Advanced Study Grant Recipients 2002
university fellowships committee
Recipient |
Project Proposal |
Faculty Adviser |
| Courtney Anderson | Fyodor Dostoyevsky and The Feminine To support research and analysis of feminine themes in Dostoyevsky, with insights from Suslova and Kristeva. |
Thomas Epstein A&S Honors Program |
| Peter Bowley | Portuguese in Brazil To support Portuguese language acquisition and an unpaid internship with an international bank in Brazil. |
Susan Michalczyk A&S Honors Program |
| Jordan Brooks | The EMU and Fiscal Coordination in The European Union To support research and analysis of the effects of the Euro on fiscal policy convergence among EU member states. |
Robert Murphy Economics |
| Patrick Carey | German for Mathematics and Philosophy To support advanced German language acquisition at the Goethe Institut in Freiburg, Germany. |
Ursula Mangoubi Germanic Studies |
| Timothy Carraher | The Instruments of the Scientific Revolution To support museum and library research into the scientific instruments that advanced the scientific revolution in the 18th Century. |
Virginia Reinburg History |
| Emily Dendinger | Intensive Master Playwriting Class at the Kennedy Center To support participation in a playwriters' workshop. |
Scott Cummings Theater |
| Nathaniel Donahue | Walking in His Footsteps: The Evolution of Raphael To support research into Raphael's artistic development in the cities where he lived and studied. |
Nancy Netzer Fine Arts |
| Frances Gardella | Contemporary Christian Ethics To support advanced research for a senior thesis linking Biblical Studies and Christian Ethics. |
Stephen Pope Theology |
| Lauren Goslin | The Silent Protests of Chilean Women Writers To support library research and analysis of the forms of political protest by women novelists in Pinochet's Chile. |
Silvana Palermo History |
| Meghan Hammond | The Literature of Exhaustion: Metafictional Structures in English and the Romance Languages To support Italian language acquisition and research in comparative literature focused on the works of Nabokov, Borges, Rios, and Calvino. |
Kevin Ohi English |
| Erin Helfrich | Community for Kierkegaard To support research at the Hong Kierkegaard Library into the writings of the Danish philosopher of religion, Soren Kierkegaard. |
Vanessa Rumble Philosophy |
| Rebecca Herhold | The Translation of Self: Language Study in Guatemala To support acquisition of Spanish fluency and a community service internship with a women's center in Quetzaltenago, Guatemala. |
Mark O'Connor A&S Honors Program |
| Maureen Josephsen | The Ethics of Genetic Medicine To support a research internship in medical genetics at the National Catholic Bioethics Center. |
Clare O'Connor Biology |
| Kirstin Kramer | A Philosophy of English To support historical research into the establishment of an English curriculum at Boston College in the 19th Century. |
Dayton Haskins English |
| Karen Martell | Modern and Traditional Society in Peru To support the study of Spanish language and Latin American culture in Lima, Peru. |
Laurie Shepard Romance Languages |
| Pasha Mirazimi | A Summer with Feynman To support intensive study of The Feynman Lectures on advanced electromagnetic theory, ordinary differential equations, and quantum mechanics. |
Udayan Mohanty Chemistry |
| Tristan Nelson | Dynamic Interaction: The Western Cultural Tradition in the Java Programming Language To support software development of a program to present text, audio, and images in a scripted, time-sensitive manner. |
James Gips Computer Sciences |
| Maureen Olsen | Ethics: The Sacred Core of the Church To support advanced study of Christian Ethics at the Gregorian University in Rome. |
Jeffrey Geoghegan Theology |
| Bryce Pinkham | Sementes da Manha: A Study of Underprivileged Youth in Brazil To support Portuguese language acquisition and a community-service summer at a Jesuit mission in Salvador, Brazil. |
Daniella Padula Romance Languages |
| Melissa Ricci | Investigation into the Light-Induced Deactivation Mechanism of Grubbs Catalyst To support laboratory research into the mechanism by which the Grubbs catalyst, used in organic chemistry, is inactivated by light. |
Scott Miller Chemistry |
| Lea Rosemurgy | Aiding Economic Development in South Africa To support an internship with a non-profit, business-development organization in Klerksdorp, South Africa. |
Gil Manzon Accounting, CSOM |
| Gilberto Ruiz | A Summer of Koine Greek To support advanced language acquisition in New Testament Greek. |
Pheme Perkins Theology |
| Daniel Sañez | On Original Instruments: Sion Summer Organ Academy To support intensive music instruction on 13th-20th century organs in Switzerland. |
T. Frank Kennedy, S.J. Music |
| Michael Scahill | Finding the Pattern in the Universe of Disulfide Bonding To support laboratory research into the bonds formed between sulfur atoms of two cysteine residues involved in protein folding. |
Marc Muskavitch Biology |
| Kelly Smith | Contemporary Catholic Ethics: A Learning and Teaching Exercise To support advanced study of contemporary issues in Catholic ethics. |
David Vanderhooft Theology |
| Farah Wong | Learning Spanish to Learn from Others To support Spanish language acquisition and community service, teaching adult ESL courses in Allston-Brighton. |
William Gregory Theology |