Scholar Names A-G
Sarah Airey
US University: Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Ms Airey has traveled to Ghana, West
Africa to volunteer as a computer literacy teacher and to study Ghanaian art
and culture. An engaging conversationalist, she has interned at the Naval
Research Laboratories where she designed graphical software interface to
control antenna signals and developed a computer simulation method for
autonomous navigation. This 21-year-old has been named to the Omicron Delta
Kappa Leadership Honor Society, is a Senator in the Student Government
Association, is active with the Society of Women Engineers outreach programs
and enjoys painting and drawing. Ms Airey will pursue a Masters degree in
artificial intelligence and a PhD in human computer interaction. She hopes to
undertake research in an industrial or academic setting to improve the
interface between human and computer, eventually influencing policy that
governs the distribution and accessibility of technology.
Ari Alexander
US University: University of Pennsylvania
Ari Alexander is currently pursuing his MA in
Comparative Ethnic Conflict at the Queen's University
of Belfast. His research focuses on the role of
integrated education in deeply divided societies. Ari
spent last summer interviewing Palestinians and Jews
in Jerusalem and Bethlehem and has chosen to read for
the MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford
for the next two years.
Daniel Brooks Baer
US University: Harvard University
Daniel Baer from
Denver, Colorado is majoring in Social Studies at Harvard University and plans
to study for the MPhil in International Relations at Oxford as the basis for a
career in public service. Already a successful writer with two books published
and a third underway, Dan is not only a superb writer, but also an engaging,
articulate extrovert with spectacular.gifts of perception and a truly
inquisitive mind. His great sense of adventure and incredibly diverse
background - he has worked as a cowboy in the Australian outback, has lived in
an Australian Aboriginal community and has researched funerary customs in Ghana
- have given him a practical education of a depth and scope few people
experience in a lifetime, let alone in their first twenty years. As well as
mentoring fellow students, Dan has volunteered with a program that focuses on
conflict resolution with elementary school children from rival housing projects
in inner-city Boston.
John Barker
US University: US Military Academy
Raised in small town USA as one of seven
children, John Barker was educated at Napa High School in Napa California. An
extraordinary scholar, deep thinker, poet and creative writer, John is also an
expert rugby player, and an army cadet with a highly distinguished record at
the US Military Academy. John is currently completing a degree in Arts,
Philosophy, and Literature at West Point. He intends to use his Marshall
Scholarship to study for an MLitt in English Literature at the University of
Edinburgh and then to pursue a career as a writer.
Michael Bhatia
US University: Brown University
Brown graduate Michael Bhatia plans to
deepen his interest in international development through postgraduate studies
at Oxford's Center for International Studies. Since graduation Michael, with
tremendous courage and commitment, has worked with the International Rescue
Committee in Kosovo, Macedonia, and Montenegro. He was also an election
observer and humanitarian affairs officer in East Timor. Prior to graduating
from Brown, he was an intern with the UN High Commission for Refugees in
Saharan Africa. A resident of Medway, Massachusetts, Michael is currently
working as a Scoville Peace Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary
Assessment in Washington.
Gabriel Brat
US University: Arizona State University
Gabriel Brat is
studying Bioengineering at Arizona State University. Born in Israel, he has
worked at a free community health clinic serving the under-insured Hispanic and
indigenous communities in Arizona. Together with the clinic's head physician,
Gabriel developed a clinical trial involving the clinic's diabetic patients
which will help improve their treatment and increase scientific knowledge about
the effective treatment of diabetes. In the UK, Gabriel will follow an MSc
programme in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, where he will pursue the integration of pure research with health
policy and delivery leading to, in his words, "a new kind of science and a new
kind of scientist".
