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by AALOK MEHTA THRESHER STAFF
The scholarship funds one year of academic study or research in a foreign country for students or faculty. "The Fulbright provides a year of academic work pretty much anywhere in the world," Mark Scheid, executive director of international programs and scholarships, said. Jones College senior Catherine Schowe will do cell biology research in Sweden, studying sodium stress in yeast. She will learn cutting-edge techniques with tools that were not available at Rice because of the lack of appropriate facilities. Salil Patel, a Baker College senior, will go to Singapore to study signaling pathways in neuronally derived cells. "Our ultimate goal is to see how nerves function, grow, and regenerate," Patel said. He also said that this was a "phenomenal opportunity" that will give him total academic freedom for a year and a chance to see a part of the world he has never visited before. Wiess College senior Timothy Smith will travel to Germany, where he will study the French horn at the Music Conservatory in Munich. "There's a different way of approaching music in Germany," he said. "I wanted to study there to complete my musical education." Music doctoral candidate Milton Laufer will head to Madrid, where he intends to study Spanish romantic composer Isaac Albeniz. Laufer, a pianist, hopes to create new editions of Albeniz's out-of-print works. "I'm going to make a commercial recording of his works on Lyra House records when I get back to the States," Laufer said. His manager has arranged for him to perform concert tours while he is in Spain. Andrew Hughes, a Brown College senior, will also travel to Spain. He plans to perform molecular genetics research on angiogenesis, or the formation of blood vessels, at the University of Barcelona Medical School. "Spain is a country I've never been before, and Spanish is most useful for me, living in the Southwestern United States." Brown senior Katrina Harston, an Asian studies and linguistics major, will study linguistics in Japan. Last year, nine Rice students were awarded Fulbright scholarships, and six have been awarded this year. "That's a significant increase from what we were doing five years ago," Scheid said. About 630 scholarships are awarded nationally each year. The scholarship was created by J. William Fulbright, 1945-'74 Arkansas senator, in order to promote international understanding through foreign exchange and travel. - back - |
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