College), who will intern at the Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star while writing as a free-lance journalist throughout Lebanon and Syria; Sarah Cannon (Silliman College), who will investigate the capacity for participatory development in Ghana through interviews and work with community-based microfinance organizations, traditional authorities, and outreach projects of multi-national corporations; Sarah Moros (Calhoun College), who will work with Mercado Global to establish partnerships with local cooperatives and identify or create local educational and health projects in which Mercado Global should invest in both Chiapas, Mexico and Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Caroline Zier (Timothy Dwight College), who will work at Fundación Progresar, a microcredit organization that gives loans to small groups of entrepreneurs who usually would not qualify for such loans, and study its program as a potential model for economically viable initiatives to break the cycle of poverty in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
CLASS OF 1960 JOHN HEINZ GOVERNMENT SERVICE FELLOWSHIPS
Established by the Class of 1960 in honor of the late Senator John Heinz, the Heinz Fellowships support a summer internship in federal, state, or local government. This year's recipients are: Jonathan Menitove (Ezra Stiles College '07) for a State Department internship at the US Consulate General in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Yassmin Sadeghi (Morse College '07), for an internship with the State Department's Middle East Partnership Initiative in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and Bryce Kaufman (Jonathan Edwards College '07), for a State Department internship in the Political and Economic Affairs Office of the American Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
HENRY FELLOWSHIP
The Henry Fellowship is an exchange program between Harvard and Yale Universities and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. One Henry Fellowship is made available annually for a Yale graduating senior to study for one academic year at either Oxford or Cambridge. This year's recipient is Matthew McCarty (Ezra Stiles College), who will pursue an M.St. in Classical Archaeology at Oxford University.
CHARLES P. HOWLAND (1891) FELLOWSHIP
The Howland Fellowship supports study or research abroad for a senior who demonstrates promise of useful activity to improve international relations. Five awards were made: Elizabeth Ashamu (Berkeley College), who received partial funding (to be combined with a Cohen Public Service Fellowship and a Charles P. Howland Fellowship) to research, analyze and collect testimonies, and prepare materials for publication to document the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as part of her internship with African Rights in Kigali, Rwanda; Nicole Lannoy (Silliman College), who will conduct research in partnership with two non-profit organizations in Paris to examine identity and citizenship definitions for second-generation black immigrant youth and the social impact of these issues on education and employment in France; Celia Gomez (Timothy Dwight College), who will study the successful early education system in Reggio Emilia, Italy with the goal of identifying elements that would transfer successfully to programs in the United States; Chang Park (Trumbull College), who will volunteer at a non-government-affiliated leprosy hospice to evaluate the effectiveness of Korea's treatment of leprosy as a model for other countries; and Nilakshi Parndigamage (Trumbull College), who received partial funding (to be combined with a Cohen Public Service Fellowship) to intern at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at the Hague in the Netherlands, and at the War Crimes Registry in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
PARKER HUANG UNDERGRADUATE TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS
Established by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Parker Huang Fellowships are awarded to students in Yale College to support study and travel in the non-English speaking countries of Africa and Asia, as well as countries in Eastern Europe and Latin America. This year, awards were made to six seniors: Elizabeth Ashamu (Berkeley College), who received partial funding (to be combined with a Cohen Public Service Fellowship and a Charles P. Howland Fellowship) to research, analyze and collect testimonies, and prepare materials for publication to document the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as part of her internship with African Rights in Kigali, Rwanda; Henri Benaim (Morse College), who will study advanced Chinese language at the Inter-University in Beijing and then intern at the International Labor Organization's Mekong Project to combat trafficking in women and children in Kun Ming, China; Christina Chinloy (Berkeley College), who will study advanced Chinese at Inter-University Program in Beijing and then work at the International Labor Organization's Mekong Project to combat trafficking in women and children in Kun Ming, China; James Lee (Jonathan Edwards College), who will study advanced Chinese language in both the Princeton in Beijing and the Associated Colleges in China in Beijing programs; Zvika Krieger (Silliman College), who will study the role of Islam in politics through a combination of independent research, study at the American University in Beirut, and work as a journalist in Lebanon; and Jade Pagkas-Bather (Branford College), who will conduct a socio-cultural study of issues faced by street children in Tanzania and explore reasons for the continuing growth of this group.
