| District I - New England | ||
|---|---|---|
| Connecticut |
Joshua Ian Civin
Degree: Yale University: B.A., History, 1996 |
A Truman Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa, Josh received the
1996 Alpheus Henry Snow Prize awarded to the senior judged by the
faculty to have done most for Yale. He also held the 1996 Warren
Memorial Prize for highest scholarship in the humanities, the Edwin
Small History Department Prize, and the Maryland Historical Society's
Eisenberg College Essay Prize. He was managing editor of The New
Journal, a magazine about Yale and New Haven. For the political
science department, he developed a syllabus and led a section for
an interdisciplinary course in New Haven history and politics.
Josh is currently serving his second term as alderman for the First Ward of the City of New Haven. He is vice-chair of the Special Committee on Youth and Youth Services, and sits on the Human Resources and Homelessness Committees. Among legislation he has sponsored are bills to ensure livable wages for subcontracted city workers and to repeal a rollerblading curfew. Josh is employed as development coordinator for Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership (L.E.A.P.), a community-based learning initiative providing academic enrichment and social development opportunities for 800 urban Connecticut children. He has served as lobbyist for Young People for National Service, advocating legislation that established the AmeriCorps program. |
| Connecticut |
Kerry Elizabeth Francis
Degree: Georgetown University: B.S., Bioethics, 1997 |
A Claire Boothe Luce Scholar at Georgetown, Kerry designed her major to integrate her interests in science and ethics. She works in the Math Assistance Center as a calculus tutor for Georgetown students and is a member of the local chapter of the Mathematical Association of America. A triathlete, Kerry was also choreographer and dancer in the student-produced M.A.A. musical. Her community service activities include leadership of a fund-raising campaign to install electricity in a Cameroon research lab and volunteer work at a local hospice. |
| Massachusetts |
Daniel Phillip Kim
Degree: Harvard University: A.B., History and Literature, 1997 |
The youngest member selected for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, Daniel holds an L.A. Philharmonic Fellowship for Excellence and has been oboist with the Boston Philharmonic for the past two years. He collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma in a performance of the Mozart Oboe Quartet and has performed under conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Michael TilsonThomas, Christoph Eschenbach, John Williams, and Mehli Mehta. His performance at the 1995 Atomic Bomb Commemoration in Hiroshima with the Pacific Music Festival was televised internationally. Daniel is artistic director of the Pusey Room Chamber Music Series and a board member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Contemporary Music Ensemble. He is a David Thomas Watson McCord Scholar and staff member of The Harvard Political Review. He serves as arts policy advisor to the Massachusetts State Senate Committee on Education, Arts, and Humanities. Daniel's community activities include his work as co-director of the Phillips Brooks House Homeless Shelter in Cambridge and as resident assistant for the Committee to End Elder Homelessness in Boston. He enjoys sailing, contemporary American art, single malt scotch, American theatre, and used book stores. |
| New Jersey |
Tali Farimah Farhadian
Degree: Yale University: B.A., Humanities, 1997 |
A member of the Debate Association, Tali has been
selected to represent Yale at the World Debate Championship at the
University of Capetown, South Africa. As former director of Reach
Out Speak Out, she has conducted debate and speech workshops in New
Haven public schools where she continues to teach two weekly classes,
including one for pregnant high school students. Tali's interest
in women's issues guided her work as a member of the executive
committee of Dwight Hall, Yale's umbrella organization for
community service organizations. Tali is editor and contributing
author of Yale Women's Haggadah, the Passover text reinterpreted
from a woman's perspective; the finished work will be published in
1997.
