DAAD fellowships

Students are awarded prestigious fellowships for study in Germany

Nine 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.

Deinert

Students again harvested a bumper crop of the prestigious DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) annual grants, Deinert announced. The award packages cover travel, tuition and fees and 10 generous monthly stipends for the academic year 2003-04. The competition is open to graduating seniors and graduate students (including prospective postdocs) from all academic units of the university. This year's winners are:

Virginia Doellgast, a graduate student in industrial and labor relations (ILR), who will undertake a comparative study of the impact of regional inter-firm networks on employment practices in Germany and the United States;

Erica Doerhoff, graduate student in German studies, whose year abroad is funded by the Berlin Parliament, will continue her investigation of the role played by intellectuals of the Weimar Republic as reflected in radio, newspapers and journals;

Ian Greer, graduate student in ILR, who will focus on a comparative analysis of Germany and the United States, on union strategy in the context of globalization and industry restructuring.

Ryan Luginbuhl, graduating senior in neurobiology and behavior, who will spend the year at the University of Goettingen, continuing his investigation of insect vision;

Michelle Moyd, graduate student in history, who was awarded a grant to pursue her interest in the "askari" phenomenon in the former German colony of East Africa;

Jonathan Padgham, graduate student in plant pathology, who will spend the year as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bonn, working on biological control of plant parasitic nematodes; and

Casey Servais, graduate student in German studies, who will spend the year in Berlin planning to assess the oppositional status of several novels published in Germany during the period of the Third Reich.

Two Cornell students will spend the year at the University of Heidelberg under the auspices of the Cornell/Heidelberg Exchange Program. The winners are:

Margarita Petrova, graduate student in government, who will continue her exploration of "civilian community" versus "combatant community," with particular focus on the recent military action in Kosovo and Afghanistan; and

Camilla Welsch, graduating senior and double major in English and German, who will continue to pursue her interest in European intellectual life, with special emphasis on legal culture in contemporary Germany.

May 22, 2003