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Naheed G. Aaftaab, a Ph.D. student in Anthropology, is one of thirteen students nationally to receive a Fulbright Scholarship to India. She will study middle-class culture in Hyderabad, examining how the growth of the information technology industry is enabling new cultural transformations. Aaftaab received a B.A. in Political Science and Geography in 2001 and a M.A. in Geography in 2004 from the University of Washington. |
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Amy Pagen Chen, a graduate student in Geophysics, received a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany. She will conduct research on magnetic bacteria at Ludwig-Maximilians University. Chen received a B.S. in Geophysics and Geology in 2005 and a M.S. in Geophysics in 2007 from the University of Minnesota. |
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Matthew Lee Grandbois, a Ph.D. candidate in Chemistry, is the recipient of the University of Minnesota Graduate School’s Fulbright Scholarship Exchange Program with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. He will enroll in the Master of Science program in Globalization. Grandbois received a B.A. in Chemistry and Music Performance from Augustana College in 2004. |
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Matthew Konieczny, a Ph.D. candidate in History, is one of twelve students nationally to receive a Fulbright Scholarship to Poland. He will research a cadre of Polish physicists working on the frontier of what would become the new quantum physics at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. A graduate of Michigan State University with a B.A. in International Relations in 2000, Konieczny received a MPP (Public Policy) from the University of Michigan in 2002 and a M.A. in History from Indiana University in 2006. [Note: Accepted a Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad] |
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Rachael Beth Kulick, a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, is one of 24 students nationally to receive a Fulbright Scholarship to the Netherlands. For her dissertation research, she will use a combination of interviews and participant-observation to explore the meaning of contemporary home birth in the United States and the Netherlands. Kulick received a B.A. in Health Science from Kalamazoo College in 1995. |
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Noelle Arline Noonan, a DMA (Music) candidate, is one of fifty students nationally to receive an English Teaching Assistantship from the French Government. A graduate of Bethany College with a B.A. in French and Music in 2001, she received a M.M. in Vocal Performance from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 2003. |
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Brian Peter Piasecki, a Ph.D. candidate in Plant Biological Sciences, is one of ten students nationally to receive a Fulbright Scholarship to Sweden. He will conduct laboratory research on centrioles at the Karolinska Institutet. Piasecki received a B.S. in Geography and Biology from the University of North Texas in 2000 and a M.A. in Biological Sciences-Botany from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. |
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Anne Beryl Wallen, a Ph.D. candidate in Germanic Studies, is one of nine students nationally to receive a Fulbright Scholarship to Denmark. Her dissertation research focuses on masked balls in 18th-century Danish society and literature. A graduate of the University of Kansas with a B.A. in German and Humanities in 2003, Wallen received a M.A. in Germanic Studies from the University of Minnesota in 2006. |