In 1996 Tali travelled to Israel and the Palestinian territories on a Robert C. Bates Fellowship to study the effect of the peace process on Palestinian literature. She held a Society of Kukin Fellows Scholarship and an Orthodox Union Institute for Public Affairs Fellowship, which allowed her to intern at the office of Senator Lieberman in l995. In 1994 Tali received a Yale Hillel Israel Grant and Dorot Grant to study Arabic in Israel. Tali won a 1992 Bronfman Youth Fellowship in Israel. She served as counselor in 1995 and 1996, and will return again this summer. She was born in Iran and enjoys travel, languages, cooking, drawing, and painting. |
| District II - Middle Atlantic | ||
|---|---|---|
| New York |
Benjamin Todd Jealous
Degree: Columbia University: B.A., Political Science, 1997 |
Ben is program coordinator/ spokesperson for the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. He edits the National Execution Alert, a summary of the case and life histories of persons facing imminent execution. He is former community educator of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and former managing editor of The Jackson Advocate, Mississippi's oldest and largest black newspaper. His Advocate articles included a series on corruption at Parchman State Penitentiary that resulted in state and federal investigations of the prison. As cofounder and former construction leader of the Harlem Restoration Project Youth Corps, Ben operated a student-run free child care and low-income housing restoration project in New York City. Ben received the 1992 Columbia University Student Council Achievement Award for his successful campaign to save full-need financial aid. He is a John Kluge Scholar and holds a Bronze Crown Award for service to the college. He enjoys backpacking, skiing, and ocean kayaking. |
| New York |
Jessika Ebba Trancik
Degree: Cornell University: B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, 1997 |
Jessika is the co-inventor listed on two patent
applications, one for making ceramics less brittle and another for
manufacturing thin films of a metal-ceramic composite for magnetic
data storage. She is primary author of three and coauthor of nine
published scientific papers and presentations, and has presented
her work at three national conferences. She is a Barry M.
Goldwater Scholar and holds The Materials Society 1996 Presidential
Scholar Award and a 1996 American Society for Metals Outstanding
Scholar Award. A member of Tau Beta Pi national engineering honor
society, she is also president of the Cornell Chapter of Alpha
Sigma Mu national materials science honor society. Jessika is a
Class of 1997 John McMullen Dean's Scholar in the Cornell College
of Engineering and has held G.E. Foundation Faculty for the Future
Research Grants since 1995.
In 1996 Jessika was a guest physics researcher at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. She has conducted research on language acquisition in Swedish by studying speech patterns of children. She is fluent in Swedish and proficient in Spanish, Italian, and German. As a Title 1 Reading Program volunteer, she tutored elementary school students in reading; she has also organized science-related activities in local elementary schools. Jessika was a member of the Cornell Women's tennis team from 1993 through 1995 and is a member of the varsity ski team. She enjoys painting, sketching, and studying art history. |
| Pennsylvania |
Jonathan Levine
Degree: Cornell University: A.B., Physics, 1997 |
Jonathan is president of the Cornell University
Chapter of the Society of Physics Students and a member of the Phi
Kappa Phi National Honor Society. This year he received the Donald
R. Yennie Prize for exceptional promise in physics research. His
chief scientific interest is in physical phenomena which connect
the very large and the very small. He conducted summer research in
nuclear science and planetary astronomy at Cornell and in
geo-astrophysics at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. In l996
Jonathan taught upper level physics at Cornell.
In 1994, 1995, and 1996, Jonathan was cantor of Temple Beth El, Ithaca, for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Since 1993 he has been teacher in the Rabbi Felix Aber Religious School in Ithaca, instructing fifth through eighth graders; at Temple Beth El, he also teaches two adult courses. Jonathan enjoys singing, and belongs to an a cappella choral group. He holds the sole undergraduate seat on the Cornell University Faculty Committee on Music which organizes the Cornell Concert Series. His other interests include opera and history. |
| Pennsylvania |
Tess Thompson
Degree: Pennsylvania State University: B.A., English |
A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tess's literary honors
include first place in Seventeen magazine's 1995 fiction contest
and first place fiction and second place poetry Katey Lehman
awards at Penn State. Her poetry, essays, and free-lance articles
have appeared in Byline, Hospitality (the National Writer's
Association newsletter), and The Penn Stater (an alumni magazine).
She is coeditor of Problem Child, a Penn State literary magazine,
and is a writing peer tutor at the Penn State Writing Center.
