Award Recipients 2006-07
The Committee for the Austin Kelly III Essay prize, consisting of Profs. Sarah Brouillette (Literature), Haimanti Roy (History) and Keeril Makan (Music), is pleased to announce the results of the 2007 competition:
- First Prize ($800) has been awarded to Margaret A. Rosenburg (’07) for her essay entitled “Searching for Paradise: Marvell and the Human Implications of the Fall.”
- Second Prize ($350) has been awarded to Anne M. Wexler (’07) for her essay entitled “In the Shade of the Killing Field Trees”
The Kelly-Douglas Board is pleased to announce its decisions on Kelly Travelling Fellowships for Summer 2007. The recipients of travel awards are:
- Yi-Hsin Lin (’09, Course 18): to participate in a dance performance-study tour of Sicily with the Isadora Duncan International Institute.
- Erik Lin-Greenberg (’09, Course 17): to take part in an intensive Mandarin Language Program at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
- Jonas Kublius (’08, Course 21M): to create short films in Lithuania about the land and its peoples.
- Hoong Yuen Chee (CME, Course 16): to attend a two-week intensive Spanish Language course in Valencia, Spain.
- Jennifer Yeh (’07, Courses 17 and 9): to take courses on international refugee law at the Oxford Refugee Centre, Oxford, U.K.
- Ali Alhassani (’08, Course 2): to travel to Geneva, Switzerland, to work with the WHO as an intern in the Health Action in Crises department.
- Lara Kostun (’08, Course 21S): to do volunteer medical work in Nicaragua.
- Katrina Saulrieta ('08, Course 7): to do volunteer work at two orphanages in Latvia.
The Kelly Fund received a large number of worthy applications for its IAP 2007 Travelling Fellowships. Unfortunately, it was not possible to support them all. The awards distributed ranged across a variety of activities, including humanitarian projects, archival research, and language learning.
Recipients who accepted IAP 2007 Travelling Awards include:
- Nicki Lehrer ’07 (Course 16): To create a community development program in Pacuales, Ecuador, helping children grow and learn in a supportive environment. IAP travel will involve continuing work on the construction of a children’s community center.
- Kriti Munial Jain ’06 (Course 7): Spanish language study in Madrid, Spain, and work with women’s rights organisations there to investigate the roles and effectiveness of selected NGOs in promoting gender equality.
- Delbert Green ’08 (Courses 7 and 8B): Support to study Spanish II in Madrid as well as research on Juan Latino, an Afro-Spanish poet of the Spanish Golden Age.
- Rachel Shearer ’08 (Courses 6-3 and CMS): Continuing UROP Research at the British Film Institute in London, investigating silent film renditions of Shakespeare’s plays.
- Sarah Leu ’07 (Course 7) and Stephen Gerrard ’07 (Course 10): Travel to Honduras with the D-LAB group, to construct and install a bio-digester in a village near Tocoa as part of a project on the design and implementation of appropriate technologies in developing countries.
- Farah Ghniem ’06 (Course 1C): Travel to Brazil with the D-LAB group to work on water purification and sewage control technologies appropriate for slums near major urban centres such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
- Beth Tanner, (CME Program) Cambridge University, Mechanical Engineering: Humanitarian work as part of the Katrina relief effort in New Orleans.
- Cynthia Ramirez ’08 (Course 15), Maria Elena Salinas ’08 (Course 15), and Jingwen Tao ’09 (Course 15): To study German intensively during IAP as part of the MIT-Germany programme.
