The University of Oregon would like to recognize the
2001-2002 graduate fellowship and award recipients
for their research, teaching and scholarly excellence.
Congratulations from the Graduate School and the
Graduate Council
Dr. Richard W. Linton Dr. Peter Wright
Vice President for Research & Graduate Studies Graduate Council Chair
Dean of the Graduate School
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University of Oregon Doctoral Research Fellowship
Fellowship stipend of $16,000plus instructional tuition waiver, Fall 2002
• Leontina Hormel - Sociology • Mathew Manweller - Political Science
• Alison Rust - Geological Sciences
Betty Foster McCue Scholarship
$5,000 and tuition waiver, Fall 2002
• Kari Norgaard - Sociology
GTF Teaching Award
$500 honorarium to award recipients, Spring 2002
• Krista Gragg - Counseling Psychology • Robin Seloover - Art
Graduate Research Awards
$350-$500 award, Spring 2002
• Karin Almquist—Romance languages • Jon Arakaki - Journalism and Communication • Shing-Jye
Chen - Exercise and Movement Science • Roberta Di Carmine - Comparative literature
• Beth Drayer - Exercise and Movement Science • Holly Eckles - Educational Leadership • Ronald
Ganze - English • John Green - Geography • Claudia Hariss - Anthropology • Rebecca Hart -
Counseling Psychology • L. Suzann Henrikson - Anthropology • Susan Hume - Geography • Jerry
Jacka - Anthropology • Iain Johnston - Educational leadership • Jeong Ah Kim - Art History •
Yoshiko Konishi - Anthropology • Katherine lee - Geological Sciences • Terrance MacMullan -
Philosophy • Daniela Penickova - Anthropology • Torben Rick - Anthropology • Diana Roman -
Geological Sciences • Stacy Rosenberg - Environmental Studies • Cecilia Rosenow - English *
Ramonu Sanusi - Romance languages • Jacqueline Shinker - Geography • Rebecca Sleekier - PPPM
•David Steele - Historic Preservation • Akiko Takeyama - Anthropology • Britla Torgrimson -
Anthropology • Craig Willis - Theatre Arts • Ernest Winterhoff - Anthropology • Gerd Woehrle -
Chemistry
Graduate Service Awards
• Holly Henderson - PPPM and International Studies • Khaleelah Ralisaan - Education: Middle
Secondary • Jason Younker - Anthropology
Dan Kimble First Year Teaching Award
$500 award, Fall2001
• Lory Bedikian - Creative Writing • Corey Dunn - Mathematics
Master’s Fellowship for Excellence in Research and Scholarly
Activity
$l,000-$5,000 award, Spring 2002
Architecture & Allied Arts
• Holly Henderson - PPPM • Bonnie Roos - Art History • Nicholas Rajkovich - Architecture • Helen
Burnham - Art History • John Lopez - Architecture • James McGrath - Architecture • Robin Seloover -
Art • Mieko Aoki - 1-andscape Architecture • Naomi Kasumi - Art • Steven Roelof - landscape
Architecture • Samantha Stengcl-Goctz - landscape Architecture • Carrie Shields - Art • Rebecca
Sleekier - PPPM
School of Music
• Corrie Cowart - Dance • Timothy J. Cowart - Dance • John Cox - Music and Music History
• Matt Monroe - Music • Mathew Svoboda - Music • Scott Unrein - Music
Gary E. Smith Summer Grant
$3000 award, Summer 2002
• Pui Yin Micky I.ee - Journalism and Communication • Jennifer McWeeny - Philosophy
• Wendy Reinke - School Psychology
Southeast Asian Studies Grant
$1,000 award, $500 to honorable mention, Winter 2002
• Nicholas Kohler - Geography • Chulanee Thianthai (honorable mention) - Anthropology
Target of Opportunity Laurel Awards
Instructional tuition waivers starting Fall2002
Undergraduates:
• Chistopher Arnold - Journalism and Communication • Arel Cordero - Computer Information
Science and Music Performance • Mariko Khono - Architecture • Jaylene Park - Music • Kalisha
Stout - Counseling, Family and Human Services • Nobuko Wingard - Romance Languages
Graduates:
• Emily Chow - School Psychology • Kaori Idemaru - Linguistics • Winifred Pankani - International
Studies • Teresa Garcia - History • Leilani Golden-Guthrie - Educational Leadership • Mayra Gomez -
