Student Honors

Fulbright Record

New Rochester graduates will be heading to Germany, Romania, and Mexico, as members of the College’s Class of 2005 earned a record number of Fulbright awards to study abroad.

Five members of the class were notified last spring that they had been selected for the prestigious honor, the most ever from a single class.

Recipients included Ashley Poelma, a biology major, who plans to study in Romania; Elizabeth Boerman, a German and history major, and William Hildebrandt, an economics and German major, who were each selected as Fulbright English teaching assistants to Germany; Sarah Greene, a German and geological sciences major, who plans to study in Germany; and Caroline Rouse, a Spanish and biology major, who plans to study in Mexico.

They are among several Rochester students who were recognized for their academic achievements last spring.

Also at the College, Robert Penna ’07, a mathematics and physics major, received a Goldwater Scholarship to support studies toward a career in science. Robert Forties ’05, a physics major, and Yude Chen ’05, a mechanical engineering major, were selected to receive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.

And Jeffrey Peterson, a doctoral student in chemistry, was invited to meet with Nobel laureates this summer as one of about 50 students nationwide chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation to attend an annual meeting of Nobelists and students in Germany.

At the Eastman School, several guitar students earned accolades during the 2004–05 season:

Justin Zamm ’07E took first prize and Adam Larison ’07E took third prize at the D’Addario Classical Guitar Competition at Ithaca College.

Eastman doctoral students Ben Gateno and Corey Harvin received first prize as a guitar duo in the Boston Classical Guitar Society’s competition.

And doctoral student Linda Chellouf won second prize in the 11th Hermoupolis International Guitar Competition in Syros, Greece, last July.