F.Y.I.

Kristin Dowell, a junior majoring in anthropology and minoring in American Sign Language, has received the Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship for graduate education. A resident of Westerville, Ohio, Dowell plans to pursue a master's degree to become a museum curator and work toward a doctorate in anthropology.

Matt Stanley has been selected to receive a Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies. A resident of Latham, N.Y., with a double major in optics and religion, Stanley was a Take Five student this past year, concentrating in Japanese studies. He will pursue a doctorate in the history of science at Harvard University.

Projects by five students, all seniors, have earned them Barth-Crapsey Undergraduate Research Awards: Joel Helfrich, history major, chivalry and the Boy Scouts; Rachel Rains, history and political science major, 1930s political film in the United States; Tracie Rubeck, biology and history major, gender relations in the films of Preston Sturges; Lien Tran, economics/health and society major, international comparison of health care policy for Asian ethnic minority; and Clinton Young, history and Spanish major, musical politics of the Third Reich and Stalinist Russia.

The University chapter of Golden Key National Honor Society inducted 158 students this year. Scholarships were given to two outstanding initiates: junior Sean Emmet Molyneaux and senior Penelope Susan Miller. Four individuals were selected for honorary membership: William Green, dean of the College and professor of religion; Mary Beth Cooper, senior associate dean of students; Gladys Pedroza-Burgos, counselor for minority student affairs; and David Walsh, associate professor of art history.

Amanda Silver has been awarded the 1998 Jean-Pierre Koniaris Memorial Scholarship from the Golden Key National Honor Society. Silver, a resident of Bergenfield, N.J., who will be a senior, is a double religion and classics/anthropology major minoring in Latin American studies.

UR Messenger, the undergraduate student magazine covering racial and cultural issues, has received the 1997 Best Campus Alternative Publication of the Year Award in its first year of publication. The award, given by the Center for Campus Organizing in Cambridge, Mass., is in the "B" category for magazines with a budget of less than $10,000. The magazine also garnered first place for anti-racist reporting and honorable mention for opinion writing and design.