Richard Caldarone
US University: Northwestern University
Mr Caldarone was an
exchange student to Japan in the Rotary International Program, has served as
Speaker of the Senate and in other positions in the Northwestern University
Student Government Association. He is a member of the Deru Senior Honor Society
and Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honors Fraternity. Among other honours and
awards, he is an accomplished musician and has served as the Musical Director
for local theatre productions in Chicago. Described as "a resilient thinker who
moves quickly and easily through a labyrinth of arguments," Mr Caldarone has
formidable knowledge on a range of topics. His interest in government and
politics, particularly citizen participation and apathy, will be the focus of
his study after which he intends to work to use government to effect social
change.
Megan Marie Ceronsky
US University: University of Arkansas
Megan Ceronsky found her career inspirations in work with rape victims
and children at domestic violence shelter as well as during canoe trips
with her family in the wilderness of northern Minnesota. She hopes to
work with policy issues relating to women and the environment, and to
this end is pursuing a degree in Human Sciences at Oxford University to
better understand the roots of individual and collective behaviour.
Megan is a graduate of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville where
she studied International Relations and Religious Studies.
Rebecca Anne Chamberlain
US University: Wheaton College
Ms Chamberlain is a
force for international peace, who will succeed where others have failed
because of her ability to both question and listen to all that she encounters.
As a Rotary Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholar she is at present taking a
Master of Theology programme at the Evandeoski Teoloski Fakultet in Osijek,
eastern Croatia. Reconciliation and diplomacy work is what Rebecca is aiming
for, be it within the framework of the United Nations or US Government. The
Marshall Scholarship will enable her to pursue an MA in Central and
South-East European Studies at University College London. Among other foreign
travel in the Former Yugoslavia, Rebecca has first hand experience of
humanitarian relief work in Kosovo.
David Chan
US University: University of California, Riverside
Born in Fresno, California, David Chan is a
medical student at UCLA. A Co-President of the Asian Pacific American Medical
Students Association, David learned Mandarin while at UC Riverside as an
undergraduate student and spent a year at Beijing and Tsinghua Universities,
China. He showed an early aptitude for mathematics which he pursued at college,
adding the analytical techniques of economics to study the forces making for
prosperity and suffering in the world. The son of a doctor, he found that his
mother's own struggle with cancer showed him the impact of medicine on people's
lives. He will study the UK healthcare system, and its implications for US
health policy, at the London School of Economics.
Adam Cohen
US University: Harvard University
Harvard's Adam Cohen of New York City, is a
talented inventor with a remarkable and inquiring mind. A chemistry and physics
major, he plans to study at Cambridge, where he hopes to become "a better
scientist-inventor". A 1999 Goldwater Scholar, he was inducted into the
National Gallery for America's Young Inventors in 1998, and took first place in
the 1997 Westinghouse Science Talent Search. He is the holder of three patents.
His work has covered a wide array of projects, from land mine sensors to
glucose monitors for diabetics to the world's smallest amplifier using carbon
nanochemistry.
Katherine Brady Dirks
US University: University of Virginia
Katherine (Katie) Dirks of Baton Rouge,
Louisiana and a Government and Foreign Affairs student at the University of
Virginia, is an engaging, powerful and compelling personality with a mind like
a steel trap and remarkable powers of expression. She plans to use her Marshall
Scholarship to pursue an MPhil in International Relations at Oxford as a step
towards her ultimate goal of a career in US government policy making in the
area of immigration policy. An outstanding community leader already, Katie was
President of the Raven Society, (named for Edgar Allan Poe, also a University
of Virginia student) and a highly coveted honour. Overcoming significant
obstacles in her early years, Katie gives back to her community through
programmes for the underprivileged in Appalachia and through a mentoring
programme for middle school girls.
Paul Benjamin Domjan
US University: University of Texas at Austin
Paul Domjan from
Austin, Texas is an Honours student in Philosophy, Russian, East European and
Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas in Austin. He is mature and well
rounded with a forceful personality, a strong debating style, (albeit easy and
fluent in discussion), and an impressive grasp of the problems facing Central
Europe. He plans to read for a MPhil in International Relations at Oxford as
the basis for an academic and government policy-making career. In addition to
hearty outdoor interests, (mountain biking, climbing and camping), and an
interest in classical guitar and opera, Paul has been a dedicated mentor and
tutor both at the University and with high school students.
