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Columbia CollEgE Today AROuNd ThE quAdS
alumni, Student
win Scholarships to
Continue research
three alumni and one senior will
continue doing research at the
graduate level after receiving some
of the most competitive and prestigious
fellowships in the United States.
Mollie Schwartz ’09, her class’ salutatorian,
won the Hertz Foundation Fellowship,
an award valued at $250,000 that
gives “generous support to young leaders
in applied sciences and engineering.” The
fellowship, which goes to only 2 percent of
applicants, comes with no strings attached
and supports Schwartz, a chemical physics
major from Washington, D.C., for up to five
years of graduate work. She is currently
deciding where to attend graduate school.
Jun Hyuk Jason Kim ’08, an English
major from Brooklyn, is in the 3 percent
of applicants who received the Paul and
Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans,
which gives first-generation Americans
up to $45,000 a year for two years to
fund graduate work. Kim, who worked
at The New Yorker, is working toward his
M.F.A. in playwriting at The New School.
Christopher Beam ’06, a history major
and political reporter for Slate, won the
Luce Scholarship, which will provide him
with $30,000 to support a year’s worth of
language study and professional experience
in East Asia where Beam, from Washington,
D.C., hopes to find a job in journalism.
Benjamin Turndorf ’11, a philosophy
major from Skillman, N.J., will pursue an
M.S. in modern Chinese studies at Oxford,
supported by the Clarendon Scholarship,
which provides $41,000 a year to
“academically excellent students with the
best proven and future potential.”
Ethan Rouen ’04J, ’11 Business
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