Scholar Names H-L
Matthew Harsh
US University: Northwestern University
Matthew Harsh is an enthusiastic
technologist with a
strong social conscience. He earned a BS in
Materials Science Engineering, completing a thesis on
ancient African and Indian steels. Active in his
extended community, he worked with the White Earth
Land Recovery Project and the Buffalo Field Campaign
and founded a Native American advocacy student group.
It is his aim to formulate technological strategies
for sustainable socio-economic development. An
American Materials Society Foundation Scholar and a
member of several engineering honors societies as well
as the Eta Sigma Phi society for the classics, he also
enjoys film and music production and digitally
composes music.
Ben Heineike
US University: United States Naval Academy
Ben Heineike hails from Lake Tahoe, California.
He is currently first
in his class at the US Naval Academy with a BS in mathematics and a
minor in French. Having experienced life at sea aboard the Coast Guard's tall
ship the Eagle, and the USS Arthur W Radford enforcing the UN
embargo on Iraq, he will become a Surface Warfare Officer in the Navy.
He hopes to bring his mathematical skills to play developing technology and
operational procedures in the Navy. Ben has interned at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratories, and is currently working on numerical
simulation of pattern formation in reaction-diffusion equations with
application to biological development. A former Life Scout, and an
organizer of the USNA student tutoring program, Ben hopes to integrate
leadership and teaching with scientific research as he pursues applied
mathematics at the University of Cambridge. True to USNA's mission, Ben is
determined to unselfishly "assume the highest responsibilities of
command, citizenship and government".
Ben Hood
US University: University of Arkansas
With an insatiable appetite for space science, Ben Hood, a physics and
computer engineering major, founded the Students for Exploration and
Development of Space at the University of Arkansas. He spent his
summers working for NASA and helped purchase, install, and automate
the university's new Meade Telescope. When not gazing up, Mr Hood
works with a variety of organisations on and off the campus creating such
annual events as the Hunger Banquet, a program to raise money to
alleviate world hunger; the Martin Luther King, Jr Read-In; and the U of
A Star Trek convention to raise money for undergraduate space research.
He is currently working with Stellar Sun Inc of Little Rock and several
students to provide and install solar panels in Native American housing in
Arizona.
Daniel Immerwahr
US University: Columbia University
A double major in US history and philosophy at Columbia College,
Daniel Immerwahr plans to further his study of history with a second BA at
Cambridge. Immerwahr is currently writing two theses: one on cultural
politics in Levittown, NY in the 1950s; and the other on the philosophy
of history. At Columbia, he helped to found the Undergraduate
Philosophy Forum, serves as managing editor of "The Blue and
White", co-chairs the Academic Awards Committee, and works
as a representative on the History Council. He was also the recipient
of the Edwin Robbins Research Fellowship and the Arthur Rose Teaching
Fellowship, both through the History Department. Immerwahr hopes to
follow his Cambridge education with doctoral studies in US history.
Jacob Jost
US University: Goshen College
Jacob plans to study English Language and Literature at
the University of Oxford. He was born in Columbus, Ohio and has also spent time in the
United Kingdom and Germany. He currently attends Goshen College, Indiana, and his interests
include reading, travel, history and music (he claims now to own 46 Bob Dylan albums!).
In the future, Jacob hopes to combine a teaching career in a college or university with
service to society and the church, perhaps through a church service organisation involving
development or peacemaking work in the Third World.
Jacob has been involved with Christian Peacemaker Teams, has been a delegation member to Hebron
(West Bank) and an intern with the Agora Christian Fellowship.
