Six CU students win 2002-03 fellowships for study in Germany

Six Cornell students have won distinguished fellowships for 2002-03 for study in Germany, announced Herbert Deinert, Cornell professor of German studies, who administers the two exchange programs on behalf of Cornell.

Four of the students won fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The fellowships are among the most prestigious funded by the German government. The successful candidates will spend the academic year studying and researching at German universities. The fellowship package contains full tuition and fees, 10 generous monthly stipends, round-trip air transportation and smaller amounts, including book allowances.

Each package is worth a Cornell equivalent of about $40,000. Cornell, in its turn, awards tuition and fees stipends to three German graduate students who will come to Ithaca in the fall.

The DAAD fellowship winners from Cornell are:

Amalia Herrmann, a graduate student in German studies, who will spend the year at the Hoelderlin Archive in Stuttgart to analyze the editorial history of the poet's late and unfinished poetry.

Thomas Irvine, a graduate student in music, who will be at the Bavarian State Library in Munich studying early printed sources of Mozart's chamber music and comparing them to the extant autographs.

Damon Lee, a graduate student in music, who has been invited by composer Sandeep Bhagwati at the Hochschule fuer Musik, Karlsruhe, to participate in his Media Music Composition Program.

Alene Onion, a senior biology major, who was invited by Elisabeth Gross, a former Cornell post-doc now at the University of Konstanz, to join her research team. She will investigate the chemical communication between a certain freshwater plant and its herbivore.

Two Cornell students will spend the year at the University of Heidelberg under the auspices of the Cornell/Heidelberg Exchange Program. This fellowship includes full tuition and fees and 10 monthly stipends. Two graduate students from the University of Heidelberg will come to Cornell in the fall.

The Cornell winners of Heidelberg Fellowships are:

Darina Stankeyeva, a senior biology major, who will continue her work in biology and health services, in addition to work in German literature.

Emily Wolfe, a junior majoring in English and German, who will engage in a full program of studies concentrating on German literature and history.

Applications for both programs usually are invited early in the fall term and posted campuswide, said Deinert, and he emphasized that the programs are open to students from all schools and colleges at Cornell.