Spring 98.dat - Winston Churchill Foundation
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Spring 98.dat - Winston Churchill Foundation
CHURCHILL CHURCHILL NEWS NEWS N EWSLETTER OF THE W INSTON C HURCHILL F OUNDATION IN MEMORIAM SIR WILLIAM HAWTHORNE, MA, ScD, CBE, FRS, FREng, Master of Churchill College from 1968 to1983, passed away in September at the age of 98. William Rede Hawthorne was born on May 22, 1913 at Benton, New ‑ castle‑upon‑ Tyne, the son of a con sulting civil engineer. In 1916 his fam ily moved to Lon don, where Wil liam was edu cated at the West ‑ m i n s t e r School. He won a merit scholar‑ photograph © Julia Hedgecoe ship to Trinity College, where he read Mathematics before changing to Mechanical Sciences. He was particularly interested in thermo dy nam ics, winning the Ricardo Prize in that field, sharing the Rex Moir prize awarded to the top students in the Mechanical Sciences tripos, and graduating in 1934 with a double first. In 1935 he went on a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship to MIT, where he joined the Department A UTUMN 2011 of Chemical Engineering under Professor H.C. Hottel and studied combustion and, in particular, the effect of turbulence on flame lengths, showing that the rate at which oxygen is mixed with fuel controls the length of the flame. After MIT he joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Farnborough and played a crucial role in the team that developed the gas turbine jet engine in Britain during the Second World War. In 1945 he became Deputy Director of Engine Research in the British Ministry of Supply before returning to America a year later as an Associate Professor of Engineering at MIT. There he undertook important studies of flow through rows of compressor blades and pipes, especially the turbulent behavior of flow in bent pipes (known as secondary flows), offering a theoretical explanation for the spiraling motion of fluid as it rounds a bend, and applying the theory to the design of turbine and compressor blades. He was appointed MIT’s first George Westinghouse Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the age of thirty‑five. In 1951 he returned to the University of Cambridge to be elected a Fellow of Trinity and to take up the newly created Hopkinson and ICI Chair in Applied Thermodynamics. There he developed teaching and research facilities in engineering thermodynamics and continued his research on the theory of flow in compressors and turbines. He was Head of the Department of Engineering at Cambridge from 1968 to 1973. in this issue... I N M EMORIAM 1 T HE 2011 C OMPETITION 2 T HE 2011‑2012C HURCHILL S CHOLARS 4 T HE 2010‑2011 C HURCHILL S CHOLARS C HURCHILL S CHOLAR N EWS 11 12 T HE F OUNDATION ’ S W EB S ITE D ONATIONS T HE B OARD OF T RUSTEES 15 17 20 Sir William was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Founder Fellow of the Fellowship of Engi neering, which subsequently became the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was knighted in 1970 . He served on many com ‑ mittees and advisory bodies concerned with energy matters and chaired the national Advisory Council on Energy Conservation. Sir Wi lliam enjoyed a lifetime’s hobby of performing magic tricks and is remembered by the kitchen staff at Churchill College as “the man who made cheese rolls come out from Copyright © 2011 by The Winston Churchill Foun‑ dation of the United States. All rights reserved. PAGE 2 Autumn 2011 C HURC HILL N EWSLETTER behind his ear.” He was married to the late Barbara Runkle, who died in 1992; they had a son and two daughters. Will, as he was known to friends and colleagues, is warmly and fondly remembered by many generations of Churchill Scholars and by students and colleagues across the globe. Memorials services are to be held at Cambridge next February and at MIT next spring. THECOMPETITION SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE 2011‑2012 C H U R C H I L L THE WINSTON CHURCHILL FOUNDATION OF THE UNITED S TAT E S consistently receives applications from students of the highest academic talent and outstanding achievement, so much so that the Churchill Scholar ship was recently deemed by one scholarship advisor “the academically rigorous of all the prestigious scholarships.” Last year there were several changes in the pro ‑ cedures for applying to the Churchill Scholarship Program. The online application had only minor emendations, because it is essentially robust and well suited for the task. This robustness was put into stark focus this fall when the new inline application to the University of Cambridge was discovered not to function properly and thus required a two‑week change of several deadlines and when the online application for the Fulbright presented even graver problems the same week in October. A few cosmetic changes will be made to the Churchill application after this year’s competition. The instructions for the applicants and also the instructions for the Campus Representatives to the Churchill Scholarship Program were completely rewritten; each of these documents undergoes annual revision. For many years, the Foundation had used the services of the Institute of International Education (IIE), which among other scholarships also handles the Fulbright Program, for the processing of applications and for the arrangements of the Screening Committee. It became increasing obvious that while the IIE had played a vital role in the past, that role had in fact been vitiated by technology. Consequently, the Foundation now uses the firm that built the online application for the maintenance and revision of the application but now handles in house every other aspect of the application process, from distribution of the applications to conducting the meeting of the Screening Committee in the Foundation’s donated headquarters. There are now effectively two different submissions of the application for the Churchill Scholarship: (1) the application emailed by the Campus Repre ‑ sentative and (2) the online application submitted by the student. The first is the full package with the application, the institutional letter of endorsement, the four academic letters of recommendation, the transcript(s), and any other additional materials (e.g., notification of placement in a laboratory), all bundled into a single pdf file and emailed to the Foundation. There was no difficulty with handling the emails, which ranged from 1MB to 14MB. The Foundation replied to each email immediately confirming receipt of the application. The online submission is for administrative purposes and allows the production of spread sheets and mailing lists with no need for data entry. The manner in which any organization manages its fellowship competition is perhaps the most significant aspect of its public identity. Over the past six years the Foundation has made radical changes in the competition for the Churchill Scholarship Program, ranging from the increasing use of technology to save time and money (for the universities and for the Foundation) to, most important of all, making the process as transparent as possible by responding promptly, courteously to all inquiries, and by constantly revising the Web site, instructions for applicants, directions for Campus Representatives, and presentations to faculty and administrators. No other organization responds to questions about academic programs and its application in this manner. For the November 2011 deadline, the Foundation received 94 applications from 60 colleges and universities; in 2009 there were 81 applications from 55 institutions, and in 2008 99 applications from 62 institutions. Undergraduate institutions (including CHU R C H I L L N E WS L E T T E R Autumn 2011 the U.S. Naval Academy) accounted for only 9 (9.7%) of the applications. There were 26 public institutions (27.7%) represented. Amherst College (2) Bowdoin College Brown University California Institute of Technology (2) Carnegie Mellon University (2) Case Western Reserve University (2) Colgate University Colorado School of Mines Columbia University (2) Cornell University (2) CUNY Macaulay Honors College Duke University (2) Emory University Fordham University Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology (2 Harvard University (2) Harvey Mudd College Indiana University (2) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2) Michigan State University (2) Northwestern University (2) Ohio State University Pennsylvania State University (2) Pomona College (2) Princeton University (2) Reed College Rice University Rutgers University Smith College Stanford University Stony Brook University Swathmore College (2) Tufts University Tulane University United State Naval Academy University of California/Berkeley University of California/San Diego (2) University of California/Santa Barbara (2) University of Chicago (2) University of Colorado (2) University of Florida University ofIllinois (2) University of Iowa University of Kansas University of Maryland (2) University of Michigan (2) University of Minnesota (2) University of Nebraska University of North Carolina (2) University of Rochester University of Souterh California PA G E 3 University of Virginia (2) University of Washington University of Wisconsin (2) Vanderbilt University (2) Washington University (2) Wesleyan University Williams College (2) Yale University In this group there are several institutions that are either relatively new to the Churchill Scholarship Pro gram or that have been more or less inactive in the past five years: Berkeley, Bowdoin, Case Western, Colgate, CUNY, Emory, Florida, Fordham, Nebraska, Penn State, Smith, Stony Brook, Tufts, Tulane, USC, and Williams. The participation of this colleges and universities can be directly attributed to visits from the Foundation or to long telephone conversations with the Campus Representatives. Since there are now 103 colleges and universities participating in the Churchill Scholarship Program, the Foundation could, in theory, receive up to 206 applications, but many schools will nominate only those students whom they believe to be exception ‑ ally competitive for the award. There were applications from 30 women (31.2%) and 64 men (68.8 %); last year there were 31 women (38.3%) and 51 men.(61.7%). There were two applications from graduate students (students may apply up to the age of 26). One applicant was married. There were 24 applications in the biological sciences, 20 in the physical sciences, 18 in engineering and related fields, and fully 33 in mathematics, perennially the field that receives the largest number of applications and consequently the most difficult field given the strength and depth of the applicants. Here is the distribution of the fields of the applica‑ tions, arranged in cognate fields: Biochemistry (3) Biology (2) Clinical Biochemistry (1) Chemistry (10) Clinical Neuroscience (3) Developmental Biology (1) Epidemiology (1) Experimental Psychology (2) Genetics (3) Medical Genetics (1) Oncology (1) Physiology (1) Psychiatry (2) Public Health (1) PAGE 4 Autumn 2011 Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (1) Zoology (1) Advanced Computer Science (3) Engineering (8) Micro and Nanotechnology Enterprise (4) Materials Science & Metallurgy (3) Astronomy (1) Physics (7) Environmental Science (2) Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics (9) Theoretical Mathematics (19) Statistics (1) Computational Biology (4) The Foundation continues to draw an large contingent of applicants in mathematics, both theoretical and applied; indeed, it is an exception ‑ ally strong contingent and annually includes some of the top undergraduate mathematicians in the country. This concentration is due both to the reputation of mathematics at Cambridge and also to the Foundation’s enviable record of supporting outstanding mathematicians. This round appears to have been the first occasion where the Foundation has received applications in the field of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry. There is a new Masters of Advanced in Material Sciences that has attracted students, and the MPhil in Translational Medicine, with its hefty £1,000 “bench fee,” is also new. There is also strong interest in the relatively new Micro‑ and Nanotechnology Enterprise Program, which combines engineering with some course work in business. The Screening Committee convened in New York on Sunday and Monday, January 2nd and 3rd. The Screening Committee included Dmitry Green (1994‑ 1995), Karl Mueller (1985‑1986), Leslie Phinney (1990‑1991), Jennifer Ruesink (1989‑1990), Hal Sadofsky (1984‑1985), and Kathleen King Siwicki (1977‑1978) The first evening the group enjoyed a Lebanese dinner of countless appetizers and of good cheer; afterwards, the group convened to go over any ques tions and to review the rankings, which were received one week beforehand, compiled in a various spreadsheets (by institution, by field, etc.), and then emailed back to the Committee for their further review. After the meeting, Dmitry Green treated the group to a visit to his office in the magnificent Chrysler Building, an office at the level of the balconies just below the gargoyles staring out at New York. It was a cool and windy evening, and the city from that floor looked like a movie set. C HURC HILL N EWSLETTER CHURCHILL SCHOLARS 2011‑2012 ADEETEE R. BHIDE is doing the Master of Philosophy in Experimental Psychology in the Division of Biological Sciences, working in the labo‑ ratory of Pro ‑ fessor Usha Gos ‑ wami on impaired per ception of rhythm linked to dyslexia and to Specific Language Impairment symp toms. From Princeton Junc ‑ tion, New Jersey, Adeetee gradu ‑ ated summa cum laude from Wash ‑ ing ton University in St. Louis with a major in Biology (the highly com ‑ petitive Neuroscience Track) and with minors in Psy‑ chol ogy and in Anthropology. At grad uation she received the Spector Prize awarded for the best senior honors thesis in Biology and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. A Goldwater Scholar, Adeetee has a daunting record of research cutting across the disci plines of neurology, neuroscience, biology, psychology and medicine. Every year from the summer before freshman year, she received competitive scholarships to support her research projects in neurology and otolaryngology. She has studied the clinico‑pathological correlations of patients with movement disorders after post‑mortem brain material became available, and in another project she used advanced neuroimaging methods to examine the relations of functional connectivity network metric to standard psychometric scores. She has also done a psycho‑linguistic study across different age groups on the effect of transposing one letter in the development of skilled reading. Through the examination of autopsy records she opened up new research in the pathologic entities that underlie dementia in people with Parkinson’s Disease. Her teachers write that she is “destined to be an outstanding scientist,” that “[her] research is very exciting and has tremendous potential… and could open up vast news regions of research in how to diagnose children with reading disorders,” and that she is “an outstanding citizen.” She has been very active in volunteer activities for the benefit of children in the inner city, ranging from coordinating activities of a literacy curriculum to CHU R C H I L L N E WS L E T T E R Autumn 2011 raising money for art lessons. She also has served on the College Council and plays viola in the University Orchestra at WashU. In her spare time Adeetee plays guitar, sings, and performs Indian classical dance and Bollywood Fusion. After Cambridge she will do her doctorate i n Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. STEPHEN J. FLEMING is doing the Master of Philosophy in the Physics, working on a project in bio‑assisted self‑assembly to create nano‑structures of physical inter ‑ est for medical pur poses in the laboratory of Dr. Sumeet Mahajan; he is the first Churchill Scholar to work in the area of the Physics of Medi cine. From Crescent Springs, Ken ‑ tucky, he gradua ‑ ted with a BS summa cum laude with Honors in Biochemistry and with a BS summa sum laude in Physics from Case Westmern Reserve University, where he is the eighth Churchill Schol ar. At gradua tion, Stephen re ceived the Harland G. Wood Prize for outstanding work by a gradua ting senior majoring in bio chem istry, the Dayton C. Miller Prize to an outstand ing senior in physics for the best thesis, the Leslie L. Foldy Award to the outstanding senior in physics, the John Schoff Millis Award to the senior with the best academic record in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the George T. Hunt Award to a senior outstanding in leadership, scholarship, and service. Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa as a Junior, he received the Junior Award of Arts and Sciences for having the best academic record at the end of five semesters and the Chandrasekhar Prize as the most outstanding physics major and was awarded the coveted four‑year Case Western Reserve University Trustees Scholarship as well as other scholarships and prizes. He was ranked at the top of his class and has often taken six or seven courses a semester. Stephen’s interests span Physics, Biochemistry, Engineering, Mathematics, and Mathematical Biology. Stephen had an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates in condensed matter physics to develop nanowire transistors from semiconducting oxides with the goal of functionalizing the nanowires PA G E 5 as sensors of biomolecules. He spent two summers at Case on an NSF‑sponsored research project at the intersection of Biology and Mathematics modeling cellular decision‑ making processes during chemotaxis (migration toward chemical signals). One writer noted that Stephen was “more than your typical straight‑A student, because of his willingness and ability to explore novel and broad directions in his research.” Another spoke of his having “the interdisciplinary flexibility and the intellectual ability to launch a stellar research career,” and yet another wrote of “his highly developed sense of social responsibility for the intellectual goals of science” of his potential to make “significant scientific contributions at the nexus of nano‑scale physics, sub‑cellular biology, and molecular medicine.” Stephen has been deeply involved in humanitarian work. When he joined Engineers Without Borders at Case, there were only five active members, and he worked to expand the membership to its current level of more than one hundred students. He has partic‑ ipated in engineering projects to bring sustainable clean drinking water to the Dominican Republic, Thailand, and Cameroon. Stephen is a serious artist, drawing and painting since his youth, and is also a musician, playing guitar in a rock band. He plans to do his PhD in Physics at Harvard. MICHAEL V. GORMALLY is doing the Master of Philosophy in Chemistry, pursuing research in the design of small molecules that target nucleic acids and modify biological functions in the hope of developing new therapeutic approaches to numerous areas of human dis ‑ ease, including can cer, working in the laboratory of Pro fessor Shan kar Bala su ‑ bramanian. From Mountain Lakes, New Jer ‑ sey, Mike gradu‑ a ted with a BS in Chem istry from Pomona College, where he is the second Churchill Scholar. At graduation he received the Brackett Chemistry Prize and the Stauffer Prize in the Sciences. Inducted into the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, he is first author of a paper in Langmuir, one of the most PAGE 6 Autumn 2011 important and most cited journals in the field published by the American Chemical Society. His research employs quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring for the study of assembly and behavior of polymer multilayer systems. His letters speak of him as “just awesome” and as “a practicing scientist who happens to be an undergraduate.” Mike is the first Churchill Scholar to have pursued the study of Medieval Latin throughout college, to have investigated the literature of miracle healings, and to have explored the connections between proto‑ science and the culture of modern medicine. He played Varsity Water Polo (a sport that demands 25 hours a week of practice) and was also a Varsity Swimmer and received the highest NCAA All‑ Academic Award of Outstanding for all four years of athletic competition. He has done mountaineering in Bolivia and Switzerland and enjoys hiking. After his Churchill Scholarship Mike will do his doctorate in Chemistry at Cambridge as an NIH/Cambridge Fellow. LEILA HAGHIGHAT is doing the Master of Philosophy in Translational Medicine and Thera ‑ peutics, working in the laboratory of Dr. Nicholas Morrell on the underlying patho‑biology of pulmon‑ ary arterial hypertension. From San Jose, California, Leila gradu a ‑ ted summa cum laude with a BS in Gen eral Biol ogy with Distinction from the Uni ‑ versity of Cali‑ fornia at San Diego, where she is the sec ‑ ond Churchill Scholar (and the second in three years). At grad uation she received the F. Thomas Bond Out standing Academic and Leadership Award of Revelle College for excelllence in both aca demics and lead ership and the Saltman Quar terly Service Award for her sig nif i cant con ‑ tributions to that research journal. As a senior in high school, she was named a UCSD Medical Scholar, one of twelve students accepted out of 4,200 applicants for a joint BS/MD degree (the latter at Revelle College and the former at UCSD Medical School). She completed her undergraduate degree in three years, taking an unusually heavy course load C HURC HILL NEWS and receiving A+’s in almost two thirds of her courses. A Goldwater Scholar and a Regents Scholar (the most prestigious undergraduate award in the UC system), Leila was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa as a Junior and received many other awards and scholarships. She has been publishing her research since high school and has worked in structural biology, microbial genomics, nephrology, and cardiovascular disease. She was twice an American Heart Association Fellow at Stanford Medical School. Her letters of recommendation speak of “her off‑the‑ chart academic performance,” of her being “a star student, a published researcher, and a charismatic student leader,” of seeing her “a top ranking physician scientist and academic leader.” Leila served as a tutor in a local public charter school for students who aspire to be the first in their family to go to college; she has been a Senior Staff Writer for the student newspaper, a proactive leader of UCSD’s peer‑reviewed undergraduate biology journal, and a leader in student and academic affairs in UCSD’s Department of Biology, which has more than 5,000 majors. She is deeply interested in presenting scientific and medical research to the general public and aspires to a multiple career in clinical medicine, medical research, and scientific outreach. After her year in Cambridge Leila plans to do her MD at the University of California at San Diego. DENNIS X. HU is doing the Master of Philosophy in Chemistry, working in the laboratory of Dr. Steven Ley to synthesize and study dentigerumycin (DenM), a complex highly target‑specific natural antibiotic in order to aid and design the next generation of antibiotics and cancer medicines with greater potency and fewer side effects. From Canton, Michigan, Dennis graduated with a BA cum laude and with Departmental Honors as well as with an MS in Chemistry from North ‑ western Uni ‑ ver sity, where he is the sixth Churchill Scholar and the fourth in three years. At grad u a tion he re ceived the Basolo‑Osper Departmental Citizenship Award and the Chemistry Department Scholar Award. A Goldwater Scholar, he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa as a Junior and won numerous scholarships, grants, and awards. He is first author of a paper published in the Journal of CHU R C H I L L N E WS Autumn 2011 the American Chemical Society — a rare accom ‑ plishment for an undergraduate — and the article was featured on the journal’s cover. Dennis is the first person to develop synthetic streptorubin B, which is naturally found to reverse drug resistance in late‑stage cancer cells and which was previously thought to be too complex to create in the laboratory. From April to September he worked in Shanghai conducting