Deinert

Eight Cornell University students will spend the 2006-07 academic year studying in Germany as the result of winning awards with two prestigious fellowship programs. The grants were announced by Herbert Deinert, Cornell professor of German studies, who administers the exchange programs on behalf of Cornell.

Winners of the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service, or DAAD) and Cornell/Heidelberg Exchange scholarship programs will receive monthly stipends, tuition and fees for study at their respective universities. The DAAD award also covers round-trip air travel.

The DAAD recipients are:

• Nathan Bennett, graduate student in art and architecture/sculpture. Bennett will spend the year in Berlin working with faculty from the Universitaet der Kuenste and Humboldt University to explore creative possibilities of "anthropologized art" -- a term he adopted from American artist Joseph Kosuth.
• Jennifer Erickson, graduate student in government. Erickson received a six-month grant to investigate the transfer and sale of arms after the Cold War and their impact on relations between Germany and the United States. She will join a team at the German Institute for International Policy and Security in Berlin.
• Henri Johnston, graduate student in mathematics. Johnston will join a team from the Armed Forces University (Bundeswehr Universitaet) in Munich to work on a number theory project, in particular, the Galois model.
• Balázs Mikusi, graduate student in musicology. Mikusi will spend most of his time in Berlin and Munich researching mixed-voice part song, as opposed to all-male choirs. His work will lead to a collection of representative samples of the repertoire. The research culminates in a dissertation on the prolific composer J.F. Reichardt.
• Mary E. Sutherland, graduating senior in neuropsychology and musicology. Sutherland hopes to advance her understanding of the neuropsychology of music and language while spending the year at Hanover's Institute of Music Physiology.

The Cornell/Heidelberg Exchange Fellowships winners are:

• Wesley Mattingly, senior in philosophy, who will spend the year concentrating on the philosophy of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
• Joshua Mund, senior in philosophy. Mund will engage in a comprehensive course of study in preparation for advanced work in the philosophy of science.
• Adrienne St. Aubin, senior in English and a College Scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences, who will concentrate on 19th- and early 20th-century German literature to broaden her perspective on modernist movements in aesthetics and art.

DAAD is a publicly funded independent organization of higher education institutions in Germany that promotes cooperative international academic and scientific exchange for students and faculty. Its fellowships enable students to study at a German university or to work on a research project in Germany.

The Cornell/Heidelberg fellowships evolved through a relationship formed by Jacob Gould Schurman, Cornell's third president (1892-1920), with the University of Heidelberg, one of Germany's most prestigious universities, which also sponsors language courses for award recipients.