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Austin Walker ’12 has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Kenya. He will spend the 2012-13 academic year working on his project “Kenyan Youth Development: Youth as Kenya’s Development Architects” in Nyanza Province of western Kenya. Walker will rejoin the Lwala Community Alliance staff and director Robert Kasabala to build upon the baseline study about youth perspectives on development that they conducted last summer.

Amelia Mattern ’12, a candidate for graduation this month, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Vietnam.  She is a mathematics/computer science double major at Hamilton.

Eli Remillard ’12, a candidate for May graduation, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Mongolia. A Dean’s List student, Remillard is a history major at Hamilton.

Erika Desmond ’12, a candidate for May graduation, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Austria.  She is a creative writing major at Hamilton.

Elizabeth Parker-Magyar ’12, a candidate for May graduation, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Jordan.  She is a world politics major at Hamilton.

A Hamilton student who chooses to remain anonymous has been named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar for the 2012-13 academic year. This student is among 282 undergraduate sophomores and juniors to be awarded scholarships for the 2012–2013 academic year and is the 16th Hamilton student to receive the Goldwater since 2002.  The award is considered the premier national undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

Denise Ghartey ’12 has been awarded Hamilton’s Bristol Fellowship. The Bristol Fellowship was begun in 1996 as part of a gift to the college by William M. Bristol Jr., (Class of 1917).  The $22,000 fellowship is designed to encourage Hamilton students to experience the richness of the world by living outside the United States for one year and studying an area of great personal interest.

Early spring is the time of year on the hill when hopeful student grant and fellowship candidates begin to hear back from organizations on the status of their applications. For a lot of students, reception of a prestigious award can be the highest honor and a dream come true. It can mean the chance to conduct independent research at a foreign university, teach English in a developing nation, or implement a self-designed project in the name of global peace and sustainability.

Richard Karrat ’12, a candidate for May graduation, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Jordan. A Dean’s List student, Karrat is a French and world politics major at Hamilton.

Lucas Harris ’12 has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to Finland. He will spend the 2012-13 academic year working under Dr. Miska Luoto at the University of Helsinki, studying how individual plant species in subarctic Finland will react to climate change.