Reach: Summer 2009

Congratulations to CLA students who won prestigious national and international scholarships in 2009.

Dustin Chacón, linguistics, was one of 18 students nationwide to receive a Beinecke scholarship for graduate studies in the arts, humanities, or liberal arts.

Of the 14 U of M students to win Fulbright grants, 11 were from CLA. The grants support a year of study, research, teaching, or creative work in another country. Graduate students are: Ryan Chelese Alaniz, sociology, who will go to Honduras; Clelia Anna Mannino, psychology, Italy; Ashley McKim Olstad, Germanic studies, Germany; Drew Anthony Thompson, history, Mozambique. Undergraduates are Alia El Bakri, political science, Jordan; Daniel Groth, English, South Korea; Carmen Price, English and German studies, Germany; Zachary Saathoff, violin performance, Austria; Jenna Rose Smith, English and cinema & media culture, South Korea; Jillian Stein, Spanish studies and speech-language-hearing sciences, Spain; Antoni Tang, marketing and African American and African studies, Venezuela; Anh Tran, neuroscience and psychology, United Kingdom.

Anh Tran was also one of 20 students nationwide to be named to the All-USA College Academic Team by USA Today, in recognition of excellence in scholarship and reach beyond the classroom to benefit society. Ashley Nord, physics, astrophysics, and global studies, won a Rhodes scholarship for two years of post-graduate study at Oxford University. Philip Brodeen, sociology and American studies, won a Udall Native American Congressional Internship for 10 weeks in the Washington office of South Dakota Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, focusing on tribal public policy.