As Fordham’s first Gates Cambridge Scholar, Rose will begin attending Cambridge University in fall 2006, working with an international team of researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy on a D. Phil. project in bone tissue engineering.  The objective of her research at Cambridge is to develop a new bone adhesion material and a biomedical method for healing broken bones. As a future physician-scientist, Rose hopes to discover international treatment protocols through groundbreaking biomaterials research.

Born and raised in Newburgh, NY, Rose L. Spear, one of nine siblings, is a chemistry major at Fordham University and a member of the Class of 2006.  During her time at Fordham, she has volunteered with Big Brothers Big Sisters, Circle K, and Reach Out and Read, while tutoring students at Roosevelt High School’s St. Rita’s Center, Fordham’s HEOP Program, and Fordham’s Chemistry Department.  As a Fordham sophomore, Rose traveled to Guyana to serve on a Global Outreach team.  She has also shadowed pediatric specialists on daily rounds at St. Barnabas Hospital and NYU Tisch Hospital.  Rose is a junior inductee to Phi Beta Kappa and the current president of the Fordham University Chapter of Alpha Sigma Nu.

In 2004, as a Prince of Liechtenstein Fellow, Rose attended conferences in Austria and Italy for young Catholic leaders. That same year, she joined a research team at Fordham University working under Dr. Ipsita Banerjee of the Chemistry Department. Her project with Dr. Banerjee focused on the biomedical applications of peptide nanotubes and nanoscale bone materials as a means to develop artificial bone.  In May 2005, she presented her research findings at the Undergraduate Research Symposium.  This past summer, she was awarded a Matteo Ricci Summer Fellowship through the Office for Prestigious Fellowships at Fordham to conduct a summer internship in medicinal chemistry at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, where she synthesized enzyme inhibitors as potential cures for Alzheimer’s disease.  She presented research posters at the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Regional American Chemical Society meetings, culminating in a presentation at the ACS’s National Meeting in Washington, D.C.  Her research has appeared in Polymer Preprints and she has submitted a full-length article to the Journal of “Colloids and Surfaces-Biointerfaces.”  

 After arriving at Fordham, Eva Martineau realized her desire to help minority populations attain sufficient health care services.  With the assistance of her advisor, she designed an individualized major in health policy. It is for this devotion to health care that Eva Martineau (FCRH 2007) was the first Fordham student to be named as a Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholar. She was one of fifteen students chosen nationwide to participate in this important program. During the summer, she, along with the fourteen other students, will travel to Washington, D.C., to learn about health policy. Eva will gain firsthand knowledge about federal legislative procedure in health policy by attending conferences and working in a Congressional office.

Mr. Emiliano Reyes, CBA 2007, has been awarded a Pamela Harriman Foreign Service Fellowship.  This nationally competitive and highly selective fellowship was established to honor the late Ambassador to France by inspiring “the best of a new generation to pursue careers in public service.”  Emiliano will be working with the United States Department of State at our embassy in London for eleven weeks this summer and will receive a $5,000 stipend for travel and living expenses.  Only three such awards are given annually, each one for a different location: the London embassy; the Paris embassy; and the Office of the Secretary of State in Washington, D.C.  A native of Berkeley, California, Emiliano has a 3.8 index and has served as an intern in former President Bill Clinton’s NY office.  More information may be found on the Foundation’s website operated by the College of William and Mary: www.wm.edu/harriman/harrimanfellowship.html.

Maria Marangos, a senior at Fordham College at Lincoln Center, is our first student to have been awarded a Monbusho Scholarship by the Japanese Government to study Japanese language and undertake research at Kyoto University and Ritsumeikan University, respectively.  The Monbusho Scholarship is a prestigious fellowship that has enabled students from approximately 160 countries and regions around the world to undertake advanced Japanese language instruction and work on intellectual projects as Japanese government scholarship students. 

Maria is double majoring in International/Intercultural Studies (East Asia concentration) and History with a minor in Classical Civilization.  While at Fordham, Maria took Japanese courses at the Toyota Language Center, located in Japan Society’s New York headquarters.  With the assistance of Fordham’s Office for Prestigious Fellowships, Maria is continuing advanced Japanese language study in addition to her regular course work at Fordham.  While in Japan, she hopes to study the development of modern Kyoto when it was forced to reinvent itself in the late 19^th century after the capital moved from Kyoto to Tokyo.