Ten students awarded Fulbrights

Ten Cornell students are awarded Fulbright grants for 2004-05

Ten Cornell students have been awarded the prestigious, government-funded Fulbright grants for the 2004-05 academic year.

Fifty-seven Cornell seniors and graduate students applied for the grants. Of the 10 students who received Fulbrights, two declined -- one in order to accept a Fulbright-Hays doctoral dissertation fellowship. The remaining Fulbright recipients will be studying in Germany, Israel, Austria, China, Bangladesh, Switzerland, Nigeria and Bulgaria.

The Fulbright recipients for 2004-05, along with their degrees, class years, hometowns, states or countries, project titles and countries of study, are:

Bethany Collier (declined Fulbright, accepted Fulbright-Hays doctoral dissertation fellowship), Ph.D. '06, musicology, from Pittsfield, Maine, "Narratives of Power and Influence: Renon, Bali's Gamelan Gong Beri"; Indonesia.

William Fork, J.D. '05, from Rolling Hills Estates, Calif., "Comparative German and American Energy Law"; Germany.

Adam Fox, MPS '04, environmental studies, from Boca Raton, Fla., "A World Apart? Geohydrology in Israel's Hula Valley and the Florida Everglades"; Israel.

Joshua Gernold, B.S. '04, international relations, from Orchard Park, N.Y., "Diplomatic Academy Grant"; Austria.

Andrew Joseph, Ph.D. candidate, linguistics, from New York City, "Endangered Manchu-Tungus Languages of China"; China.

Keisuke Nakagawa, B.A. '04, public health, from La Cañada, Calif., "Economic and Cultural Influences on Child Care Practices in Bangladesh"; Bangladesh.

Christina Tavoularis, Ph.D. '05, electrical engineering, from Ottawa, Canada, "Scalable Topologies in Ad Hoc Networks"; Switzerland.

Joshua Tetrick, B.A. '04, Africana studies, from Springfield, Mo., "Implementing the CRC: Indigenous Children and the Right to an Education"; Nigeria.

David Toal, B.S. '04, hotel administration, from Elmer, N.J., "The Effects of International Visitors on the Bulgarian Domestic Tourism Industry"; Bulgaria.

Julien Appignani (declined grant), B.A. '04, from Cambridge, Mass.

Fulbright grants and Fulbright-Hays fellowships are awarded on a nationally competitive basis to U.S. citizens, nationals and permanent residents who are graduate students or will have earned their bachelor's degrees prior to September 2003. Fulbright grants are for research abroad. Fulbright-Hays grants are specifically for students who will be conducting dissertation research overseas. Both grants cover travel and living costs, any necessary tuition at overseas universities, health insurance and a variable research allowance for the projects.

The Fulbright and the Fulbright-Hays programs at Cornell are managed by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, 170 Uris Hall. For more information, call 255-6370 or visit http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu.

An informational meeting for students applying this year for Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays grants in 2005-06 will be Friday, Aug. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in G08 Uris Hall.

July 29, 2004