Successes & News
Recent Successes
CONGRATULATIONS to our 26 candidates listed below who have been named first-round (short-listed) Fulbright Finalists in the current 2011-12 competition. The final results will hopefully all be in by Commencement mid-May this year 2012. These new Fulbright Fellows will mostly begin their Fulbright Fellowships fall 2012 in some of the 16 different countries in Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe and the Americas where they are applying for 16 English teaching assistantships and 10 fellowships to conduct research projects: Read about them below!
We honor all our record 42 candidates who completed Fulbright applications Fall 2011. We also thank our faculty members for their about 300 mostly written inputs in support of these applications comprising about 900 pages of materials. And that covers just what was submitted to Fulbright because these 42 candidates began our campus application process out of a field of 69 applicants who registered and were admitted to our program to apply for a Fulbright through Smith. Of these, 27 or about 40% withdrew along the way, leaving only these 42 or 60% who finished the course to submit in Fall 2011 their completed applications to the national competition.
SMITH was the top-producing college in the country in the 2010-11 Fulbright competition year for the 2011-12 Fulbright Fellowship year overseas. Our 19 Fulbrighters and their fabulous projects are listed at http://www.smith.edu/fulbright/news_past.php under Fellowships Record 2010-11.
Smith earned highest honors also because we achieved our record 19 fellowships with only 40 applicants -- an almost 50% success rate. See
http://chronicle.com/article/Top-Producers-of-US/129452/
This newest result upholds Smith's overall lead the past seven years in producing more Fulbrighters than any other college. It is about the third time that Smith has led the country among colleges from across the country.
FELLOWSHIPS RESULTS 2011-12
As of Jan 21, 2012
SUMMARY
26 Finalists
26 Fulbright
26 Fulbright
Naomi Barshi '12
New Zealand: Geology
"Linking Landscape Evolution with Fault History to Enhance Earthquake Hazard Assessment"
Mentor: Bosiljka Glumac
Recommenders: Robert Burger, Michelle Markley, Robert Newton
Consultant: Jack Loveless
House: Ziskind
Sara Barz '06
France: Urban Development and Planning
"Five Years of Velib': Lessons from the World's Pre-Eminent Urban Bike-Sharing Program"
Mentor: Nicholas Horton
Recommenders: Kiki Gounaridou, Alice Hearst
Consultants: Nina Antonetti, Robert Dorit, Ann Leone, James Lowenthal, Janie Vanpee
House: Baldwin
Bridget Cho '12
South Korea: English Teaching Assistantship
Elementary School
Mentor: Sharon Seelig
Recommenders: Floyd Cheung, Howard Gold, Sharon Seelig
Consultants: Floyd Cheung, Howard Gold, Suk Massey
Foreign Language Evaluator: Suk Massey
House: Emerson
Emily Coda '12
Germany: English Teaching Assistantship
High School
Mentor: Craig Davis
Recommenders: Joshua Birk, Craig Davis, Jocelyn Kolb
Consultants: Joshua Birk, Jocelyn Kolb
Foreign Language Evaluator: Jocelyne Kolb
House: Hubbard
Margaret Dodge '12
Malaysia: English Teaching Assistantship
Elementary / High School
Mentor: Dawn Fulton
Recommenders: Martha Ackelsberg, Nalini Bhushan, Dawn Fulton
Consultants: Martha Ackelsberg, Nalini Bhushan
House: Friedman
Anastasia Gant '11
Peru: Chemistry
"Searching for Naturally Occurring Medicines to Prevent Fatal Diseases in the Americas"
Mentor: Cristina Suarez
Recommenders: Laura Katz, Kate Queeney, Cristina Suarez
Consultant: Lale Burk
Foreign Language Evaluator: Silvia Berger
House: Morris
Alexandra Ghiz '12
Italy: Musicology
"Rise of the Canzone Napoletana: Regional Song to World Stage to National Embrace"
Mentor: Alfonso Procaccini
Recommenders: Alfonso Procaccini, Karen Smith-Emerson, Maria Succi-Hempstead
Consultants: Peter Bloom, Margaret Sarkissian
Foreign Language Evaluator: Giovanna Bellesia
House: Lawrence
Theresa Helke '12
Malaysia: English Teaching Assistantship
Elementary / High School
Mentor: Margaret Sarkissian
Recommenders: Jay Garfield, James Henle, Christopher Pyle
Consultants: Donna Divine, Jay Garfield, James Henle
House: Northrop
Saira Huq '12
Bangladesh: Biology
"Improved Detection and Eradication of a Widespread Disfiguring Disease"
Mentor: Steven Williams
Recommenders: Joel Anderson, Stylianos Scordilis, Steven Williams
Consultants: Michael Barresi, Nicholas Horton
