| Each year, the dean of the UO College of Arts and Sciences awards scholarships to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students. The generous contributions of alumni and friends make these scholarships possible. Students are especially appreciative of these awards, which often enable them to work fewer hours and focus more of their time on the research projects that are meaningful to them. In 1998-99, eighteen students received awards in recognition of their academic excellence.
Kyen Waldron, an undergraduate mathematics major, received the Mildred Braaten Archibald Scholarship in Science and Math. Waldron, who recently completed an internship in topology and differential geometry, hopes to become a math professor.
The Arts and Sciences Scholarships were awarded to Andrew Jost and Anna Rose Shope. Jost, a chemistry major, plans to continue his education through the doctoral level. Last year, he worked in Dr. Tom Steven's lab researching cell functioning. Shope, a Robert D. Honors College student, is majoring in philosophy with a pre-medical emphasis, which support her career plans as a primary care physician. "In order to be an effective primary care giver, I want to know about medicine, and I also want to know about human thought and knowledge," she says.
Carla McNelly, Bonni Cermack and Christopher Hundhausen were honored with the Mary Chambers Brockelbank Scholarship. McNelly, a post-baccalaureate student studying romance languages, received her first bachelor's degree in computer science in 1985. After working as a manager for ten years, she returned to the UO to study her true passion -- languages. Her goal is to fluently learn one language every ten years. Cermak, a graduate teaching fellow and doctoral student in history, is researching legislation of sexual assault in the U.S. during the twentieth century. Hundhausen, a former Fulbright Scholar, received his Ph.D. last spring and now holds a position at the University of Hawaii. He is interested in how humans and computers communicate in order to build user-friendly computer software.
Three undergraduates, Nancy Hart, Adam Woodworth and Jeremiah Heller, and two doctoral students, David Sandner and Robyn Carpenter, were recipients of the Everett Del Monte Scholarship. Hart, a religious and medieval studies major, would like to obtain a Ph.D. in comparative literature and teach at the university level. Woodworth is a general science major with three minors: chemistry, biology and psychology. Not only has he maintained over a 4.00 GPA, but also last year he received the UO Outstanding Achievement in General Chemistry Award. Heller, a mathematics major, is a teaching assistant for a freshmen-level math course and also uses his fluency in Spanish to help local high school math students. After graduation, Heller plans to obtain his Ph.D. and eventually hopes to teach and do research at the university level. Sandner, a graduate teaching fellow pursuing his Ph.D. in English, is researching the development of imaginary or fantastic literature during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, otherwise known as the "fairy way of writing." He is the author of one book, and many published articles, stories and poems. Carpenter, a first-year doctoral student in political science, is specializing in international relations and is especially interested in finding out how people come to identify with particular groups, how these patterns of identification are changing, and what this implies for conflicts or cooperation.
Shimon Tanaka and Penelope Heinigk received the Risa Palm Graduate Fellowship, which supports outstanding graduate CAS scholars. After completing a master's degree in English and teaching a year of high school English in California, Tanaka came to the UO to obtain his M.F.A. in creative writing. Many of his stories involve characters of Japanese descent, which he feels to be very important to his own life and exploration of identity. Upon finishing his masters, he hopes to write, possibly in Japan, and complete a collection of stories. Heinigk, a Ph.D. candidate in Germanic languages, is examining literary and cinematic texts from the 1880s to the 1920s for her dissertation on industrial influence on German culture. Recently, she discovered an archive of railroad literature at the University of Dortmund in Germany of which her scholarship will help fund her on-site research.
Susan Vincent and Joshua O'Donnell received the Dorothy Jane and William Joseph Green Foreign Languages Scholarship. Vincent recently graduated with an undergraduate degree in Germanic languages with a Scandinavian focus. O'Donnell is a romance languages major with a focus on Italian studies. Traveling is an integral part of his education, and he has worked and studied in many different places throughout the world including Alaska, Mexico, Ecuador, Ireland, Spain and Italy.
Michael Pebworth, a graduate student in history, and Florence Jurney, a doctoral student in romance languages, had their work acknowledged with the John and Naomi Luvaas Graduate Award. Pebworth, a graduate teaching fellow, is specializing in U.S. environmental history. Jurney, who is working toward a doctoral degree in French literature, received her bachelor's degree in English and American literature from the Sorbonne University in Paris. She hopes to eventually teach French at the university level.
The Susan Winn Memorial Scholarship went to Katherine Hulpke, a post-baccalaureate student. Katherine began her college career at the UO in 1988 graduating with a degree in English. She taught special education for three years, before returning to the UO, where she is now majoring in physics and linguistics with an anthropology minor. She hopes to obtain her Ph.D.
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