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continued from page 3 Grim Smith Building The temporary offices for Athletics are still in the west side of the second and third floors in Grim-Smith, however, once the Pershing project is complete, those offices will be vacated and available as temporary space during future projects. During the winter break, plans call for moving the offices of the Health and Exercise Sciences Department out of the Grim-Smith Building and into the ground floor of the existing Pershing Building. The 34,000-square-foot addition to Pershing is scheduled for completion in spring 2011, with movein planned for May. Improvements to campus housing continue with the renovation of Ryle Hall. The north wing of the residence hall will be completed and reopened for occupancy in the fall, and the south side will be closed for renovation during the 2010-2011 school year. Over the summer, the Ryle Hall kitchen will be completely replaced, and the dining hall and lobby will be refurbished. The two existing elevators will be replaced and a shaft for a third elevator will be installed in the lobby. The third elevator will be installed next summer. Crews are working two shifts five to six days per week to ensure Ryle Hall will be available in the fall. Other work on campus this summer includes renovation to the main corridor in Baldwin Hall, a new café in Pickler Memorial Library, and ITS upgrades to the campus fiber-optic network and some classrooms. The tennis courts located south of Campbell Apartments are being resurfaced, and the fencing is being replaced. The addition of a new boiler at the Physical Plant should allow for more efficient heating on campus and save the University money in utilities costs. Winning Scholars As Missouri's only highly selective public university, Truman attracts some of the most academically talented students, and the 2009-2010 academic year turned out to be one of the most successful years ever for Truman students or graduates winning nationally competitive scholarships. Some of the most recent awards range from one of the oldest international fellowships named after Cecil Rhodes, a British philanthropist and African colonial pioneer, to a scholarship that is part of a U.S. government effort to expand the number of students learning and mastering critical-need foreign languages. This fall, Andrew McCall will be entering the University of Oxford in England as Truman’s first Rhodes Scholar. McCall was among the 32 American men and women from 23 universities and colleges across the country named as Rhodes Scholars for 2010. The prestigious scholarship covers all expenses for two to three years of study at Oxford University, and the recipients are selected on the basis of high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others, potential for leadership, and physical vigor. Eleven students or graduates―Truman’s highest number ever―applied for 2010 Fulbright grants, which fund one academic year of either English teaching assistantships (TA) or academic study in another country. The applicants undergo a rigorous merit-based selection process, and of the 11 who applied for the grants, seven finalists have been named with final decisions to be made by country selections committees. The finalists include: Grant Berry (TA, Argentina); Katie Gettinger (biology, Slovenia); Jenny Jalack (TA, Indonesia); Jillian Lopez (TA, Venezuela); Kelly Merritt (TA, Germany); Abigail Temple (TA, Russia); and Stephen Barnes (TA, Thailand). Amy Schachner was selected for a Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Fellowship, which supports outstanding beginning teachers. The fellowship is 4 Truman Review
L-R: Andrew McCall, Grant Berry, Katie Gettinger, Jennifer Jalack, Jillian Lopez, and Kelly Merritt designed to cultivate and support exemplary science and mathematics high school teachers and develop the next generation of leaders in education. Renewable for up to five years, it provides tuition, monthly stipends and financial resources for the classroom, as well as travel and room and board expenses for three conferences a year. Will Petry received a competitive Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and will be studying at the University of California, Irvine, in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. While working on his Ph.D., Petry will be studying the community consequences of antaphid mutualisms and will be conducting most of his research at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colo. The NSF Fellowship program is designed to support research-based graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and the fellowship provides three years of support, including $10,500 tuition assistance, a $30,000 stipend and a one-time $1,000 travel budget. Along with Petry, 2009 Truman alumnus Josh Hirner, a Ph.D. student studying organic chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, recently received an NSF fellowship. In addition to the 2,000 students across the country who were offered the NSF fellowship, another 2,500 received Honorable Mentions, including Chelle King, an accelerated track master’s student in Truman’s Biology Department. Two students–David Atkinson and Ashley Adams–were selected for a U.S. Department of State 2010 Critical Language Scholarship. The two are among approximately 575 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students selected from nearly 5,300 applicants to spend seven to 10 weeks in intensive language institutes this summer in 15 countries. Atkinson will study Arabic, and Adams will study Korean. Recipients also support their language acquisition through cultural immersion activities, and participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship and apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers. Yet another very competitive national scholarship, the National Security Education Program Boren Scholarship, was awarded to Jared Daugherty to spend a year studying in China. The scholarship provides up to $20,000 in support to U.S. undergraduates to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad. L-R: Abigail Temple, Stephen Barnes, Amy Schachner, David Atkinson, Ashley Adams, and Will Petry (not pictured: Josh Hirner, Chelle King, and Jared Daugherty) Summer 2010 5
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