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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, APRIL 20.2001
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS AT RICE
Twenty Rice students won National Science Foundation scholarships in
this year's competition. The award, given to those studying science,
math and engineering, gives an $18,009>stipend and $10,500 intuition
a year for up to three years.
Elizabeth Bartmess Baker College senior
She will study social psychology in a Ph.D program at the University of
Michigan.
Danielle Monlque Bllyeu Lovett '99
She could not be reached for comment.
Jonathan C. Borck Lovett 00
He is studying public policy in environmental policy in a Ph.D program
at Harvard University
Jae Chung Cultural Anthropology Graduate Student
She has not decided if she will accept the NSF grant.
Riki Conrey Jones '00
She is a graduate student in Social Psychology at Northwestern University.
Seth Eatlnger Wiess College Senior
He will be a graduate student in Electrical Engineering at Stanford.
J.J. Emerson Baker '00
He is a graduate student in biojogy at the University of Chicago.
Kim Foster Hanszen College senior
She will go to graduate school in biophysics at the University of
California at Berkeley.
Chris Harrison Sid Richardson College senior
He will study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware's
graduate school.
Scott Harrison Sid senior
He will pursue a Ph.D in chemical engineering at the University of Texas
at Austin.
Nathan Hilison Wiess '99
He will complete a third year in the Harvard biophysics Ph.D program.
Theresa A. Holland Sid senior
She will be a graduate student in the Bioengineering Department at Rice.
Dana Hunt Wiess senior
She will study environmental engineering at MIT graduate school.
MicheUe Meyer Baker senior
She will not accept the NSF award.
Linh Pham Lovett College senior
She will study immunology at Stanford graduate school.
Aimee J. Placas Anthropology Graduate student
She will be completing dissertation research in Athens, Greece.
Nate Vandesteeg Baker senior
Ph.D in Materials Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ray Wagner Wiess senior
He will enroll in the Masters/Ph.D program in Dept. of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Rice.
Michael B. Wakin Brown '00
He is an electrical and computer engineering graduate student at Rice.
Bethany Weber Hanszen '98
She is a graduate student in cognitive psychology at Rutgers.
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Six students receive
Wagoner scholarships
by Rachel Shiffrin
THRESHER STAFF
Open until 2 a.m. seven days a weekl
French Maoism, post-apartheid
South Africa and Spanish are often
studied by students. However, four
Rice undergraduate students and
two graduate students who are the
recipients of the Wagoner Scholar-
ships will be studying these topics
next year at each of their sources.
Each scholarship is worth up to
$15,000. The winners of the award
for the 2001-'02 school year are
Hanszen 'College junior Hassan
Irshad, Wiess College sophomore
Colin Elliott, Wiess senior Marisa
Levy and Wiess sophomore Teresa
Kubos. The graduate students se-
lected are Jae Chung in anthropol-
ogy and Ron Haas in history. Aimee
Placas, an anthropology graduate
student, has been named an alter-
nate for the scholarship.
The scholarship was created in
the name of 1929 Rice alumnus
James T. Wagoner, a veteran of
World War II and an avid traveler.
The first scholarships were given in
1997.
Executive Director of Interna-
tional Programs and Scholarships
Mark Scheid said the scholarship
was created to make sure Rice stu-
dents had ample opportunities to
perform research abroad.
The scholarships are funded by
Wagoner's estate from an endow-
ment that can only be used for these
scholarships.
"It was envisioned as kind of a
Rice-only Fulbright scholarship,"
Scheid, assistant to the president,
said.
Fulbright scholarships are
awarded by the federal government
to college seniors and graduate stu-
dents interested in researching,
studying or teaching in a foreign
country.
To apply for the scholarship, stu-
dents submitted essays detailing
why they wanted to study abroad,
what they planned on studying and
what led them to those interests,
Scheid said.
The Rice Committee on Schol-
arships and Awards tried to choose
students who would benefit the
most from the experience abroad.
The committee also looked for
scholastic achievement, character
and dedication to the subject the
candidate was pursuing, Scheid
said.
Kubos will spend the year in
Seville, Spain, to complete her Span-
ish major. Kubos said that although
she has studied Spanish for six years,
she has yet to experience the cul-
ture firsthand.
"I've learned a lot about Spanish
culture, but I've never been there,"
Kubos said. "I thought it was time to
put everything I've learned into con-
text."
Kubos also hopes to become cer-
tified in teaching English as a Sec-
ond Language during her year
abroad, and plans on tutoring En-
glish.
"When I learned Spanish, so
many doors opened up for me, and if
English can do that for other people,
I want to give tltem that opportu-
nity," she said.
Levy said she will spend her year
abroad in Hyderabad, India, study-
ing the impact of mass media on
post-colonial Indian identity. She is
participating in a program through
the University of Wisconsin at Madi-
son. Before leaving for India, she
will go to Madison and receive inten-
sive language tutoring. She will also
be set up with a language tutor and
an adviser in Hyderabad.
Last year, Levy studied in north-
ern India researching the ways in
which Indian women use art as a tool
for social change.
Her research involved studying
media such as street theater and
government-sponsored commer-
cials, which piqued her interest in
the impact of mass media. "India has
the largest film industry in the world,
and the fact that they've gained inde-
pendence in the last 50 years makes
them a prime candidate for observa-
tion," she said.
Irshad plans on studying South
African religious leaders of faith com-
munities at the University of
Capetown in South Africa, focusing
on the role of religion and Christian-
ity in rebuilding post-apartheid South
Africa.
Irshad said he is "interested in
learning about how historians plan
on dealing with the burden of a his-
tory of injustice."
Elliott will study political science
in Avignon, France, and hopes to
improve his French while he is
there.
Haas will travel to Paris, France,
to perform research for his disserta-
tion on French Maoism. The Maoists
were "dissident French Marxists
inspired to start cultural revolution
in France in the 1960s and 1970s,"
he said.
Haas said the issue is important
because the movement is not well
known in the United States and has
been "swept under the rug in
France," he said. Haas "thought of
the project as kind of an expose," he
said.
He will conduct his research in
Nanterre, a working class suburb of
Paris that grew from an immigrant
shantytown. Most Maoist move-
ments were founded in Nanterre in
the late 1960s.
"Very few universities have this
kind of money to spend on graduate
and undergraduate research," he
said.
Chung will spend the year in
Seoul, South Korea, doing a cultural
analysis of risk in venture capital
industry in South Korea. She be-
came interested in this when the
Asian currency crisis emerged in
1997.
"When this devastating thing
happened, I knew that I wanted to
study something that dealt with
the globalization because of its im-
portance in people's lives," she
said.
She chose to follow the progress
of the venture capital industry be-
cause it developed in Asia in re-
sponse to the currency crisis, she
said.
"It is an honor to be selected by
the Wagoner Committee... I am very
grateful that such a'resource is made
available for projects that require
traveling outside of the U.S.," Chung
said.
Teresa Kubos
Marisa Levy
PHOTOS BY KATIE STREIT/THRESHER
Hassan Irshad
Jae Chung
PHOTOS BY LAURA WIGINGTON/THRES
Ron Haas
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