Six Cornell students will spend the 2007-08 academic year studying in Germany as the result of winning prestigious fellowships: the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch-Dienst, or German Academic Exchange Service) and the Cornell/Heidelberg Exchange. Herbert Deinert, professor of German studies, administers the programs on behalf of the university.

Four students won DAAD grants, which cover air travel, tuition and fees and monthly stipends:

• Heng Du '07, a double major in classics and comparative literature, will spend the year at Berlin's Free University studying Jesuit Latin translations of Confucian classics from the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
• Daniel Kinderman, doctoral candidate in government and already in Berlin, will continue his work on the issue of corporate social responsibility.
• Meredith Nickie, graduate student in fine arts, will study in Berlin at the invitation of Rebecca Horn, noted artist and professor of multimedia at the Berlin University of Arts, to explore "identity and its visual representations."
• Ryan Platt, doctoral candidate in theater arts, will spend the year in Berlin affiliated with Humboldt University and explore the contemporary concept and practice of "performance."

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

• Mark Rocco, graduate student in materials science in the College of Engineering, expects to work in Heidelberg's program in molecular and cellular biology to gain additional expertise in biology and chemical engineering.
• Beverly Thurber, doctoral candidate in theoretical and applied mechanics, plans to immerse herself mainly in dialectology, without entirely ignoring what Heidelberg has to offer in mathematics and earth sciences.