Advanced Study Grant Recipients 1998
university fellowships committee
Recipient |
Project Proposal |
Faculty Adviser |
| David Appleyard |
French for Critical Theory To support intensive French language study, in order to read French critical literary theory in the original language. |
A&S Honors Mary Jo Hughes |
| Susan Biolsi |
Directed Evolution of Alkaline Phosphatase To support lab research involving the isolation and analysis of the directed evolution of an enzyme. |
Chemistry Evan Kantrowitz |
| Sara Colangelo |
Kant's Vision of "Eternal Peace" in Modern day Europe: An Examination of the European Economic Community To support coursework and a research paper on how Kant's Eternal Peace has been achieved in the European Union. |
Romance Languages Cecilia Mattii |
| Nicholas Geib |
An August in Berlin To support intensive German language study at the Goethe Institut in Berlin. |
Philosophy Patrick Byrne |
| Tristan Kirvin |
A Fairer House than Prose: The Art of Joseph Cornell To support archival research on the life and art of Joseph Cornell, in New York and Washington, DC. |
English Robin Lydenberg |
| Kelly Moudy |
The Art of Spiritual Exercise: Reflections on the Daily Spiritual Life of Benedictine Nuns in Present-Day France
To support participation in, and study of daily life at two Benedictine monasteries. |
Theology Matthew Lamb |
| Cynthia Perry |
Study of Investment Practices of State-Administered Pension Funds To support research into the potential losses incurred when pension funds seek to avoid investment in companies perceived to have socially undesirable qualities. |
Finance Alicia Munnell |
| Samuel Sawyer |
Intensive Grammar-Based Study of French To support intensive French language study at the Sorbonne. |
A&S Honors Mark O'Connor |
| Timothy Sullivan |
"The Capital of the 19th Century": Paris and the 'Resocialization' of an Urban Culture To support coursework and a research paper, in French, on material culture in Paris: 1850-1900. |
Romance Languages Matilda Bruckner |
| Jason Urbanus |
An Archeological Field Project in Pompeii To support acquisition of archeological skills at a site in Pompeii undertaken by Bradford University, UK. |
Classics Charles Ahern |