research in synthetic organic chemistry at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry under Prof. Dawei Ma (State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Products Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences). His letters speak of him as “a once‑a‑ decade super genius,” as being “at the absolute top,” and as “heads and shoulders above them all.” Dennis founded and directed a program that pairs area high school students with Northwestern student‑scientists to conduct scientific research projects, founded a research‑based General Chemistry course for undergraduates and mentoring program for high school students, and was lead facilitator in the Science Research Workshop that help undergraduates to locate research laboratories and to prepare research grants. A competitive gymnast in high school, Dennis maintains a regular workout schedule at a local gymnastic club. He wrote and illustrated a comic book to explain chromosomes. After Cambridge, he plans to do a PhD in Chemistry at Stanford. In June Dennis married Northwestern classmate and biologist Jennifer Sanchez. REBECCA A. KRALL is doing the Master of Advanced Study in Experimental and Theoretical Physics, a new program that combines courses and research. From Kissimmee, Florida, she graduated with University Honors and College Honors in Physics from Car negie Me ‑ llon Universi ‑ ty, where she is the ninth Churchill Scholar. At graduation she was in ‑ ducted into Phi Beta Kappa and also received the Senior Leadership Award for her outstanding contributions PA G E 7 to the Carnegie Mellon community and the Judith A. Resnik Award given to an outstanding woman graduating in the sciences and engineering who plans to attend graduate school and whose academic performance, creativity and vision demonstrate potential for continued high achievement. A member of the national honor society, Phi Kappa Phi, Rebecca won the John Hall Family Scholarship and the Mary Louise Brown Graham Memorial Scholarship at CMU, as well as other scholarships and research awards. With no prior formal training in astro physics and astronomy she excelled in an NSF REU at UCLA in Physics and Astronomy, analyzing Hubble Telescope multi‑ban imaging of a young binary star system with multiple circumstellar disks. She has a special interest in experimental high‑energy particle physics and at Carnegie Mellon did research on four‑track decay of the J/ψ meson. In addition to being a Teaching Assistant and a Tutor in Physics, she participated in CMU’s Science Outreach Program. One writer spoke of “her sharp mind and independence,” while another noted that for the first time in his career he said to himself “this person is clearly one of us,” describing her scientific writing as “outstanding,” “organized, balanced, and author ‑ itative.” One writer admired “her hard work and courage to see no bounds to her horizons” and admitted that he could not see “no limits to how far she will go.” Active in Women in Science, she was a contributing writer to the international journal The Triple Helix. After Cambridge Rebecca will do her PhD in Physics at Harvard, where she has already begun research in a high‑energy physics group. TYLER A. MERZ is doing the Master of Philosophy in Physics, doing research in the laboratory of Professor Jacqui Cole, where he will be her fourth Churchill Scholar. From Fair field, Ohio, Tyler re ‑ ceived his BS summa cum laude in Engineering Physics with Hon ors in Engi neering from the Ohio State Univer sity, where he is the second Churchill Scholar. In addition to taking the honors sequence in both Engineering and in Physics, he has taken several courses at the graduate level. Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, he has won several merit PAGE 8 A utumn 2011 scholarships and awards; at graduation he received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Honors Collegium and the Smith Alumni Award from the Department of Physics. A Goldwater Scholar, he had one NSF REU at the OSU Center for Emergent Materials and another at the Cornell Center for Materials Research. Tyler had a Research Internship in Science and Engineering from the Deutscher Academischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) for the study of condensed matter physics at the Technical University of Munich; following his DAAD award, Tyler was invited to serve as a National Ambassador for the program throughout the United States. First author of one paper and second author of three others, he has presented his research in Brazil as well as in the United States. One writer placed him “in the top two or three percent of physics students internationally,” and another remarked that he had accomplished work “never done in any laboratory worldwide.” All of his writers referred to his exemplary leadership skills and his maturity, placing him “on the road to a great scientific career.” Active in scientific outreach programs, he brought engi‑ neering projects to local schools, mentored high school girls in engineering, and served as a volunteer Physics Tutor. After Cambridge, Tyler will do his PhD in Applied Physics at Stanford with an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. DAVID W. MONTAGUE is doing the Master of Advanced Study (the new name for the former Certificate) in Pure Mathematics. From Brighton, Michigan, he received a BS with Highest Distinction in Mathematics and with Highest Honors from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he is the twelfth Churchill Scholar. At graduation he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and received the Outstanding Graduating Senior Award from the Department of Mathematics and the Jerome and Isabella Karle Math and Natural Science Award for being the top gradua ting honors student in Mathematics and Science. When David enrolled at Ann Arbor in the College of Engineering, he became infatuated with mathematics and moved into the College of Arts and Sciences, where his record is littered with A+’s. He has also studied at Kyushu University in Japan. The C HURC HILL NEWS co‑author of three published articles, he has a special interest in number theory. A Goldwater Scholar, he won the Astronaut Scholarship, the Wirt and Mary Cornwell Prize for Mathematics ($10,000), and William Leveque Award in Number Theory, among many other scholarships and awards, and he was elected to Phi Kappa Phi, the honors society. David did three NSF REU’s, one at Grand Valley State University, another at Williams College, and the last at the University of Michigan. He served as the course assistant in three advanced honors mathe ‑ matics courses. He has developed a passionate inter‑ est in Asian languages and cultures and has studied Chinese and Japanese. His letters speak of his as having “demonstrated not only infectious enthusiasm and commitment but also the ability to explore and create new knowledge,” of “his joy in investigating and communicating results,” and as “playing a mean game of ping‑pong!” David plays squash, racquetball, and table tennis and is also an active outdoors man enjoying camping, rock climbing, and mountain climbing; he has climbed Mount Rainier and Mount Shasta. He is also a puzzle (word, number, logic, etc.) fanatic. After his year in Cambridge David will do a doctorate in Mathematics at Stanford with an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (he also won an NDSEG Fellowship). ETHAN W. SCHALER is doing the Master of Philosophy in Micro‑ and Nanotechnology Enter ‑ prise, where he is pursuing his interests in micro‑ electro‑mechanical systems (MEMS). From Silver Spring, Maryland, Ethan graduated summa cum laude in Mechanical Engineering with Honors and in Inter national Engi neer ing from the Univer sity of Maryland at College Park, where he is the second Churchill Scholar. A member of the Honors College and also of the Gemstone Program (a multi dis‑ ciplinary four‑year research program for selected undergraduate honors students), he also pursued his fascination with Japanese language and culture studying at the Center for International Exchange at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. A