Tess serves as counselor/ advocate and summer intern at the Centre County Women's Resource Center. She tutors English as conversation partner for a Korean student, teaches a class of three- and four-year-olds at her Friends Meeting, and serves as S.A.T. prep teacher for The Princeton Review. She enjoys ballet, playing piano, and watching The Simpsons. |
| District III - Southeast | ||
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| Maryland/D.C. |
John Maxon Ackerly
Degree: Williams College: B.A., Economics and Art, 1997 |
At Williams, John is a Class of 1960 Scholar, selected for his academic achievement and overall contribution to the economics and art departments. He was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year and sits on the student board. He is a member of the Economics Department's Faculty Hiring Committee and of the Art Department's Steering Committee. John plays varsity tennis and last year was captain of the Exeter College Squash Team. John established an on-going connection between Williams-at-Oxford students and the Cheltenham School of Fine Arts for students interested in pursuing art. He has worked for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and for the Ashmolean Museum, and is currently a museum associate and research assistant at the Williams College Museum of Art. He has interned at the Foreign Commercial Section of the U.S. Embassy in London and at the U.S. Treasury Department. Among his volunteer projects is the establishment of a group therapy program for teenagers with speech dysfluencies at Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C. |
| North Carolina |
Charlotte Anne Opal
Degree: Wake Forest University: B.A., Economics |
As a Nancy S. Reynolds Scholar, Charlotte carried out three summer research projects including teaching math and physics in Swaziland, interning at a World Bank consulting group in Paris, and researching the effects of peso devaluation in Mexico. She is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, a leadership/ scholarship honor society, and Omicron Delta Epsilon, an economics honor society. Charlotte has played varsity lacrosse for four years. She sings alto in the Wake Forest Gospel Choir, and plays viola and oboe with the Wake Forest Symphony and Salisbury, North Carolina Symphony. She is fluent in French and Spanish, and speaks conversational Japanese. She has studied Japanese and Chinese brush painting in Osaka, Japan. Her other travels have included Pakistan, South Africa, Spain, Italy, and Russia. Charlotte is a vegetarian and a Humane Society volunteer. |
| Virginia |
Hans Christian Ackerman
Degree: College of William and Mary: B.S., Molecular and Cellular Biology, 1997 |
Hans is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a Goldwater Scholar, and a member of the 1997 All-U.S.A. College Academic First Team. He cofounded Soli Deo Gloria, a men's sacred music ensemble and is a four-year member of the Gentlemen of the College, a men's a cappella ensemble named best group in the southern United States by The Contemporary A Cappella Society of America. Hans has recorded three records of a cappella music. Hans's volunteer activities include his work vaccinating children in the World Health Organization's worldwide polio eradication campaign. He has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. |
| Virginia |
Hamed Rahim Wardak
Degree: Georgetown University: B.A., Government (Political Theory), 1997 |
A student in Georgetown's Government Honors Program, Hamed is writing his thesis on the failure of Afghanistan as a state under the direction of former Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. He is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political honor society. As a founder of the Bosnian Education Fund, Hamed mobilized a student drive to send books and other educational materials to children in Bosnian refugee camps; he spent the summer of 1993 working in the Afghan refugee camps. Hamed has served as debate mediator for the Muslim Student Association, and is a student academic advisor for Georgetown's freshmen and transfer students. He enjoys playing the guitar. |
| District IV - Great Lakes | ||
|---|---|---|
| Arkansas |
Shana Marie Lovell
Degree: University of Arkansas at Little Rock: B.S., Chemistry, 1997 |
A Truman Scholar and member of the Donaghey Scholars Program, Shana is president of the student affiliate of the American Chemical Society. She holds the U.A.L.R. Outstanding Freshman Chemistry Award and the U.A.L.R. Outstanding Analytical Chemist Award. Through the Truman Foundation, she will work as summer intern at the National Institute of Health in l997. She is currently reporter for Alpha Epsilon Delta, a pre-health professions honor society. As a Trojan Talk participant, she visits junior high, high school, and college students to teach sessions on the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, particularly AIDS. Shana's other activities include her work as senator for the College of Science and Engineering Technology for the Student Government Association. She is tutor and houseparent at the Texarkana Baptist Orphanage. Shana also participates in the Alternative Spring Break, a student-led initiative to provide community-service opportunities. She is fluent in French. Her favorite artist is Kandinsky; her favorite books are And the Band Played On and The Little Prince. |
