Peter
Noteboom, of Livingston, Montana, is completing a double major in
economics and government at Dartmouth College, culminating with an
honors thesis on the effects of valuable resources on the organization
of guerrilla groups. He is also a two-year captain of Dartmouth's
Heavyweight Crew. He has interned at the Center for Death Penalty
Litigation in Durham, NC, which defends indigent people on death row,
volunteered in Tanzania and worked as an analyst for Banc of America
Securities. Peter is interested in the economic and political issues of
African development and will read for an Mphil in Economics at Oxford
University.
Anne
O'Donnell of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, will graduate in May 2005 as
part of the U.S. Naval Academy's first class of information technology
majors. Especially interested in national security applications of IT,
she has published papers on asymmetric IT-based threats and completed
an internship with the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber
Security Division. Anne also enjoys responsibilities as co-captain of
the lacrosse team and Brigade Operations Officer, responsible for the
organization and execution of all activities involving the 4,400 member
Brigade of Midshipmen. She will pursue an MSc in Information Security
from Royal Holloway before serving as a naval officer.
Originally
from Littleton, Colorado, Alex graduated from the University of
Colorado-Boulder with a degree in Biochemistry in 2003 at age 18 and is
currently a second-year medical student at Duke University. As a
Marshall Scholar, Alex hopes to study computational neuroscience and
more generally the application of mathematical and physical techniques
to biological systems at Oxford's Centre for Mathematical Biology. Alex
has previously conducted research in a variety of fields including
medical image processing, enzyme kinetics/bioinformatics, nonlinear
dynamics in equity markets, and general relativity, co-authoring papers
in several of them. His eventual goal is to be a practicing
physician-scientist.
A
native of New York City, Ross Perlin received a BA in Classics and East
Asian Studies from Stanford University. Particular areas of research
have included comparative Greek/Chinese philosophy and Uighur identity.
At Stanford, Ross served as President of the Forum for American/Chinese
Exchange at Stanford (FACES), a group devoted to promoting dialogue
between student leaders in the U.S. and China, and co-curator of the
Bay Area's first residential museum, the Matthias K. Rath Center. At
Cambridge, he will pursue an M.Phil in Classics, comparing Daoist and
Stoic ethical systems and their respective appeals to "Nature".
Matt
is a senior at the United States Military Academy, majoring in
International Relations and Chinese. He grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma
where he graduated from Jenks High School in 2001. Much of his free
time is spent on sports and clubs at West Point, including Sandhurst (a
military competition) and Model United Nations. Upon graduation, Matt
will be commissioned as an aviation officer in the US Army. Matt plans
to read for an MA in Chinese Studies and an MSc in International
Politics at the University of London, focusing on improving relations
between China and the United States.
Kingston
was born and raised on a farm in rural Kingston, Wisconsin. He was a
junior year inductee to Phi Beta Kappa, and was selected to represent
Brown at Occidental College's student conference on US foreign policy.
Kingston was a member of the College Democrats, a contributing
editorial writer for the Brown Daily Herald and a research assistant at
Brown's Watson Institute for International Studies. His summer
internships included working for Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) in
Washington D.C. and at Gettysburg National Military Park. An avid
golfer, Kingston was a volunteer standard bearer at the 86th PGA
Championship at Whistling Straits, Wisconsin. He plays intramural
basketball, ice hockey and flag-football. Kingston plans to study
international relations at the London School of Economics.
Ryan
Roark, of Austin, Texas, will graduate from Brown University in May
with concentrations in biology, comparative literature, and math. She
is writing two theses: a translation of a 16th-century French novel and
an article on anti-bladder cancer drug development research she
conducted over the past two summers at UT Southwestern in Dallas. For
her research in biology and math, she has received a Goldwater
Scholarship and a Brown Faculty Scholarship. She is editor-in-chief of
Brown's undergraduate science magazine, The Catalyst, and volunteers at
a cancer support center. At Cambridge, she will study cell cycle
regulation in the Oncology Department.