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A Passion for Science - Columbia College - Columbia University

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<strong>Columbia</strong> CollEgE Today AROuNd ThE quAdS<br />

alumni, Student<br />

win Scholarships to<br />

Continue research<br />

three alumni and one senior will<br />

continue doing research at the<br />

graduate level after receiving some<br />

of the most competitive and prestigious<br />

fellowships in the United States.<br />

Mollie Schwartz ’09, her class’ salutatorian,<br />

won the Hertz Foundation Fellowship,<br />

an award valued at $250,000 that<br />

gives “generous support to young leaders<br />

in applied sciences and engineering.” The<br />

fellowship, which goes to only 2 percent of<br />

applicants, comes with no strings attached<br />

and supports Schwartz, a chemical physics<br />

major from Washington, D.C., <strong>for</strong> up to five<br />

years of graduate work. She is currently<br />

deciding where to attend graduate school.<br />

Jun Hyuk Jason Kim ’08, an English<br />

major from Brooklyn, is in the 3 percent<br />

of applicants who received the Paul and<br />

Daisy Soros Fellowship <strong>for</strong> New Americans,<br />

which gives first-generation Americans<br />

up to $45,000 a year <strong>for</strong> two years to<br />

fund graduate work. Kim, who worked<br />

at The New Yorker, is working toward his<br />

M.F.A. in playwriting at The New School.<br />

Christopher Beam ’06, a history major<br />

and political reporter <strong>for</strong> Slate, won the<br />

Luce Scholarship, which will provide him<br />

with $30,000 to support a year’s worth of<br />

language study and professional experience<br />

in East Asia where Beam, from Washington,<br />

D.C., hopes to find a job in journalism.<br />

Benjamin Turndorf ’11, a philosophy<br />

major from Skillman, N.J., will pursue an<br />

M.S. in modern Chinese studies at Ox<strong>for</strong>d,<br />

supported by the Clarendon Scholarship,<br />

which provides $41,000 a year to<br />

“academically excellent students with the<br />

best proven and future potential.”<br />

Ethan Rouen ’04J, ’11 Business<br />

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