2009-10

• Elizabeth Lamoste - CC '10

2009-10

• Ilya Belopolski, CC'12 (Honorable Mention)

  Ilya Belopolski, a sophomore double major in Physics and Mathematics and also a Rabi Scholar from New Canaan Connecticut, was designated as having received honorable mention.  Ilya plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Astrophysics, researching gravitational-wave astrophysics and then intends to teach at the university level.

• Max Horlbeck, CC'11

  Max Horlbeck, a junior double major in Biochemistry and Computer Science and a Rabi Scholar from New York City, has won the Goldwater Scholarship.  Max plans to pursue an M.D./Ph.D. program so that he can conduct biomedical research to develop gene-targeted therapies, treat patients, and teach at the university level.

2008-09

• Adrian Haimovich - CC '10 (Honorable Mention)
• Alex Perry - CC '11
• Arianne Richard - CC '10
• Noam Prywes - CC '10

2007-2008

• Mollie Schwartz, CC '09

  A native of Danville, Pennsylvania, Mollie Schwartz is majoring in Chemical Physics.  An author on three papers already as a junior, Mollie seeks to pursue a Ph.D. in Physics with a focus on experimental research in fluid dynamics.  She currently works in the lab of Professor Horst Stormer where she studies and fabricates grapheme, a one atom thick, hexagonal lattice of carbon atoms.  In her spare time, she plays Debussy’s preludes on the piano and does Akido.  She is also a food buyer in a local food cooperative, Beit Ephraim.

• Swarup Swaminathan, CC '09
  A native of Howell, New Jersey, Swarup Swaminathan is majoring in Biochemistry. He seeks to pursue an M.D./Ph.D. with the Ph.D. in Protein Biochemistry/Molecular Biophysics. He is working in the lab of Professor John Hunt, where he studies the role of nucleotide cyclic diguanylate in the virulence pathway of Vibrio cholerae. He is a certified EMT and a member of Columbia EMS. Active in the Hindu Students Organization, Swarup plays the harmonium and is the recipient of a New Jersey Folk Arts Apprenticeship grant for the past two years. He also is a disc jockey on WKCR, hosting an Indian Classical music program and directing the world music department.

2006-2007

• Geoff Fudenberg, CC '08

  Geoff Fudenberg is a junior Biophysics major from Lexington, MA who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Systems Biology/Neuroscience. He intends to conduct quantitative research of biological processes and teach in academia. Geoff is also a Rabi Scholar and has already presented papers at scientific conferences.

2005-2006

• Claire Lackner, CC '07
• Natalie Leong, SEAS '07

2007-2008

• Rudi Batzell, CC '09

2004-2005

• Gillian Osborne, CC '06

2008-09

• Wei Wei Hsing, CC '08

2009-10

• Matthew Franks, CC '09

2006-2007

• Christian Balmer, CC '07

  Christian Balmer, a graduating senior from Mt. Kisco, NY, is an art history major who plans to use this fellowship to further his language skills so that he may conduct research on Casper David Friedrich.

• Gregory Wing, CC '07
  Gregory Wing, CC ’07, is a history major from Myersville, Maryland. He will use the fellowship to pursue his interest in German area studies.

2009-10

• Benjamin Henderson - Turkish (Turkey)
• Claire Chamberlin - Chinese (China)
• Eli Keene - Russian (Russia)
• Erica Drennan - Russian (Russia)
• Katie Bentivoglio - Arabic (Tunisia)
• Kevin Sun - Russian (Russia)
• Krizia Lopez - Chinese (China)
• Laura Mills - Russian (Russia)
• Leah Goodman - Arabic (Oman)
• Nathaniel Schenkkan - Turkish (Turkey)
• Peter Licursi - Turkish (Turkey)

2008-09

• Austin Tyler - Chinese (China)
• Deysy Ordonez - Chinese (China)
• Grace Zhou - Russian (Russia)
• Jenny Kim - Korean (Korea)
• Jessica Jeong - Arabic (Egypt)
• Justin Vlasits - Arabic (Tunisia)
• Michael Fu - Chinese (China)
• Samantha Ritter - Hindi (India)
• Sarah Ferguson - Arabic (Egypt)
• Sierra Perez-Sparks - Russian (Russia)
• Stephanie Russell-Kraft - Turkish (Turkey)
• Supreet Minhas - Punjabi (India)

