More Fellows
Every Year
Last year Smith scholars raised their
own bar by landing an unprecedented 42 fellowships totaling nearly
$1 million.
This was the third straight year that
the number of fellowship applicants and recipients increased
at Smith, with 69 undergraduates and 14 alumnae submitting 90 applications
to foundations. The success rate of nearly 50 percent is well ahead
of the national average, notes Don Andrew, coordinator for fellowships
and grants.
"Our success rate has improved for
the past three years," he says, "not
only in terms of the quantity of fellowships for our students, but also the quality
of fellowship applications."
The increase in fellowships for Smith
has correlated with the college's
efforts to improve its fellowships support program, says Andrew, who came
to Smith in 2001. He sees the increased involvement of faculty members
in advising students on their applications as an essential factor in
the recent success.
The impressive list of Smith undergraduates
and alumnae named to prestigious fellowships last year
was headlined by a record nine Fulbright Fellows. Before 2001, Smith
had averaged two Fulbright fellowships a year, notes Andrew. During
the past three years, Smith applicants have received 22 Fulbrights. -- ESW
Fulbright Fellowship
Marjorie Housley '04, Morocco; Megan Jamieson '03, Germany;
Silvia Newell '04, Costa Rica; Erica Nichols '04, Cameroon;
Miriam Quintal '04,
Israel; Rosemarie Rauer '04, Germany; Ellen Smith '04, South
Korea; Julia Unger '04, South Korea; Maryalice Walker '04, South
Africa
Fulbright Summer Grant
Tiffany Zalis '04, East China
Boren Undergraduate Study Abroad
Scholarship
Jill Curtis '06, China; Jessica Rubin '06, Chile
DAAD Fellowship
Emily Jones '04, Germany (Holocaust Memorials); Bryn Savage '04,
Germany (Baroque Love Poetry)
DAAD Undergraduate Study Abroad
Scholarship
Brittany Hopkins '06, Germany
Blumberg JYA Summer 2003 Traveling
Fellowship
Katherine Arthur '04, Switzerland; Francesca Bastianini '04,
Florence; Anna Dengler '04, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany;
Sarah Lynch '04,
Italy; Bryn Savage '04, Germany; Bridget Schmelzer '04, Italy;
Lauma Skruzmane '04, Switzerland
Freeman-Asia Undergraduate Study
Abroad Fellowship
Kristin Baldassaro '05; Megan Kremzier '06; Hanna McGaughey '05;
Fiona Somers '05, China summer
Gilman Undergraduate Semester
Abroad Scholarship
Xiomara Castro '06, New Zealand; Michelle Medina '06, Morocco
Goldwater
Scholarship
Shirin Hastings '05 (major: mathematics/neuroscience)
Iota Sigma Pi Gladys Anderson Emerson Chemistry Scholarship
Lesley-Ann Giddings '05
Mellon Graduate Fellowship in
Humanistic Studies
Megan Clark '97 (classics major now studying in Istanbul)
Mellon-Mays
Undergraduate Fellowship
Sarauna Moore '06; Isabel Porras '06; Ayoka Stewart '06;
Toccarra Thomas '06; Hassani Turner '06
National Science
Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Alex Clair Null '01 (University of California, Berkeley);
Cloelle Sausville-Giddings '04
(Cornell University); Danielle Tsou '04 (University of
California, Berkeley and UC, San Francisco)
Udall Scholarship
Anne Jurkowski '05
University of Indiana Graduate
School Dean's
Minority Fellowship
Leeanne Bowen Atkins AC '03
Vose Scholarship in American Art
Kate Dempsey '04 |
