Announcements-of-Student-Awards-for-2017-Fall-Convocation

Mariah Farris ’18 Rainie Kaplan ’18 AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND INTERNSHIPS The Ament Scholars Award The Ament Scholars Award was established by alumnae of the classes of 1931 through 194

FALL CONVOCATION 2017

At fall convocation, Scripps College recognizes the achievements of its continuing students during the past academic year We celebrate their accomplishments and

honor their hard work and dedication

HONOR SOCIETIES Psi Chi

Psi Chi is the National Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology The following students were elected at the conclusion of their junior year at Scripps

Barbara Ko ’18

Yuqing Lei ’18

Lily Yang ’18

Sigma Delta Pi

Sigma Delta Pi is a national honorary Spanish society Juniors and seniors are elected to membership on the basis of academic standing

Mariah Farris ’18

Rainie Kaplan ’18

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND INTERNSHIPS The Ament Scholars Award

The Ament Scholars Award was established by alumnae of the classes of 1931 through 1947 in memory of William Sheffield Ament, Professor of English, and a member of the original faculty of Scripps College The award is given each year to recognize rising seniors who have demonstrated outstanding scholarship

in the Humanities

Neelufar Franklin ’18

Emma Herlinger ’18

The Arthur Vining Davis Library Internship

Ella Strong Denison Library at Scripps College has distinctive resources of rare books, manuscripts, and archives to disseminate to the wider scholarly world The Student Summer Library Internship supported

by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations is an academic fellowship that supports a Scripps College student to conduct research in the library’s collections of primary source materials from June-August

2017

Mel M Gilcrest ’19 – Exploring LGBT History at Scripps College

Sandro Ortega ’19 – Historical, Cultural, and Literary Resources on Latin America in Denison

Library Zara Singh ’20 – Uncovering the Origins of Black Studies at The Claremont Colleges

The Claremont Colleges Library Undergraduate Research Award

This award celebrates excellence in undergraduate research in all disciplines, and is awarded to current students whose recent research has made skillful and creative use of resources from the Library and beyond, and who have learned about the research process through inquiry and discovery

Ella Harris ’20– Don’t Listen to the Media: It’s Okay to Isolate Yourself

The Virginia Judy Esterly Research Awards

The Esterly Awards, established in 1949 in memory of Virginia Judy Esterly, assistant to the president and counselor of human relations at Scripps from 1934 to 1946, are given to scholars who combine the qualities

of good scholarship, effective service in student activities, and responsible citizenship The awards are granted to students who present a worthwhile educational project to be undertaken during the summer

Sarah Balderston ’18 – Low-cost Graphene Synthesis

Elizabeth Chun ’19 – Vaccine Research for Livestock Disease in Botswana

Corinne Donnay ’20 – Intensive Spanish course in Colombia

Julia Sun ’20 – Behavioral and Quantitative Analysis of mTBI Models in Adult Zebrafish

Mauri Sysko ’18 – Investigations into the Linker Histone H1 in Drosophila

The Ruth George Poetry Prize

The Ruth George Poetry Prize is a cash award for an outstanding poem or group of poems This award was established in 1951 in recognition of Professor George’s devoted and inspired teaching of writing and the appreciation of poetry The prize is awarded only for work of special merit and is not necessarily given each year

Tiara Sharma ’20

Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Internships

The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery awards summer internships for undergraduates of diverse cultural backgrounds The program is designed to introduce students of African/African American, Asian/Asian American, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, or Pacific Islander descent to careers available in museums and related fields

Gabrielle Garcia ’19 – Visual Resources Intern

Erin Dickins ’19, Mt Holyoke – Curatorial Intern

Kevin Torres ’18, California State University, Pomona – Collections/ Conservation Intern

The Martha Wehmeier Hammer ’66 Scholarship

Established in 1996 in honor of former Board Chair, Martha Wehmeier Hammer ’66, this scholarship is awarded to an outstanding sophomore at the conclusion of the student’s third semester of the Humanities Core Program The recipient receives the scholarship for the junior year

Gabrielle Garcia ’19

Kripa Sanjay Mehta ’19

The Hsu Fund for Academic Interactions with China

Established by Tony and Lily Hsu, parents of Alle Hsu '11, the Hsu Fund supports faculty and /or student travel to China and exchanges and /or delegations with Chinese Universities that further the academic and/or research pursuits of the faculty, students, and College

Cindy Zhu ’19

The Mary W Johnson and J Stanley Johnson Student Research Award

This award was established in 1995 to support student summer research projects on interdisciplinary topics Students work under the guidance of Scripps faculty members and present their results to the college community at programs of the Humanities Institute

Emilia Hagen ’18 – Animating the Mind: An Artistic Approach to Representing Complex