Educational Leadership • Angela Gonzalez - Early Intervention • Belinda Houghton - Exercise and
Movement Science • Monica Karlin - Music Education • Naomi Kesner - Art • Lyle Tavernier -
Educational Leadership
Stephen L. Washy Dissertation Research Grant
$1,250-$!, 500 award, Spring 2002
• Carlos Castro - Sociology • R. Charli Carpenter - Political Science • George Cusack - English
• Kathryn Fulton - ,\nthropology • Ursula Lindqvist - Comparative Literature • Bayta Maring -
Psychology • Barbara Sutton - Sociology
Women in Physical Sciences Scholarship
Undergraduate tuition waivers starting Fall2002
• Amy Cooke - Chemistry • Bryn Kimball - Geology
Graduate Awards from other Departments and Institutions
Fulbright Grant
• Zintars Beldavs - Psychology • Jennifer Cameron - Comparative Literature ‘Anthony Clarke - East
Asian Languages and Literatures • Elizabeth Cogan - Romance languages • Brandy McDougal -
Creative Writing • Joshua Morse - Creative Writing • Matthew Wells - Comparative Literature
UO Humanities Center Graduate Research Fellowship
$750 Travel/Research Grant
• Karin Almquist - Romance languages • Taro Iwata - History • Sean Malone - Music
• Nathan Straight - English
International Trade & Development Graduate Fellowship
$10,000 to $12,000 stipend
• Tami Hill - Anthropology • Rux Prompalit - Educational Policy and Management
• Barbara Sutton - Sociology • Miao Wang - Economics • Ian Moise - Environmental Studies
NSEP David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship
• Elizabeth Larson - International Studies • Demian Hommel - Geography
• Blair Orfall - Comparative literature • Matthew Derrick - Russian and East Europe Studies
• Mara Ingerham - IS: Individualized Program
University Club Fellowship
$5,000 cash award
• Jason Younker - Anthropology
For more information on University of Oregon Graduate
Fellowships go to: http://gradschool.noregon.edu/fellowshipSj.uo.html
‘Crazy job-seeker’
off to D.C.
When Nelly Ganesan walks
down the street, “Nine hundred
people say, ‘Hi,’” said her friend
Maggie Young,
a senior.
One reason
Ganesan, a
senior graduat
ing in econom
ics with a mi
nor in
computer in
formation
technology, is
so well known
is because
she’s been involved in so many
student activities during her four
years at the University.
Ganesan worked for the Ambas
sador Program for two years, and
this year she supervised 24 other
students. She was a peer adviser
for economics, she served as an of
ficer for Students of the Indian
Subcontinent from 1999 to 2001,
she’s been actively involved in In
ternational Student Association
events and culture nights and she’s
worked in the ASUO.
Ganesan was born and raised in
Alaska, but she visits southern In
dia, where her parents grew up,
every few years.
She was drawn to economics af
ter studying in India for two years
in seventh and eighth grades, she
said. She’s most interested in eco
nomic growth and development in
Third World countries, especially
after seeing the poverty firsthand,
she said.
“With the family background I
have in India, there was a developed
interest after visiting the country
and seeing how the people lived,
and then comparing that to what
was taught in my classes,” she said.
Thanks to Ganesan’s initiative —
she was “a crazy job-seeker on the
GANESAN
PROFILES
Internet” — she is headed to Wash
ington, D.C., to be a research assis
tant for the National Academy of
Social Insurance, a nonprofit re
search and education organization
that supports Congress’ decisions
about workers’ compensation, wel
fare and Social Security.
— Diane Huber
for the Emerald
Staying loyal
to recycling efforts
Even as a fourth-grader, Leona
Kassel believed one person could
help change the world. After learn
ing in school
about how ele
phants were
killed for their
tusks, she
launched a
campaign from
her house
against the
practice, hang
ing a poster on
her front door
with fliers peo
ple could take that said, “Don’t
Buy Ivory.”
