Hometown: Marshfield, Massachusetts
Major: Anthropology
Laura will be an English teaching assistant in Kenya. She is the first Rochester winner for the Kenya program.
Hometown: Skaneateles, New York
Major: Linguistics
Ella will be traveling to Belgium to be an English teaching assistant.
Hometown: Syracuse, New York
Major: Anthropology, history
Amelia will be an English teaching assistant in Malaysia.
Hometown: Roseville, California
Major: Molecular genetics
Reva is heading to South Korea, where she will be an English teaching assistant.
Hometown: Syracuse, New York
Major: Computer science, linguistics
Joseph will be an English teaching assistant in Laos.
Hometown: Fort Drum, New York
Major: Political science, Russian
Alexis will be an English teaching assistant in Russia.
Hometown: Wolcott, New York
Major: Spanish, international relations
Erin is heading to Brazil , where she will be an English teaching assistant.
Hometown: Hinsdale, Illinois
Major: Chemistry
Hayden will begin his PhD in chemistry this fall at MIT. He plans to immerse himself in an emerging area of chemistry that optimizes the desired properties of a molecule to solve crucial problems facing society.
Hometown: Benson, North Carolina
Sara will continue analyzing neutrino cross section measurements while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Physics (known as CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Hometown: Lowville, New York
Major: Physics and astronomy
Ryan will be attending California University of Technology to pursue a PhD in astrophysics. His research will be in observational data-driven astronomy involving surveys.
Hometown: Mountain Lakes, New Jersey
Major: Brain and cognitive sciences, statistics, linguistics
Lauren will be pursuing a PhD in computational cognitive psychology at the University of California-San Diego. She hopes to develop computational models of the human mind, examining how people develop their abilities to communicate and learn.
Hometown: Harvard, Massachusetts
Major: Biomedical engineering
Janet will pursue a PhD in bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research project will be in the field of biophotonics.
Hometown: Narberth, Pennsylvania
Aleza plans to continue studying academic motivation and study strategies at the University of Rochester.
Hometown: Ilam, Nepal
Major: Mechanical engineering
Diwas will be at the Hochschule Hannover, where he’ll research the scalability of mobile micro-CHP units for their application in electric vehicles.
Hometown: Liverpool, New York
Major: Biomedical engineering
Collin will be working at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Hamburg. He will assist in taking clinical samples of HIV-infected patients, and analyzing the correlation between the expression of integrin proteins and the size of the viral reservoir.
Hometown: Muscat, Oman
Major: Mechanical engineering
Muhammad will be at Hamburg University of Technology working on developing and implementing non-linear controls for flexible lightweight robots.
Hometown: San Diego, California
Major: Biology, and Health, behavior & society
Carley will be working in a cognitive neuroscience lab at Humboldt University of Berlin, helping to create an automated system for animal care in order to minimize human error.
Hometown: Springfield Gardens, New York
Major: Mechanical engineering
Shemmar will be at the Technical University of Dortmund, working on a research project titled “Manufacturing of Load-optimized Automotive Components by Incremental Sheet-Bulk Metal Forming.”
Hometown: Memphis, Missouri
Major: Microbiology
Megan’s internship will be at the Helmhotz Centre for Environmental Research, studying the effect of preceding drought on the stress response of bacteria at the Helmhotz Centre for Environmental Research.
Hometown: Hefei, China
Major: Biomedical engineering
Yunke will be working on a research project called “Biomimetic Adhesive from Lignin” at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. It will focus on imitating the adhesive properties of mussels to develop a new, non-toxic adhesive, based on a lignin backbone.
Hometown: Old Saybrook, Connecticut
Major: Physics
Adina will be performing research in a physics lab at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, where she will study individual atoms submerged in Bose-Einstein condensate.
Hometown: Callicoon, New York
Major: Optical engineering
Erin will be working with polymers and solar cells at the Karlsruhe Institute of Microstructure Technology.
Hometown: Glen Rock, New Jersey
Major: Molecular genetics
Lauren will be at the University of Tübingen, performing genetics research on the cardiovascular genetic disorder familial dilated cardiomyopathy. Her project will involve generating a knock-in cell line and using it for drug testing.
Hometown: Nyabihu, Rwanda
Major: Chemical engineering
Aimé will be working at the Julich Research Centre on a project that involves developing innovative reactors for fuel synthesis from hydrogen and carbon dioxide.
Hometown: Shanghai, China
Major: Computer science
Sifan will be participating in research at Saarland University that details the privacy impact of self-tracking devices.
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Major: Electrical and computer engineering
Javon will be at the University of Kaiserslautern, conducting research on antenna design to improve performance.
Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona
Major: Computational biology
Isaac will be at Free University in Berlin, working on cellular receptor signaling and cytoskeleton studied by live cell and super resolution microscopy.
Hometown: Lexington, Massachusetts
Major: Biomedical engineeriny
Victor will be joining a lab at Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB in Stuttgard working on organ-on-a-chip technologies. His project will involve further research and development of the system and optimizing its use in future applications.
Hometown: Wenzhou, China
Major: Optical engineering
Dingzhe is heading to the Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences in Giessen, researching a new concept to achieve a quantitative detection of fluorescence markers.
Hometown: Nairobi, Kenya
Major: Mechanical engineering
Hometown: Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo
Major: Political science
Bienfait and Philemon will run a workshop in Kigali, Rwanda called “Peace through Entrepreneurship.” The goal is to teach young people the leadership skills vital to peace and economic stability.
Hometown: New York, New York
Major: Computer science
Hometown: Masvingo, Zimbabwe
Major: Electrical and computer engineering
Shinghirai and Ashely will be working on a project in Zimbabwe titled “Water for Peace: Solving Mukwerera Conflict through the Provision of Sustainable Water Supply.”
Hometown: Houston, Texas
Major: Language and brain development
Tobi will use this fellowship to conduct research in both the neurology of developmental disabilities and natural language processing of functional data within disability.
Hometown: Clarence, New York
Major: Neuroscience
Allen will spend the summer at the University of California-San Francisco, where he either will work in a lab that develops invasive brain computer interfaces or one that lies in the intersection of neuroscience and engineering.
Hometown: Clarence, New York
Major: Neuroscience
Allen will use his scholarship money toward next year’s tuition.
Hometown: Honeoye Falls, New York
Major: Biology
Audrey plans to use her scholarship money toward next year’s tuition.
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Major: Anthropology
Jacqueline is heading to Amman, Jordan, this summer to study Arabic.
Hometown: Oberlin, Ohio
Major: Economics and international relations
John is headed to Xi’an, China, where he will study Chinese.
Hometown: Washington, D.C.
Major: Health, behavior & society
Joy will travel to Arusha, Tanzania, this summer to study Swahili.
Hometown: Roseville, California
Major: Voice performance (Eastman) and US-Middle Eastern cultural diplomacy (Take Five)
Garrett will be undertaking a PhD in education, with a focus on the socioloty of education during times of war.
Hometown: Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
Major: Philosophy, brain and cognitive sciences
Levan will be undertaking a PhD in biological science at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.