2008

• Anna Wood, CC '10 - Turkish
• Benjamin Grohsgal, CC '08 - Bangla
• Crisitian Gonzalez-Cabrera, CC '10 - Arabic
• Doris Carrion, CC '09 - Arabic
• Meredith Craven, CC '10 - Arabic
• Sierra Perez-Sparks, CC '09 - Russian
• Tania O'Conor, CC '10 - Chinese
• Tess Rankin, CC '10 - Turkish
• Thomas Rosenberg, CC '08 - Hindi
• Yasmin Kahan-Groves, CC '10 - Arabic

2009-10

• Cristian Gonzalez

2010-11

• Adebola Adeniran, SEAS '11
• Jonathan Dentler, CC'11

2009-10

• Anna Couturier, CC'10
• Jordan Selig, CC'10

2008-09

• Brittany Hazelwood - CC '09
• Greta Levy - CC '09
• Taylor Cowdery - CC '09

2007-2008

• Lisa Chen, CC '08

  A native of Columbus, Ohio, Lisa Chen majored in Materials Science and Engineering and pursuing a concentration in German.  She is using her DAAD fellowship to pursue a Masters in Materials Science and Metallurgy at the Technische Universitat Berlin.  An active member of Engineers Without Borders, Lisa has also done scientific research at the Advanced Metals laboratories of the University of New Mexico.  Lisa was also the president of Columbia’s Moy Yee Jung Fu club and a freelance violin teacher.

• Matthew Birkhold, CC '08

  A native of Stillwater, Minnesota, Matthew Birkhold majored in German Literature and Cultural History and pursued a concentration in Art History.  He seeks to combine these fields in his professional life as he intends to become a professor of German Art History.  On the DAAD grant, he is pursuing a Masters degree in German Studies.  His research is on Die Brucke artists and Berlin specific feuilletons written from 1900-1930 and their representations of modernity and landscape.  When he was not studying German art, Matthew was the Assistant Manager of the CU Orchestra in which he played the Violin.  He was also a head tutor at the DoubleDiscoveryCenter and a member of the Columbia Badminton club.

2006-2007

• Max Rosenberg, CC ’07
  Max Rosenberg, CC ’07, is from Washington and majored in art history. He plans to spend the year at Freie Universitat in Berlin. He will examine the works of Kurt Schwitters, the artist’s role in the DADA movement, and his relationship to Weimar culture.
• Susanna Berger, CC '07
  Susanna Berger is a senior from California and a double major in Philosophy and Art History. She plans to use her year in Germany to research the influence of Immanuel Kant and his notions of the noumenal realm on early 19th century German painters. She is particularly interested in looking at Caspar David Friedrich and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. She hopes to study at the Freie Universitat in Berlin.

2011

• Erin Glennon, CC '12
• Ian Allen, SEAS '12
• Sara Zukowski, SEAS '12

2009-10

• Adebola Adeniran, SEAS '11

2009

• Hun-Bing Tan, SEAS '11
• Simon Thompson, SEAS '10

2008

• Jason Eckstein, SEAS '09
• Ying Liu, SEAS '09

2007

• Andrei Petrenko, CC'08

2006

• Laura Baur, CC'06

2008-09

• Jacob Johnson

2008-09

• Ira Stup, CC '09

2009-10

• Chase Hensel, SEAS '10

2009-10

• Nishant Batsha, CC'10

2009-10

• Amanda Parsons - CC '10

  Amanda will attend the University of Oxford for two years to pursue a Masters of Philosophy in Evidence-Based Social Intervention.

• Charles Clavey - CC '10

    Charles will attend the University of Cambridge for two years to pursue a Masters of Philosophy.

2008-09

• Daniel Blank - CC '09
• Rudi Batzell - CC '09

2007-2008

• Andrew Ollett CC '08
  Andrew Ollett studied classics at Columbia.  He is currently working on an M.Phil at Oxford in Comparative Philology with a focus on indo-iranian languages and greek.
• Marbre Stahly-Butts, CC '08

  Marbre was an African-American Studies major and Human Rights concentrator at Columbia. She is currently completing her MSc in African Studies at Oxford. Her concentration is currently on Southern Africa. At Oxford she has continued her undergraduate interest of looking at subaltern views of history via literature and oral tradition.

