Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri
Major: psychology, English
Sophie will be an English teaching assistant in North Macedonia.
Hometown: Hershey, Pennsylvania
Major: Spanish as undergraduate, master’s program Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Jonathan will be an English teaching assistant in Mexico.
Hometown: Schenectady, New York
Major: Applied music (percussion), brain and cognitive sciences
Hannah will be in Sweden studying improvisation, pedagogy, percussion, and composition. She’ll also direct a high school percussion ensemble.
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Major: Applied music (flute)
Benton will be an English teaching assistant in Taiwan.
Hometown: Warwick, New York
Major: Biochemistry
Madeline is headed to Denmark to study/research applications for LPMO enzymes in photobioreactors for conversion to biomass to ethanol.
Hometown: Rochester, New York
Major: History
Daria was selected for an English teaching assistantship in Turkey but has declined to pursue a master’s degree in history at Oxford.
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland
Major: Linguistics, computer science
Graeme will be an English teaching assistant in the country of Georgia.
Hometown: York, Pennsylvania
Major: Neuroscience
Allison will conduct research at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Munich, investigating changes in microglia (an immune cell in the brain) as it relates to Alzheimer’s disease.
Hometown: Rochester, New York
Major: Optical engineering
Nicole is going to Spain to be an English teaching assistant.
Hometown: Rochester, New York
Major: Optical engineering
Andrew will head to Morocco for research critical to his dissertation on the expulsion of the Moriscos from Andalusia, Spain, in 1609, and their migration and resettlement in early Morocco.
Hometown: Norwich, Vermont
Major: Russian
Siobhan will be an English teaching assistant at a Russian university.
Hometown: Rochester, New York
Major: Microbiology
Rachel is headed to South Korea to be an English teaching assistant.
Hometown: Stow, Massachusetts
Major: Psychology, Russian
Forrest will enter a doctoral program in public policy at Northeastern University, where he will study social and economic inequalities.
Hometown: Queens, New York
Tara is a doctoral student in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and will continue as a graduate research assistant in professor Stephen Wu’s lab.
Hometown: Buffalo, New York
Trevor will continue working in the Krauss Group, studying the photophysics of carbon nanotubes.
Hometown: Born in Paris, France, but raised in Chicago, Illinois
Omid will continue his research at the University’s Department of Biology, studying the parallel evolution of wings in aphids to understand why some convergent traits evolve by similar or different genetic changes.
Hometown: Medellin, Colombia
Davis is working on his doctorate in bioorganic chemistry and will use his fellowship to pursue new methods to conduct chemistry in a more environmentally friendly manner, using enzymes.
Hometown: San Diego, California
Carla is pursuing a doctoral degree in condensed matter physics and plans to use piezoelectric-driven mechanical strain to control the topological properties of 2D transition metal ditellurides (TMDs).
Hometown: Palo Alto, California
Major: Neuroscience, psychology
Melissa will be conducting sports neuroscience research at Paderborn University in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Her project investigates the relationship between sports performance and cortical process by using mobile neuroimaging techniques.
Hometown: Lafayette, Louisiana
Major: Mechanical engineering
Jack will be working at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Neustrelitz, helping with the development of a positioning method based on multiple Global Navigation Satellite Systems.
Hometown: Monroe Township, New Jersey
Major: Biochemistry
Nivedita will be working in the department of molecular immunology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Her project will be to delete two genes in primary mouse B cells involved in B cell and plasma cell development.
Hometown: Gliwice, Poland
Major: Computer science
Bartek will be at the University of Konstanz implementing techniques for batch processing of distance and shortest path queries on large graphs using the MapReduce framework.
Hometown: Lima, Peru
Major: Mechanical engineering, studio arts
Kimberly will be working on the development and testing of a user-friendly toolkit to support decision-making in foresight at Karlsruhe Institute for Technology.
Hometown: Binghamton, New York
Major: Chemistry
Renee will be working at the University of Hanover on a chemistry project involving iron complexes with switchable properties for data storage.
