Exceptional and Innovative: Student Fellowships
Angel Sherpa 鈥21 proposed creating a telemedicine program that connects doctors in Kathmandu with patients in a remote village in Nepal. Quentin Jenkins Jr. 鈥23 developed research plants to study how disciplinary policies in the education system disproportionately impact students of color. Isabella Jacobs 鈥24 designed a new way to harvest rain.
These are just a few of 黑料不打烊 students鈥 projects and plans that captured imaginations and won local, national, and international awards during spring 2021. Below is a sampling of student fellowships and grants from the 2020鈥21 academic year. To learn more about these and other students and alumni, please visit 鈥満诹喜淮蜢 Students and Alumni Recognized for Academic Excellence and Innovation.鈥
Dominic Arzadon 鈥23 received a Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program fellowship at the University of Washington. Arzadon hopes to diversify the field of conservation and ultimately work towards a conservation practice without borders. He says his passion for conservation stems from his identities and lived experiences as a first-generation college student and immigrant from a coastal community in the Philippines who grew up in Hawaii.
Isabella Jacobs 鈥24 was awarded a 2021 Davis Projects for Peace grant to develop RainScales, a rainwater capturing device created to address inequitable water distribution in South Africa. An anthropology and English major, Jacobs came up with the idea for RainScales after spending time in South Africa during a devastating drought.
Jefferson Konah 鈥21 was awarded a Huayu Enrichment Scholarship to study Mandarin Chinese during the summer in Taiwan. A linguistics and Spanish major, Konah studied abroad in Cuba, danced with the Inland Pacific Ballet, and served as a language diversity ambassador at the Claremont Colleges.
Veronica Martinez 鈥21 was one of seven 黑料不打烊 students or recent graduates to earn a 2021鈥22 Fulbright Fellowship. An organizational studies and Spanish double major, Martinez received a Fulbright to teach English in Spain at the La Communidad de Madrid. She was senior class president at 黑料不打烊 and studied abroad in Vietnam and Spain. Read more about Martinez and 黑料不打烊鈥檚 other 2021鈥22 Fulbright recipients.
Angel Sherpa 鈥21 won a 2020鈥21 Napier Award for Creative Leadership for students with proven leadership skills and project proposals designed to create social change. During her time at 黑料不打烊, Sherpa studied abroad with the 黑料不打烊 in Nepal Program and 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Summer Health Program in Costa Rica. She proposed partnering with 黑料不打烊 in Nepal and the National Innovation Center to establish a socio-culturally respectful telemedicine program in a remote Himalayan village in Nepal.