| Florida |
Lana Israel
Degree: Harvard University: A.B., Psychology, 1997 |
As the British Brain Trust's 1994 Brain of the Year, Lana shares the honor with previous winners Gene Roddenberry, Stephen Hawking, and Gary Kasparov. In 1993 she won the Glenn T. Seaborg Nobel Prize Visit Award, the Grand Award at the 44th International Science and Engineering Fair. She was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa as a junior. She currently runs Brain Power for Kids, Inc., a business devoted to researching, developing, and teaching learning methods. The Palm Beach chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners recognized her work with the 1996 Glass Ceiling Award. Lana has written two books on mind mapping, a visuo-spatial learning method, and has produced two award-winning videos on studying and learning. She is a college debator who enjoys jogging, soccer, composing pop piano music, and travel. |
| Florida |
Pardis Christine Sabeti
Degree: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: B.S., Biology, 1997 |
M.I.T.'s Class of 1997 president, Pardis designed
and led the first week-long orientation program on race and gender
issues for the Freshmen Leadership Program. For three terms she
has taught genetics and biochemistry. She is currently a research
assistant at the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research. She
is also a Burchard Scholar in the School of Humanities, Arts, and
Social Sciences. Since 1989 she has belonged to the National
Conference of Christians and Jews.
In the 1994 and 1995 Head of the Charles championship race, Pardis was coxswain for the Egyptian national team, which finished fourteenth and nineteenth, respectively. She is the M.I.T. heavyweight men's crew coxswain. She plays varsity women's tennis and junior varsity squash. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, woodworking, and attending musical concerts. |
| Georgia |
Robert Davis McCallum
Degree: Princeton University: A.B., English, 1997 |
Founder of the Princeton Shakespeare Company, Davis holds a certificate in the Program for Theater and Dance, and is completing his senior thesis on media theory and narrative. He is also writing a play about Henri Matisse and the circus. Davis's performances include Danton's Death, The Misanthrope, The Hyacinth Macaw, The Great Magoo, Hamlet, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, Henry V, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, and Macbeth. He spent a semester away from Princeton touring Virginia with a professional troupe, the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express. Davis holds the 1996 "Spirit of Princeton" award for community service. In 1996 he ran the New York City Marathon. His interests include jazz, squash, basketball, and magic. |
| District V - Middle West | ||
|---|---|---|
| Indiana |
Eugenio Miguel Fernandez
Degree: University of Notre Dame: B.A., Philosophy and Theology, 1997 |
A Notre Dame Scholar, Geno is a national debate champion. He holds a Huntington Library Award for Theological Distinction, is a seminarian with the Holy Cross Fathers at Notre Dame, and has authored several published theological essays. As a member of the Common Ground Committee for the University of Notre Dame, Geno studies pressing issues for American Catholics. For the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, he has written commentaries on liturgy and canon law. A Culpepper Scholar for Classical Languages, Geno is fluent in French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek; he has also studied German and Hebrew. He does volunteer work with the mentally disabled and he tutors in local parishes. Geno enjoys basketball, playing the piano and the double bass, and gardening. Russian literature, particularly Dostoevsky, is his favorite |
| Indiana |
Eva Joanna Rzepniewski
Degree: University of Notre Dame: B.S., Physics, 1997 |
Eva is the 1996 winner of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for excellence in science and math. As recipient of a summer grant from the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, she spent two months in Poland studying the interaction between academic researchers and emerging Polish industry. In the summer of 1996 she was a visiting student at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw where she fabricated semiconductor materials and participated in Bachotek '96 and Jaszowiec '96, two international semiconductor conferences. This year, Eva is carrying out research to calculate band structures of II-VI semiconductor superlattices. Eva was born and lived in Poland until she was 12 years old. She is particularly interested in improving future scientific relations between the United States and Poland. Eva is a co-commissioner of the Hall Fellows program where she coordinates activities between university staff and professors and students in her dormitory. She also serves on her dormitory's Literary Committee. Eva holds the rank of shodon (black belt) in Tae Kwon Do and Jiu Jitsu and teaches martial arts. |