KINGSLEY TRUST ASSOCIATION SUMMER TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS
Established in honor of Yale's Tercentennial by the Kingsley Trust Association (also known as the Scroll and Key Society), the fellowships commemorate Yale College graduates who attained distinction in their life's work. This year's recipients are five sophomores: Clare Barron (Ezra Stiles College), the Cole Porter Fellowship in Music and Theater, for travel to Dakar, Senegal to examine public reaction to the artistic evolution of the Wolof griots, by documenting traditional griot performance through interviews with musicians and recordings of their music; Andrew Dowe (Berkeley College), the Cyrus Vance Fellowship in Politics and Foreign Affairs, for an oral history project that aims to uncover the role of race, class, gender, religion and political persuasion in the demise of the organization Queer Nation by traveling to San Francisco where he will interview key members of the organization; Hilla Meller (Calhoun College), the A. Bartlett Giamatti Fellowship in European Literature and History, for research on the pluralist Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities of Morocco, Spain, Portugal, France and Germany through writing, photography and art, while drawing inspiration from A.B Yehoshua's A Journey to the End of the Millennium; Bethany Shady (Jonathan Edwards College), the Maynard Mack Fellowship in Humanities, for study of Jainism, travel to important Jain sites in India, and research on the stories of medieval Jain texts, temple iconography, and oral traditions in contemporary Jain communities; and Mackenzie Wehner (Calhoun College), the Harvey Cushing Fellowship in Science, for work with a leading researcher at the University of Pavia in Italy to study the protein myosin, which may play a role in genetic brain disorders, heart function and failure, and the spread of cancer.
RICHARD U. LIGHT UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS
Funded by the Richard U. Light Foundation of Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Richard U. Light Fellowships at Yale support language study at approved sites in East Asia for a summer, term, academic year or any combination thereof. This year, fellowships were awarded to 108 students:
Summer fellowships for study in China: Adam Scharfman (Branford College '07), Jason Kelly (HGS '06), Isaiah Andrews (Trumbull College '09), Erica Smith (Calhoun College '08), Jessica Leight (Ezra Stiles College '06), Austin Woerner (Saybrook College '08), Colin Campbell (Timothy Dwight College '09), Casey Breves (Branford College '09), Benjamin Jacobs (Saybrook College '09), Elizabeth Lee (Berkeley College '09), Elizabeth Campbell (Silliman College '09), John Kennedy (Calhoun College '09), Anna Johnson (Silliman College '08), Margaret Kearney (Jonathan Edwards College '08), Cameron Arnold (Trumbull College '09), Tanya Whisnant (Trumbull College '09), Zachary Klion (Davenport College '09), Kathy Peng (Ezra Stiles College '09), Jonathan Lask (Saybrook College '08), Takeo Toyoshima (Berkeley College '08), Robert Szykowny (Davenport College '08), Xiaodong Jiang (Calhoun College '08), Zijun Chen (Trumbull College '08), Goh Yoon (Berkeley College '07), Sabrina Poon (Davenport College '07), Zimo Zheng (Saybrook College '07), David Wagner (Jonathan Edwards College '09), Sandisiwe Mnkandla (Saybrook College '08), Spencer Sherwin (Jonathan Edwards College '08), Matthew Magliocco (Silliman College '08), Daniel Katz (Jonathan Edwards College '08), Meghan Murphy (Ezra Stiles College '09), Debbie Li (Branford College '08), Hang Xu (Silliman College '08), Victor Wong (Jonathan Edwards College '09), Ned Mitchell (Timothy Dwight College '09), Christopher Schmicker (Branford College '08), Jason Chu (Morse College '08), Wenjing Zeng (Pierson College '08), Julia Shing (Berkeley College '08), Julie Yang (Pierson College '09), Anna Zhang (Berkeley College '08), Marian Grove (Silliman College '08), Bridget Noetzel (Timothy Dwight College '09), Pamela Shen (Branford College '09), Janice Bae (Timothy Dwight College '07), Daniel Yao (Trumbull College '08), Anders Hsi (Jonathan Edwards College '08), Corey Lomas (Pierson College '07), Masato Hasegawa (HGS '11), Lisbeth Kaufman (Silliman College '08), Alexander Cohen (Pierson College '08), Tony Au (Saybrook College '09), Eui Jin Kim (Saybrook College '08), Brian Hauss (Ezra Stiles College '08), Soren Sudhof (Berkeley College '08), Alexandre Jenn (Calhoun College '08), Marisa Reisman (Calhoun College '08), Neil Arora (Morse College '08), Jaeyoung Yang (Berkeley College '08), Raphael Bonvillian (Jonathan Edwards College '08), Takudzwa Shumba (Branford College '07), Amy Chiu (Pierson College '08), Regina Kim (Timothy Dwight College '09), Sabrina Snell (Branford College '08), Noah Hood (Saybrook College '08), and Katherine Williams (Jonathan Edwards College '08).
