Sixty-five percent of the Fords who applied this year were selected as semi-finalists for the international fellowship program that funds research projects, courses of study, and English Teaching Assistant Programs.
Scholarships, Awards, and Fellowships
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The recent Fulbright fellow begins her English Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia this fall with financial support from this long-standing Haverford fellowship for graduate study.
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The English major and German and philosophy minor will return to Germany, where he studied abroad last year, to enhance his teaching and language skills.
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Five recent graduates earned 2019–2020 Fulbright Student Awards.
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The English major from the Bronx will return to Barbados, site of her semester abroad, to research the relationship between Caribbean science fiction and the islands’ history at the University of West Indies, Cave Hill.
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The physics and astronomy double major from Oakland, Calif., will spend next year conducting research at the Max Planck institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.
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The chemistry major from Seattle will spend next year at Lund University in Sweden, conducting research with his longtime collaborator Sara Linse.
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The political science and Spanish double major is the sole recipient of the University College Dublin Taught Master’s Program Award, which she’ll use to study philosophy and public affairs.
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The biology major from Sunnyvale, Calif., will spend next year at the University of Oslo in Norway, researching a toxic polypeptide associated with ALS and Frontotemporal Dementia in a cellular model.
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Five recent graduates earned 2018–2019 Fulbright Student Awards.
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Russell, who has spent the past few years as the managing artistic director of the Allentown Public Theatre, will further her theater studies at the Universität Gießen in Germany.
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The philosophy and political science double major, who is currently pursuing an M.A. in nationalism studies at Hungary's Central European University, will spend next year at Kent Law School's master's in law program in the U.K.
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The chemistry and Russian double major will continue combining his love of the natural sciences and foreign languages in Kiev, Ukraine, where he will conduct research on the integration of addiction treatment and HIV services into primary care clinics.
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The former biology major and current Haverford House fellow is headed to the Czech Republic to continue studying an invasive plant that was the focus of his senior thesis research.
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In Ulf Olsson's lab in Lund, Sweden, the chemistry major will study how lipid molecules impact the peptide aggregation that forms plaques in the brain of Parkinson's patients.