Recent Student Awards, Fellowships and Honors
Christie Auw '06 (an Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures major) and Amy Inagaki '07 (an English major) have been awarded summer Freeman-Asia grants for study in Beijing. Pilar Chen Li, '07 (East Asian Studies major) has been also awarded a
Freeman-Asia Scholarship to attend the CIEE program in Shanghai this Fall. The Freeman-Asia award supports students who choose to study in East or Southeast Asia for the summer, semester, or academic year. Eight Barnard students (including this year's three) have received the award in in the last two years.
Yevgeniya (Jane) Rubinshteyn '07 (Economics major) has been awarded a Gilman Scholarship to attend the London School of Economics for the 2005-06 academic year. The Gilman International Scholarship Program provides awards for US undergraduate students who are receiving federal Pell Grant funding to participate in study abroad programs worldwide. There were 1303 applications for 281 possible awards. Manmeet Bindra '05 has received a Third Millennium Foundation Human Rights Fellowship from Columbia's Center for the Study of Human Rights. Three Columbia students received the honor, but Bindra was the only undergraduate among them. | more...
Jessica Alpert '03 has received a prestigious Fulbright grant for a year of research on oral history of the Jewish community in El Salvador. | more...
Barnard sophomore Eman Bataineh has been named a 2005 Goldman Sachs Global Leader and is one of 20 finalists from 26 top colleges and universities in the United States and Canada who will compete among the hundred students chosen worldwide for a place at the prestigious Global Leadership Institute sponsored by Goldman Sachs each year. | more...
Elizabeth Kovach, an English major with a concentration in Film Studies, has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship. Fulbright Fellows undertake self-designed programs in a wide range of disciplines -- social sciences, business, communication, performing arts, physical sciences, engineering and education -- at institutions around the world. Kovach will do a teaching assistantship in Germany.
A double major in English and in Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Nausheen Akhter, '05, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship grant for a year of study and research in Bangladesh. Akhter's research and coursework will be in the field of economic development, and her project will focus on how women working in the textile industry in Dhaka have been affected by the changing dynamics of the Bangladesh economy.
Molly Weiner, '07, a biochemistry major, has been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship. the Goldwater is a federally funded program designed "to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering." Molly plans to pursue an MD/PhD program, with a specialization in oncology.
Three Barnard students— Manmeet Kaur Bindra, Maria Fitzgerald and Lyudmila Gorokhovich—have been selected as Arthur Liman Public Insterest undergraduate Fellows. The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School supports undergraduate and law students working in the public interest. Brown, Harvard and Yale undergraduates have been a part of the undergraduate summer fellows program. In this inaugural year of Barnard's participation.
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