Jennifer Kasten
US University: University of Kentucky
Jennifer grew up in Lexington, Kentucky,
where she attended the Lexington Christian Academy. After graduating as a valedictorian
and as a National Merit Scholar in 1988, she accepted the Singletary Scholarship to the
University of Kentucky, where she majors in French and Biology. Her passion for
international health issues took her to Haiti and Nepal, where she delivered babies,
diagnosed disease and encountered sometimes violent political opposition. She speaks
French, Haitian Creole and a smattering of Nepali; she currently studies Sanskrit
and hopes to work in international public health, working to improve conditions in
developing countries under the auspices of a group such as the World Health
Organization or Mecins Sans Fronties. She plans to study the control of
infectious diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Jennifer serves on the Kentucky AIDS Advisory Council, the Kentucky HIV / AIDS
Advocacy and Action Group and the editorial board of the Kentucky Kernel, and
her paper Differential Salt-Water Transport in Rats is due to be published in
the Journal for Experimental Biology in 2002. She is also an enthusiastic
pianist, harpsichordist and wind player.
Zachary Kaufman
US University: Yale University
Zachary Kaufman, of Morgantown,
West Virginia, graduated in 2000 with
Honors in political science from Yale University, where he was student body
president, freshman counselor, and volunteer wrestling coach in New
Haven. He also served as co-captain of the wrestling team and was an
All-American and Runner-Up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling
Association. Since graduation, Zachary has worked for the US State Department and
Justice Department on African and Middle Eastern criminal justice issues
And has served on solo missions to Rwanda and Nigeria. Zachary is also the
Founder and President of the American Friends of the Kigali Public
Library, a non-profit organisation that is helping build Rwanda's first public
library, and is Board Member and Senior Fellow of Humanity-in-Action, an
international human rights organisation that promotes educational and
cultural exchange between Europe and the United States. Zachary plans to study an
MPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford.
Katherine King
US University: University of Colorado
Kathy King, from Pittsford NY and a student at University of
Colorado plans to pursue Masters' degrees in Psychology and
Philosophy at Oxford to study the integration of psychology and
philosophy in answering questions of consciousness. As a CU Norlin
and a Goldwater scholar, Kathy studied biology, psychology and
philosophy in order to prepare for a future academic career in
Philosophy and as a participant in debates about ethical issues
related to the mind. An active member of her community, Kathy has
been a national champion and team co-captain with the CU road cycling
team. She has also done research on visual cortical development in
Molecular biology and on the Zombie argument in philosophy. As a principal
founding member of the Undergraduate Academy, an intellectual honours
community on the campus, she has established a mentoring program,
taught a science class at a local high school, and serves as the lead
undergraduate TA for the Boulder campus. Her natural curiosity and
enthusiasm will allow her to succeed as both a researcher, a teacher
and a voice in public debate about the ethical implications of the
nature of the mind.
Abbie Liel
US University: Princeton University
Abbie Liel is from Portland, Oregon,
where she graduated from the Catlin
Gabel School in 1998. She is now a senior at Princeton University,
majoring in civil and environmental engineering, focusing on
structures. In addition, she is pursuing a minor in public policy. Outside of the
classroom, Abbie plays bassoon in the Princeton University orchestra,
is vice president of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honour society, and
enjoys outdoor activities. As a Marshall scholar, she plans to study one year
of civil engineering and one year of building and urban design at
University College London.
Wheaton Little
US University: Haverford College
Raised in New Hampshire,
Wheaton Little has spent much of his life wandering the woods of New England.
He graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon School before attending Haverford
College, and has spent a year at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
A Howard Hughes Medical Institute scholar, he hopes to use his knowledge of
biochemistry and organic chemistry to research biochemical mechanisms of
fighting viral diseases, and to fostering a scientific community across
international borders. A martial arts student since the age of 8,
he received a black belt at 14 in Kenpo Karate, and continues to study a
range of martial arts styles. He has taught English in China, and ecology
and wilderness survival to school children in West Virginia.
Jason Lott
US University: University of Alabama
Jason Lott will graduate
from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a BA in Philosophy and a BS in
Mathematics. In addition to pursuing research at UAB in the areas of brain and
cognitive science, he has also developed computational models of neural processes
at Carnegie Mellon University and N Y University. As a Marshall
Scholar, he intends to continue his studies in neuroscience at the
University of Oxford. His ultimate aim is to develop treatments for
cognitive disorders such as memory loss. During his four years at UAB Jason has been
the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and scholarships. Volunteering in
various community projects is extremely important to Jason and he plans on
continuing his volunteer work in the Oxford area.
