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Gates Scholarship, February 17, 2009

Physics major Katie Greenberg ’09 Wins Gates Scholarship...

Phi Beta Kappa Citations, February 12, 2009

Danti Chen '09
Danti Chen is a physics major, seemingly equally fascinated with imaging the dynamics of defects in striped systems (observing the annihilation of disclinations and dislocations), patterning self-assembled monolayers, and spending a semester in her junior year in France. Last fall, while working on her senior thesis in physics, she also took eight credits of German. Why? Because, as she notes, “It is fun.” As one of her professors notes, “She is enthusiastic and overcommitted … yet she is always cheerful and somehow manages to get everything done on time. Sometimes early, even.”

Kathryn Greenberg '09
Kathryn Greenberg likes physics … a lot. She has been doing independent research since the summer after her first year and has in the words of one of her advisors “a spectacular senior thesis in the works.” But we don’t have to wait for the future to see some of Kathryn’s work. The inevitable eventual publication of her senior thesis results will be her second published research paper; she already has a published research journal article based on work she did in her first two years at Mount Holyoke. Along the way, she has also presented research at three, yes three, international conferences. Not surprisingly, in addition to being elected into Phi Beta Kappa, Kathryn has already won a Goldwater Scholarship and a Churchill Scholarship.