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David Aftab Ansari, a CLA Honors graduate of the University of Minnesota, has received a Fulbright Scholarship to Senegal. He will investigate the role of Islamic leaders, community, and organizations in the de-stigmatization of HIV/AIDs. Ansari received a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 2007. |
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Tovah Bender, a Ph.D. student in History, is one of twenty-four students nationally to receive a Fulbright Scholarship to Italy. Her dissertation examines the marriage formation process for young artisan women in 15th century Florence. Bender received a B.A. in Anthropology and Medieval Studies from the University of Michigan in 2001 and a M.A. in History from Fordham University in 2005. |
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Rachel Maureen Brummel, a Ph.D. student in Conservation Biology, is one of twelve students nationally to receive a Fulbright Scholarship to Australia. She will investigate collaborative decision-making and planning with regard to bushfire suppression and management. Brummel received a B.A. in Biology from Grinnell College in 2003. |
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Todd Riley Olin, J.D., is the 2007-08 winner of the University of Minnesota Graduate School's Fulbright Scholarship Exchange Program with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. His research is a comparative study of energy policy between the United States and Norway. Olin received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota (UM) in 2002 and a J.D. from the UM in 2007. |
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Richard Charles Parks, a Ph.D. student in History of Medicine, has received a Fulbright Scholarship to Tunisia. He will explore how French colonial public health officials justified the destruction of the hara, a district in the Medina, and how various ethnic and religious groups in Tunis interpreted it. Parks received a B.A. in Political Science and French from New York University in 1995 and a J.D. from Tulane University in 2001. |
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Aeleah HeaRan Soine, a Ph.D. student in History, has received a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany. The focus of her research is from the 1830s until World War I and how German nurses corresponded and collaborated with American and British nurses for the purpose of transforming their work into a respectable profession for women. Soine received a B.A. in History and Women's Studies from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2003 and a M.A. in History from the University of Minnesota in 2006. |
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Elizabeth Margaret Swedo, a Ph.D. student in History, is one of seven students nationally to receive a Fulbright Scholarship to Iceland. Her dissertation will identify the characteristics of Icelandic religious practices between 1300 and 1550, tying the Icelandic clergy and lay society to their wider Scandinavian and European contexts. Swedo received a B.A. in History and English from Marquette University in 2003 and a M.A. in History from the University of Minnesota in 2006. |
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Julie Elizabeth Whitcomb, a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, has received a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany. Her project addresses an urgent problem in vision biology: the interplay between retinal blood flow and retinal blood vessel elasticity and how it might be used in the fight to prevent blindness. Whitcomb received a B.S. in Mathematics and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003 and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2006. |