College hasn’t changed her ideal
ism. An Honors College student
with a double major in environ
mental studies and philosophy,
Kassel, 22, just finished her 80-page
thesis last week about humans’ re
sponsibility to the environment.
Kassel, who’s worked at Campus
Recycling three of the four years
since she was a freshman, said
some people have told her that try
ing to save the environment is fu
tile, but she said she’d rather take
action than give up.
“If your options are to sit there
and watch the environment get de
stroyed or at least educate people
and make facilities more accessi
ble, I’d choose the latter,” she said.
A program she began while
working at CR is to educate fresh
men about recycling by taking resi
dent assistants on tours of campus
recycling facilities so they can then
take students in their residence
halls on a similar tour.
Kassel has also led a group of
students in a successful effort to in
corporate the Graduation Pledge of
Social and Environmental Respon
sibility into commencement activi
ties this year.
After she graduates this week,
she plans to move to Hawaii,
where she studied last year
through the National Student Ex
change program. She’s applied for
the one open position in recycling
facilities there, but she said if she
doesn’t get it, “I’m going to create
my own job.”
— Kara Cogswell
How ‘involved’
have you been?
Fifth-year senior Rashida Haqq
is getting ready to graduate next
week with a bachelor’s degree in
sociology, a job promotion waiting
in the wings
and only a sin
gle regret for
the half-decade
she has stud
ied at the
University.
Born in
Chicago and
raised in Port
land, Haqq, 23,
lived with her
mom, her
younger brother and her two
younger sisters until she came to
Eugene to study at the University.
Haqq is a current member of
Zeta Phi Beta sorority, the Black
Student Union, Black Women of
Achievement, and the Office of
Multicultural Affairs. She has been
a BWA treasurer and is currently
Zeta Phi Beta’s president.
Turn to Profiles, page 3B
The Office of Academic Advising would like
to thank the following peer advisers for their dedication
to the Peer Advising program.
The guidance and advice offered by
these students is greatly appreciated.
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Peers of the
Year
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Jennifer Johnson
Julia Thorkildson
Tiffany Brown
Kristin Walker
General Peers
Summer Bryan
Dawn Clippinger
Sara Maser
C’Rel McAllister
Monika Parsons
Marc Rothgery
Greg Ciannella
Andrew Lindgren
Fumi Hashimoto
Brook Shepard
Jessica Vogt
Marybeth Sieges
Quinn Korbulic
Kimberly Blazejewski
Preeti Tuladhor
Ndidi Unaka
Jason Henkle
Sarah Isgur
Cally Martin
Katherine Patterson
Sarah Peters
Tiffany Sparks
Diona Wellman
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Erika Andrews
Julia Bauer
Leah Bueherg
Heather Glenn
Kari Ostlund
LeAnn Samsel
Courtney Truax
Elizabeth Wolcott
Toni Woodley
Aaron Byers
Esteban Mendez
Rick Peterson
Jada Lee
Aaron Steinberger
Adriana Head
Alex Fischer
Andrew Verhoeven
Anne Jackson
Brad Ritter
Brian Katsura
Cherry Dinwiddie
Chris Zummo
Dipa Malakar
Drew Stahl
Eddy Widjaja
Elena Klintsova
Erica Kindrick
Fang-Ching Chang
George Hall
Graham Crawford
Hope Siler
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Jason Wells
Jimi Brown
Joe Haffey
Juan Heredia
Kayla Yapuncich
Kenneth Fyie
Kevin Kim
Kristin Hart
Kyle Miller
Lindsay Beckman
Mateo Martinez-Lopez
Matthew Thoren
Michael Pfannes
Moses Githatha
Neil Simon
Nelly Ganesan
Parrish Danforth
Peggy Lee
Peter Cipra
Peter Herr
Peter Luger
Reid Seino
Ryan Fraback
Ryan Probstfeld
Ryoko Sako
Sarah Lawson
Seok Won Lee
Shane Erfurth
Tadd Howarth
Walker Hanlon
Yutaka Kagami