2006-2007

• Susanna Berger, CC '07
• Tim Shenk, CC '07

2005-2006

• Jacob Stulberg, CC '06
• Rachel Lesser, CC '06

2009-10

• Grace Zhou, CC '10
• Sarah Ngu, CC '12

2007-2008

• Anthony Pascua, CC '10
• Destin Jenkins, CC '10
• Erica Lee, CC '10
• Lien Hoang, CC '10
• Melissa Im, CC '11
• Samuel Waldo, CC'10
• Tyler Pruce, CC '10
• Valerie Sapozhnikova, CC'10

2006-2007

• Alexandra Dalferro, CC '09
• Eduardo Gonzalez, CC '09
• Emily Kate Rosenberg, CC '09
• Robyn Andrea Carrie Burgess, CC '10

2005-2006

• Bryan Lee, CC '08
• David Jahn, CC '09
• Jonathan Kief, CC '08
• Vinny Wong, SEAS '08

2009-10

• Adam Bazari, CC'10 (Indonesia ETA)
• Alex Jung, CC'07 (South Korea)
• Alexander Harris-Hertel, CC'10 (Germany ETA)
• Amanda Erikson, CC'08 (Azerbaijan ETA)
• Caitlin Lynch, CC'10 (Brazil ETA)
• David Nee, CC'08 (Austria)
• Deysy Ordonez, CC'10 (Macau ETA)
• Emilie Wright-Rosenblatt, CC'08 (Venezuela)
• Jamie Johns, CC'10 (China)
• Jonathan Blitzer, CC'09 (Spain)
• Matt Franks, CC'09 (Germany ETA)
• Natalie Neumann, CC'10 (Mongolia)
• Paige Johnson, CC'10 (Indonesia ETA)
• Rachel Vishnepolsky, CC'10 (Poland)
• Zoe Towns, CC'09 (The UK)

2008-09

• Alexandra Dalferro, CC '09 - Thailand
• Andrew Lyubarsky - CC '09 - Teaching Assistantship Argentina
• Andrew Scheineson - CC '09 - China
• Benny Shaffer - CC '09 - China
• Cyrus Moussavi - CC '09 - The Netherlands
• Emma Hulse - CC '09 - Guatemala
• Hannah Lee - SEAS '09 - Norway
• Hoda Rifai - SEAS '09 - Syria
• Holly Cronin - CC '08 - Canada
• J.J. Stranko - CC '06 - Mexico
• John King - CC '08 - Georgia
• Nicolas Frisch - CC '08 - China
• Tina Wadhwa - CC '07 - India
• Tom Rosenberg - CC '08 - Sri Lanka

2007-2008

• Alana Teman, CC '08 - Taiwan Teaching Assistantship
• Geoff Aung, CC '08 - Thailand
• Henry Pederson, CC '08 - India
• Jeremy Dell, CC '06 - Mali
• Jesse Feinberg, CC '07 - Spain
• Kevin Connell, CC '07 - Indonesia
• Lisa Chen, CC '08 - Germany
• Madison Condon, CC '08 - Netherlands
• Max Staley, CC '08 - Hungary
• Michael Dreyfuss, CC '08 - France
• Molly Thorkelson, CC '07 - Chile
• Peter Wiegand, CC '08 - Hong Kong Teaching Assistantship
• Ronald Towns, CC '08 - Spain Teaching Assistantship
• Virginia Gao, CC '08 - Switzerland
• Zachary Rose, CC '07 - Belgium

2006-2007

• Ben Parisi, CC '07 - Egypt
• John Haskell, CC '07 - China

  John Haskell is a senior Comparative Literature and Society major from New Haven, CT. John will conduct research on the Hui Muslim population of Yunnan province, where emergent technology is rapidly restructuring how people interact and affiliate. He will write an ethonography of a Chinese speaking Muslim society at a key moment of change. By focusing on Kunming’s Islamic book trade and the culture of internet cafes, he will study how the deployment of modern communications technology gives rise to new social architectures. Upon returning, he will pursue a Ph.D. program in Anthropology.

• Jonathan Brilliant, CC '07 - China

  Jonathan Brilliant is a senior Art History and Linguistics major from MillValley, CA. Taking the publicity surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a case study, John will analyze the rhetorical and aesthetic influences of Cultural Revolution propaganda on contemporary Chinese visual culture. In doing this, he will compare current posters and billboards with earlier propaganda as a means of gauging the status of the Cultural Revolution in Chinese public memory. Upon returning, he will pursue graduate work in Chinese and Art History to pursue a career in cross-cultural exchange in the arts and cultural heritage.

