Study-Abroad Awards
Edward Carlson ’06 and Chessie Thacher ’04 received Luce Scholarships to live and work in Asia
for a year. Thacher hopes
to study the connections between endangered
species conservation, local practices, and larger economic systems. Carlson will intern with the American Civil Liberties Union in Denver for a year before going to Asia.
Malcolm Murray ’06 was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. He will travel to Vietnam, Brazil, and Argentina, where he will distribute video cameras to skateboarders and work with them to identify, document, and translate “what can be communicated on a skateboard.”
Bryan Norrington ’06 and Sharon Smith ’67 were awarded Fulbright scholarships. Norrington also won the Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship, the NCAA’s highest academic award. Norrington will spend his Fulbright year in Japan, studying the relationship between Japanese nongovernmental organizations and Japan’s official development assistance. Smith, a professor in marine biology and fisheries at the University of Miami, will work for nine months in Oman, teaching and studying zooplankton changes during the monsoon season and how they might help forecast changes to the area’s marine food web.
Namrita Singh ’05
was accepted to a yearlong master’s degree program to study forced migration at the University of Oxford in England for her Rotary International Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholarship. Adrian Davis ’04 was also awarded a Rotary International World Peace Scholarship for peace studies.
