June 9, 2005

More than 90 students win fellowships

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

More than 90 Northwestern students were recipients of the awards that provide support for advanced education and/or research in the United States and around the world.

Nearly a third of Northwestern Fulbright applicants have been awarded the grant — a rate much higher than the national average. Northwestern also had 17 recipients of National Science Foundation fellowships.

This year’s winners are:

• Marshall Scholarship: Ankur Bahl

• Gates Cambridge Scholarship: Laura Blecha

• English-Speaking Union: David Klaus

• Luce Scholars Program: Mark Little, Ayelish McGarvey

• Fulbright Scholarship: Jane Andrews, Raphael Bartholomew, Anna Jozwik, Clara Kimmet, Tony Lin, Jennifer Manne, Andrew Schmidt, Kavitha Sivashanker, James Smith, Jaclyn Sumner, Maureen Towey, Jeremy Weissmann, Tiffany Ziebell, Kathryn De Luna, Brian Maxson

• Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Grant: Anh Ly

• Field Museum Women in Science Graduate Fellowship: Robin Coleman

• DAAD Study Scholarship: Marissa Petrou, Scott Greenwald, Michael McGillen

• DAAD Research Grant: Katie Padgett, Anna Glazova

• DAAD University Summer Course Grant: Robert Richardson

• DAAD University Language Program: Laura Ephraim, Jonathan Mathys

• DAAD edu.de Undergraduate Scholarship: Robert Rettew, Patrick Scharfe

• DAAD Research Internship in Science and Engineering: Sara Patrawala

• Congress-Bundestag Young Professionals Exchange Programs: Philip Analitis, Emily Flechtner, Alexandra Golobof, Justine Pierce

• Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship: Lauren Groth

• National Security Education Program David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship: Sara Toth

• National Security Education Program David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarship: Chelsey Freidmann, Casey Redmon

• National Security Education Program — National Flagship Language Initiative: Jonathan Yoo

• Princeton in Asia Fellowship: Kathleen Ho

• Austrian Teaching Assistantship Program: Karen Rouse, Eric Spindler

• Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship: Jonathan Marino

• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship: Alexi Smith

• National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant: Terence McDonnell

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship: Mesmin Destin, Lesley Meade, Jamesina Simpson, Deirdre Pfeiffer, Catherine Mia Ihm, John Joo, Bonnie Lai, Wenhao Liu, Alexi Smith, Kyle Bishop, Jennifer Coyne, James Finley, Seth Levine, Grace Nijm, Eileen Romito, Michelle Seitz, Josh Vura-Weis

• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship: Bo Zhao

• DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship: Kevin Kohlstedt

• National Cancer Institute CURE Minority Program Training Grant: Allison Thompson

• Dan David Fellowship: Randall Goldsmith

• Link Foundation Fellowship: Alex Martinson, Randall Goldsmith

• Illinois Consortium for Educational Opportunity Program: Nneka Onyezia

• Arnold L. Mitchem Fellowship: Ebony Utley

• American Academy in Rome: Rome Prize: Peter Mazur, J. Beth Condie-Pugh

• Max-Planck Doctoral Fellowship: Helen Callaghan

• Ambassade de France Chateaubriand Doctoral Research Scholarship: Suzanne LaVere, Lee Seymour

• Luce/ACLS Doctoral Fellowship in American Art: Meredith TeGrotenhuis

• Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship: Laura Hughes, Jeff Kaplan