Among 182 scholars and artists designated to receive this years John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships are Penn faculty members Hai-Lung Dai, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of Chemistry, who will study chemical reaction control, and Robert Blair St. George, Ph.D., Professor of Folklore and Folklife, who will study the spoken language and oral poetics in early New England.
Penn students selected for international study grants as Fulbright Fellows this spring include, in the graduate division:
David
Haney, Architecture, who will study in Germany;
Bruce
Baird, East Asian Languages and Literature, in Japan;
Solimar
Otero, Folklore and Folklife, in Nigeria;
Nicholas
Sawicki, History of Art, in the Czech Republic; and
Jeanne
Nugent, History of Art, in Germany
Undergraduate Fellows include:
Katrin
Fraser, Asian and Middle-Eastern Studies, in Korea;
Kristina
Herbert, Biochemistry/Biophysics, in Germany;
Miriam
Joffe-Block, Anthropology, in Thailand;
Laura
E. Robbins, History, in Spain;
Adam
Kaufman, Management and Technology, in Mexico; and
Christopher
Murray, Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, in
Mexico.
About 10 additional Fulbright applications were pending at press time, according to Clare Cowen, advisor for graduate scholarships abroad.
Originally published on May 4, 2000