| Michigan |
Stephanie Elizabeth Palmer
Degree: Michigan State University: B.S., Chemical Physics, 1997 |
Steph is currently working in theoretical physics with Dr. P.M. Duxbury, and spent the past summer doing research through the National Science Foundation R.E.U. program at the University of Oregon. She has been teaching assistant for freshman and sophomore chemistry labs and recitations and was awarded a professorial assistantship. She has conducted chemical physics research with Dr. S.T. Spees. Three of Steph's works were included in the Undergraduate Art Exhibit at Michigan State last spring. She enjoys mountain biking and running, and regularly takes 50-mile Sunday bike trips with her dad. Her other interests include stunt-kite flying and recreational mathematics. |
| Ohio |
Suzanne Goh
Degree: Harvard University: B.A., History and Science, 1997 |
Suzanne is first marshal of Harvard's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. She is president of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Club, and violinist in the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra. Her athletic awards include a varsity letter earned as a member of the women's swim team. Suzanne's volunteer activities include work at the Chinatown Elderly Program. |
| District VI - Gulf | ||
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| Minnesota |
Beth Christine Truesdale
Degree: St. Olaf College: B.A., English and Chemistry, 1997 |
In her junior year, Beth was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and awarded the Marie Malmin Meyer Scholarship for the top English major. She is president of St. Olaf's chapter of Blue Key, a national service organization, and is the first teaching assistant in the 16-year history of the Great Conversation, a two-year St. Olaf program in the Western humanities. Beth has traveled to India, Egypt, Hong Kong, and Japan with the St. Olaf Global Semester. As a member of the St. Olaf Choir, she toured for a month in New Zealand and Australia. She is particularly interested in Indian and Sri Lankan literature. |
| Missouri |
Dean John Sauer
Degree: Duke University: B.S.E., Electrical Engineering, and Philosophy, 1997 |
A member of both Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, John is an Angier B. Duke Scholar. He holds a varsity letter in wrestling and volunteers with prison social services. He enjoys assembly language programming, windsurfing, and the tango. |
| Nebraska |
Jeremy Andrew Vetter
Degree: University of Nebraska, Lincoln: B.A., Physics, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Political Science, and Economics, 1997 |
In his three and one-half years at the University of Nebraska, Jeremy has completed approximately 250 credit hours while maintaining a 4.0 G.P.A.; he is on course to graduate with six majors and four minors. He is a 1993 Presidential Scholar and a World Herald Honors Scholar. He is president of the Honors Program Student Board, vice-president of the Residence Hall Association, and cofounder of the Allies Group, an organization of straight students for gay rights. As vice-chair of the Nebraska delegation to the 1996 General Conference of the United Methodist Church, he authored three successful amendments to the church's lawbook, including one rewriting the church's position on science and technology. Jeremy belongs to the marching, concert, and jazz lab bands, as well as to the University Singers, the oratorio chorus, and the glee club. He enjoys piano and organ, hiking and running, and travel. |
| Wisconsin |
Aaron Dean Olver
Degree: University of Wisconsin, Madison: B.A., Economics |
Aaron has been active in two of U.W. - Madison's learning communities, undergraduate organizations designed to integrate classroom and residential learning. He was a Peer Learning Partner in Bradley Community's Pioneer Year and served on the planning committee for the Chadbourne Residential College as chair of the governance subcommittee. He has worked as researcher and aide to more than half a dozen state and local political campaigns, including the first successful recall of a legislator in Wisconsin. His other political positions include that of legislative aide to a Wisconsin State Senator. Aaron was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior and holds the Draminski Award for Economics. He received a Hilldale undergraduate research grant for his senior honors thesis on the role of skill in explaining labor market inequality. Aaron has tutored middle school children. He enjoys running. |
| District VII - Southwest | ||
|---|---|---|
| Colorado |
Ryan David Egeland
Degree: Colorado College: B.A., Chemistry and Biochemistry |
Fifth place winner in the National Westinghouse
Science Talent Search, Ryan is a science major whose research
includes the development of a new glue for repairing retinal
detachments and the discovery of the lethal effect of de-icing
salts on freshwater snowbelt lake invertebrates. As a Barnes
Scholar, he holds a full-tuition chemistry scholarship at Colorado
College. He interned for five weeks in the Weizmann Institute for
Science Research Program in Rehovot, Israel. In 1993 he was a
member of the U.S.A. Today All-U.S.A. Academic First Team.