Neuralogical Processes Bridget Pranzatelli ’18 – Help or Hinder: How Governmental Migration Policies Affect NGOs Talia Speaker ’18 – Leveraging Computer Science in Ecology: Developing Software to Aid in

Wildlife Monitoring Cindy Zhu ’19 – Human Bodies in Art: Comparison between the post-WWII Germany and the

post-Cultural Revolution China

LASPA Center for Leadership: We Act Action and Research Grants

The LASPA action grants provide opportunities for students to transform knowledge, passion, and ideas into action; demonstrate creative and effective problem-solving; create partnership(s) in the public or private sector; and produce outcomes that make a positive impact

Sara Bryk ’18 – Partner organization: Granada Siempre Nuestra (GSN)

Noor Hamdy ’18 – Partner organization: Refugee Resettlement Team 2

Erin Matheson ’18 – Partner organization: Columbia University Medical Center

Naomi Shroff-Mehta ’18 – Partner organization: Shimojo Lab, California Institute of Technology Elise Thompson ’18 – Partner organization: Global Women’s Water Initiative (GWWI)

Bekki Lee Memorial Endowed Scholarship

The Bekki Lee Memorial Endowed Scholarship was established in 2013 through the generosity of Bekki’s friends and family to celebrate her lifelong commitment to education, access and inclusivity Bekki’s deep commitment to education will be remembered, honored, and celebrated in perpetuity through the award of the Bekki Lee Memorial Endowed Scholarship to a deserving student who has made significant efforts to enhance the Scripps community

Madeline Sy ’18

Samella Lewis Scholarship

The Samella Lewis Scholarship was established in 2002 by former students, friends, and admirers of Samella Lewis, Professor Emerita of Art History The scholarship honors Samella Lewis as an educator, artist, and mentor The scholarship is awarded to an African American student on the basis of scholastic achievement, excellence in character, leadership, and responsibility

Ernica Sanon ’17

The Sarah La Fetra Ludwick Campus Preservation Fund

The Sarah La Fetra Ludwick Campus Preservation Fund was established in 2015 through the generosity

of Sarah La Fetra Ludwick '65 and Arthur Ludwick This Fund supports internships for students to work

on conservation, preservation and enhancement projects that will ensure the beauty and strength of Scripps College’s campus in perpetuity

Allegra Cox ’18

Mellon Undergraduate Research Fellowships in the Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

The Mellon Undergraduate Research Fellowship program provides opportunities for students to gain critically important research skills and training in a faculty-directed research fellowship, and to pursue their own research questions and more fully develop their senior theses with a pre-thesis fellowship

Susana Arias ’19 – Oral Histories of U.S Imperialism, Filipino Immigration and Subjectivity Sara Bautista ’18 – Balmain in the Backwoods - Autonomous Communities

Chloe Bazlen ’18 – The Florentine Period of Artemisia Gentileschi

Mariah Farris ’18 – Trends in Stereotypically Racialized Portrayals of Judges and Attorneys in

Television and Movies Vanessa Hayes ’18 – Understanding Cooperation and Competition Using Cognitive Modeling Charlotte Jones ’18 – “Protect Sacred Mountains”: Indigenous Art & Activism

Rachel Kaiser ’18 – Consent Searches and the 4th Amendment

Yuqing Lei ’18 – Cognitive Modeling of Cooperative Success and Empathy

Kaya Mark ’18 – The Environmental and Cultural Aftermath of Military Testing: How Vieques

Continues to Fight for Justice Decades after U.S Naval Occupation Bandana Singh ’18 – “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown”; Sleep, Kings, and Divine

Authority in Shakespeare’s Henriad, Macbeth, and Hamlet

Madeline Sy ’18 – I Am Her Kind: The Confessional Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton Elisa Taylor ’18 – A Sociolinguistic Study of /s/-deletion in Andalusian Spanish

Lucile P Morrison Dance Scholarship

Established by the late Trustee Mrs Lucile Morrison in 1947, this award was designed to provide students with an opportunity to broaden their horizons and to encourage their interest in dance as a vital educational experience It is given to sophomores or juniors to enable them to study with outstanding professionals in

a summer school program

Suzette Guzman ’18

Cynthia Irobunda ’18

Rachel Nayer ’18

The Sybil Smith Memorial Latin Prize

This award is given annually to outstanding classics majors who are preparing for professional careers

in the classics

Hannah Alalou ’19

Zara Singh ’20

Peggy Phelps Internship, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery

Through the generosity of Peggy Phelps, this internship is designed to give Scripps students exposure to

and experience curating and organizing art exhibitions The 2016 intern organized two exhibitions from the Scripps permanent collection for display in 2016-17 at Mt San Antonio Gardens exhibition space, and

at Scripps Clark Humanities Museum

Linnea Rosenberg ’19

The Ellen Clark Revelle “Nellie” Scholarship

The “Nellie” is an innovative and transformative scholarship honoring the alumna and former trustee Ellen Clark Revelle ’31 Designated as an Ellen Clark Revelle Scholar, the recipient of this award must be a continuing student who is making excellent academic progress, demonstrates financial need, and fully engages in the Scripps College community and beyond through leadership activities