Summer fellowships for study in Japan: Alexandra Welch (Pierson College '09), Sean Pool (Berkeley College '08), Alina Zhitskaya (Ezra Stiles College '08), Haitham Jendoubi (Timothy Dwight College '08), Jason Lindgren (Saybrook College '07), Cameron Leroy (Branford College '09), Jianming Zhang (Saybrook College '08), Michael Schmale (Berkeley College '08), Jinping Wang (HGS '10), Aaron Otani (Pierson College '08), W. Stuart Symington (Pierson College '09), Michael Murray (Pierson College '08), Diego Diaz (Silliman College '09), Jennifer Moser (Trumbull College '07), Lucas Bermudez (Morse College '09), Gary Fox (Ezra Stiles College '08), James Schulmeister (Calhoun College '08), Bodin Civilize (Trumbull College '09), John O'Connor (Timothy Dwight College '09), Andrew Karlin (Timothy Dwight College '08), and Ashley Maignan (Jonathan Edwards College '09).
Summer fellowships for study in Korea: Yul Yang (Morse College '07), Yan Yang (Davenport College '06), Chantelle Southerland (Davenport College '07), Victoria Yu (Calhoun College '09), Mark Beyersdorf (Morse College '08), Molly Kim (Calhoun College '09), Kaila Queen (Jonathan Edwards College '07), Foster Hays (Saybrook College '08), and Jane Hur (Silliman College '09).
Summer fellowships for study in Taiwan: Hong Alyce Van (Berkeley College '07).
Term or academic year fellowships for study in China: Adam Scharfman (Branford College '07), Jason Kelly (HGS '06), Megan McLaughlin (Jonathan Edwards College '08), Mehmet Tezgul (Calhoun College '07), Julia Shing (Berkeley College '08), Carol Yu (Trumbull College '08), Erica Smith (Calhoun College '08), Jan Rettel (Trumbull College '07), and Lisbeth Kaufman (Silliman College '08).
Term or academic year fellowships for study in Japan: Nadia Kanagawa (Pierson College '06), Joshua Frydman (Ezra Stiles College '06), Qian Liu (Timothy Dwight College '07), Sean Pool (Berkeley College '08), Michael Murray (Pierson College '08), and Nathan Elchert (Silliman College '06).
Term or academic year fellowships for study in Korea: Jeanny Lee (Berkeley College '06) and Yan Yang (Davenport College '06).
Term or academic year fellowships for study in Taiwan: Megan McLaughlin (Jonathan Edwards College '08) and Hong Alyce Van (Berkeley College '07).
LUCE SCHOLARS PROGRAM
One of Yale's nominees for the Luce Scholars Program, which provides one-year internships in Asia for graduates with no significant experience in Asia or Asian Studies, was selected: Jacob Leibenluft (Timothy Dwight College '06).
MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIPS
Four Marshall Scholarships for two years of study in the United Kingdom were awarded to: Alexander Nemser (Berkeley College '06), who will pursue an MPhil in European Literature at Oxford University; Daniel Weeks (Berkeley College '06), who will pursue an M.Phil in Politics: Political Theory at Oxford University; Rachel Denison (Branford College '06), who will pursue an MSc in Neuroscience at Oxford University; and Sarah Stillman (Pierson College '06), who will pursue a DPhil in Human Geography at Oxford University. Nathan Herring (Timothy Dwight College '06) declined a Marshall Scholarship to accept a Rhodes Scholarship.
RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS
Three Rhodes Scholarships for two years of study at Oxford University were awarded to: Jessica Leight (Ezra Stiles College 06), who will pursue an MPhil in Development Studies; Chelsea Purvis (Ezra Stiles College 06), who will pursue an MPhil in Economic and Social History; and Nathan Herring (Timothy Dwight College 06), who will pursue an MPhil in Evidence-Based Social Work.
HENRY HART RICE FOREIGN RESIDENCE FELLOWSHIPS
Established by the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the Rice Foreign Residence Fellowships support students in the humanities and social sciences for work, research, or study in countries that have not been traditional friends and allies of the United States. There were two awards this year: Diala Shamas (Berkeley College '06), who will intern with both the ICTR and the Gacaca tribunals and evaluate their efforts to deliver restorative justice and reconciliation to the predominantly female victims and survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda; and Alexis Ringwald (Branford College '05, FES '06), who will study Hindi language and culture in India.
ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FELLOWSHIPS FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR ENTERING THE TEACHING PROFESSION
The Rockefeller Brothers Fellowships for Students of Color Entering the Teaching Profession are designed to attract outstanding minority undergraduates in the arts and sciences to careers in public education. Yale's nominee, Faith Rosetta (Timothy Dwight '08), was selected as one of twenty-five Rockefeller Fellows for 2006.
SAINT ANDREW'S GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
Since 1960, the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York has annually funded two graduate scholarships to support one year of study by a student of Scottish descent in any discipline at a university in Scotland. This year, a scholarship was awarded to Courtney Cox (Ezra Stiles '06), who declined the award to accept a Fox International Fellowship.
CHARLES H. SIEGEL TRAVELING FELLOWSHIPS
The Charles H. Siegel Traveling Fellowships were established this year to support undergraduate students at Yale pursuing summer research projects in China or Asia. This year, two students received awards: Mei-Lun Xue (Branford College '07), who will study one of the few remaining residences in Shanghai designed by the architect Ladislaus Hudec as part of her research on the historic preservation of architecture in China; and Julia Huang (Jonathan Edwards College '08), who will conduct ethnographic studies on villagers and nomads living in the Dzhungar Mountains of Kazakhstan, and then participate in an internship with the student-run organization AIESEC Almaty, working to create internship opportunities in Khazakhstan for students worldwide.
THE STACEY SANDERS FELLOWSHIP
Now in its fourth year, the Stacey Sanders Summer Fellowship offers an opportunity for a freshman or sophomore to spend a summer abroad pursuing formal study, an internship, or an independent project. This year's recipient is Anna Graber (Trumbull College '08), who will intern in France with three classical music festivals in order to research administrative practices that best promote successful festivals.
SUMMER RESEARCH IN EAST ASIA TRAVEL GRANTS
Summer Research in East Asia Travel Grants are awarded to students in Yale College to support research in East Asia in any discipline. There were four awards this year: Winston Hsiao (Jonathan Edwards College '07), who will examine the preparation for and organization of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and explore whether or not these Olympic Games can serve as an agent of sociopolitical change in China as they did in Japan and Korea; Bjorn Fredrickson (Branford College '07), who will interview government officials, activists, and legal experts, and conduct field research in northwest Yunnan Province as part of his study of Chinese resettlement policy as it pertains to large-scale dam projects; and Seunghee Ham (Saybrook College '07), who will study the lack of labor market integration in China by teaching at a migrant school and interviewing members of the migrant communities in Beijing.
SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS IN JAPAN
Summer Fellowships in Japan allow students with a demonstrated interest in Japan to spend a summer there either working on an independent project, participating in an internship, or pursuing research for subsequent coursework or for the senior essay. Two awards were made this year: Hansun Hsiung (Ezra Stiles College '08), who will conduct an ethnographic survey of the Shikoku 88-Temple Pilgrimage to study the interactions between the traditional pilgrim community and new forms of community driven by tourism; and Marisa Landin (Branford College '08), who will study the 2004 Saiban-in Law, which introduces lay people into the Japanese court system, and the likely effects of these mixed juries on the Japanese judicial system and on Japanese society in general.
JOHN THOURON PRIZES
Established this year, the John Thouron Prize is awarded to a small, select, group of sophomores and juniors from Harvard, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania to pursue an eight-week summer program at Pembroke College, Cambridge University. This year, three Yale nominees were selected: Kristine DiColandrea (Branford College '07), Catherine Killingsworth (Davenport College '08), and Emily Mimnaugh (Saybrook College '07).
MORRIS K. UDALL SCHOLARSHIPS
Udall Scholarships support a year of undergraduate study for students with a commitment to environmental issues. Three of Yale's nominees were named Udall Scholars: Whitney Haring-Smith (Morse College '07), Caroline Howe (Saybrook College '07), and Betsy Scherzer (Saybrook College '07). Another Yale nominee received an Honorable Mention Award: Micah Ziegler (Pierson College '08).
JULIA VANCE AND JASON CARTER TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP FUND
New in 2006, the Julia Vance and Jason Carter Travel Fellowship Fund is awarded annually to Yale College students interested in engineering projects either within the United States or abroad. Two students were funded this year: Katherine Rostkowski (Branford College '07) and Andrew Collins (Berkeley College '07), who will both participate in Engineers Without Borders programs this summer.
YALE COLLEGE DEAN'S SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Yale College Dean's Research Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences provide a limited number of awards to support original undergraduate research projects that cannot be supported through other programs or faculty research grants. This year, eleven students were funded: Adam Clark-Joseph (Berkeley College '07), who will conduct research at Yale on the volatility of financial markets via the multifractal model of asset returns; Diana Damrosch (Trumbull College '08), who will study the role of imitation in early cognitive development of humans compared to chimpanzees at Yale; Megan Fountain (Trumbull College '07), who received partial funding (to be combined with a Class of 2004 Travel Fellowship) will intern with theater companies in Nicaragua and Peru to study community theater programs that address histories of civil conflict and transitions to peace and democracy; Claire Halpert (Pierson College '07), who will study Zulu verbal syntax to collect linguistic data from native Zulu speakers on currently undocumented grammatical constructions in South Africa; Mitchell Hoffman (Davenport College '07), who will conduct research at Yale on how risk affects the structure of social networks; Daniel Kato (Timothy Dwight College '08), who will conduct research at Yale on the effect of essentialist beliefs on causal theories; Maya Shankar (Calhoun College '07), who will conduct research in laboratories at Yale and in Puerto Rico on the role of topological mathematics in visual perception in both human adults and non-human primates; Santiago Suarez (Branford College '07), who will study the possible connection between government abuse of power and the creation of formal political institutions in Columbia; Stefano Theodoli-Braschi (Saybrook College '07), who will work with a variety of dramatic and performance groups to examine how theater and performance culture affected and was affected by political events in Cuba over the last four decades; Carmen Valache (Calhoun College '07), who will examine correspondence of militia women to determine their reasons for enrolling during the Spanish Civil War in Spain; and Alexander White (Jonathan Edwards College '07), who will conduct visual cognition experiments at Yale on inattentional blindness.
YALE COLLEGE PUBLIC SERVICE RESEARCH GRANTS
Yale College Public Service Research Grants support juniors in all disciplines undertaking a summer public service activity that will contribute to their senior essay, senior project, or other substantial academic effort in their senior year. Two awards were made this year: Edward Featherstone (Saybrook College), who will volunteer with the New Orleans City Planning Commission to gather information relative to land-use management and urban design, while studying the social, economic, and political impacts of the rebuilding project and public policy on the city; and Caroline Howe (Saybrook College) who will work with government officials and non-governmental agencies to design and implement rural electrification projects in the Philippines.
