- Fellowships and Pre-Health Advising

W.K. Rose Fellowship Awarded to Rachel Panitch ’06

Rachel Panitch is a composer who is deeply interested in the way audiences engage with music. Her background as a performer, teacher and improviser has led to a level of experimentation, which enables audience members to find deeper meaning and connections between her music and experiences in their own lives. The W.K. Rose fellowship to provide a worthy young artist with a chance to be free after college to pursue his/her work as an artist is made possible by a bequest from the estate of W.K. Rose, a distinguished scholar and teacher who was a member of the Vassar English Department.

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Goldwater Scholarship

Awarded to James Bonanno '20. By providing scholarships to college sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering, the Goldwater Foundation is helping ensure that the U.S. is producing the number of highly-qualified professionals the Nation needs in these critical fields.

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NSF FastLane Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Awards

National Science Foundation has announced the 2018 awards and honorable mentions. FastLane Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awards have been offered to two Vassar alumnae/i, and one has received honorable mention. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.

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100 Projects for Peace Awarded to Carlos Espina ’21

Carlos will be working with Football for Future, a volunteer-run non-profit organization founded by him that, through free co-ed summer soccer camps, provides youth in the Bryan/College Station area the opportunity to play soccer over the summer, regardless of their family income or background.

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Julie Morel receives the Watson Fellowship

Awarded to Julie Morel '19 The Watson is a rare window of time after college and pre-career to engage your deepest interest on a global scale. Fellows conceive original projects, execute them outside of the United States for one year and embrace the ensuing journey. They decide where to go, who to meet and when to change course.

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Fulbright Grants

Fulbright Grants Offered to Mikayla Brennan-Burke ’17, Mandy Chin ’18, How Yu Chung 18, Sino Esthappan ’16, Nicolas Gedigk ’19, Lars Odland ’17 and Savannah Smith ’19. The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.

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Frank Najarro-Izquierdo receives the Luce Scholarship for an internship in Asia.

Awarded to Frank Najarro-Izquierdo'18. The Luce Scholars Program is a nationally competitive fellowship program. It was launched by the Henry Luce Foundation in 1974 to enhance the understanding of Asia among potential leaders in American society.

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