Student News
September 2004
A Rising Neuroscientist
Up-and-coming scientist Kimberly Christian completed her doctoral
studies in a whirlwind of recognition this spring. Christian received
the first annual William E. Trusten Student Award from the biological
sciences department just hours before being named “Student of the Year”
by the USC Neuroscience Graduate Program. In the fall, Christian
departs for a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship at the National
Institute of Mental Health, where she will continue her behavioral and
electrophysiological studies of learning and memory.
History Awards
Doctoral history student Craig Lofton was awarded a $30,000 Social
Science Research Council fellowship for research on sexuality for his
dissertation on homosexual identity in the 1950s. Victoria Vantoch,
also in the history department’s Ph.D. program, won a year’s fellowship
at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian, funded by the
Guggenheim Foundation, for her dissertation on stewardesses in the
1950s. Undergraduate history student, Tracy Wang, received a fellowship
for the summer program at the Gilder Lehrman Institute at Columbia
University.
Doctoral Travel Awards
Alba Hesselroth, a graduate student in the School of International
Relations, and Tomoya Matsumoto, graduate student in economics,
received Association of Pacific Rim Universities Doctoral Student
Conference Travel Awards to attend the APRU conference at the
University of Sydney, Australia.
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