The Berthold Fellow for Faith and Service

The Tucker Foundation hires, each year, a Dartmouth graduate student to service as the Berthold Fellow for Faith and Service. The Berthold Fellow is tasked with developing opportunities to explore the intersection between faith, belief, and service.

The fellowship is named for Rev. Fred Berthold, Jr. '44, who was the first dean of the Tucker Foundation.

2012-2013 Fellow

Rich Lopez is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Born and raised in New Jersey, Rich also attended college there at Princeton University. He graduated in 2009 with a BA in psychology. He then moved to Manhattan and spent two years at Columbia University as a research assistant in a psychology lab that investigated emotion regulation in both healthy and clinical populations. In his free time, Rich enjoys skiing, reading, running, and composing original music. He also loves to philosophize and theologize over a coffee or pint. He is excited to be the 2012-13 Berthold Fellow, a position he thinks will provide a unique opportunity to foster engagement and unity across many of Dartmouth's vibrant sub-communities. Rich hopes that the fellowship will allow him to augment awareness of issues of faith and service that have both local and global implications, such as human trafficking and sustainability.

For information on previous Berthold Fellows, check out our archive.