Hometown: Rochester, New York
Major: Computer science, engineering science
Patrick will be working at the University of Hamburg on underwater autonomous robots.
Hometown: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Major: Data science
Stephen will be working at the University of Potsdam on a project studying the discourse function of question tags in the German language using computational machine learning approaches.
Hometown: Lalitpur, Nepal
Major: Computer science
Aman will be at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, researching how wearable devices that track daily activities can impact privacy.
Hometown: Lisbon, Portugal
Major: Biomedical engineering
Leonor will be at the University of Kaiserslautern, investigating the anti-inflammatory and antitumoral properties in callus cultures of certain plant species.
Hometown: Woodstock, Maryland
Major: Chemistry
Jisoo will be at Ulm University, working on the development of Co(III)-based hydrogen evolution reaction catalysis, which can be introduced on the carbon nanomembranes via dynamic covalent bonds.
Hometown: Fairview, Pennsylvania
Major: Brain and cognitive sciences
Bryce will be spending the summer at Humboldt-University of Berlin using psychophysical methods and EEG to study the interactions of cognitive attention and eye movements.
Hometown: Shanghai, China
Major: Computer science
Sifan is in the DAAD RISE Professional program, performing research for a business instead of a university. He will be working on a communication interface for the Robot Operating System for Siemens in Munich.
Hometown: Douala, Cameroon
Major: Chemical engineering
“Togetherness for Peace,” will take place in Douala, Cameroon from mid-July to mid-August. The program will focus on peace and restorative justice education, entrepreneurship skills, and community engagement.
Hometown: Chingola, Zambia
Major: Electrical and computer engineering
Hometown: Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Major: Chemical engineering
“Peace Through Entrepreneurship” will establish a greenhouse farming business for teen-aged girls from Tanzania who are at risk of quitting school and entering jobs that may place them in peril.
Hometown: North Brunswick, New Jersey
Major: chemistry, Spanish
Julian will be spending the summer at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas beginning in early June. His research will focus on chemically synthesizing small-molecule drugs to target disease-causing biological pathways.
Hometown: Bainbridge Island, Washington
Major: Physics and astronomy
Natalie will be working this summer at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, and use her scholarship toward her senior year’s tuition.
Hometown: McMurray, Pennsylvania
Major: Chemical engineering
Daniel will continue working on a project in advanced materials with professor Mitchell Anthamatten and use the scholarship money to support his research.
Hometown: Old Saybrook, Connecticut
Major: Physics, applied math
Adina’s projects have focused on optimizing the fabrication of qubits. She’ll perform an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) at Purdue this summer and use her scholarship money toward tuition.
Hometown: Coppell, Texas
Major: Physics
Alexander is headed to Belgium for studies in carillon performance, history, composition.
Hometown: Elmira, New York
Gabrielle is a doctoral candidate in musicology and her project is titled “Sounding Socialist, Sounding Modern: Music, Technology, and Everyday Life in the Soviet Union (1956-75).”
Hometown: Glenview, Illinois
Major: Political science
Jin will attend the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley this summer.
Hometown: Shanghai, China
Beixi is pursuing a master of public health degree at Rochester’s School of Medicine and Dentistry. As a Scharzman Scholar, she’ll concentrate in public policy and plans a career in preventive medicine, with a focus on children.
Hometown: Albany, New York
Major: International relations, public health
Susan will be attending George Washington University in Washington, D.C, this fall to pursue an MPH in global health.
Hometown: Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
Louis is a first-year doctoral candidate, and the first University computer science student to win this award. The 2017 graduate of Bloomsburg University will use the fellowship to further his research at Rochester. For his doctoral thesis, he hopes to exploit the emerging persistent memory technologies to enhance productivity and performance of fault-tolerance mechanisms in high performance computing.
Hometown: Chestnut Ridge, New York
Alex is the second Rochester student to win this fellowship, and one of five chosen this year. He is a graduate student in the Department of Physics, and the fellowship will fund his research at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics in the High Energy Density Physics research group.