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Thomas Isherwood
US University: University of Delaware
Thomas
Isherwood hails from scenic and exotic Wichita, Kansas and will
graduate after four years at the University of Delaware with a B.A. in
International Relations and Economics and an M.A. in Political Science.
A Truman Scholar, Tom was active on campus as president of Alpha Lambda
Delta honor society, in addition to teaching a class for freshman and
running a program for the Office of Admissions. Off campus, Tom
volunteered with children in South Africa, studied Arabic in Morocco,
and worked for a summer as a legal advisor to urban refugees in Cairo,
Egypt. Having spent more than a year during college living in the
Middle East, Tom will pursue his interest in the region by reading for
an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford. Tom has also found
time to swing dance, crochet with his friends, and run in the Dead Sea
Marathon.
Sariah Khormaee
US University: University of Washington - Seattle
Sariah
Khormaee will graduate in June 2006 from the University of Washington
in Neurobiology and Biochemistry. While at the UW, Sariah has been
active in research with Dr. Kristin Swanson on developing mathematical
models of glioma growth, and is currently working with Dr. Tueng Shen
and Dr. Buddy Ratner on generating corneal epithelial layers for
corneal repair. She plans to pursue a PhD in Neurosciences at the
University of Cambridge with the long term goal of increasing the
efficiency of neural interaction with implanted devices as a
physician-researcher. In addition to science, Sariah enjoys running,
canoeing and playing the harp.
Adam Morgan
US University: Pennsylvania State University
Adam
Morgan of Dallas, PA is a senior at the Pennsylvania State University
with a double major in Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics. He has
spent the last three years as an undergraduate research assistant for
NASA's Swift Gamma-ray Burst Explorer Mission, and plans to study
cosmology at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy. As
an avid believer in the importance of sharing science with the general
public, Adam has participated in many science outreach programs during
his years at Penn State and will continue to devote time to do so at
Cambridge.
William Motley
US University: Middlebury College
William
Motley grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In May he will graduate from
Middlebury College with a degree in Biochemistry. For five summers he
has worked at the Mount Desert Island Biological Lab in Maine
researching chloride transport pathways linked to the protein defective
in Cystic Fibrosis patients. For his thesis he has recognized a gene
that controls meiosis in mice and causes sterility when mutant. He
works as an EMT for the Middlebury Volunteer Ambulance Association. He
was a two-year recipient of the Goldwater Scholarship. At the
University of Oxford, he will pursue a Doctorate in Molecular Biology.
