Student Academic Achievements

Undergraduate

AISC/Klingelhofer Scholarship
Douglas Sackin ’98 (BA and BS in civil engineering and computer science engineering)

2005 LeRoy Apker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
Matthew Paoletti '05 (mathematics and physics)

Creon Minimicrospheres Family Scholarship
Hannah Kaczka ’06 (cystic fibrosis)

Datatel Scholarship
Kristen Hawley ’98 (two-time recipient – education and English)
Michelle Dombeck ’05 (English and comparative humanities)

Gates Millennium Scholarship
Desiree Chinnery ’02 (management)
David Cao ’04 (electrical engineering)

Goldwater Scholarship
Kelly Sperow ’91 (chemistry)
Ryan Hartman ’92 (physics)
Dana Lehr ’93 (math and physics)
John Andersen ’93 (electrical engineering and mathematics)
Christina Golini ’94 M’96 (chemistry)
Jennifer Rutherford ’95 M’96 (chemistry)
David Wensel ’97 (biochemistry)
Joshua Smith ’99 (mathematics)
Kori Anderson ’99 (chemical engineering)
Stephen Grimes ’99 (mathematics)
Rebecca Hutchinson ’02 (computer science engineering)
Robert Rhoades ’05 (mathematics and physics)
Elizabeth Skubak ’09 (math, computer science and classics minors)
Bryan Ward '11 (computer science and engineering, and mathematics)

Fellowships for Gifted Rising Seniors Majoring in German
Nate Young ’06 (German and psychology)

National Geographic Society internships
Bethany Haines '08 (geography)
Lauren Anderson '09 (geography)

St. Andrew’s Society Award
Melissa Spinelli ’97 (art and English)
Brian Schultz ’98 (biology)
Mary Schoen ’04 (civil engineering)


Graduate

Council on Undergraduate Research Academic-Industrial Undergraduate Research Partnership
Cozette Cuppett ’97 (chemistry)

Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals Program
Christopher Fox ’05 (mechanical engineering)

Fulbright Fellowships (by class year prior to 2003)
Amy Anderson ’92 (English and German – Germany)
Melissa Eddy ’92 (English and French – German news media
Christopher Retzler ’93 (economics and Latin American studies – Bolivia)
David Soll ’93 (history and Spanish – Dominican Republic)
Elizabeth Addonizio ’94 (international relations and Spanish – El Salvador)
Joel Wainwright ’95 (environmental studies – Belize)
June Yi ’96 (education and English – Korea)
Megan Kull ’98 (Spanish – Korea)
Jesse Heatley ’99 (East Asian studies and international relations – Korea)
Dawn Lonsinger ’98 (English and studio arts, MA’00, English – Korea)
Erik Shumar ’00 (East Asian studies and international relations – Korea)
Stephanie Sturm ’01 (international relations and German – Germany)
Melinda Lemke ’01 (secondary education — Korea)
Jairus Rossi ’02 (biology — Korea)
Chris Hainge ’02 (East Asian studies and religion — Korea [alternate])

Fulbright Fellowships (awarded by year)
2003 Karen Forgione ’99 (English and theatre — Norway)
2004 Emily Ostrom ’04 (German and English — Germany)
2005 Justin Russo ’05 (German and international relations — Germany)
2010 Sarah Beckham Hooff '10 (environmental studies — Russia)
2011 Lauren Godfrey '11 (music performance — Austria)
2011 Jennifer Welch '11 (education — China)

Guggenheim Foundation Award Grant for playwriting
Susan Miller MA’70

Jacob Javits Fellowship
Cathy Darrup ’95 (English and interdepartmental studies)

Clare Boothe Luce Scholars
Merrilee Lemon ’95 (chemical engineering and international relations)
Christine McCallum ’95 (chemical engineering)

Luce Scholarship
Justin Zackey ’94 (biology and geography – China)
Elizabeth Addonizio ’94 (international relations and Spanish – named a Luce Scholar in 1999)

MacArthur Fellowship
Amanda Swarr ’95 (women’s studies)

James Madison Memorial Fellowship
Melinda Lemke ’01 (secondary education)

