Recent Student Achievements
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| Martha Norrick '07 has been appointed to Community Board 9 by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer for a two year term. As one of 50 members on the board, Norrick will take part in creating long-term plans for community development. The board is charged with making recommendations to Mr. Stringer and the City Planning Committee on such issues as zoning, land use, and development. She is excited about serving on the board now, while Columbia's Manhattanville expansion plan is set to change the history of the neighborhood. "Local politics are not as glamorous, but it's absolutely the best place to learn how to organize people, and that is a skill set that is essential on all levels of government," she says. |
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| Three Barnard students have won Gilman scholarships for study abroad next year. Terra Holman '08, an economics major, will spend the fall in Durban, South Africa through Interstudy. Shareese Pryor '08, a political science major, will study in the fall on Boston University's International Honors Program and in the spring in South Africa through SIT (School for International Training). Anna Morgan '08, a Spanish and Latin American cultures major, will spend the fall in Ecuador through Pitzer College and the spring elsewhere in Latin America. |
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| Economics major Wendy Chan ’08 and Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures major Catilin Fitzpatrick ’08 have been awarded prestigious Institute of International Education (IIE) Freeman-Asia Scholarships. The Freeman-Asia award supports students who choose to study in East or Southeast Asia for the summer, semester, or academic year. Both Chan and Fitzpatrick will study in China this summer on the Columbia in Shanghai program. |
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| Hannah Elmer, '06, a Medieval and Renaissance Studies major, has been awarded a Fulbright grant for a year of study and research in Austria. For her research project, Hannah plans to examine representations of the monstrous in two Middle High German poetic renditions of the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus: "der Urstende" and "Christi Hort". After her Fulbright year, she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Germanic languages and linguistics. |
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 Junior art history/visual arts major Marissa Sher has won the Coluccio Salutati Award, a competitive academic award that Syracuse University in Flroence gives each semester to five students.The award is intended to inspire students to aim for the highest level of integration into the Italian culture, as well as academic achievement through their preparedness for class, their excellence in written/graphic assignments, and their outstanding performance in examination. The five students were selected out of 40 students nominated by their faculty. |
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| Lauren R. Eni '08, an economics history major, has been selected to attend the International Scholar Laureate Program Delegation On Business In China. Lauren will attend this program from June 5 through the 16th. The program travels to the major business centers of Shanghai, Beijing and Suzhou, providing delegates with a global perspective of the business, economic and trade practices in China. |
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| Dana Greenfield '06 has been awarded a Fulbright grant for a year of study and research in New Zealand. Dana, a double major in anthropology and biology, will do a comparative socio-cultural study of intersex infants in New Zealand and the United States. After her Fulbright year, which will begin in February 2007, she plans to go on to graduate school in medicine or anthropology. Among her recommenders were Professor Lesley Sharp and Professor Kristen Shepard. |
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| Sarabeth Berman '06, has been named a Luce Scholar. The Luce Scholars Program provides stipends and internships for fifteen young Americans to live and work in Asia each year. Dating from 1974, the program's purpose is to increase awareness of Asia among future leaders in American society. Sarabeth, who is from Newton, Massachusetts, is an urban studies major with a concentration in the performing arts. She plans to work in the international performing arts community, and after her Luce year plans to attend graduate school in business arts administration. |
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 Rosara Torrisi '09 has been chosen to attend the International Association of Religious Freedom World Congress Meeting in Taiwan from March 22nd through March 30th. Rosara was nominated and selected to serve as one of the Youth Representatives for the Unitarian Universalist Association for the entire United States. |
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| Two Barnard students have received Gilman Scholarships to study abroad this spring: Mariam Banahi, '07, a Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures major, will continue attending CIEE in Amman, Jordan as part of her year-long participation in this program. Ebonie Smith, '07, an Africana Studies major, will attend Dickinson College in Cameroon. There were 940 applications for 231 possible awards. |
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 Sara Berkowitz '07, an English major studing in London this semester, is one of four students blogging about her experiences on the website BlogAbroad.com. BlogAbroad.com, which began in spring 2004, seeks to share students' first-hand accounts of living around the world to assist future study abroad students. Berkowitz, who will study at Kings College, began her blog with her love of Barnard: "I love my school. People who ask me where I go to college have no idea what they’re in for, as they are usually subjected to an hour long admissions commercial about why Barnard is the perfect school for anyone who wants to study anything." Read more at BlogAbroad.com.
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Julia Sandell
Sarah Schmidt
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Two Barnard students, Julia Sandell '07 and Sarah Schmidt '06, presented posters at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, DC, held from Jan 8-12, 2006.
