A World of Study

See where some of this year’s fellowship recipients are headed

A Truman Scholar. Two Watson Fellows. A Goldwater, a Gates-Cambridge, a DAAD, and 16 Fulbright winners. These are just some of the honors bestowed on Williams students and alumni in 2013—28 national fellowship winners in all. Nineteen seniors and 48 sophomores and juniors also received Williams-funded fellowships for travel, research and language study through the Office of Fellowships. The awards make it possible for students to pursue projects and graduate study in areas as diverse as they are—Middle Eastern politics; exile and art; number theory; religious pilgrimages; law; and tax policy—in destinations close to home and around the world. We highlight several of 2013’s fellowship recipients below.

On the map above, pinpoints show the variety of fellowship destinations this year. Yellow dots represent students who have won national fellowships, purple dots represent students who have won Williams fellowships, and teal dots represents students who have won both.

	Lauren Agoubi ’13 is the college’s first Fulbright recipient to travel to Ireland, where she’ll study public advocacy and activism at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
	Abdullah Awad ’13 plans to use his Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to travel to Chile, Brazil, Morocco, France, Jordan and India to conduct a project titled “The Politics of Exile and the Transformative Power of Art.” He’ll then spend two years at the University of Cambridge on a Williams Dr. Herchel Smith Fellowship.
	Belle Baxley ’13 received a Hubbard Hutchison Class of 1917 Memorial Fellowship to study writing in Haleiwa, Hawaii.
	Zoe Grueskin ’14 has a summer Russell Bostert Fellowship to conduct an interdisciplinary study of the environment and society in New Orleans, La.
	Jared Hallett ’14, a math and Chinese major, is studying Cantonese in Hong Kong over the summer as the recipient of Williams’ Robert G. Wilmers Jr. 1990 Memorial Student Travel Abroad Fellowship. He also received a national Barry Goldwater Scholarship for mathematics, awarded to young scientists who expect to pursue a career in science research.
	Madelyn Labella ’09 will study psychology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities with a National Science Foundation Fellowship.
	José Martinez ’10 won the Watson and Williams’ Dr. Herchel Smith fellowships his senior year and this year won a Gates-Cambridge Scholarship to complete a doctorate in politics at the University of Cambridge—studies that he’ll postpone for a year to conduct Fulbright-funded research in Amman, Jordan, on the historiography of the Arab Revolt, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the Black September developments of 1970.
	Brian McGrail ’14, who’ll head to Washington, D.C., received a Harry S. Truman Scholarship, intended to empower future leaders who plan to devote their careers to the public good.
	Laye Samoura ’15 has a Class of 1945 Student World Fellowship to travel to Guinea to study ethnic and political tensions.
	Jenny Tang ’13 received a DAAD Graduate Scholarship to research the legacy of the 1972 “Documenta 5” at Humboldt University of Berlin’s art and new media department.