Clarisse Salazar ’18

The Marie McSpadden Sands Writing Awards

Established in 1995 by the sons of Marie McSpadden Sands, a member of the Class of ’34, these awards recognize excellence in writing among first-year students

Bethany Humphrey ’20 – Best Researched Argument

Lauren Romero ’20 – Best Textual Analysis

The Scripps Art Conservation Internship – Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

This award funds a Scripps art conservation internship at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Gillian Holzer ’19

Elizabeth Robbins Turk ’83 Internship

Through the generosity of Elizabeth Robbins Turk ’83, this 10-week summer internship provides a

training opportunity for Scripps art conservation students

Madeline Helland ’18

The Jane Hurley Wilson and Michael G Wilson Internship in Art Administration

The Wilson Internship, offered by the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, is a summer internship made possible by Scripps alumna Jane Coila Wilson ’64 and Michael Wilson (HMC ’63) as part of their generous contribution in support of the Scripps Art program

Laurel Dickstein ’18 – Wilson Arts Administration Intern

Wanyun Yang ’18 – Wilson Conservation Intern

2017 SUMMER INTERNSHIP GRANT RECIPIENTS

On behalf of Scripps College and our summer internship grant recipients, we would like to extend our gratitude to the donors who have supported the Scripps College Internship Grant Program by establishing named operating and endowed internships as well as the many donors who support the program through their annual gifts, including many faculty and staff In 2017, our named internships include:

Alumnae Association Internship

Rebecca Barber Adams ’61 Nonprofit Internship

Barbara Bixby Blackwell ’63 Internship

Frances Kay Brossy ’50 Memorial Non-Profit Endowed Internship

Barbara Bruner ’76 Human Rights Internship

Angelica Kusar Clark ’84 Internship

Class of 1967 Internship

Summer Internship in Conflict Management

The Davis Family Foundation Internship

Joanna Dunklee ’62 Internship]

Internship for the Environment

Gabrielle Giffords ’93 Internship in Public Service

Judith Nelson Keep ’66 Internship in Leadership

Eileen Schock Laspa ’67 and Jude Laspa (HMC ’65) Internship

The Marquardt Family Internship

David “The Dogman” Null Internship

The Scheyer Family Education Internship

Millard Sheets Art Internship

Amy Louise Vanderloop ’07 Memorial Internship

We are incredibly grateful to all of the donors who give students amazing growth opportunities by supporting internships at Scripps College

Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow (MEET) Maya Almogy ’20

University of Southern California, Department of Psychology Kylie Au ’18

Planning & Development, City of Providence Emily Audet ’17

Western University of Health Sciences Sarah Balderston ’18

Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library Milena Carothers ’19

House Republican Conference; Office of Cathy McMorris Rodgers McKenzie Deutsch ’19 Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building Sabrina Drescher ’20

University of British Columbia, Centre for Heart,

District Office of U.S Representative Rosa DeLauro Julia Gill ’20

New York University, Psycholinguistics, Aphasia, and

Center for International Environmental Law Casey Harris ’19

Re Sources For Sustainable Communities Natalie Knops ’19

Northeastern University, Lifespan Emotional Development Lab Faye LaFond ’18

United States House of Representatives, Office of Congresswoman

University of London, Goldsmiths University, Forensic Psychology

Reef Environmental Education Foundation Lawrie Mankoff ’19

Rigshospitalet Hospital, Neurobiology Research Unit Siria Medina ’18

University of Chicago Medical Center, Thirty Million Words Initiative Matilda Msall ’19

Stanford University Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics Olivia Owens ’17

University of Washington Botanical Gardens Olivia Palenscar ’19

New York University, Division of Medical Ethics Bella Ratner ’19

Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ Grace Reckers ’18 Center for Juvenile Law and Policy at Loyola Law School Natalie Reeves ’19

Santa Monica Pier Aquarium/ Heal the Bay Syrah Russell ’20

San Francisco Department for the Status of Women, Violence Against

Massachusetts General Hospital, Sail Literacy Lab Sana Sra ’19

Dahan Properties (Prime Five Homes and the Dreambuilders Project) Clarissa Ann Ylagan ’20

US House of Representatives, Office of Nancy Rosen (NV) Marianna Zapata ’20