Julia Sandell, who did summer research at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, presented `Extra-Disk Star Formation: A Comparison of VLA HI and GALEX UV data.' Sarah Schmidt, who did summer research at the AMNH Planetarium, presented `Activity and Kinematics of Ultracool Dwarfs.' In addition, alumna
Kaitlin Kratter '05 gave a talk: `Massive protostellar disks: gravitational fragmentation?',
Laura Newburgh '03 presented a poster: `Q U Imaging Experiment for Detection of the CMBR Polarization' and associate professor
Laura Kay presented a poster: `Seyfert 2 Galaxies Uncovered with Keck Spectropolarimetry' |
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| An article by Barnard graduate Natalie Arkus (which started as a Barnard Senior Thesis, Spring 2003) is #4 in Science Direct's Top 25 articles written on Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Her article, "A mathematical model of cellular apoptosis and senescence through the dynamics of telomere loss," orginally appeared in the July 2005 issue of the "Journal of Theoretical Biology" and can be read online here. |
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| Robyn Schneider ’08 was recently interviewed by writer's website absolutewrite.com about her experience as a young novelist. Schneider is the author of the forthcoming young adult “chick literary” novel Better Than Yesterday (Random House/Delacorte). She is the creator of the website "Correspondences with YA Fiction Agents" and co-curator of the Barbes Reading Series. A member of YA Author Blogs, Robyn keeps a popular blog called Queued Paper, about being a “reluctantly-stereotyped 19-year-old chick lit writer trying to navigate life in New York City.” |
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 On April 12, 2005, Alexis "Lexie" McNaughton participated in Oxygen's "Mentors Walk," a promotional event which paired up up-and-coming young women with already-going women for a walk through Central Park. McNaughton was paired with Gerry Laybourne, the Chairman/CEO of
Oxygen. McNaughton called the opportunity incredible because Laybourne was was receptive to her and
to her ideas and also introdcued her to Alison Bernstein from the Ford Foundation. "We were given an unparalleled opportunity to--literally--follow in the footsteps of some of New York's (and the nation's) most strong and empowered women!," she says. "It was truly an event echoing the collectively encouraging and estrogen-centered spirit of Barnard! |
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| Susanna Dilliplane '05, a political science major, was a Fellow at the Center for the Study of the American Presidency this year. She wrote a paper for the Center which won the Marron Award, in recognition of the best historical analysis of any paper submitted. |
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| 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... |
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| Several Barnard students are the recent recipients of prestigious fellowships and awards.
Elizabeth Kovach and Nausheen Akhter have been named Fulbright fellows. Molly Weiner, a biochemistry major, has received a Goldwater scholarship. And three students working on public interest issues—
Manmeet Kaur Bindra,
Lyudmila Gorokhovich and Maria Fitzgerald—
have been selected as Arthur Liman Public Insterest undergraduate Fellows. More... |
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| Senior Lauren Hunter, a psychology major, is the winner of the 2004 Abroad View poetry competition. Her poem "she saw a whale" was published in the Spring 2005 issue of the magazine and is available in pdf format here. Hunter participated in SIT’s Durban, South Africa reconciliation and development program in 2004. |
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| A travel essay by junior Catherine Fairbaim received second place in the Glimpse Fall 2004 Writing Contest, "Foregone Conclusions." Glimpse Magazine publishes first person, cultural experience pieces written by students and others living abroad. Click here to read the essay "Cinderella and the Seven Dwarves." |
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Barnard alumna Margaret Mead`23 once said that " A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Once again, Barnard students have taken this message to heart and are volunteering their time to end homelessness in New York City in partnership with Common Ground Community's Street to Home Initiative. More...
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| Minki Jung '06, studying abroad at St. Peter's of Oxford University, has been selected to participate in a conference in Berlin, Germany, entitled "Bringing Home the World." The retreat will bring together hundreds of Americans abroad for a weekend of workshops, speakers, and discussions focused on techniques for raising global consciousness in the United States. It is coordinated by Americans for Informed Democracy, a non-partisan educational organization that seeks to raise awareness in the United States about world opinions. |
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 About 150 Barnard students attended a screening of the Presidential Debate in the Millicent McIntosh Center on October 13. The event was sponsored by "Smart Women Vote," a new campus group started by Jen Sokoler and Maria Fitzgerald at the Young Women's Leadership Conference at Barnard. Next up, the group will be involved in many get out the vote efforts, as well as an Election Returns party the night of the election. Post-election, they plan to host panels and speakers - women elected positions, women in civic engagement, to show that women need to be involved in politics at all levels. |
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 Anna Czaplinski '06, president of Barnard's Polish Club, marched in the Pulaski Day Parade along with the club and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (pictured, right) on October 3. A junior majoring in East Central European Regional Studies with a concentration on Poland, Czaplinski is also a dancer and assistant director of the Polish American Folk Dance Company of Brooklyn, NY. |
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A news feature co-written by Lara Friedrich '08 appears in the Fall 2004 issue of Ms. Magazine, on newstands now. The feature explores sexual assault in the military and the government's role in attempting to diminish its occurrence. | More... |
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| On Friday, September 10, the Barnard community gathered for a ceremony in commemoration of the third anniversary of September 11th. President Shapiro placed flowers under the memorial red bud tree, and Audra Noble '05 presented a poetry reading. | More... |
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| Eight rising sophomores and juniors received scholarships for study abroad over the summer months or for the fall term. The number of scholarships, ranging from $2,500 for the summer break to full tuition for a semester, represents the largest ever for the College, part of an ongoing effort to raise Barnard's participation in awards for this purpose. | More... |
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Kaity Trinidad '05, an Urban Studies major, has been named a 2004 Clark Foundation Fellow. Established in 1995, the Clark Foundation Fellowship Program provides grants to undergraduate students to assist them in pursuing careers in community-based nonprofit organizations in New York City. | More... |
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| Prizes, Fellowships, and Honors announced at the Barnard College Honors Assembly | More... |
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