From Japan to Qatar to Kazakhstan, 13 Dartmouth seniors and alumni will spread out across the globe to conduct postgraduate research on subjects as diverse as Nazi looting, pop music, and relativity physics, thanks to Fulbright and German Academic Exchange Service (the German equivalent of a Fulbright) scholarships. Additionally, five sophomores and juniors have won other major national scholarships this spring, including the Beinecke, Goldwater, Truman, and Udall awards.
"This year was a particularly great year for Fulbrights," says Scholarship Advisor Kristin O'Rourke. "Almost 50 percent of our applicants won." The overall Fulbright acceptance rate for U.S. applicants is about 20 percent.
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By SARAH MAXELL CROSBY '04
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FULBRIGHT AND GERMAN ACADEMIC EXCHANGE SERVICE SCHOLARSHIPS
Joanna Brooks '09: Nazi looting and Bavarian Judaica, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich (2)
Michael Chinen A&S Grad '09 (Masters Program in Digital Musics): ultrasonic research and sound art installations, Technische Universität Berlin (3)
Edward Kim '09: modernization and urbanization in Qatar (4)
Kirby Liu '09: emergence of cosmopolitan spaces in Kazakhstan (5)
Darcy Rose '09: French government English teaching assistant, Académie de Montpellier, France (6)
Weston Sager '09: representations of Arab countries by Arabic newspapers, Rabat, Morocco (7)
Jessica Schuster '09: English teaching assistant in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (8)
Peter Seel '08: English teaching assistant in Baden-Württemberg, Germany (9)
Wendell Smith '09: special relativity physics, University of Potsdam in Berlin (10)
Jenny Strakovsky '09: history of German autobiography, Humboldt University in Berlin (11)
Rachel Winograd '09: effects of globalization on Japanese pop music, Japan (12)
Alumni winners (not pictured):
Desmond Ang '08: microfinance, University of Indonesia
Theresa Hughes '04: film studies, Germany
GOLDWATER SCHOLARSHIP
Kathryn Holroyd '11: neuroscience major, undergraduate funding (13)
Alison Stace-Naughton '11: bioengineering major, undergraduate funding (14)
TRUMAN SCHOLARSHIP
Ibrahim Elshamy '10: Asian and Middle Eastern studies and Native American studies major, graduate school funding for public service fields (15)
UDALL SCHOLARSHIP
Joshua Proper '10: Native American studies and environmental studies major, undergraduate funding (16)
Source: Dartmouth Scholarship Advising Office