Goldwater Scholar, Ethan won numerous scholarships, grants, and awards. He did research in Japan on three occasions and in the United States in CHUR C H I L L N E W S Autumn 2011 microrobotics ( the design and fabrication of a mechanical energy harvesting and storage system with applications in providing supplemental powers to mobile MEMS devices), on the operational efficiency of combined heat and power systems on university campuses to develop a systems to minimize greenhouse gas production, and in nanophotonics. His letters speak of him as “stellar,” “as motivating… Japanese students,” as “one of the very best students that has ever enrolled in our university,” and as belonging to “a small group of elite students in this country.” An active member of Engineers Without Borders, Ethan worked on projects in Brazil, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Peru, and the United States. He is an outdoors enthusiast: he has backpacked numerous portions of the Appalachian Trail, has done over fifteen whitewater rafting expeditions, has climbed Mount Fuji twice, and backpacked in the Japanese Alps and northern isles. Ethan will do his doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkeley with an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. ALICIA N. SCHEP is doing the Master of Philosophy in Computational Biology with research on trans ‑ criptional regulation on the genomic scale in the laboratory of Dr. Boris Adryan. From Colum‑ bia, South Carolina, she graduated with High Distinction and with Honors from three depart ments (Biology, Chemistry, and Human‑ i ties‑Social Sci ences‑ Arts) from Har vey Mudd College where she is the six teenth Churchill Scholar and where she was ranked first in her class. At graduation Alicia was inducted into Phi Lambda Upsilon (the chemistry honors society) and received the Outstanding Senior Thesis Award in Biology. A Goldwater Scholar, she won several prizes, including the W.A. Brandenburg Prize in Biology for her “outstanding performance and promise in the field of biology.” Co‑author of two papers, she did research in genetics at Harvey Mudd and in microbiology at the New York University School of Medicine. One writer remarked that “she shows more insight into biological processes and more creativity than most graduate students,” and another spoke of her “phenomenal combination of high intelligence, aptitude, commitment, and work ethic.” PA G E 9 Alicia was a Writing Consultant and the Senior Biology Writing Fellow at Mudd. A member of the college’s Honor Board, she enjoys ultimate frisbee, soccer, and hiking and has been involved in the Environmental Sustainability Club. After Cam ‑ bridge, Alicia plans to do her PhD in Genetics at Stanford. SAMANTHA DALE STRASSER is doing the Master of Philosophy in Physics, working on energy col‑ lection from light through the improve‑ ment of polymer cell efficiency in the labo‑ ratory of Pro fessor Sir Richard Friend. From Wausau, Wis ‑ con sin, she gradu ‑ ated with a BS summa cum laude and with Department Honors in Biomed ical Engi ‑ neer ing and a BS summa cum laude in Applied Math e mat ‑ ics from North west ‑ ern Uni ver sity, where she is the seventh Churchill Scholar and the fifth in three years. Inducted into Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, she has received numerous grants and scholarships and was a Goldwater Scholar. She was instrumental in the invention of a technique to measure cell structure at the nanoscale level, and her name will appear first on the patent and publication. All of her letters call her as the best student the writers have ever had: her letters speak of her having “conducted … what could be world‑class research in biophotonics using a technique that, as recently as 2007, was thought to be infeasible” and of “defying all expectations for an undergraduate.” Sam tutored fellow students in the programming language MATLAB through Northwestern’s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers and is a volunteer with NU Splash!, a student organization for area high school students. She is an accomplished musician, playing piano, clarinet and saxophone, and sings; she is interested in photography, poetry, and cooking. After Cambridge, Sam will do a PhD in Electrical Engineering at Northwestern. DANIEL J. STROUSE is studying for the MPhil in Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Engineering. DJ, as he is known, graduated with a BS magna cum laude in Mathematics and with a BA magna cum laude in Physics from the University of PAGE 1 0 Autumn 2011 Southern Cali ‑ fornia, where he is the first Churchill Scholar. From Port Saint Lucie, Florida, DJ was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a Junior and Tau Beta Pi as a Sophomore. He won many scholarships, including the USC Presi den ‑ tial Scholar ‑ ship, as well as many awards and grants for his research; at graduation he was awarded the USC Order of the Laurel and the Palm, the highest honor bestowed on graduating seniors. Working in the pioneering field of computational neuro science, DJ has done research in two significantly different fields: he studied quantum information theory at MIT and at the Institute for Quantum Computing (Waterloo, Ontario) and had a USC Provost Summer Research Fellowship to do research at the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin, Italy; and he did research in the application of mathematical models to biology. An Amgen Scholar at Stanford University, he studied network models for their biological plausibility. DJ’s letters speak of his research as “exceeding the wildest expectations.” One writer noted, “Having people like Daniel in your class is one of the things that make you feel that being a professor is a privilege and challenge at the same time,” while another stated, “he is one in a thousand you will remember throughout your career as a faculty member, and I am not exaggerating.” DJ is a passionate advocate of improving the efficiency and openness of scientific communication and has co‑founded an open source Web platform. He loves to hike and founded the USC Trekkers, which now has some three hundred members; he also scuba dives and climbs glaciers. After his year at Cambridge, DJ will do a doctorate in theoretical and computational neuroscience on a Department of Energy Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship (he also won a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship); he has yet to decide whether to attend Columbia University, Princeton University, or the University of Washington. C HURC HILL NEWS JONATHAN P. WANG is doing the Master of Advanced Study in Pure Mathematics. From Ashburn, Virginia, Jonathan earned a BS summa cum laude with Highest Honors and an MA in Mathe‑ matics from Harvard University, where he is the thirty‑second Churchill Scholar. Recipient of the John Harvard Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement as a sophomore, he had a Herchel Smith Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship and won the Herb Alexander Award at graduation. He did one NSF REU at Central Michigan University and another at the University of Minnesota‑Duluth, and he was also a Harvard College Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE) Fellow. Jonathan’s interests lie at the intersection of algebraic geometry and representation theory, but he wishes to branch out into others like differ ential geometry and algebraic number theory when he does Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. A serious teacher, Jonathan has been a course assistant in upper‑level mathe ‑ matics courses and a peer tutor in Mathe‑ matics and Com ‑ puter Science. He has published two papers, one in Com ‑ mu nications in Alge ‑ bra and the other in the Journal of Combi ‑ natorial Theory, Series A, the premier jour ‑ nal in the field. One writer noted, “I wish my graduate students had a similar capacity for learning mathematics!” Jonathan is active in Club Tennis, weight lifting, running, and recreational swimming and enjoys participating in programming competitions. After Cambridge he will do his doctorate in Mathematics at the