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Michelle Schaffer 99 is the second winner
of Reeds Sperling Studentship, which supports a doctoral fellowship
at Cambridge University, England. Schaffer, who was a biochemistry and
molecular biology major at Reed, has entered the graduate program in clinical
biochemistry at the university. She also received an award as an Honorary
Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholar, under the patronage of the Prince of
Wales.
Schaffer came to Reed from Mankato, Minnesota. Her Reed thesis was The
Synthesis of an Amino Derivative on the Local Anesthetic Tetracaine with
Preliminary Characterization via Patch-clamp Studies on Cyclic Nucleotide-gate
Channels.
In 1999 John Sperling 48, founder of the University of Phoenix,
committed more than $1 million to support Reed graduates in three-year
doctoral fellowships at Cambridge. Sperling, whose degree from Reed was
in history, earned a masters degree in political history at the
University of CaliforniaBerkeley and a Ph.D. in economic history
from Cambridge University on a fellowship from the University of California.
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