Five students will spend the 2008-09 academic year studying in Germany as a result of winning prestigious fellowships from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and the Cornell/Heidelberg Exchange. Herbert Deinert, professor emeritus of German studies, administers the programs on behalf of the university.

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

• Paul Buchholz is a doctoral candidate in German studies and will continue his investigation of the "polemic," looking at three polemical authors from three different eras.
• Timothy Haupt is a doctoral candidate in German studies and sociology and will spend the year investigating the implications of flexible work schedules, which are vast and not entirely benign, he says.
• Marie Anna Muschalek is a doctoral candidate in history and plans to continue her work on Germany's colonial past, particularly the social, cultural and institutional history of the police force in what is now Namibia.

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

• Britta Okyere '08, a bioengineer and parasitologist in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, will pursue her interests in medical sciences.
• Zhanna Rozenberg '08, a College Scholar and comparative literature major, plans to embark on a study of eco-economics, a new and distinguished field at the University of Heidelberg.