• Paul Morton, CC '07 - Hungary
• Phoebe Connell, CC '05 - Sweden
• Shounan Ho, CC '07 - China

  Shounan Ho is a senior double major in Economics and East Asian Studies from Los Angeles, CA. Her research will examine how the revitalization of the Northeast Chinese rustbelt has affected the region’s urban working women. She will gather oral histories of these women through interviews and will analyze the area’s labor statistics and literature to ascertain sociological and economic shifts. Upon returning, she will pursue a joint degree in law and business to prepare for a career that will foster development and corporate responsibility in China’s poorer regions.

• Susanna Berger, CC '07 - Germany
  Susanna Berger is a senior from California and a double major in Philosophy and Art History. She plans to use her year in Germany to research the influence of Immanuel Kant and his notions of the noumenal realm on early 19th century German painters. She is particularly interested in looking at Caspar David Friedrich and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. She hopes to study at the Freie Universitat in Berlin.

2005-2006

• Dara Raskin, CC '05 - Zambia
• Ian Bateson, CC '06 - Austria
• Ingrid Haeckel, CC '06 - Mexico
• Jeremiah Marble, CC '00 - Costa Rica
• Katharine Gerbner, CC '06 - Germany
• Laura Baur, CC '06 - Germany
• Liesle Yamaguchi, CC '06 - Finland
• Lorenzo Bakewell Stone, CC '06 - Portugal
• Matthew Sarnecki, CC '04 - Czech Republic Teaching Assistantship
• Minou Arjomand, CC '06 - Germany

2009-10

• Shlomo Bolts - CC '10

  I am a Columbia University student from Miami Beach, Florida and will soon complete a double major in Political Science and Sociology. Within these disciplines, I specialize in religion, conflict resolution, and globalization. I am currently completing my Political Science honors thesis, which uses globalization as a lens through which to study religious politics in Israel and Turkey. Specifically, I apply the theory of denationalization, conceived by my thesis advisor, the Lynd Professor of Sociology, Saskia Sassen. Last summer I won a grant from the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life to assist Professor Alfred Stepan, the Sayre Professor of Government, in his research on religion and toleration.

  Eventually, I hope to work toward peaceful resolution of major world conflicts, and this goal is reflected in my current activism. I co-founded Common Ground, a Jewish-Muslim dialogue group, and was president of Columbia’s Progressive Jewish Alliance. I am also deeply involved in Columbia’s Amnesty International Chapter, serving on the Board of Directors as Research Coordinator, Urgent Action Coordinator, and Webmaster. This past summer, I was a fellow with Uri LTzedek, an Orthodox Jewish social justice group, and before that served as a grant writer for Work America, promoting economic opportunities in impoverished communities. I am also an avid folk dancer, and enjoy games of basketball and chess. I would like to thank my family, teachers, and friends who have brought me to this point.

2008-09

• Caroline Robertson

  Caroline Robertson, a senior from Chicago, Illinois, has majored in both Neuroscience and Religion, with a focus on philosophy and ethics. She has worked as a research assistant in neuroscience and philosophy departments since she was seventeen, at the University of Chicago, Columbia, and Cambridge. In the fall, she will return to Professor Simon Baron-Cohen’s laboratory and the Autism Research Center to begin a PhD on the neurobiology of autism. After completing her PhD, Caroline will pursue a clinical degree and balance a life of research with a life of practice. She became interested in coupling research with clinical work during her second year at Columbia, when she trained to become a Rape-Crisis and Domestic Abuse counselor. She now serves in this capacity in ten hospital emergency rooms in Manhattan and Queens. Caroline has studied classical oboe for twelve years and currently serves as the principal oboist of two orchestras and chamber groups.

   

• Emily Jordan, CC '09

  Emily Jordan, a senior from Chicago, Illinois, has double majored in psychology and anthropology.  She became fascinated by neuroscience while conducting independent laboratory research.  Her honors thesis project, completed in the Champagne Psychobiology and Neuroscience lab, shows how social enrichment can impact the brain and behavior of mice so that animals with enriched experiences exhibit more appropriate social behaviors.  At Cambridge, Emily will continue studying the brain in Professor Trevor Robbins’ lab in the department of Experimental Psychology.  Her graduate research will focus on how impulsive behavior develops in rats, and how impulsivity contributes to addiction and can be transmitted across generations.  After earning a PhD, Emily will become a professor of neuroscience.

