Fulbrights Awarded to 10 FSU Students and Alumni
Evan McNary, a graduate student in the Florida State University College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts—better known as the Film School, has been awarded first place in The Center for International Disaster Information "Lights, Camera, Action" Public Service Announcement contest.
Holly Wissler, a doctoral ethnomusicology student in the Florida State University College of Music, has been awarded a Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award. The prestigious prize, valued at more than $24,000, will enable Wissler to conduct research for her dissertation—"Musical Tradition and Change in the Quechua Community of Q'eros, Peru"—on site in Peru for one year.
Mike Porter (Meterology) has been selected by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in a national competition for participation in the 2006 AMS Summer Policy Colloquium, June 4-13, 2006, in Washington, DC.
Garrett Johnson (Public Administration) was selected as one of 32 students in the United States to receive the prestigious 2005 Rhodes Scholarship, affording him the opportunity to study at Oxford University in Great Britain.
Kimberley Leahy, a doctoral candidate in Communication, received a Fulbright Scholarship which will enable her to study telecommunications policy in Lithuania in 2006. The Fulbright Scholarship Program is the U.S. government's flagship international educational program.
Film School graduate students received several 2005 awards. Matthew Pope won the 2005 Coca Cola Refreshing Filmmaker's Award, which will show in 21,000 movie theaters across the country. The Directors Guild of America awarded its 2005 Student Filmmakers Awards for African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and Women to two FSU MFA students: Jennifer Artzt won the Best Woman Student Filmmaker while Susan Bell collected an Honorable Mention for her film.
Julia (Julie) D. Smith (Psychology) won the 2005-06 Graduate Student Leadership Award. Julia is an emerging leader in the field of psychology, focusing on the treatment of substance abuse among individuals with anxiety disorders.
Matthew Aresco (Biological Science) won the 2004-05 Graduate Student Leadership Award. Matthew is an emerging leader in environmental and conservation biology.
Susanna Childress, a PhD student in English, was awarded the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, an annual award given by the University of Wisconsin Press which offers $1000 and publication of the winning manuscript. This year, former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins selected Childress' manuscript from among 930 others as the winner.
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