Fifteen Penn State Students Win Fulbright Awards

9-25-97
University Park, Pa. -- Fifteen Penn State students are spending the academic year studying abroad on grants administered under the 1997-98 Fulbright Program.

Eight awardees recently received baccalaureate degrees from the University and seven are graduate students in master's or Ph.D. programs. Listed below are the awardees, their home towns, majors, fields of study or teaching and the countries in which they are studying.

The recent Penn State graduates are:

-- Katherine Bell of Lower Burrell; German; teaching English as a foreign language in Germany;

-- Maura Crowley of West Chester; French; teaching English as a foreign language in France;

-- Chandreyee Das of King of Prussia; biochemistry/chemistry; studying the use of stabilized liposomes in delivering medications;

-- Sara Everett of Pittsburgh; German; teaching English as a foreign language in Germany;

-- Lisa Hoffman of Macungie; journalism; teaching English as a foreign language in Korea;

-- Bryan Jacoby of Lebanon; astronomy/astrophysics; observing pulsars at Torun Radio Astronomy Observatory in Poland;

-- Donna Reitz of Myerstown; sociology; studying the effects of acculturation on Spanish women in midlife, in Spain; and

-- Carylanna Taylor of Washington; Latin American studies and economics; studying recent socioeconomic change in La Serena, Chile.

The seven graduate students are:

-- Derrick Calandrella of State College; philosophy; studying the philosophical conceptions of logic in Germany (Calandrella also received a grant to spend a year studying philosophy in Germany from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), a German exchange program similar to the Fulbright program);

-- Teresa Goff-Lindsay of The Dalles, Ore.; teaching English as a second language (TESL); teaching English as a foreign language in Hungary;

-- Danielle Mortier of Rochester Hills, Mich.; ceramics; studying contemporary Hungarian ceramics on a travel scholarship;

-- Katarin Parizek of State College; photography; photographing the living and working environments of people in Bolivia;

-- Bethany Usher of State College; biological anthropology; studying population structure in Denmark;

-- Cosima Wiese of State College; plant pathology; studying the effects of ozone on plant cell walls in Germany; and

-- Rebecca Wostrel of Gloucester, Maine; ceramics; studying the traditions of Indonesian ceramics in Indonesia.

The Fulbright program was initiated by former U.S. Sen. William Fulbright after World War II to promote world peace through the international exchange of scholars and students. Through Fulbright grants, seniors graduating from U.S. colleges and universities and graduate students at U.S. colleges and universities are able to spend one academic year in many countries throughout the world, studying, conducting research or teaching English as a second language.

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Contact: Alan Janesch (814) 865-7517 office or axj12@psu.edu