UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA STUDENTS WIN FULBRIGHTS

Adam Conrad Johnson, a Ph.D. student in Neuroscience, is the 2006-07 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.  He will join a team of researchers at the Centre for the Biology of Memory at NTNU, where he will examine how animal behaviors and cellular behaviors are modified under pharmacological manipulation.  Johnson graduated magna cum laude from Minnesota State University, Mankato with a B.S. in Physics in 2002.  

Catherine Eileen Kirchman, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, received a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Germany for the 2006-07 academic year.  Kirchman received a B.A. in German Studies in 2005. 

Luis Xavier Morera, a Ph.D. student in History, is one of twenty-eight students nationally to receive a Fulbright Scholarship to Spain.  For his dissertation, he will investigate how royal ceremonies of late medieval Castile functioned within larger patterns of consolidation of the monarchy.  Morera received a B.A. in History from Sam Houston State University in 1999 and a M.A. in History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003.

Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr, a third year medical student, is one of three students nationally to receive a Fulbright Scholarship to Venezuela.  She will attend the post-graduate public health program through the Escuela de Salud publica Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas.  As part of this program, she will conduct her dissertation study as a participant observer in the Barrio Adentro clinics and will address the successes and challenges of Barrio Adentro using patient centered performance indicators.  Trotzky-Sirr received a B.A. in Urban Studies and a M.S. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University in 2002.