Award Winners
It was a banner year for student achievement.
Andrew Niles ’08 (left), an honors mathematics
major, was one of 13 students nationwide
named a 2008 Churchill Scholar,
and Eugene Feygelson ’07E (right), who studied
violin and musical arts at the Eastman
School, was selected to receive the highly
competitive Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship. Both plan to pursue
advanced studies at the University of Cambridge— Niles in advanced mathematics
and Feygelson in the emerging field of music
and human evolution.
Rachel Kincaid
’08, who studied trumpet and composition
at the Eastman School, become the first
University student since 1988 to receive a
Marshall Scholarship. Kincaid plans to begin
a one-year master’s degree program in
trumpet performance this fall at the Royal
Northern College of Music in Manchester,
England, and to start work on a second
master’s degree in music composition
the following year at the Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow,
Scotland.
Fulbright Scholars
Six graduating seniors and a recent alumnus have received prestigious Fulbright Scholar awards to study and perform research abroad. The total marks a record number of Fulbright Scholars chosen from the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering.
A more comprehensive list of student honors is available online at www.rochester.edu/pr/ Review/V70N6/images/FY2008_awards.pdf.
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