Four CU students win fellowships for study in Germany

Appignani	Lin
Toth	Deinert

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

Two students have been awarded the prestigious DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) annual grants. The award packages cover round-trip air travel, tuition and fees and 10 monthly stipends for the academic year 2004-05.

This year's DAAD winners are:

Yuliya Komska, a native of Ukraine and Ph.D. candidate in German Studies. She plans to investigate what she calls the "border narratives of expelled Germans in the wake of 1945" and "the legacy of the post-1945 expulsion of 12 million ethnic Germans from the former 'German East.'"

Julien Appignani, a graduating senior and College Scholar. He will spend the year in Berlin where he plans to "conduct research on the relation of philosophical and literary texts to music at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th ... with Beethoven as a liminal figure who stands uncomfortably between two eras of European cultural history."

The competition for these fellowships is open to Cornell graduating seniors and graduate students (including prospective postdocs) from all academic units of the university.

Two students are recipients of Cornell/Heidelberg Exchange Fellowships and will spend the year at the University of Heidelberg. The fellowships cover tuition and fees at the university and 10 monthly stipends.

The Cornell/Heidelberg winners are:

Jack Han-Hsing Lin, graduating senior and double major in biology (molecular and cell biology) and economics. He will continue his study of biology, concentrating on neurobiology and human physiology, working mainly with Heidelberg's medical faculty.

Linda Toth, graduating senior and triple major in government, German studies and comparative literature. She plans a career in law. A native of Hungary, she will concentrate mainly on Eastern European law while in Heidelberg, but expects to explore European law (Europarecht) and international law as well.

The fellowship competition is open to advanced undergraduate and graduate students from all the university's academic units.