Meet Our Rosen Fellows
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Congratulations to Our 2016 Rosen Fellows!
- Francesco Asano traveled to Japan to interview animal rights activists.
- Neelima Dosakayala traveled to Pondicherry, India, to study music therapy.
- Jasmine Lee traveled to Yunnan, China, to participate in a study abroad program in traditional Chinese and Western medicine.
- Tasnia Mahmud traveled to Chittagong, Bangladesh, to document health issues among Rohingya people who have fled persecution in Myanmar.
- Alec Reed traveled to Colorado and Montana to collect and analyze mammal fossils from two 66-million-year-old (earliest Paleocene) localities.
- Judith Rubenstein traveled to the Cotswold area of England and documented, with drawings, the similarities and differences between the food pantry systems of New York City and rural England.
- Jessica Treijs participated in two courses, Evolution of Language and Introduction to Generative Syntax, at the Utrecht Summer School at Utrecht (Utrecht city campus) in the Netherlands.
2015 Rosen Fellows
- Sofia Ahsanuddin will go Hyderabad, India, to conduct field interviews to investigate the beliefs and practices of Herabadi Muslim women regarding breast and cervical cancer screening. She will also collect swab samples to add to the Weill Cornell Medical College Swab Study.
- Brielle Corinne Cardieri will spend six weeks this summer participating in a reproductive health program in Quito, Ecuador, with NGO Child Family Health International. She will rotate through various clinical settings disseminating reproductive health information and study Spanish.
- Hannah Rachel Carl will observe the effects of the use of a third gender pronoun on children in Stockholm at a preschool and conduct interviews with parents and teachers to understand a nonbinary (male/female) gender socialization of children.
- Margaret Eden Douglas will spend three months hiking the Appalachian Trail with a voice recorder and a notebook to capture the spontaneity of the experience, which will be used for poems, thoughts, stories, and memories.
- Jessica E. Khaimova will study with Dr. Christiane Helling at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and examine model cloud formation in dynamic atmospheres of extrasolar planets.
- Yeen Dolma Lama will travel to Upper Dolpo located between the border of Nepal and India to teach students at the Yeatser Primary School.
- Peter Lee will pursue a project with Global Brigades in Nicaragua in which he will be evaluating its holistic approach to providing health care through assessing its current practices, practicality and potential for improvement.
- Savannah Marie Rice will study the techniques and business of shoemaking in Buenos Aires from a fifth-generation shoemaker. This will be used to start her personal business of custom shoemaking in New York.
- Rabia Yeter Sirin will spend four weeks in St. Petersburg, Russia, to improve her Russian language skills. She aspires to be a scholar of Russian and Ottoman history.
- Elena Marie Valencia will use this opportunity to become an international lindy hop instructor and performer. She will train, compete, and volunteer at lindy hop dance camps around the United States and Europe to make international connections in the lindy hop community.