2008-09

• Thomas Sun

2006-2007

• Swarup Swaminathan, CC '09

  Swarup Swaminathan is a sophomore Chemistry major from Howell, NJ who seeks an M.D./Ph.D. upon graduation from Columbia. He has done extensive emergency medicine volunteer work in Bangalore, India with the Comprehensive Trauma Consortium (CTC) and is in the process of structuring their paramedic and layman training programs, which he plan to do during this upcoming summer. He is also performs classical Indian music on the harmonium.

2009-10

• Amanda Benavides, CC'10

2008-09

• Gabrielle Apollon

2007-2008

• Julian Smith-Newman, CC'08

2006-2007

• Eleonora Encheva, CC '07

2005-2006

• Kate Brassel, CC '06

2009-10

• David Vega-Barachowitz, CC'10
• George Baison, CC'10

2008-09

• Matthew Franks - CC '09

2007-2008

• Matthew Spinelli, CC '08

2006-2007

• Demetri Blanas, CC '07

2005-2006

• Philip Cartelli, CC '06

2008-09

• Erin Meyer - CC '09
• Kinara Flagg - CC'06

2007-2008

• Kevin Coco, CC '05
• Matthew Birkhold, CC '08

2006-2007

• Alex Feerst, CC '98

2005-2006

• Clark Gard, CC '03
• Eric Requenez, CC '04

2009

• Ira Stup, CC '09
• Sara Canby, CC '10

2006-2007

• Jason Bello, CC '08

  Jason Bello is a junior Political Science-Economics major from Sudbury, MA. He is a President of the Political Science Students’ Association and Co-President of Gayava, an organization for LGBT Jews and Allies. Jason is also the publisher of the Columbia Political Union and the historian of the Black Students Organization. In his spare time, he stars in a television show called The Careless Cook on CTV which teaches students how to cook gourmet meals on a budget.

2005-2006

• Melissa Sum, CC '06

2006-2007

• Laura Gladstone, CC '07
  Laura Gladstone, a major in physics from Eugene, OR, was awarded the 2006 Kirsten R. Lorentzen Award for her accomplishments in her discipline

2009-10

• Julio Perez, CC '11

2010-11

• Chris Beam, CC'06

2009-10

• Colin Felsman, CC'09

  Due to my parents’ careers in international development, I spent the majority of my youth abroad, living in the Philippines, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and now South Africa. This substantial exposure to the Southern African region has in part shaped my academic focus and grants me a unique angle from which to evaluate the challenges associated with urban areas in developing countries. As a double major in political science and anthropology at Columbia University, I complemented my studies through positions at several non-profit organizations, including Africa Action, Mercy Corps and the Institute for Democracy in South Africa. During my semester abroad in Buenos Aires, I expanded these intellectual interests by conducting research on development plans and political mobilization in Villa 31, the city’s largest slum. From this experience, I gained personal insight into the complexities that surround urban poverty as well as how these issues are closely intertwined with the larger challenges of achieving sustainable economic growth and integrating marginalized communities into society. Over the past eight months, I have worked for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) based out of Zimbabwe. During my tenure at IOM, I have assisted in the development and implementation of an integration strategy for populations displaced by political violence, natural disasters and land reform. I am excited by the opportunity to apply lessons I have learned thus far to the context of Southeast Asia and contribute in some small way to the work of a local organization dedicated to issues of urban poverty and international development.

