May 20, 2004

From Rhodes to NSF to Fulbright, students bring home awards

Northwestern students and recent graduates have won some of the most prestigious fellowships awarded to college and university students this year.

President Henry S. Bienen joins several fellowship winners at a reception last week. Students are (from left) Laura Klivans, Kathleen Ho, Steven Meier, Theresa Sukal and Michael Albert.

The awards include Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell, Mellon and National Science Foundation fellowships and Luce and Goldwater scholarships.

Northwestern students were recipients of the awards that provide support for advanced education and/or research in the United States and around the world.

Office of Fellowship Director Sara Vaux said the students excelled in many of the most highly competitive selection processes.

Northwestern students came away with one of only 32 Rhodes Scholarships, two of only 40 Marshall Scholarships, one of only 12 Mitchell Scholarships, one of only 18 Fulbright grants to the United Kingdom (seven Fulbrights for undergraduates and one for a grad student), two of 15 Luce Scholarships and three of 94 Mellon Fellowships.

Fourteen students received National Science Foundation fellowships, the most ever by Northwestern students.

The fellowship winners are:

• American Friends of London School of Economics: Joseph Konopka

• Austrian Fulbright Teaching Assistantship: Seth Peabody, Christine Schorfheide

• Congress-Bundestag Young Professionals Exchange Program: Preston Conrad, Phillip Cooper

• Congressional Hunger Fund: Priyanka Ghosh

• Coro Fellows Program: Jolene Frank, Laura Klivans, Edith Rivera, Shalonda Scott

• DAAD: Michael Albert (annual), Philip Analitis (summer course), Eugene Oh (summer course), James Smith (summer course), Marla Boughton (edu.de scholarship), Grant Whiting (edu.de scholarship)

• Freeman-Asia Award: Kathleen Ho

• Fulbright Grant: Ankur Bahl, Andrew Green, Mary Daniel Hoyle, Joseph Konopka, Thomas Sternweis

• Fulbright Teaching Assistantship: Bridget Gurry, Grace Hong

• Goldwater Scholarship: Peter Chung, Justin Ionita, Rebecca Miller

• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship: Heidi Kim

• Luce Scholarship: Alexis Chiu, Alexander Ortolani

• Marshall Scholarship: Tracy Carson, Katherine Elswit

• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship: Andrea Allen, Brandon Gordon, Nicholas Soodik

• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship: Matthew Bender, David Comstock, Mark Dredze, Stephen Soukasene

• National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship: Wei-Chun Lin

• National Science Foundation Fellowship: Jennifer Andrew, Brian Cadena, Paul Eastwick, Caitlin Fausey, Gretchen Fox, Jean Hunleth, Jeffrey Kuna, Jessica Lensch, Steven Meier, Shanthi Nataraj, Kristen Pappacena, Elizabeth Severson, Theresa Sukal, Gerald Thomas

• Public Policy & International Affairs Fellowship: Stella Tsay

• Rhodes Scholarship: Cristina Bejan

• Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship: Sarah Adamczyk, Kathleen Althen, Rachel Lopez

• Urban Fellow: Allison Nugent

• USA Today All-USA College Academic Team: Cristina Bejan (first team), Tracy Carson (second team), Shawn Anthony (third team)

• USA Today All-USA College Academic Honorable Mention: Susan Coelius Keplinger