Students receive national awards

ive University undergraduate students from the College have received prestigious national academic awards and scholarships in recognition of their achievements and to support their studies.

Hickey

Emily Hickey '05 of Brockton, Mass., was one of only 18 students to receive a Beinecke Memorial Scholarship, awarded for graduate study in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The Beinecke, which recognizes exceptional motivation, intellectual ability, scholastic achievement, and personal promise, provides $2,000 just before entry into graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate school.

A political science major, Hickey plans to obtain a doctorate in political science with a focus on American politics.

Korol

Sara Korol '04 and Sonja Stracke '04 have been awarded 2004 '05 Fulbright grants. Sponsored by the U.S. State Department, the Fulbright Program offers opportunities for career-launching study, teaching, and research abroad.

Korol, from Ilion, N.Y., majored in economics and also completed the certificate program in Polish and Central European Studies. She will spend her Fulbright year examining Poland's immigration policy in the context of Poland's entry into the European Union. After returning to the United States, Korol plans to pursue a graduate degree in preparation for a career in international diplomacy.

Stracke

Stracke, of Clifton Park, N.Y., majored both in brain and cognitive sciences and in German. She will spend a year as a Fulbright English teaching assistant in a German school while also taking courses in psychology, education, and international relations. She will attend graduate school when she returns to the United States and plans to pursue a career in the promotion of international education and intercultural exchange.

Take Five Scholar Audrey Stewart of Rochester has been selected to receive a Morris K. Udall Scholarship for 2004­05. Established by Congress to honor the former U.S. representative's public service, the program awards $5,000 to students who demonstrate leadership, service, and outstanding commitment to environmental awareness. Stewart was one of 80 students selected nationally for the award this year.

Stewart

An active member and past president of the campus environmental group Grassroots, Stewart majored in environmental science and history, volunteers for environmental community organizations, and has been a teaching assistant in environmental science and biology courses. She is the first student from the University to receive the Udall Scholarship.

Prince

Part-time student Jonathan Prince '04 of Rochester was offered a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. The awards are made to candidates who are new Americans and demonstrate exceptional creativity, originality, initiative, and accomplishment, as well as commitment to the values of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Prince, the first University student to receive the award, majored in brain and cognitive sciences and completed a minor in music. He will enter the doctoral program in psychology at the University of Toronto this fall, focusing on music cognition research. Because the Soros Fellowship can only be used within the United States, Prince has had to decline the award.

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