Ryan is a Kappa Sigma fraternity executive board member and a member of the Order of Omega, which recognizes service and leadership. As an offensive tackle, Ryan was 1996 Academic All American in football. In 1993 he was Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro Scholar Athlete of the Year. He enjoys canoeing, camping, downhill skiing, water-skiing, jetskiing, weightlifting, and basketball. His other interests include playing the piano, photography, and computers. |
| New Mexico |
Horacio Ricardo Trujillo
Degree: Georgetown University: B.S., Foreign Service, 1995 |
A 1994 Truman Scholar, Horacio was a John Carroll Scholar and winner of the 1995 Dean's Citation from Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service. At Georgetown, he tutored and served as peer advisor in the Center for Minority Student Affairs. In 1994 he was named Georgetown University Outstanding Student in Community Service. His international volunteer activities included teaching first aid to members of the ski patrol in Pucon, Chile, and working with ninth-grade students in Sandy Bay, Jamaica. For Parade Magazine's 1995 Young Columbus Program, he supervised and counselled high school students on a scholarship tour of England. In 1990 Horacio was a member of the Japan -- U.S. Senate International Exchange. He is fluent in Spanish. In 1995 Horacio helped develop the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps, a grass-roots nonprofit organization for youth and community development where he is now coordinator. Horacio's summer research has included work coauthoring handbooks on the 1993-94 national topic for high school debate and a Congressional internship with U.S. Representative Bill Richardson. An avid soccer player and coach, Horacio is active in rock climbing, skiing, mountain biking, and running. |
| Texas |
Maryana Felib Iskander
Degree: Rice University: B.A., Sociology, 1997 |
Maryana was the first Rice junior to be elected
Student Association president; she is the only president to be
reelected for a second term. During her tenure, she instituted a
$20,000 grant program to fund creative student service projects.
In 1996 she founded a biennial Women's Conference, the first such
event at Rice in 33 years. In 1994 Maryana worked for the Texas
AmeriCorps Commission, where she researched and contributed to the
Texas State Plan, which was recognized with a national distinction.
Maryana has conducted research on race and ethnicity issues,
including black/white relations and Asian/American assimilation.
During summers, she volunteers teaching government classes to
high school women through the American Legion Auxiliary's Texas
Girls State and National Girls Nation programs. In the summers of
1993 and 1994, she worked for then-Governor Ann Richards and
volunteered in her campaigns.
Maryana holds a Truman Scholarship, a Morris Udall Scholarship for Excellence in National Environmental Policy, a William Marsh Rice Scholarship, and a Harry and Olga Wiess award. She has been named a United States National Science Scholar and a Rice University Outstanding Woman. She is a member of the Coptic Orthodox Church. She enjoys running and films. |
| Utah |
Olivia Lawrence White
Degree: Stanford University: B.S., Physics and Mathematics |
Olivia is completing her honors thesis in
theoretical physics using the supersymmetric Haldane-Shastry model
to examine mathematical properties of one-dimensional antiferromagnets,
research she began under the auspices of a 1996 Undergraduate
Research Opportunities Major Grant. In 1995 she received a Bing
Grant to study nonlinear response phenomena in high-temperature
superconductors. She has tutored math at the Stanford Math Camp.