• Shira Milikowsky, CAS '07

  Shira Milikowsky is a free-lance theater director who specializes in dark comedies and radical re-imaginings of musicals and classic plays. She also develops original work, bringing together outstanding groups of actors and designers to create collectively devised projects.  Shira received a BA in theater studies from Yale, and an MFA in directing from Columbia. Her MFA thesis project, The Golem, was an original play based on the Jewish folktale that she created collaboratively with the company. Her graduate work also included directing Tennessee Williams’ little-known avant-garde play, The Gnädiges Fräulein, as well as her own deconstruction of Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard called Still Life. Since her graduation from Columbia, Shira has directed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival (Big Money, written by Kyle Jarrow and Nathan Leigh), The New York International Fringe Festival (Mourn The Living Hector, by Paul Cohen, winner of a 2008 Fringe Excellence Award) and extensively at Ars Nova, where she was named the first-ever Director-in-Residence.  Shira is a Drama League directing fellow, and the recipient of the Boris Sagal Directing Fellowship, and Manhattan Theatre Club’s Jonathan Alper Directing Fellowship. She is currently a resident artist with famed avant-garde company Mabou Mines, where she’s developing a new play based on the life and work of Joe Orton. Shira assistant directed the Tony-award winning revival of Hair, and will be collaborating with Hair Director Diane Paulus once again this spring, when she serves as the associate director on the world premiere of Johnny Baseball at the American Repertory Theatre.

   

2008-09

• Jeffrey Miller, CAS '09

2007-08

• Sean Colenso-Semple, CC '07

2010-11

• Anna Feuer, CC'11

  An English major from Los Angeles, Anna will be attending Oxford next fall where she will spend her first year pursuing a Masters in Global and Imperial History followed by a Masters in English Literature in her second year.  Her area of specialization will be on the unique interactions between Irish and Indian writers during the early part of the twentieth century. 

2009-10

• Raphael Graybill - CC '10

2008-2009

• Samuel Daly, CC '09

   

  Samuel Fury Childs Daly of Milwaukee, Wisconsin will graduate with a B.A. in African Studies and History. Much of his time as a Columbia student has been spent abroad, and he will return to the UK to pursue an MSt in history and an MSc in African Studies at Oxford. Samuel’s research interests are in late colonial and early postcolonial Anglophone Africa, and he hopes to study the development of Sungusungu vigilante justice movements in Tanzania. He is currently writing his senior thesis on the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution. He previously studied Swahili and history at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania on a David L. Boren Scholarship, and Yoruba at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria on a Fulbright-Hays Advanced Language Study program.

2007-2008

• Emma Kaufmann

  Raised in Carlisle, PA, Emma Kaufmanl graduated from Columbia University in 2008 with degrees in Philosophy and Gender Studies. Emma serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism, founded a volunteer program in Harlem, and competed on the nationally-ranked mock trial team. Committed to exploring the relationship between gender and justice, she has worked at the Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, SIECUS, and Planned Parenthood. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, Emma interviews inmates and advocates for prison reform with the Correctional Association of New York. She is reading for an M.Phil in Criminology at the University of Oxford.

2006-2007

• Paul Sonne, CC '07

  Paul Sonne, a native of Loudonville, New York, graduated from Columbia University in 2007 with a degree in Russian language and literature. At Columbia, he founded The Birch, the first undergraduate journal of Eastern European and Eurasian culture in America. The editor-in-chief of the Columbia Political Review, Paul has worked as an intern at the United Nations, New York magazine and the Moscow Bureau of the New York Times. In 2006, he received an Eesti-Eurasia Fellowship, which allowed him to spend the summer in Tbilisi, Georgia as a fellow in the Presidential Administration of Mikheil Saakashvili. He won first place in the 2003 National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest and second place in the 2004 competition. At Oxford, Paul is pursuing a degree in Russian and Eastern European studies.

2008-09

• Oswaldo David Diaz - CC '09

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2009-10

• Tania O'Conor, CC'10

2008-09

• Megan Hosein, CC '09

2009-10

• Kyle Jurado, CC'10
• Maria Abascal, CC'09
• Rebecca Bellovin, CC'08
• Samuel Gershman, CC'07
• Sweta Agrawal, CC'09

2008-09

• Alice Wang, CC'07
• Christopher Schell, CC'09
• Elliot Blair, CC'03
• Molly Flaherty, CC'04
• Oren Ziv, CC'07
• Sonya Dumanis, CC'07

2007-2008

• Eileen Sun, SEAS '08

  Eileen Sun is a Biomedical Engineering student with a Tissue Engineering track. Her influential undergraduate research experiences have motivated her to pursue a career in research and academia. She has conducted research on coral genetics in Dr. Andrew Baker’s laboratory (at Columbia University’s CERC); spatial dependence of the fibronectin 7-10 domain in Dr. Michael P. Sheetz’s laboratory (at Columbia’s Department of Biological Sciences); anisotropic diffusion of supported lipid bilayers on nanopatterned substrates in Dr. Lance Kam’s laboratory (at Columbia BME); and targeted gene delivery of biodegradable nanoparticles to MDA breast cancer cells in Dr. Robert Langer’s laboratory (at MIT ChemE/BME). Applying her engineering training to the integrative discipline of virology, she intends to conduct research on how modulations in membrane parameters—stochiometric clustering, spatial distance, and receptor peptide sequence/motifs—confer differential susceptibility of the targeted cell to non-enveloped virus entry. In fall 2008, she began her Ph.D. studies at Harvard’s Program in Virology.

