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May 22, 2009

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.

April 17, 2009

Two Recent Alumnae Win Awards to Fund Psychology Studies

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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