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Meet the current Presidential Fellows.
2008 - 2010
Tassos Fragos
Physics and Astronomy
X-ray astrophysics
Advisor: Vicky Kalogera
Lesley Meade Hamming
Materials Science and Engineering
Mimicking mussel adhesion to improve the strength of composites
Advisor: Cate Brinson and Phil Messersmith
Christopher Heier
Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
Understanding the molecular basis for the disease spinal muscular atrophy and applying this towards the rational development of therapeutics

Abram Van Engen
Advisor: Christine DiDonato
English
Early american literature and history, puritanism, and study of emotion
Advisor: Julia Stern
Lisa Yountchi
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Soviet novel in central Asia: literature and identity in Tajikistan
Advisor: Andrew Wachtel
Regan Towal
Biomedical Engineering
Sensory and motor integration in the brainstem and its effects on perception
Advisor:
Tamara Roberts
Performance Studies
interracial/intercultural music performance
Advisor:
2007 - 2009
Darcy Hughes Heuring
History
British Imperialism and Colonial Medicine in the Caribbean in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Advisor: Alex Owen
Marianne Hinds Wanamaker
Economics
American Fertility History
Advisor: Joel Mokyr
Jill Millstone
Department of Chemistry
Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Anisotropic Nanomaterials
Jonathan Preall
Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
Assembly of the RNA interference machinery and regulation of gene silencing in Drosophila melanogaster

Cory Simpson
Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
The importance of cell: cell adhesion via desmosomes in development and integrity of human epidermis
Lei Yang
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Power and resource aware embedded system design: embedded operating systems and processor architectures
Advisor: Robert Dick
2006 - 2008
Paul Cadden-Zimansky
Physics and Astronomy
Mesoscopic Physics Group
Advisor: Venkat Chandrasekhar
Benjamin Chen
Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
Medical Scientist Training Program
Lamb Laboratory
Viral and cellular determinants of influenza virus assembly and budding
Yael Katz
Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program
Advisors: Nelson Spruston and Bill Kath
Insurgents and International Relations: Sovereignty, Territory and Conflicts of Self-Determination, 1975-2005
Advisor: William Reno
Tobin Shearer
History
Religion
The Danger of Purity: How White Mennonites Maintained Racial Distance, 1940 to 1971
Advisors: Cristie Traina and Josef Barton
Tomasz Strzalecki
Economics
Advisor: Eddie Dekel
Last updated: Jun 3 2009 6:07PM
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