OTHER SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2005-2006
WENDY E. BLANNING MEMORIAL SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS were awarded to three students for the pursuit of professional projects made possible only with the Fellowship's financial support. The recipients are: Wen Fan (Branford College '08), for scientific research at the Yale Medical School on adult neurogenesis; Sarah Ireland (Silliman College '07), for a research internship at the Brookings Institution; and David Tracey (Trumbull College '08), for an internship with the Chilean National Environmental Commission.
A COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIP, supporting postgraduate study in the United Kingdom, was awarded to Ezra Siller (Saybrook College '05), who will pursue an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History at Cambridge University.
A DEPARTMENT OF STATE CRITICAL LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP, supporting summer study of Arabic language and culture in Egypt, was awarded to Elizabeth Mercurio (Silliman College '06).
A DOROT FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP IN ISRAEL, supporting a year-long program of study and volunteer service to the community in Jerusalem, was awarded to Ayalon Eliach (Trumbull College '06).
FOX INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS, supporting a year of independent research at selected leading universities worldwide, were awarded to three seniors: Andrew Cedar (Ezra Stiles College), for Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University; Courtney Cox (Ezra Stiles College), for Fudan University in Shanghai; and Gul Raza (Pierson College), for Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
GATES CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARSHIPS, supporting up to three years of postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge, were awarded to two seniors: Jeremy Kessler (Trumbull College) and Andrew Kau (Berkeley College); and to one alumnus: Adam Jed (Branford College '03).
A GILDER LEHRMAN HISTORY SCHOLARSHIP, supporting an intensive six-week summer program of study and research in American history, was awarded to Christine Mathias (Branford College '07). Finalist Scholarships, supporting a one-week summer program of study and research were awarded to Evan Joiner (Timothy Dwight College '07) and to Sam Black (Pierson College '07).
HUMANITY IN ACTION FELLOWSHIPS, supporting the study of human rights and minority rights in Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and the United States, were awarded to: Jason Blau (Morse College '08), Celia Choy (Branford College '07), Celia Gomez (Timothy Dwight College '06), Alice Izumo (Jonathan Edwards College '07), and Dambudzo Muzenda (Morse College '07).
MICHAEL MANZELLA FELLOWSHIPS, supporting summer projects in cancer research, children's causes, and the arts, were awarded to: Wesley Greenblatt (Pierson College '07), for cancer-related laboratory research at Yale on endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation; Shanah Tirado (Berkeley College '08), for leukemia research at Yale and volunteer work at Yale-New Haven Hospital; Amanda Wittenstein (Berkeley College '07), for an internship at Children's Rights, an NGO in New York City; and Jessica Rubin (Trumbull College '09), for laboratory research on bone metastasis at the Washington University School of Medicine.
A NATIONAL FLAGSHIP LANGUAGE INITIATIVE FELLOWSHIP, supporting a year of study of Russian language and culture in St. Petersburg, Russia, has been awarded to Chloe Kitzinger (Morse College '06).
NATIONAL DEFENSE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (NDSEG) GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS, supporting three years of graduate study in science, math, or engineering, were awarded to: Vanessa Claire Wood (Timothy Dwight College '05) and Yulia V.Gurevich (Timothy Dwight College '05).
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS, supporting three years of graduate study in science, social sciences, mathematics, or engineering, were awarded to ten alumni: Margaret L. Boittin (Ezra Stiles College '01), Melissa S. Garren (Jonathan Edwards College '03), Yulia V. Gurevich (Timothy Dwight College '05), Natasha Keith (Berkeley College '04), Daniel E. Keniston (Davenport College '04), Robert L. McGinnis (Ezra Stiles College '02), Michael C. Motto (Silliman College '01), Michael J. Soskis (Timothy Dwight '02), Vanessa C. Wood (Timothy Dwight College '05), and Mariko Yamaguchi (Branford College '05).
A NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP was awarded to senior Catherine Rivkin (Timothy Dwight College), who will pursue an M.Phil. degree in Modern European History at Oxford University.
A ROTARY FOUNDATION AMBASSADORIAL CULTURAL SCHOLARSHIP, supporting six months of study abroad, was awarded to Jennifer Eve Shields (Jonathan Edwards College '06) for language study in Spain.