Foreign Language Evaluator: Payal Banerjee
House: Baldwin
Caroline Kang '12
South Korea: English Teaching Assistantship
Elementary School
Mentor: Suk Massey
Recommenders: Suk Massey
Consultant: Dennis Yasutomo
Foreign Language Evaluator: Suk Massey
House: Lamont
Margaret Kurkoski '12
Turkey: English Teaching Assistantship
University
Mentor: Justina Gregory
Recommenders: Scott Bradbury, Marion Goethals, Nancy Shumate
Consultant: Thalia Pandiri
House: Hubbard
Clare Landefeld '12
Cameroon: Public Health
"Preventing Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission: Barriers to Treatment for Pregnant Women"
Mentor: Robert Dorit
Recommender: Brigitte Buettner, Robert Dorit
Consultants: Virginia Hayssen, Sharon Seelig
Foreign Language Evaluator: Brigitte Buettner
House: Dawes
Lucia Leighton '12
Germany: Psychology
"Acknowledging the Forgotten Risk Group: Trans-Generational Effects of Anxiety Disorders"
Mentor: Patricia DiBartolo
Recommenders: Patricia DiBartolo, Jocelyne Kolb
Consultant: Jocelyne Kolb
Foreign Language Evaulator: Jocelyne Kolb
House: Wilson
Anna Leversee '12
Colombia: English Teaching Assistantship
University
Mentor: Floyd Cheung
Recommenders: Floyd Cheung, Reyes Lázaro
Consultants: Martha Ackelsburg , Lucy Mule, Brian Turner
Foreign Language Evaluator: Reyes Lázaro
House: Parsons
Lillian Masek '12
Spain: English Teaching Assistantship
Valencia Elementary School
Mentor: Reyes Lázaro
Recommenders: Jill de Villiers, Maria Estela Harretche, Bill Peterson
Consultants: Martha Ackelsberg, Jill de Villiers, Peter de Villiers, Bill Peterson
Foreign Language Evaluator: Reyes Lázaro
House: Talbot
Rose Metting '12
Malaysia: English Teaching Assistantship
Elementary / High School
Mentor: Kevin Rozario
Recommenders: Kevin Rozario, Steve Waksman
Consultants: Floyd Cheung, Steve Waksman
House: Washburn
Elizabeth Miller '12
Germany: English Teaching Assistantship
High School
Mentor: Joseph McVeigh
Recommenders: Anna Botta, Margaret Bruzelius, Maria Succi-Hempstead
Consultant: Margaret Bruzelius, Cristanne Miller, Maria Succi-Hempstead
Foreign Language Evaluator: Joseph McVeigh
House: Friedman
Amirah Nelson '10
Indonesia: English Teaching Assistantship
High School
Mentor: Roger Kaufman
Recommender: Andrew Zimbalist, Daniel Brown
Consultants: Daniel Brown, Donna Divine, Suzanne Gottschang, Andrew Rotman, Margaret Sarkissian
House: Comstock
Alexandra Page '12
Mexico: Oceanography
"Developing Cutting-Edge Tools for Fisheries Conservation and Management"
Mentor: L. David Smith
Recommenders: Kate Queeney, Kevin Shea
Consultants: Kim Bierwert, Kevin Shea, Rebecca Thomas
Foreign Language Evaluator: Maria Rueda
House: Parsons
Kristin Peck '12
South Korea: English Teaching Assistantship
High School
Mentor: Thomas Rohlich
Recommenders: Christopher Bolton, Maki Hubbard, Thomas Rohlich
Consultants: Jesse Bellemare, Debra Carney, Ellen O'Neil
Foreign Language Evaulator: Suk Massey
House: Baldwin
Ana Perry '12
Venezuela: Art and Architectural History
"How 'Inclusive' Bolivarian Policies Have Changed the Creation and Display of Art"
Mentors: Barbara Kellum, John Moore
Recommenders: Dorothy Moss, Carmen Ramos
Foreign Language Evaluator: Ibtissam Bouachrine
House: Friedman
Danielle Shelton '12
Brazil: English Teaching Assistantship
Teacher College
Mentor: Marguerite Harrison
Recommenders: Charles Cutler, Marguerite Harrison, Malcolm McNee
Consultants: Charles Cutler, Lois Dubin, Malcolm McNee, Nnamdi Pole, Vera Shevzov
House: Haven-Wesley
Carly Smith '11
Germany: English Teaching Assistantship
High School
Mentor: Joel Westerdale
Recommender: William Oram
Consultant: Ginetta Candelario
House: Cutter
Hannah Sultan '12
Brazil: Agriculture
"Sustainability of Small-Scale Farming in Strategic Agricultural Region"
Mentor: Greg White
Recommenders: Marguerite Harrison, Malcolm McNee, Nola Reinhardt
Consultant: Nina Antonetti
Foreign Language Evaluator: Marguerite Harrison
House: Capen
Monica Swei '12
South Korea: English Teaching Assistantship
High School
Mentor: Jina Kim
Recommenders: Jina Kim, Kimberly Kono, Tom Rohlich
Consultants: Kimberly Kono, Tom Rohlich
House: Talbot
Diana Vega '12
Germany: English Teaching Assistantship
High School
Mentor: Jocelyne Kolb
Recommenders: Jutta Gutzeit, Jefferson Hunter, Jocelyne Kolb
Consultants: Recommenders: Jutta Gutzeit, Jefferson Hunter
Foreign Language Evaulator: Jocelyne Kolb
House: Comstock
