Student News
Disney/ABC Writing Fellow
Doctoral student Anthony Sparks (B.F.A., theater, ’94) has received the 2006-2007 Walt Disney Studios/ABC Entertainment Writing Fellowship. The extremely competitive fellowship, which selects up to 10 fellows from approximately 2,500 entries, is considered among the most prestigious of fellowships in the entertainment industry and includes a $50,000 award. A student in the College’s American studies and ethnicity program, Sparks is also a writer for the upcoming ABC Family television series, “Lincoln Heights,” which, when it airs in 2007, will be the only television series on network or basic cable with a predominantly African-American cast.
For Art’s Sake
Three doctoral students in art history received awards allowing them to travel for their dissertation research. Jason Hill was selected as one of six recipients of this year’s Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowships for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad. Linda Nolan received a two-year Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship, supporting travel and research on pre-19th century European art. This year, she is in residence at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome conducting research for her dissertation, “Tactile Reception of Sculpture in Early Modern Rome.” Next year, she will spend in residence at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which awards both fellowships. In addition, Anca Lasc spent the summer of 2006 in Paris doing research with the support of a Getty Memorial Scholarship.
Aging and Mental Health
Psychology doctoral student Emily Schoenhofen received a fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health’s Summer Training on Aging Research Topics program. She spent the summer conducting research with professors Margaret Gatz and Chandra Reynolds, and presented her work at the program conference in August.
Peers and Injury Prevention
Robin Toblin, a doctoral student in psychology, was selected by a division of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Foundation as the winner of the Lizette Peterson-Homer Injury Prevention Grant for her proposal entitled “Children’s Peer Relations and the Risk for Injury.”
Articulating Linguistics Research
Undergraduate Celeste DeFreitas, a linguistics major, presented a research poster titled “The Articulation of Consonants in Kinyrwanda’s Sibilant Harmony” at the fourth joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, in Honolulu, Hawaii in December 2006.
Research in Japan
The East Asia Scholarship Program sent undergraduate recipients to Japan to conduct research. Michael Caloz, a double major in East Asian languages and cultures and interactive entertainment, studied “Reflections on Gaming in Japan,” while Kim-Ngoc Le, an international relations and East Asian area studies double major, looked into “The Vietnamese Community in Japan” at Tokyo International University. At Waseda University, Derek Peters, an international relations major and East Asian languages and cultures minor, researched “The Grand Masquerade: Kabuki’s Disguises Dissected.” Erica Saxum, a political science and East Asian languages and cultures double major, worked on “Women’s Political Participation in Japan: Grassroots Action, Two Odd Election Years, and Actress Politicians. A Nudge Forward, Two Shoves Back, Is the Mountain Really Moving?”
Brilliant Minds
Chris Rivera spends most days in the chemistry lab, often clocking 14-hour days. But in June the third-year Ph.D.
student found himself in the medieval city of Lindau, Germany, elbow to elbow with Nobel Prize-winning scientists. The National Science Foundation selected Rivera as one of 22 to make up the U.S. delegation to the 56th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students. Rivera, who works with Steven Bradforth, also won a three-year Ford Foundation fellowship this year. Fellow grad students Carsten Borek and Kenneth Hanson attended the meeting under the sponsorship of USC’s own Nobel Laureate, Distinguished Professor George Olah.
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