University of Chicago. EMMA V. YATES is doing the Master of Philosophy in Chemistry, doing research on the oligomeric precursors to amyloid formation in Alzheimer ’s disease working in the laboratory of Professor Chris Dobson and Dr. Tuomas Knowles. From Coconut Creek, Florida, Emma receive an AB in Chemistry with Highest Honors from Princeton University, where she is the thirty‑eighth Churchill Scholar. At gradua tion she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma XI, won American Institute of Chemists Foundation Award for academic achievement, leadership, character, likelihood to contribute to society with scientific research, and won the sole CHUR C H I L L N E W S Autumn 2011 national Iota Sigma Pi Undergraduate Award for Excel ‑ lence in Chemistry. She also won the William Foster Memorial Prize in Chemistry for the rising senior with the highest depart‑ mental GPA as well as grants for her research. With research interests a c r o s s biochemistry, syn ‑ thetic organic chemistry, physical chemistry, spectroscopy, and nano‑technology, Emma became a major player in several different research laboratories. She has three papers soon to be published. Her letters speak of her as “a rising star,” “fervently creative,” demonstrating “an extra ‑ ordinary array of scientific and personal aptitudes,” and “the most creative and promising researcher in the field of organic chemistry… encountered at Princeton.” Her initiation of collaborative work between two research groups has been called “extraordinary.” A reader of her Junior Paper on bacterium quorum sensing called it “deep, creative, well‑argued, and compelling” as well as the best Junior Paper he had seen in thirty‑two years of teaching. Emma was the President of Princeton’s Bioethics Forum, which she reorganized to begin public PA G E 11 debates between scientists and philosophers and which she redefined as a national organization resulting in a national Undergraduate Bioethics Conference. She was also co‑founder and Treasurer of the Princeton Philosophical Society. Emma has a passionate interest in the medieval and Renaissance art of Germany and the Low Countries. After Cambridge she will do a PhD in Chemistry and Biological Chemistry at Harvard. THE 2010‑2011 CHURCHILL SCHOLARS Last year’s Churchill Scholars have settled into their new programs, new research, and new jobs. Martin Blood‑Forsythe has begun his doctorate in Physics at Harvard. George Boxer, who was one of the top scorers in the Part III examinations, is doing his PhD in mathematics at Harvard on an NSF Graduate Fellowship. And Maria Drout is also at Harvard beginning her PhD in Astrophysics on an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Zhou Fan is doing mathe ‑ matical research at D.E. Shaw, working with Churchill Scholar Ron Dror. Simon Gordonov is continuing research at Mount Sinai Medical School and is applying for a PhD in Computational Biology. Sameer Gupta has begun the MD‑PhD Program at Harvard. David Karp is working at Jane Street Capital, a quantitative proprietary trading firm in New York. Daniel Lecoanet has begun his doctorate in Theoretical Astrophysics at Berkeley on a Hertz Fellowship. Stephen Linderman has entered the MD‑ PhD Program at Washington University. Maria Monks also has a Hertz Fellowship and is doing her PAGE 1 2 Autumn 2011 PhD in Mathematics at Berkeley. Kelsey Stoerzinger has begun her doctorate in Materials Science at MIT, Yi Sun is at MIT doing his PhD in Math, and Swati Varshney, who continues her recently acquired passion for jumping out of airplanes, is also in Materials Science at MIT. RECEPTIONS FOR CHURCHILL SCHOLARS In the past year the Fnd held a variety of receptions with alumni. During a visit to the University of Washington there was a dinner for five Churchill Scholars, and a visit to Stanford allowed a drinks reception for some dozen Scholars. With the largest concentration of Chruchill Scholars in the country, the Boston area makes it easy to gather a large group; some sixty Scholar attended a reception held at the Harvard Faculty Club. CHURCHILL SCHOLAR NEWS 1979‑1980 Carol Frost moved from the Office of Research and Economic Development at the University of Wyoming, where she served as Associate Vice President and developed the university's geologic carbon dioxide sequestration research program, to the Office of the President, where she is Vice President for Special Projects. In addition, she continues her teaching and research in the Department of Geology and Geophysics. Lawrence Eron has migrated to the other side of the globe, Hawaii, where he works as an Infectious Diseases consultant at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Honolulu. He is married with four children. Last year he was the recipient of the Clinician Award from the Infectious Diseases Society C ON SORTIUM NEWS of America. 1981‑1982 Jon Lenchner has been at IBM for the last seventeen years and at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center for the last eleven. His recent work has focused on making computer data centers and other facilities and buildings more energy efficient. He has built a robot for mapping and monitoring data centers, a paper about which has just won the award for best paper at the 2011 Conference on Autonomic Computing. He was a member of the team that developed the Watson Jeopardy‑playing computer system, focusing on game strategy (what to bet on daily doubles and final jeopardy, how to pick squares, and at what confidence to buzz in, given the game state). Jon has made several contributions to discrete and computational geometry, is an IBM Master Inventor, and in 2009, in honor of his fiftieth birthday, took his family to Spain where Jon swam across the Strait of Gibraltar. He has additional long distance swims and robotic conquests in his sights for the coming years. Jon has been in sporadic contact with John Parkey and Hutch (Robert Hutchinson), and a few months ago dropped in on Dave Barrington at UMass. He welcomes visits and correspondence from Churchill Scholars from his year, or from other years, who may be interested in IBM Research or share common professional or academic interests. John Parkey has retired and has settled in Carnation, WA, where he bought a small farm and has taken up horseback riding. He recently adopted a wild Mustang and also purchased an Arabian horse and plans to ride both in endurance races starting this coming spring. John is Chairman of Issaquah Grange, a community service effort to rebuild an agricultural co‑op business and Managing Member of Maidstone Farm, an equestrian training and boarding facility. CHUR C H I L L N E W S Autumn 2011 1985‑1986 Laird Bloom is leading a group in antibody drug discovery in the Global Biotherapeutic Technologies at Pfizer in Cambridge, MA. Frank Doyle became Director of the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, an Army‑funded Center comprising the University of California at Santa Barbara, MIT, and Caltech in 2010. In that role and as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering at UCSB, he is leading a number of research initiatives in Bioengineering at UCSB. On the personal front, this past summer Frank completed the Transpac 2011 Yacht Race, the longest of the two oldest ocean races in the world (from Los Angeles to Honolulu), competing with seven other sailors aboard the boat “Prevail”, a Santa Cruz 52. After ten and a half days, he and his crew finished second in their division, which Frank deemed “a fantastic experience!” John Kolassa is Professor of Statistics at Rutgers and a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, and the International Statistical Institute. He is married and has two children, John (12) and Maggie (9). Karl Mueller left his position at Penn State a year ago and is now at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he is Science Lead for Magnetic Resonance and a Laboratory Fellow in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory. To celebrate his first year in the Northwest, he got married in June and bought a house and a truck. Andrew Nobel is at the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill with a primary appointment in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research (STOR) and a secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics. He is the Director of Graduate Studies for STOR but has successfully avoided higher administrative duties, probably , he notes, because of his behavior at faculty meetings. His research is increasingly devoted to method ‑ ological and applied questions, though he still devotes time to theory. He has had long‑standing (and very enjoyable) collaborations with biomedical researchers trying to better understand the genetic basis of cancer. Andrew continues to play drums (not very well) and is always on the lookout for good music. Running and biking keep him moderately fit. David Weiss has been a Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University for ten years and was recently named Associate Department Head. His PA G E 13 research involves using lasers to make atomic gases very cold. His laboratory group is performing experiments with far‑off resonance optical lattices (FORL’s) and other light traps. In particular, they have developed ways to trap and cool atoms at high density in FORL’s. These atoms are used in a variety of ways, including creating and studying Bose Einstein condensates, studying reduced dimensional systems of bosons, precision measurments (including an electron electric dipole moment search), and quantum computation. David is married to Susan Smith, and they have three children, Eric (17), Lauren (15) and Alison (10). 1987‑1988 Claudia Testa continues to see patients with movement disorders and does research mainly in essential tremor and Huntington disease. In addition to general movement disorders, she is the Medical Director of the Emory Huntington Disease Center of Excellence, which includes helping coordinate clinical trials and other research activities. Lately she has been working to form a multicenter consortium on essential tremor to best share data and to speed up work particularly on the genetics behind this disorder. She is working more in human subjects research instead of bench work but misses the lab, but she says that she has too many full time jobs as it is, including parenting! 1990‑1991 Tom Braden is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was recently appointed the Director of Graduate Studies. 1992‑1993 William Feehery has moved from Santa Barbara, where he started and led DuPont's OLED display business, to Wilmington, where he leads DuPont's photovoltaics business. 1995‑1996 Jeff Marcus and his wife Joanne Seiff welcomed twin boys Leo Frederick and Samuel Max Marcus into their lives on June 1, 2011. Their dogs, Harry and Sally, have each been assigned a baby to feed and clean in order to help them develop a more mature sense of responsibility. Somehow in spite of this challenging assignment, the dogs still get more sleep than the human beings. All are doing well in Winnipeg, Canada where Jeff is an Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in CHU R C H I L L N E W S Autumn 2011 Phylogenomics at the University of Manitoba. 1996‑1997 Josh Sabloff and his wife Nina welcomed their first child, daughter Nina in June, 2010. Sadie Wignall and her husband Raphael Jacoby welcomed their first child Milo Wignall Jacoby in February, 2011, and moved to Illinois where Sadie took up her new position as Assistant Professor in the Departmen t of Molecular Biosciences at Northwestern University. Sadie has already been drafted to serve on the advisory team for UK fellowships at Northwestern. 1998‑1999 Carmen Berg finished her PhD in Cell Biology in 2006 and her MD in 2008 from the Medical College of Wisconsin. She is now in the Radiation Oncology residency program at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, which she will complete in 2013. She is in the American Board of Radiology Holman Research Track residency pathway and is conducting translational cancer research as well as clinical radiation oncology training. She married to Michael Bergom, who works as a surgeon in the area. They have two daughters, Isabel (3) and Breya (6). 2000‑2001 Brad Friedman completed his postdoc at Harvard University in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and has moved with his family to San Francisco for his new position as a Computational Biologist at Genentech. Jason Fuller serves as a Third Rock Ventures Principal, a position to which he was promoted after joining the company as Senior Associate in 2008. He focuses on new company formation and due diligence and is also actively involved in the support and management of various portfolio companies. Third Rock has a unique history of founding and building companies in biomedical science and technology. Joel Miller has accepted a position at Penn State Uni‑ versity with a dual appointment in the Departments of Biology and Mathematics. Daniel Wesley was married in 2010 to Dr. Kristin Leight, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University; their daughter Adele was born in August. Daniel has changed careers and since last PA G E 14 November has worked at a quantitative trading group within Morgan Stanley called Process Driven Trading. 2001‑2002 Jesse Bloom and his wife have moved to Seattle where Jesse has started a laboratory investigating virus evolution in the Basic Sciences Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Patrick Coles received his MPhil in Biochemistry and in 2008 completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Berkeley, where he maintained a strong interest in physics. He is currently on a postdoc in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, his home town. His current research is theoretical and has two main focuses: (1) basic quantum physics, asking questions such as “How do we explain the everyday world that we see on the large scale in terms of the quantum laws?” and (2) quantum information asking questions such as “Can the uncertainty principle allow us to communicate messages with perfect secrecy?” Nick Guydosh is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His research is aimed at uncovering the basic mechanism of translation by the ribosome and its relationship to pathways responsible for the quality control of messenger RNA. He was awarded a fellowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation to support this work. Last summer he married Desha Girod, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. They live in Washington, DC. Kristen Panfilio has been in Cologne, Germany, for a bit more than three and a half years as a postdoc. She is now going to stay even longer: starting in January 2012, she is setting up her own research group at the Institute for Developmental Biology, University of Cologne, as an Independent Junior Group Leader, under the auspices of the Emmy Noether Program of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the German national research council). Kristen will continue her comparative research on epithelial morphogenesis during insect extra‑embryonic development. Staying in Cologne also means that she will continue enjoying such charms of the city as the annual carnival celebrations. CHUR C H I L L N E W S Autumn 2011 2002‑2003 Dan Riordan has a posdoctoral appointment in the laboratory of Professor Stuart Kim at Stanford.where he is doing research on the genetics of aging and longevity. 2005‑2006 Chris Hayward defended his thesis in the fall and has moved to a postdoctoral research position in Heidelberg at a new institute, the Hei delberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (http://www.h‑ its.org/english/index.php), where he is working with Professor Volker Springel, one of the leaders of his field. Springel has recently written a hydrodynamics code that uses a method not used before in astrophysics (“moving mesh”): it combines the advantages and avoids the disadvantages of the two currently widespread methods and gives him and his collaborators a significant competitive advantage. Chris is very excited to work with Springerl, he and his wife Tara are looking forward to living in Heidelberg. Nick Love submitted his doctoral dissertation in Biology at the University of Manchester, where he worked in the tissue regeneration laboratory of Professor Enrique Amaya, with whom he did his MPhil at Cambridge. In addition to his scientific research, Nick has done a good deal of science writing: he was shortlisted for the Guardian Science Writing Prize and has contributed to Litmus, a collection of science essays. Emily Schwartz received her doctorate in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford, where she won the prize for the best dissertation in her field. She is now working for Boeing in Seattle. 