By Jill Goetz
The Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies has been awarded to three Cornell seniors and one recent graduate.
The recipients of the prestigious award, which includes a $13,500 stipend and covers a year of graduate school tuition and related fees, are seniors Eric Chwang, a philosophy major, who will pursue graduate study in philosophy at Princeton University; Jon Miller, a double major in religious studies and Asian studies, who will study Buddhism at Yale University; Rosamond King of Potomac, Md., a double major in the College Scholar Program and in English, who will study comparative literature at New York University; and Paige Shipman '94 of Westerville, Ohio, who will study history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Chwang has been named to the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's List for each of his eight semesters at Cornell. He is a member of the Golden Key, Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Kappa national honor societies.
Miller's Cornell activities have included presenting a paper titled "Romancing the Mountain: Nostalgia and the Exotic in Contemporary Kunisaki" at the New York Regional Conference on Asian Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is member of the Golden Key National Honor Society.
King has written for the Cornell Daily Sun and has served as director of the Uhuru Kuumba Dance Ensemble. A former Telluride Scholar, she has served as a communication intern with the International Red Cross.
At Cornell, Shipman's activities included serving as a team leader for Wilderness Reflections, an annual outdoors program for incoming freshmen. She also studied in Asia while enrolled at the university.
Ninety-five Mellon Fellowships were awarded from more than 900 applicants for the 1996-97 academic year in a range of fields, from anthropology to Spanish literature. The awards are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and were announced on April 12 by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, which is based in Princeton, N.J. Ten Cornellians applied for this year's Mellon Fellowships, and five were interviewed.
More than 1,400 Mellon Fellowships have been awarded over the past 14 years to college seniors and recent graduates of outstanding promise, with the goal of encouraging and assisting them in joining the humanities faculties of America's colleges and universities.