THE J.W. SAXE MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE is awarded to outstanding college and university students involved in public service activities during a summer or other term. Three Yale College students received recognition this year: Juliya Litichevskaya (Silliman College '07); Sarah Moros (Calhoun College '06); and Amanda Wittenstein (Berkeley College '07).
A SHALEM GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP, supporting a year of study in Israel, was awarded to Diana Feygin (Branford College '06).
A WILLIAM SIMON FELLOWSHIP FOR NOBLE PURPOSE was awarded to Elizabeth Ashamu (Berkeley College '06) for a project in southern Sudanese communities recording oral histories and testimonies.
THE YALE-CHINA ASSOCIATION TEACHING FELLOWS teach English for two years at universities and secondary schools in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Eight members of the Class of 2006 were selected to serve as Fellows: Andrew Fennell (Ezra Stiles College); Sarah Fellows (Jonathan Edwards College); Max Gladstone (Saybrook College); Jeremy Kutner (Branford College); Julia Lauper (Morse College); Jee Eun Lee (Saybrook College); Ivy Wang (Ezra Stiles College); and Max West (Silliman College).
THE ADRIAN VAN SINDEREN BOOK COLLECTING PRIZES
The late Adrian Van Sinderen, Class of 1910, established these prizes in 1957 in order to encourage undergraduates to collect books, build their own libraries, and read for pleasure and education.
For her impressive collection on Virginia Woolf, Emily Kopley of Branford College won the Senior prize of $750. Because of the encouraging number of noteworthy collections this year, the judges awarded two Senior second prizes of $500 each. Recipients were Jessica Howell of Silliman College for her sexuality collection and Chaitanya Mehra of Davenport College for his collection on India. One Senior Honorable Mention prize of $350 was awarded to Andrew Stout of Trumbull College for his collection of comic books and graphic novels.
Mark Schneider of Davenport College won the Sophomore prize of $500 for his collection of presidential autographed books. Sophomore Honorable Mention prizes of $250 were awarded to Eric Ciaramella of Trumbull College for his foreign language and linguistic reference tools collection and Elizabeth Mata of Pierson College for her collection titled "Understanding and Alleviating Man's Impact on the Natural World."
Judges for this year's competition were Stephen Parks (Chairman), Sylvia Van Sinderen Abbate, Joseph V. Agostini, Elisabeth Fairman, Peter Pacelli, '07, William Reese, and E.C. Schroeder.
T H I S
W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
PBS news anchor elected as trustee
Ceremony formally marks Rose Center opening
New Peabody hall offering high-tech lessons about Earth and space
Scientists believe that green tea may be key to 'Asian paradox'
COMMENCEMENT 2006
University celebrates its 305th graduation
Baccalaureate Address
Honorary Degrees
Other student awards
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
James Gustave Speth named Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor
James Baron comes to SOM as the William S. Beinecke Professor
New exhibit asks: What did Shakespeare really look like?
Samples from ocean floor at the North Pole yield clues . . .
MEDICAL SCHOOL NEWS
Nation's first manual for treating radiation victims developed
Animals may provide warning of bioterrorist attack, say researchers
Researchers uncovering clues to drug resistance in ovarian cancer
Scientists find way to use intestinal cells to stop . . .
Study: Less-invasive surgery equally effective for infants . . .Scientists unlocking key to molecular basis of debilitating pain . . .
Arts & Ideas festival adds a dash of New Orleans spice
Art & Architecture Library taking up temporary residence on Crown Street
Forum explores governmental budgetary processes in China
Library events celebrate aviator and author Anne Morrow Lindberg
Making the Grade
Uncovering Ingrained Attitudes About Obesity
Nursing School research shows ideas about ideal weight . . .
Rudd Center survey reveals that many people would give up . . .
Artist's exhibit at Slifka Center will examine complexity of faith
Jaroslav Pelikan, renowned scholar of church history
Event will bring bellringers from near and far to the Yale campus
Gigantic balloon creatures to invade Hall of Dinosaurs
Celebrated performer to teach summer flute institute
Drama production will highlight work by New Haven students
Reading aloud
Campus Notes
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