• Julia Kalow, CC '08

  A native of Newton, Massachusetts, Julia is majored in Chemistry and Creative Writing.  A Goldwater Scholar, Julia worked in the lab of Professor Jim Leighton in a synthetic chemistry research group.   She is also an accomplished flautist and a dancer as well.  She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemistry.

• Maxim Pinkovskiy, CC '08

  Maxim Pinkovskiy of Brooklyn, New York is an Economics-Mathematics major.  A Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, Maxim is pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics next year.  A past winner of both the Feigenbaum Prize for Literature Humanities and the Shenton Prize for Contemporary Civilization, he is currently working on a paper on the estimation of world distribution of income, global poverty rates and the income inequality.

2011-12

• David Ma, CC'14
• Elizabeth Angeles, CC'13
• Sherill Marie Henriquez, CC'13

2010-11

• Tieisha Tift, CC'13

2010

• Rebecca Chan, CC'12

2009

• Michael Enciso, CC'12 - China

2008

• Mia Lewis, CC '10 - Japan

2007

• Samuel Daly, CC '09 - Tanzania
• Stephanie Denzer, CC '09 - Argentina

2006

• Caroline Gillam, CC'07 - China
• Jacob Weaver, CC'07 - China

2010-11

• Jason Kim, CC'08

2007-2008

• Maxim Pinkovskiy, CC '08

2009-10

• Alison Rohrs, CC'07
• Eric Huh, CC'10

2010-11

• Sara Vogel, CC'09

2009-10

• Gabriela Jara, CC'10
• James Williams, CC'08

2009-10

• Raphael Graybill - CC '10

  Raphael Graybill of Great Falls, Montana is a Political Science major who has worked extensively for Senator Max Baucus, Raphael plans to pursue an MPhil in Politics with a specialization in Political Theory at Oxford.  He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2008, currently works as an auxiliary police officer here in Manhattan, and is also the captain of Columbia’s Ski and Snowboard Racing team.  After the scholarship, he plans to pursue a career in public service and politics in Montana. 
  

2008-2009

• Jisung Park, CC '09

  Jisung has conducted innovative research on tropical rainforests in Queensland, Australia – inspiring his senior thesis: Carbon Credits for Reduced Deforestation – A Dynamic Model of Costs and Benefits. He serves on the editorial board of Consilience, a journal of sustainable development and has been a research assistant for Professors Jagdish Bhagwati and David Lee. He is a bass singer in an a capella group on campus and also plays on the male practice squad of our women’s basketball team. An energetic and engaging cultural ambassador, Jisung spent his junior year studying at Oxford and has taught English in Korea. He will return to Oxford to pursue an M.Sc. in Nature, Society, and Environmental Policy – allowing him to pursue his passion for sustainable development.

   

2007-2008

• George Olive, CC '08
• Jason Bello, CC '08

2009-10

• Matthew Sohm, CC '06

2009-10

• Jordan Hirsch - CC '10

2009

• Chase McCaleb, CC '10

2010-11

• Mollie Schwartz, CC'09

2008-09

• Candace Mitchell - CC '09

2007-2008

• Julie Raskin, CC '08

  Julie Raskin hails from Chicago, but has enjoyed studying and living in New York for the past several years. She graduated from Columbia in 2008 with a degree in Urban Studies, but also spent a good deal of time studying environmental science and policy at Columbia. For the past two years she has served as president of CoreFoods—a student-run organic food grocery store/ co-op. She has also been involved with various other student groups, including the Columbia Eco-Reps, and Students for Environmental and Economic Justice. At Columbia she lives in a special interest community called “Potluck House”—a co-operative-type community that specializes in sharing delicious food, hosting quirky events, and weekly potluck dinners. In her free time she enjoys biking around the city. Last summer she worked for Transportation Alternatives—a bike-advocacy group—and wrote her senior thesis about bicycle policy in New York City. She is excited about Mayor Bloomberg’s recent PlaNYC initiatives to promote environmentally sensible transportation and is hopeful that bicycling in NYC will become safer and more

