Donovan-Moody and Herschel Smith Fellows Named

Yue-Yi Hwa ’11, a political economy and Arabic studies major from Malaysia, will spend two years at Oxford studying politics as a Donovan-Moody Fellowship recipient. She is writing a thesis on education policy in Malaysia, for which she received multiple summer research grants. She also served as editor-in-chief of the Record.

Five other seniors will spend two years at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, as Dr. Herchel Smith fellows. Antoniya Aleksandrova, a physics and math major from Bulgaria, will study applied mathematics and theoretical physics. The Phi Beta Kappa member is working on a thesis in quantum information theory. Marissa Kimsey, an economics and women’s and gender studies major from Illinois, will pursue dual master’s degrees in development studies and economics. She is Phi Beta Kappa and has received grants to research in Bolivia, Brazil, Mozambique and South Africa. Zebulon Levine, a chemistry major from Vermont, is to study chemistry, working with organic synthesis. A wrestler, Levine is also a head of the chemistry student advisory council. Charles Rousseau, an English and religion major from Virginia, plans to study criticism and culture. At Williams, he is a member of the Springstreeters and a tutor with the Writing Workshop. And Jehanne Wyllie, an English and American studies major who lives in Florida, will study social anthropology and complete course work in English studies. She was a 2010 summer fellow with the Chinese-American Planning Council in NYC and served in AmeriCorps during a gap year.

The students were selected from a pool of 28 fellowship applicants.