February 12, 2004
Northwestern
Senior Named to USA TODAY's Top College Academic Team
EVANSTON, Ill.
--- Cristina Bejan, a Northwestern University senior from Durham,
N.C., was named to the USA TODAY’s All-USA College
Academic First Team the paper announced today. Two other University
seniors were named to the second and third teams, and one received
an honorable mention.
Bejan is one
of 20 outstanding undergraduates from the nation’s
four-year colleges and universities selected for this year’s
top honors. Each representative to the 2004 First Team will receive
a trophy and a $2,500 cash award.
Bejan is majoring in philosophy and theater at Northwestern.
In November she was named a Rhodes Scholar, a prestigious scholarship
that provides funding for two or three years of graduate study
in Great Britain.
A playwright
and actress as well as a student of philosophy, Bejan is a passionate
advocate for ethnic and religious tolerance
in Romania. She has written five plays, two of which were produced
last year while she was a visiting student at St. Anne’s
College of Oxford University. At Oxford, she plans to continue
her studies in philosophy.
Bejan is writing
her honors thesis on the applicability of Kant’s
moral theory of autonomy to newly free societies, particularly
Romania. She has spent significant time in Eastern Europe and interned
for Freedom House Bucharest in the summer of 2002.
Tracy Carson,
a senior from Chicago majoring in history and legal studies,
was named to the 2004 Second Team. A member of Northwestern’s
national-championship debate team for three years, Carson received
a Marshall Scholarship in November as well as the Student Laureate
Award for 2003 from the Lincoln Academy of Illinois.
Shawn Anthony, a senior from New Stanton, Pa., majoring in biomedical
engineering, was named to the 2004 Third Team. He conducts nanotechnology
research developing biomaterials to mimic natural bone. Susan Coelius
Keplinger, a senior from Severna Park, Md., majoring in political
science, received an honorable mention. |