• PJ Berg, CC '08

  PJ Berg is a double major in Urban Studies and Spanish. He first became interested in municipal government as an intern at the New York City Department of Small Business Services, where he worked on an initiative to revitalize commercial streets in the five boroughs. He subsequently interned at Enterprise Community Partners, one of the nation’s largest non-profit organizations dedicated to the development of affordable housing. Fluent in Spanish, PJ studied geography for a semester at the University of Chile, where he learned about economic and social issues facing Latin American cities. PJ is excited to begin a career in public service and pursue his goals of working in urban planning and real estate development.

2007-08

• Nhu-Y Ngo, CC '09

  A native of Lincoln Nebraska, Nhu-Y Thi Ngo is majoring in history and political science. Passionate about immigrant rights, she has worked to insure that immigrants have equal access to American democratic processes, policies, and programs. She has worked for the U.S. Department of Justice in their Voting Section of the Civil Rights division as well as for the Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest.  She has interned at the Organization of Chinese Americans as well as at the Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote. She will pursue a law degree and a Master of Public Policy in order to be a more effective community advocate.

• Sarracina Littlebird,

  A native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sarracina Littlebird is an Environmental Biology major and Dance concentrator at Columbia. Inspired by her American Indian background, she seeks to protect the rights and cultures of Native peoples living in the United States. Concerned with the sustainable management of natural resources and the legal frameworks that support such endeavors, Sarracina will pursue a J.D. and found a public interest law firm dedicated to championing the rights of Native peoples and their communities.  Her previous work experience in these areas includes scientific research with the Environment Division of the Bureau of Reclamation and paralegal work with a special emphasis on Indian Law.

2006-2007

• Ronald Towns, CC '08

  Ron Towns, a Statistics major with an education concentration from Detroit, Michigan is committed to fighting educational inequity. He plans to pursue a career in Education Law. At Common Cents, his curriculum enabled students with special needs in 30 public schools to participate in community service. He wrote a report commissioned by the House Committee on the Judiciary on current civil rights violations, and founded the CU Model UN Educational Series, which provides free conferences and enhances students’ critical thinking skills.

2010

• Hannah Perls, CC'11

  Hannah Perls is a junior from Weston, MA who is majoring in Environmental Science and pursuing a concentration in Sustainable Development.  She intends to become a climate scientist who will devise new and improved mechanisms to forecast how climate change affects water, agriculture, and human health.  She has worked in the past for Representative Ed Markey’s Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.  She also represented Columbia at the Global Honors College at Waseda University in Tokyo last summer in the program’s pilot year.  She is currently studying abroad in Nepal.

• Todd Nelson, CC'12

  Todd Nelson is a sophomore from Winston-Salem, NC who is pursuing a double major in Environmental Science and History. He envisions earning a Ph.D. in Environmental Public Health and then working as a policy advisor at the national level who will seek ways to decrease the public health risks associated with climate change.  Todd is a member of the Columbia Eco-Representatives, the Green Umbrella and is a member of Columbia’s Triathlon club team.

2009, Honorable Mention

• Kate Redburn - CC '10

  Kate Redburn of San Francisco, California is an American History and African Studies major, focusing on the ways historically oppressed people exert power from a position of relative weakness. At Columbia, she has been involved in several social justice organizations, and this Spring she founded the Columbia chapter of the Student Farmworker Alliance, working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to improve labor benefits for tomato pickers in Florida. She plans to pursue a career in public interest law, specializing in land use rights.

2008

• Hannah Lee, SEAS '09

  Hannah Lee of San Jose, California is majoring in Earth and Environmental Engineering.  She plans to pursue graduate study and career in sustainable development at the intersections of new technologies and public policy.  She has been an intern at the Earth Institute and is the President of Columbia’s Eco-Represenatives.  She is also the co-founder and managing editor of Consilience, the journal of Sustainable Development.  Hannah recently represented SustainUS, as a youth delegate at the U.N. Climate Negotiations Conference in Bali, Indonesia.

   

2008-09

• Ayla Bonfiglio, CC '09