Marshall Scholarship
Sarah Bush ’89 (animal behavior)
Michael Suarez ’82 (biology and English)
Jerry Eberhart ’77 (psychology)

NSF graduate fellowships
Erich Uffelman ’84 (chemistry)
Susan Weinberg Margulis ’82 (elementary education)
Michael Kelly ’82 (English)
Gwen Grabowski Krivi ’72 (animal behavior)
James Green ’73 (psychology)
Jeannine Strobl-Seibert ’74 (biology)
Linette Poyer ’75 (English and geology)
Maryann Brandt Weinstein ’73 (psychology)
Robert Moyer ’66 (psychology)
Wilmer Schnure ’66 (electrical engineering)
William Weller ’66
Charles Furst ’64
Donald Dewsbury ’61 (psychology)
Nancy Nuernberg Smith ’65 (psychology)
Mary Chilton Latham ’99 (mechanical engineering)
Rebecca Hutchinson ’02 (computer science and engineering)
Eric Charles ’00 (animal behavior)
Nathan David Contrella '11 (chemistry)

2003 NSF graduate fellowships
Kristen Lloyd ’98 (mechanical engineering)
Emily Monahan ’03 (mechanical engineering)

2004 NSF graduate fellowship
Vanessa Hull ’04 (animal behavior)

2005 NSF graduate fellowship
Rob Rhoades ’05 (mathematics)

2000 NSF honorable mentions
Eric Charles ’00 (animal behavior)
Laura Curry Sobkowitz ’86 (economics)
Mark Fogleman ’00 (mechanical engineering and physics)
Travis Harkness ’00 (electrical engineering)

2001 NSF honorable mentions
Elizabeth Addonizio ’94 (political science)
Jennifer Schmitt ’99 (marine biology)
James Stack ’01 (mechanical engineering)
Lynne Waldman ’01 (molecular biology)

2002 NSF honorable mentions
Olivier Putzeys ’02 (mechanical engineering)
Katherine Nowak ’01 (animal behavior and psychology)

2003 NSF honorable mentions
Jennifer Bower ’03 (mechanical engineering)
Kathryn Wharton ’02 (animal behavior)

2005 NSF honorable mentions
Jill Warker ’03 (psychology)
Joel Martin ’04 (cell biology/biochemistry)
Craig Beal ’05 (mechanical engineering)

2011 NSF honorable mentions
Samantha Ann Clark '10 (biomedical engineering)
Nathan David Crosby '10 (biomedical engineering)
Samantha Ann Deffler '10 (neuroscience)
Kara Kristina Schroepfer '05 (animal behavior)
Risa Marie Wright '08 (animal behavior)

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
James Stack ’01 (mechanical engineering)
Christopher Plaue ’02 (computer science)
Alexander Perkins ’05 (mechanical engineering)

Pfizer Summer Research Fellowship
David Wensel ’97 (biochemistry)

Rhodes Scholarship
Matthias Schubnell '77
Michael Buresch

Leon J. Rhodes Scholarships from the Hawaiian Foundation of Honolulu
Peter Puccia '81 (economics)
David Kaplan '81 (biology and philosophy)

Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship
Laura Cardinal ’02, studied African development at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania
Aimee Gallagher ’03 (biology and French) studied at University of Dakar, Senegal
Melissa Anselmo '07 (biology) studied at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand

Transatlantic Exchange Summer Internship Program
John Bednaraz ’05 (computer science and physics)

Truman Scholars
Todd Buchholz ’83 (economics)
Susan Ellison ’92 (economics)
Lauren Howard ’92 (interdepartmental studies)
John Stinchcombe ’96 (biology)

Udall
Todd Gleason ’99 (biology and political science)

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation’s Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Autumn Fiester ’88 and MA’96, Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at University of Pennsylvania; “Perceptual Failure, Character and Culpability”

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Dissertation Grant in Women’s Studies
Donna Rubinoff ’71 (geography), Ph.D. candidate at University of Colorado: “Cybernetworking and Rural Development in Latin America: Creating Development Opportunities for Rural Women”