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More than 30 Fordham students have been awarded prestigious fellowships over the past year with the help of new initiatives at Fordham University’s Saint Edmund Campion Institute for the Advancement of Intellectual Excellence.
“The years 2004 and 2005 proved very successful for Fordham students applying for fellowships,” said John R. Kezel, Ph.D., University director of prestigious fellowships, who heads the Campion Institute. “With the collaboration of students, faculty, and administration, we look forward to increasing success in our efforts to help Fordham students and alumni achieve intellectual distinction.”
In the last 10 years, more than 125 Fordham students have received fellowships to travel to places like Fiji and Morocco and to study at some of the world’s most prestigious institutions of higher education, including Oxford University.
Recent fellowship winners include Nanor Kenderian, a 2002 Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) graduate who was awarded a Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship to pursue her graduate degree in Oriental Studies at Oxford University in the fall.
Kenderian was a philosophy major who graduated summa cum laude. She won the Katie Frazer Prize for her outstanding senior thesis on Armenian literature of the diaspora, and was the recipient of the Jane B. Aron Prize in Philosophy in 2001. Kenderian edited the Comparative Literature Journal of Fordham University and is now translating Armenian poetry and a novel for inclusion in a series titled “Writers of Disaster,” which is being published by Columbia University Professor Marc Nichanian.
Jennifer Manganello, a 2005 graduate of Fordham College at Rose Hill (FCRH) was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to travel to Morocco and study women’s health issues. Manganello was a double major in Middle Eastern Studies and philosophy.
Lesley Cole, a 2005 graduate of Fordham’s International and Political Economy Development Program (IPED), was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study international trade and border protection.
Fordham College of Liberal Studies (FCLS) graduate Caitlin Dourmashkin is the first student to win a prestigious fellowship in FCLS history. Dourmashkin, who graduated last May, is working in an administrative office for the City of New York as a New York City Urban Fellow.
Vince Evans, a FCLC philosophy major who graduated last May, was awarded the British Marshall scholarship. He is enrolled in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at Balliol College at Oxford University.
Melissa Karl-Lam, a school psychology doctoral student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, was awarded the James C. Ross Fellowship, a $20,000 prize that is funding her dissertation research in first-generation college students. Her work focuses on resiliency factors that these students use to overcome obstacles and achieve success.
Ricardo Martinez, an international political economy major with a minor in Latin American and Latino studies, won a National Science Foundation grant. Martinez, a FCRH senior, spent eight weeks in Mexico this summer conducting interdisciplinary, biocultural research about health and nutrition conditions among Mexicans since the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement was enacted.
Michel Paradis, a 2001 FCLC graduate and 2004 graduate of Fordham Law School, was awarded the first Campion Scholarship, which is affording him an opportunity to pursue a two-year master’s degree in linguistics at the University of Oxford, Balliol College. Last spring, the Campion Institute established the Campion Scholarship, a University-funded award for graduate study introduced to commemorate the new institute.
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