Four earn Javits Fellowships in humanities, fine arts

Peter Michalik, a 1997 graduate of Cornell in English and history, has won a 1998 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in humanistic studies. He joins three current and former graduate students from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning who also won Javits Fellowships for 1998.

The Javits Fellowship Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, provides up to $15,000 per year for up to four years of graduate study leading to the doctorate or the master of fine arts degree in selected fields in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Michalik will study English literature in the Ph.D. program at Harvard University beginning in fall 1998. He also was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, but declined it in favor of the Javits.

Also winning Javits Fellowships were:

·Mark Parsons, who will receive his MFA from Cornell in May. Parsons will teach sculpture classes at Cornell this summer before moving to New York City to work full-time as a sculptor.

·Jill Magid, who received her BFA in sculpture from Cornell in 1995. Magid will attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Master of Science in Visual Studies program this fall. She currently teaches and has her own art studio in Manhattan.

·Laura Nova, who earned her BFA and BA from Cornell in 1996. Nova will attend the Art Institute of Chicago. Since graduating from Cornell, she has lived in Israel as an artist-in-residence.