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Student
awards and honors
Two seniors have won Fulbright fellowships to
study language and culture in Eastern European countries. Alexander
Jordan 01 will spend his summer teaching English in several
Slovak villages in Hungary. In Sep-tember he will study graduate-level
mathematics in Budapest and fully immerse himself in the Hungarian language.
After his year abroad, Jordan expects to further pursue his studies at
the University of Oregon. His senior thesis was on the number field sieve.
Victoria
Pustynsky 01 will study
in Ukraine next year. A Russian major, her thesis dealt with new
vocabulary in Soviet and post-Soviet power discourse.
Darlene
Pasieczny 01 was awarded a Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic
Studies for 2001 by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foun-dation.
These prestigious awards, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provide
$15,000, plus tuition and fees, for the first year of study in a Ph.D.
program.Pasieczny will be entering Columbia University in the fall to
study twentieth-century modernist art, with a focus on Soviet and Eastern
European art history. In her thesis Pasieczny examined the cultural and
political position of avant-garde art in the Stalinist regime.
Three seniors were awarded Thomas J. Watson Fellowships for pursuit of
independent international research projects during the 2001-02 academic
year. This is the first time since 1988 that Reed has had three students
in one year win the coveted fellowships. Kraig
Kraft 01, a biology major, will study third world farmers
attitudes toward agricultural biotechnologies in the Philippines, Peru,
Mexico, and Brazil. Jared
Pruitt 01, a history major, will travel around
the world by subway in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany,
Sweden, Russia, China, Singapore, Japan, India, and Taiwan. Lena
Eberhart 01, a religion major, who planned to study perceptions
of children with Down syndrome in Turkey, New Zealand, South Africa, and
Spain, has declined the award.
New
Phi BetaKappa Members
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The
following 2001 graduates
were elected to Phi Beta Kappa
Madera Gabriela Allan
Colin Stuart Beam
Anna Patricia Bond
Vanessa Dawn Carlisle
Emily Jane Carter
David Jeremy Copeland
Scott Marshall Corry
Stefan Durham
Emily Carla Dykhuizen
ANova Ettien
Nikole Kirin Ferree
Jeffrey Allen Flory
Jessica Lynn Gingerich
Mollie Amelia Godfrey
Rebecca Leah Guber
Keisuke Hasegawa
Heather Marie Houser
Alexander Sebastian Jordan
Denise Karen Klymshyn
Kerry Elizabeth Lawrynovicz
Benjamin Huntington Lillie
Rosalie Metro
Mark Nathaniel Miller
Ben Murphy
Dana Elizabeth Myers
Dante Rene Nakazawa
Darlene Danuta Pasieczny
Jared Benjamin Pruitt
Victoria Ann Pustynsky
Samuel Jordan Schaeffer
Stephen Merrell Schuh
Zachary Phillips Schwartz
Sean Michael Smith
Jessica Ross Stern
Courtney Elizabeth Stevens
Timothy Robert Sundell
Tobán Antál Szüts
Lauren Renata Thronson
Alexander Paul Tornow
Sam Lewis Wilcke
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Chemistry major Cheyenne
Brindle 02 has been named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar.
This scholarship is awarded to undergraduates who have outstanding potential
and intend to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or
engineering. Brindle is interested in bio-organic chemistry, especially
as it applies to pharmaceutical design and development. Last summer she
completed an internship in physical, organic, and environmental chemistry
at Columbia University.
Christina
Athena Aktipis 02 was awarded a $5,000 Morris K. Udall
scholarship, the first ever won by a Reed student, but she found it necessary
to decline the award. A psychology major, Aktipis is interested in applying
psychology, economics, and biology to study the cognitive mechanisms behind
decision-making about the environment and consider the implications of
her results for public policy.
JJ
Miranda 01, a biochemistry and molecular biology major,
received $1,000 as the winner of the Class of 1921 award. This award,
endowed by gifts from Reeds 1921 graduating class, recognizes creative
work of a notable character, involving an unusual degree of initiative
and spontaneity. His thesis was A Protein Model for Studying Cysteine/Helix
Dipole Electrostatic Interactions. Miranda was also profiled by the Oregonian
in a story about Reeds commencement: see the article on page 2.
Timothy
Sundell 01 was this years
winner of the Garlan Prize in Philosophy. His thesis in linguistics-philosophy
was Competence, Normativity, and the Problem of Syntactic Rule-Following.
The prize, which includes funds for philosophy books, was instituted by
a group of alumni in honor of philosophy professor Edwin Garlan, who taught
at Reed from 1946 to 1972.
Jessica Stern 01
won this years William T. Lankford III Humanities award. She received
$1,500 and a copy of David Copperfield. The award recognizes accomplishment
in history and literature, as well as potential for further aca-demic
achievement. It honors Lankford, who taught English and humanities at
Reed from 1977 to 1983 and was a scholar of the works of Dickens. Stern,
a history major, wrote her thesis on Roger Williams and the Narragansett
Indians.
James Chavez 01
and Eleanor Harvill 01
received Gerald M. Meier awards for distinction in economic studies. Gerald
M. Meier 47 established the award in 1998; it includes a purchase
fund of $125 for economics books. Chavez wrote his thesis on the repatriation
of earnings in Mexican migration to the U. S., and Harvill, a major in
mathematics and economics, wrote hers on the teaching of those subjects
in a science museum.
Three students were named Ducey summer interns for 2001. These awards
cover the expenses of a 10-week internship with organizations involved
in public policy. Lea
Coon 02 is working with the Southern Africa Environment
Project, which campaigns to protect ecologically sensitive sites near
Port Elisabeth. Clay Northouse
03 will work for the Computer Ethics Institute in Washington,
D.C. to organize a lecture series and conduct research on remedies to
ethical problems. Mara
Zepeda 02 will track the effect of recent welfare reform
acts on children and work to improve early childhood education and healthcare
with the National Center for Children in Poverty, part of Columbia Universitys
public health school.
Seven students received McGill-Lawrence internship awards from Reed College.
Originally funded by a bequest from Marian McGill Lawrence, a longtime
friend of Reed College, the awards help cultivate an environment of understanding
and respect for varying cultures. Adam
Adler 01 will work for a year coordinating mental health
training and organizing district clinics with the Case Western and Siem
Reap psychiatric aid program in Cambodia. Sarah
Banner 02 will work as a peer educator working on family
planning outreach and health care with Famplan Jamaica. Van
Butsic 03 will work on a plan for farmers with the Oregon
Sustainable Agricultural Land Trust and design and teach a course on world
hunger and organic agriculture at Summerbridge Portland. Megan
Harrington 03 will travel with the Reedie Jalapeño
Cultural Exchange to Jalapa, Nicaragua, where she will work with Friendship
City Projects. Armand
Perry 02 will also intern with Famplan Jamaica, developing
adolescent outreach programs. Erin Snyder 02 will establish a writers
group with the Austin Homeless Advocate, a grassroots newspaper, and help
it achieve 501c3 status. Dana
Waichunas 02 will develop a sustainable internship program
with Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility and establish an initiative
on pesticide use on Portland public school grounds.
Sarah Wald 01 will do public relations
work on the regional old growth campaign for the American Lands Alliance
and will encourage support for national legislation.
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