Student Fellowship Winners: 2007
Hamilton Students Win 13 National Awards
Eight Hamilton Students Awarded Fulbright Scholarships and Teaching Assistantships
Eight Hamilton College seniors have been awarded Fulbright Scholarships and Teaching Assistantships to pursue research projects abroad and to teach English in foreign countries next year. The purpose of the Fulbright Program is to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills. It is designed to give recent college graduates opportunities for personal development and international experience. More ...
- Allison Demas '07 - Fulbright Grant to Senegal
Demas will spend the 2007-08 academic year at the Universite Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, where she will research anti-malarial treatments in the lab of Dr. Daouda Ndiaye.
- Daniel Griffith '07 - Fulbright Grant to Germany
Griffith will conduct research at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, in the lab of Dr. Ullrich Jahn. He aims to develop an efficient and generally applicable synthesis of a class of natural products called cyclopentanoid monoterpenes.
- Lucas Thornblade '07 - Fulbright Grant to Vietnam
Thornblade will study the establishment of family medicine as a practice in a communal health center in Khanh Hoa Province in Vietnam. Thornblade will survey and interview physicians who have undergone retraining in family medicine to measure their response and the development of primary care which has become a standard for cost-effectiveness and quality in rural health.
- Robin Wong '07 - Fulbright Grant to China
Wong plans to study attitudes toward aging in China to investigate the relationship between age identity, life satisfaction and positive mental health at SunYat-Sen University. In her proposal Wong says, "Maintenance of an identity younger than one's actual age has been correlated to positive well bring in the U.S. but may bit hold true for adults in a collectivist culture such as China. Both explicit and implicit measures are necessary for a more complete view of age identity."
- Natalie Tarallo '07 - Fulbright Grant to Mauritius
Tarallo will travel to Mauritius where she will study the direct and indirect role of ethnicity in youth political identity formation. She will investigate the process by which Mauritian secondary school age youth negotiate ethnicity in the development of political identities in schools, community organziations, youth centers and political parties.
- Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Turkey
Emily Alinikoff '07
- Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Germany
Andrew LaFiandra '07
- Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Russia
Ross Ufberg '07
Juniors Marco Allodi, Kristin Alongi and Dan Campbell Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
Three Hamilton students have been named Barry M. Goldwater Scholars for the 2007-08 academic year. Juniors Marco Allodi, Kristin Alongi and Dan Campbell are among 317 scholars from across the U.S., bringing to 10 the number of Goldwater Scholarships awarded to Hamilton students since 2001. The scholarship is the premier national undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. More ...
Mary Beth Day '07 Named to USA Today's All-USA College Academic First Team
Geoarchaeology major Mary Beth Day '07 has been named to USA Today's All-USA College Academic First Team. Each February, USA Today honors 20 undergraduate academic all-stars as its All-USA College Academic Team. Day is the first Hamilton student to earn the honor. The team honors full-time undergraduates who not only excel in scholarship but also extend their intellectual abilities beyond the classroom to benefit society. More ...
Caitlin Jacobs '07 Awarded Watson Foundation Fellowship
Caitlin Jacobs '07 was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for 2007-2008. Jacobs’ project is titled "An Examination of the Coexistence of Big Cats and Humans." This year 179 students competed on the national level after their institutions nominated them in the autumn and 50 were selected from 50 of America’s top liberal arts colleges. More ...
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