Olivia was a member of the 1994-95 United States Canoe/Kayak Sprint National Team and of the 1993 U.S. Sprint National Junior Team. She was a semifinalist at the Junior World Sprint Canoe/Kayak Championship in the Czech Republic. In 1996 she was a member of the All-Federation Mountain Pacific Sports Team and All-Academic Collegiate Water Polo Team. She is currently a starter on the Stanford varsity water polo team. |
| District VIII - Northwest | ||
|---|---|---|
| Alaska |
Adam Kenneth Ake
Degree: U.S. Military Academy: B.S., Economics and International/Strategic History |
A 1996 Truman Scholar and a 1993 U.S. Presidential Scholar, Adam is first both academically and overall in West Point's Class of 1997. He was brigade operations officer for 1996-97 and commanded armor training for the Class of 1999 last summer at Ft. Knox. Adam is vice-president of Phi Kappa Phi. In 1992 he was Boys' Nation Senator. Adam is now a paratrooper, and will be a cavalry officer when he returns to the United States. He holds a varsity letter in riflery and is a marathoner and avid weightlifter. His current goal is to learn to play rugby before he arrives in England. |
| California |
Annette Elizabeth Salmeen
Degree: University of California, Los Angeles: B.S., Chemistry |
Annette was a member of the 1996 United States Swimming Team and was a gold medalist in the 800 freestyle relay. She holds the N.C.A.A. Top VIII Award and is the N.C.A.A. Division I champion in the 200 yard butterfly swimming event. She was N.C.A.A. 1996 Woman of the Year for California in recognition of her athletic, academic, and service accomplishments. Annette holds the U.C.L.A. school swimming records in the 200 yard butterfly, the 200 yard freestyle, and the 500 yard freestyle. Annette received the U.C.L.A. Chemistry Department McCoy Award for excellence in chemistry and biochemistry; her research has concentrated on protein structures. She is a member of Mortar Board and the Bruin Athletic Council. She enjoys motivational speaking to students and fellow competitive swimmers. |
| California |
Kweli Ebon Washington
Degree: Harvard University: Joint A.B., Social Studies/Anthropology, 1997 |
As a member of the Board of Directors for Summer Search, Kweli helps guide a nonprofit organization devoted to sending talented high school students from under-resourced communities to summer enrichment programs. He is also active at the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, a Boston-based community development organization. He has spent a semester working at a non-governmental organization in Guguletu, a black township outside Capetown, South Africa, researching the relationship between white N.G.O. workers and the black communities they serve. He is currently senior editor of and contributing author for Perspective, Harvard's monthly magazine of progressive political and social issues. Kweli is also editor of The Harvard Black Register, a semiannual journal on black political and social issues. Among Kweli's awards are a Mellon Fellowship for Minority Research, a John Harvard Scholarship, and a Leadership Alliance Comprehensive Summer Scholarship to fund urban anthropology research in New York. He is a disc jockey for black contemporary music at WHRB-FM. Kweli studies Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art, and is an avid cyclist, squash player, and intramural basketball player. |
| Oregon |
Edward K. Boyda
Degree: Harvard University: A.B., Physics, 1997 |
Captain of the Harvard varsity golf team, Ed has won two golf letters and is eight-man on the varsity rugby football team. He plays on intramural teams in eight different sports. As a sophomore, he won the Detur Book Prize, awarded to the top four percent of students in his class; as a junior, he was one of 24 students selected to join Phi Beta Kappa. Ed is currently publishing the results of his research on the manipulation of micro-particles by light and on the invention of a new "optical tweezer." Ed serves as teaching assistant in eighth-grade algebra at Longfellow Elementary Public School and is tutor at the After School Homework Drop-in Center. His other interests include World War II history, snow skiing, barefooting, backpacking, reading, and playing the flute. |
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