Karen Feigh
US University: Georgia Tech
Karen's interest in flight began at an early
age; perhaps being the daughter of an Air Force pilot sowed the seeds. At
Georgia Tech where she is currently studying for a degree in Aerospace
Engineering Karen has amassed a brilliant academic record and shows great
leadership skills. Currently Chair of the Presidents' Council Governing Board
and the Women's Leadership Conference; she manages to find time for T-book, an
on-line student survival guide, which she founded in 1998. Overseas travel has
taken her to a number of countries including Germany, providing her an
opportunity of using her language skills. Karen sees today's problems in the
air traffic management system and believes that in the future she will have the
necessary tools to work on improving all aspects of air traffic control and
aviation safety. Her Marshall Scholarship will take her to Cranfield University
where she will study for an MPhil in Avionics and Simulation in association
with Human Factors.
Scott Allan Ferree
US University: University of Kansas
Scott Allan Ferree is
a top rate student with passion for literature, the theatre and creative
writing. He is reading English and French at University of Kansas, Lawrence. As
an energetic young playwright, actor and director he has already had one of his
short plays performed at the Kennedy Center. His love of the outdoors, has
taken him to a wilderness training programme in Wyoming and backpacking trip
through the Rockies. He will pursue the MPhil in English Studies programme at
the University of London, Goldsmiths' College to study Samuel Becket and how
his work relates to that of Proust and Joyce and connect these three writers to
others of the modernist period. His experience from a two-month study in
Sienna, Italy, a one year study at a French University, as well as a Summer
study in Theatre Katohi, Greece makes him an experienced and focused Marshall
Scholar. In his own words "I want to write, because literature has been so
important in my life".
Cinnamon Pinon Gilbreath
US University: Baylor University
Cinnamon Gilbreath
from Waco, Texas and a graduate of Baylor University now studying law at the
University of California Law School at Berkeley, California, plans to study for
a MSc in Environmental Change & Management at Oxford University. She plans
a career in policy development in the international environmental arena, a goal
towards which she has already started by becoming editor of the prestigious
environmental policy journal, the Ecology Law Quarterly. A committed
environmentalist, as strong in discussions of law as of policy and technology,
she has an impressive ability to see and address all sides of an issue and to
reach a principled conclusion with ease. In debate she is articulate, agile,
informed, persuasive and vibrant but with a quiet confidence she further
combines athleticism, (she led her high school basketball team to state
championships for three years in a row), with an outstanding record of
volunteer activities with young people.
Brian Gray
US University: Boston College
Brian Gray of Boston College, is an
accomplished biochemist who seeks to pursue the control and eradication of
infectious disease. He will be studying chemistry at Imperial College, London.
A Goldwater Scholar and intellectual superstar, Brian already has a major
journal paper and two patents to his credit. He has been awarded a Pfizer
Undergraduate Research Fellowship. He is also socially committed, participating
in a 500-mile AIDS vaccine bicycle ride in Alaska, the Boston Marathon in
support of autistic children, and HIV-prevention lecture courses for prison
inmates. He is a resident of Garden City, New York.
Seth Green
US University: Princeton
Seth from Boca Raton has already made an
impact on public policy in Florida. He is strikingly accomplished and is one of
Princeton's top young students having completed his AB degree in Political
Economy in three years. He
has become a nationally-ranked debater and as a freshman represented Princeton
at the World Debate in the Philippines. Compelled by personal experience Seth
has made it his mission to help children with birth defects, particularly in
Third World countries. His service to the community knows no bounds; organising
summer camps for special needs children and their families, and producing
videos for parents of affected new-borns are two of his numerous endeavours.
Tennis proves to be an excellent for him and he enjoys playing on the varsity
team, and finds time to coach special needs children. Seth is the recipient of
many awards and scholarships including the Coca-Cola Foundation Scholarship. As
a Marshall Scholar he will study for two years at the University of London.
