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Present
 

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