Zachary Kaufman '08
Samuel Kohn '09
Laura Myers '08
Meghan Feely '08
Kristen Lurie '08
Joseph Malchow '08
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Six undergraduates and nineteen recent alumni have received national
recognition for outstanding achievements in scholarship. From stem cell
research and public policy to blogging and building a better heart pump, their
interests are as broad as the Dartmouth curriculum itself.
Truman Scholarship
Zachary Kaufman '08 is one of 65 Truman Scholars for 2007. The prestigious
scholarship provides juniors bound for graduate school with $30,000 as well as
priority in admissions to top graduate institutions, supplemental financial
aid, and internship opportunities within the federal government.
Kaufman plans to obtain a master's degree in public health with a focus on
international health, and to enter the public health arena in the Caribbean or
Latin America, dealing with government and international agencies but also
working directly with people and communities. He is co-founder of Dartmouth
Ends Hunger, a Tucker Foundation-sponsored group; founder and director of Lose
The Shoes, a barefoot charity soccer tournament started at Dartmouth and now in
action on 10 college campuses around the country; and has worked for Grassroots
Soccer, an HIV/AIDS prevention program founded by Thomas Clark '92.
Each year, Truman Scholars are selected from among hundreds of candidates
nominated by colleges and universities across the nation.
Morris K. Udall Scholarship
Samuel Kohn '09 is one of only 80 national winners of a 2007 Morris K. Udall
scholarship. A member of the Crow Tribe from Montana, Kohn is pursuing an
interest in tribal policy and education that began when he was in high
school.
In a First-Year Summer Research Project, he examined the "Indian Education
for All" act in Montana, and he plans to pursue a Presidential Scholarship and
thesis work in tribal education. The Udall Scholarships celebrate the late
Congressman's legacy of public service, his love for the environment, and his
advocacy for Native Americans and Alaska Natives.
Goldwater Scholarships
Laura Myers, Meghan Feely, and
Kristen Lurie, all members of the Class of 2008, have been
recognized by the Barry M. Goldwater
Scholarship and Excellence Program. Myers is a 2007 Goldwater Scholar, and
Feely and Lurie received honorable mentions. Congress established the Goldwater
Foundation in 1986 to honor the late Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. Senator from
Arizona from 1952 through 1987, by encouraging outstanding students pursuing
careers in engineering, mathematics, and science.
Myers started the Dartmouth chapter of the Student Society for Stem Cell
Research, organized a panel discussion on the subject last year, and is
currently working as a Presidential Scholar with Nancy Speck, the James J.
Carroll Professor in Oncology at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
Feely has focused her studies on an immunological approach to oncology and
is also a Presidential Scholar. She co-chairs Dartmouth's Women in Science
Project, where she encourages first-year women to pursue their aspirations in
medicine and engineering.
Lurie is co-president of the Dartmouth Society of Women Engineers. She held
an internship at The Cleveland Clinic during her first year summer, where she
helped design bearings to mediate axial thrusts in heart pumps.
Bartley Internship
The Wall Street Journal has named Joseph Malchow '08
a 2007 Bartley Fellow.
The Journal awards only seven of the prestigious fellowships each
year, named in honor of the paper's late editor, Robert Bartley.
Malchow writes for the National Review Online. He developed and maintains
Joe's Dartblog, a Web discussion forum that has caught the eyes of some of the
nation's most prominent journalists. During his fellowship, he will work in the
editorial department of the Journal, as well as on the Web site of the
Far Eastern Economic Review.
Malchow's interest in blogging began with Old and New Media, an English
class he took at Dartmouth as a freshman. For his final project, he founded
Dartblog.com, which now reaches an audience of over 1,000 daily readers.
The Bartley fellows were selected from more than 50 applicants for their
journalism potential and their demonstration of views consistent with Bartley's
"belief in economic and political liberty," the Journal's editorial page
editor, Paul Gigot '77, says.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
The National Science
Foundation (NSF) recently awarded funding to nine Dartmouth alumni through
its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The program provides three years of
support for study that will lead to a research-based master's or doctoral
degree.
Joseph Brown '00 is in a Ph.D. program in mechanical
engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder. His focus is on nanoscale
materials processing.
Cayelan Carey '06 is beginning a Ph.D. program in ecology
and evolutionary biology at Cornell University. Her research examines toxic
cyanobacteria, a type of algae associated with outbreaks in low-nutrient lakes
in the northeastern United States, including New Hampshire and Maine.
Clare Gupta '04 is beginning a Ph.D. program in
environmental science, policy, and management at UC Berkeley. She is
investigating natural resource management and wildlife conservation policy in
southern Africa.
Margaret Mills '01 is embarking on a Ph.D. program in
molecular and cellular biology at the University of Washington. Her work
focuses on development and evolution, studying pigment patterns in zebra fish
(Danio rerio) and related species, to identify the genetic and
cellular bases for the appearance of the adults of these species.
Neha Narula '03 will be starting a Ph.D. program in
computer science at MIT next fall, where she will study distributed systems and
game theory.
Elizabeth Norton '05 is in an M.A./Ph.D. program in child
development at Tufts University, where her work focuses on the behavioral and
neurological characteristics of dyslexia—specifically, the use of language and
reading assessments as well as fMRI brain scanning to examine reading
intervention programs.
Nicholas Rule '04 is in a Ph.D. program in psychology at
Tufts University, focusing on social perception and social neuroscience,
particularly the way we form first impressions.
Sara Thiebaud '06 is beginning a Ph.D. program in systems
biology at Harvard. She looks at how human cells repair DNA damage, using
time-lapse fluorescence microscopy to understand how DNA repair is influenced
by cell growth, replication, and division. She hopes to use this and other
projects to gain insight into the regulation of human cancers.
Sharon Yoon '04 is in a Ph.D. program in sociology at
Princeton University, where she focuses on culture, race and social
stratification, and East Asian societies, with a specific interest in how
individuals who are able to physically blend in perceive their racial
identity.
Ten recent graduates received honorable mentions from the NSF: Bart
Butler '06, in particle physics; Gretchen Gehrke '05,
in geochemistry; Sarena Goodman '05, in economics;
Marianne Karplus '04, in geophysics; Emma Lubin
'06, in genetics; Evelyn Mervine '06, in marine
geology and geophysics; Gabrielle Miller-Messner '01, in
evolutionary biology; Hannah Murnen '06, in chemical
engineering; Adam Sepulveda '02, in ecology; and
Jeremy Tran '05, in evolutionary biology.
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