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Alice
Reznickova ’10 has received the Gladys Anderson Emerson Scholarship from
Iota Sigma Pi, the national honor society for women in chemistry.
The award is given each year to a student in her junior or
senior year for excellence in chemistry or biochemistry.
Reznickova received a $2,000 stipend and a certificate. In
2004, Lesley-Ann Giddings ’05 received the scholarship;
she is a graduate student in chemistry at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
 Rachel
Dorset ’10 received two awards from the American Chemical Society (ACS),
the world’s largest scientific society. Dorset was
one of 16 students nationwide to be awarded a Summer Undergraduate
Research Fellowship, from the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry,
to conduct research at Smith on the “scope and limitations
of cationic Diels-Alder dienophiles stabilized by cobalt-complexed
alkynes.” She will present her findings at a poster
session in the fall at Pfizer Central Research in Groton,
Conn. Dorset also won an Undergraduate Student Travel Award
from the Division of Organic Chemistry to attend the 41st
National Organic Chemistry Symposium in Boulder, Colo.
Kristi Closser ’07 was
given a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science
Foundation (NSF). The fellowships are given in recognition
of outstanding graduate students in science, technology,
engineering and mathematics, and who are pursuing mastere’s
or doctoral degrees. The NSF fellowships, in the amount of
several thousand dollars, support three years of graduate
study. Closser is currently studying chemistry as a graduate
student at the University of California, Berkeley. Closser
is the co-author of a paper recently published in the Journal
of Organic Chemistry. Other authors are Kevin Shea,
associate professor of chemistry, and Miriam Quintal ’04,
Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellow, National Academy
of Sciences.
Leandra
Zarnow ’01, a doctoral candidate in history
and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, is the recent recipient of two academic awards.
She is one of only seven students nationwide awarded the
2009 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s
Studies. The $2,100 award, given annually by the Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, is the only fellowship
for doctoral students writing on women’s issues, and
supports the final year of doctoral dissertation work. Zarnow
also received a Charlotte W. Newcomble Doctoral Dissertation
Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Her dissertation
is titled Bella Abzug and the Promise of Progressive
Change in Cold War United States.
 Robey
Champine ’07 has
been selected to participate in the 2009 FBI Honors Internship
program. For ten weeks during the summer, she will work in
the Counterintelligence Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington,
D.C. To qualify for the internship and earn a top-secret
security clearance, Champine successfully completed oral
and written interviews, drug testing, a polygraph exam, and
an extensive background investigation. Champine graduated
magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in psychology
and Spanish. In 2008, she received a master of science degree
in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is
currently working toward her graduate degree in public health
and on several youth violence-related projects.
 Elan
McCollum ’08 is the recent recipient of the prestigious National Science
Foundation graduate research fellowship. McCollum is in
her first year of a doctoral program in psychology and
education at the University of Michigan. McCollum will
deliver the keynote address for Discovery Weekend, an Office
of Admission event in which hundreds of newly admitted students
and their families visit campus, beginning today, Friday,
April 17.
 Janine
Olthuis ’08 recently received a highly competitive graduate research
award from the Nova Scotia Health Research Fund (NSHRF).
Olthuis is currently pursuing a doctorate in clinical psychology
at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Last year,
she won an Honorary Undergraduate Scholars Award from the
New England Psychological Association (NEPA). Olthuis,
who was a standout soccer team member and captain of the
team last year, won a postgraduate scholarship from the
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The NSHRF
aims to improve the health of Nova Scotians through the
development and support of a vibrant health research community,
including funding health researchers early in their careers.
McCollum and Olthuis both worked with Byron Zamboanga, assistant
professor of psychology at Smith, on the publication of several
articles and research presentations.
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