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MHC summer research fellowships awarded--Six recipients of the Mount Holyoke summer research fellowships for 1997 have been announced. Listed with project titles, research locations, and supervisors, they are: Natalia Burova '98 ("Curvature of Manifolds in the Neighborhood of a Singularity" with mathematics professor Donal O'Shea); Sharon Clapp FP ("Illegally Adopted Native American Children, 'Lost Birds'" at Northwestern University); Jermar Inman FP '98 ("Research Insights for Future Foreign Policy in Croatia"); Oona Leff FP ("Research Current Legal Trends, Regarding the Experience of Black and Hispanic Criminal Defendants" at the Northampton and Springfield, MA, district courts); Lyne Robert FP ("Study of French Culture within the Francophone Regions"); and Barbora Somogyiova '99 ("Research on United Nations Humanitarian Intervention" under the supervision of international relations professor Vincent Ferraro).

Goldwater Scholar named--Lynn E. Fletcher '98 has been named a Goldwater Scholar from California. According to fellowship coordinator Hilary Shaw, "Lynn's area of interest, ecology, and her essay on habitat fragmentation, together with her extensive fieldwork and internships, made an impressive and unusual application." The biological sciences major will receive $7,000 for senior year.

Weed-Ford-Mellon Scholars named--Six students have been named Weed-Ford-Mellon Scholars, and will collaborate with faculty on research projects. Listed with their research topics and mentor's names, they are: Yvonne Chadwick '98 ("The Respirator Behavior of Erpetoichthys, Also Known as Ropefish," with Stan Rachootin, biological sciences); Sharron Jackson FP ("Adornment of African Women: A Celebration of Self," with Eugenia Herbert, history); Karen John '98 ("Children's Narrative Literature and Educational Development in the Virgin Islands," with Frederick McGinness, complex organizations); Shelly Perdomo '98 ("Merengue: The Representation of Dominican Cultural Identity in Dance," with Smith dance professor Yvonne Daniels); Hazel Robinson FP ("Women Incarcerated for Drug-Related Crimes," with Cheryl Rothery Johnson, College psychologist); and Milena Uribe '98 ("How Language Affects Racial/Ethnic Identity Development," with Sandra Lawrence, psychology and education).

News of the NEW 8--Mount Holyoke had twenty-one student-athletes named to the Academic All-Conference Team of the NEW 8 (the New England Women's 8 athletic conference). There were over one hundred student-athletes named from the conference schools. To be considered for the honor, students must have a GPA of 3.5 and be a starter or a significant reserve, playing in more than half of each contest. The students named include: Heather Prince '97, basketball; Elizabeth Webber '96, basketball; Valorie Burkholder '97, crew; Katheryn Curi '96, crew; Shannon Landau '97, crew; Dorothy Najoli '96, crew; Kelley Niles '97, crew; Alexandra Pendleton '96, crew; Meredith Garey '99, cross-country, track and field; Katherine Cosmopoulos '98, lacrosse; Dorien Davies '98, lacrosse; Meredith Fisher '96, lacrosse/field hockey; Laura Kjeldgaard '97, lacrosse; Rebecca Whiteley '98, lacrosse; Allison Brewer '97, soccer; Emily Lowe '99, soccer; Meghan Malone '98, soccer; Carrie Tangenberg '99, soccer; Dora Carias '96, cross-country, track and field; Carrie Turban '97, track and field; and Margaret Lobo '97, volleyball.

And news of the V-8s--The V-8s' new album, Ya Like That?, is expected to be released in June. According to business manager Karey Scheyd '99, it will contain approximately eighteen of the V-8s' old favorites, new music, and fun improvisations recorded from spring semester 1996 to spring semester 1997. The CD can be ordered now and will be sent to you over the summer. To order, send your summer address and $15 cash or check (made out to MHC V-8s) to PO Box 1368 (Scheyd's box) by Thursday, May 15. For more information, contact Scheyd by email at klscheyd or at x5796, or call the V-8s at x4398.

A championship crew--Mount Holyoke's crew team won the NEW 8 championship last weekend. The varsity eight, second varsity, and second novice boats each won their races with times that set new conference records, and the first novice boat came in third. Crew coach Jeanne Friedman was named NEW 8 Coach of the Year. The team also fared well at the New England regional championships, with the second novice boat taking first place and the lightweight boat coming in second.

On the right track--Four athletes earned NEW 8 All-Conference status by winning their respective track and field events: Amanda Salb '99 (shot put and discus), Ana Hilton '98 (triple jump), Meredith Garey '99 (5,000-meter run), and Carrie Turban '97 (1,000-meter hurdles). Lacrosse goalkeeper Sarah Dolan '97 won all-conference status for her performance; she's an All-American candidate and has the second-best "save" percentage in the conference. Andi Overton '97 earned all-conference status for her softball prowess. At press time, she leads her team and is hitting around the .566 mark.

Taking off for Tufts--Genet Cunningham FP has been accepted for graduate study at Columbia and Tufts Universities and Boston College. She was put on the waiting list for admission to Harvard. She is enrolling at Tufts because the school offered her a substantial scholarship. The other schools do not offer scholarships to master's degree students. At over $30,000 a year for graduate school, Cunningham feels that she has made the right decision based on the award she received. Cunningham will be studying international education and taking most of her classes at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

More India ink--Indira Peterson, professor of Asian studies, recently attended an international conference-workshop at the University of California, Berkeley, entitled "Re-Presenting Women: Women in the Literary, Performing, and Visual Arts of India." She delivered a paper on "The Lady in Love and the Fortune-Teller from the Hills: Discourses of Gender, Class, and Desire in an Eighteenth-Century Literary Genre."

Peterson has also completed an essay on distinguished South Asian historian Romila Thapar for the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (forthcoming from Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers of London later in 1997). Author of major books on Indian history, including the Penguin History of India, Romila Thapar was distinguished scholar in residence at the Five Colleges in 1992, and received an honorary degree from Mount Holyoke that year.

Sculpture honors family's horses--At the end of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association's national competition last Sunday, thousands of horses (and riders) left campus. But one new horse (shown above) stayed behind permanently. A metal sculpture of a rearing horse, created by sculptor Conrad Wiezbicki and given to the College by his family, honors the memory of their horse Pewter and stands as a tribute to all their family horses. Conrad Wiezbicki is the father of Joy Wiezbicki '91, assistant program director of the MHC equestrian center. The equine statue is installed on the driveway leading to the equestrian center.

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