2006‑2007 Kat Allen, a graduate student in Geology at Columbia University, won the Presidential Teaching Award at Commencement in June. The award is the University’s top teaching honor and carries an $8,000 honorarium. Kat noted, “Physicists can drop objects and roll model cars down ramps to demonstrate universal forces, but geologists can’t fit an entire river delta into a lecture hall. If you’re stuck in a classroom, you need to be creative.” In her department Kat has instituted — shades of Cambridge — a Friday coffee and cookie break, and doing Cambridge one better, she summarizes recent journal articles in verse. PA G E 15 Viviane Callier finished her PhD in the Department of Biology at Duke University and has taken a post‑ doctoral position at Arizona State University. Her research, which moves back and forth between mathematical biology and experimental biology, was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, centers on the regulation of body size by oxygen supply in the developmental biology of animals. Joanna Mattis married Colin Evans, a British Churchill alumus, on September 18, 2011, in North Salem, New York. Many Churchill alumni were in attendance, including fellow Churchill Scholars Ellen Leffler (2006‑2007) and Jonathan Hollander (2005‑ 2006), who was the Best Man. Joanna’s research at Stanf ord is going well: she is midway through her PhD in Karl Deisseroth's Neuro science/ Bio ‑ engineering lab and has a first‑author paper under review, resubmitted just two days before her wedding. 2009‑2010 Thomas Graham, a doctoral candidate in Biological Systems at Harvard, published an article, Force‑ induced change in protein unfolding mechanism: discrete or continuous switch? Graham TGW, Best RB. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 2011 Feb 17;115(6):1546‑61. Another paper on which he is a co‑author has been submitted to Physical Review Letters: Locating the folding barrier for single molecules under force, Dudko OK, Graham TGW, and Best RB. PLEASE SEND NEWS! Please send news of your professional activities (books, articles, new appointments, presentations at conferences, etc.) and of your personal life. Your fellow Churchill Scholars are very interested in reading about you ppatrikis@winstonchurchillfoundation.org THE FOUNDATION’S WEB SITE http://www.winstonchurchillfoundation.org T HE F OUNDATION ’ S W EB SITE (please see next page) remains a work in pro gres. It was entirely re ‑ PAGE 1 6 Autumn 2011 designed this past summer to reflect the style of the Foundation’s recent publications. It also includes a site map to facilitate navigation. By the end of October of this year the site had almost 63,000 hits. The site serves many purposes. It provides all the information and forms that students require to apply for the Churchill Scholarship: the link to register for and to fill out the online application; complete instructions; the cover sheet for the letters of recommendation; and information about programs. It also includes the relevant links to the University of Cambridge, the Board of Graduate Studies, and Churchill College. There is also a recent document about the value of the Churchill Scholar for those applicants who are also applying for MD and MD‑ PhD programs. The site provides background information about the Foundation and its Board of Trustees, as well as a page on Winston Churchill, the content of which has been kindly copied from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust in Great Britain. For alumni of the Churchill Scholar Program there are pdf versions of the newsletters since 2006 on the Publications page and an online database that is searchable by year, by last name, by undergraduate institutions, and by field of study at Cambridge. C HURC HILL NEWS Hidden in the site is a photograph and brief biography of the Executive Director. The site includes as its centerpiece a statement from one Churchill Scholar about his year at Cambridge and a link to a long page of comments, a page which is regularly updated as comments from more recent Scholars arrive. Here are some of the comments you will find on the site: “Life seems to consist of a handful of key decisions. For me, one such proverbial “fork in the road” was when I was given the opportunity to attend the University of Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar. As I look back, it was an unforgettably adventurous year: total immersion in the unique academic environment of Cambridge, blessed with the chance to pursue my research of interest in a world‑class lab. Indeed, interacting with the other Churchill Scholars and members of the University was humbling yet inspiring. Also, as it was my first time truly living abroad, my year residing in England was unexpectedly informative and gave me a significantly broadened my global outlook. I now realize that this intense year as a Churchill Scholar set the tone for the years that followed and prepared me for a career anchored in science. In conclusion, I feel extremely honored to have been selected as a Churchill Scholar, and I wholly endorse the Winston CHU R C H I L L N E WS Autumn 2011 Churchill Scholarship for any budding US scholar who seeks such a potentially transforming professional and personal experience.” “My year on the Churchill Scholarship was fantastic. It changed my perspectives, set up many new and exciting contacts, and helped me develop new goals for what I want to get out of my career. At the same time, I formed amazing friendships, traveled around Europe, and learned to row with the Churchill College Men's First VIII. I had so many "firsts" that they are hard to keep track of. When I started thinking about UK fellowships, I wasn't sure if it was worth taking a year out of an already long MD‑PhD track for a master's education that would probably be dwarfed by two doctoral degrees. It was easy to mentally write off the nebulous cultural experiences I would have and the potential contacts I would make. Looking back, I find it hard to believe that I was so naïve – the year was one of the most e xciting, interesting, and valuable of my life.” The whole pro cess gave me perspective and confidence as I move forward in my career. Perspective to know that it is worth it to try something different when I think it is a good idea, and confidence enough to do it… I can’t say enough about how much the Scholarship did for me. Aside from the fun memories, it is enabling me to take opportunities that I wouldn’t have been smart enough to take without it." “I look back on last year as one of the most important years of my life. I will never be the same, and I am better for it. Living in England made me think seriously about a few political issues, historical wonders, and cultural oddities which have enriched my life ever since. Also, I learned the value of being fiercely proactive about lab work. I learned to ride a bicycle alongside cars. I learned to identify hundreds of European bird species, and tens of tea varieties.” PA G E 17 The link to publications includes earlier Newsletters, as well as a new document on Medical School and the Churchill Scholarship, the result of extensive emails with Scholars who are currently in medical school or who have finished their MD or MD‑PhD. The site also has a link for online donations. PLEASE DONATE! The Winson Churchill Foundation of the United States is a public charity and relies upon donations to support the remarkable young men and women who are awarded the Churchill Scholarship. The principal expense of the Foundation is the Churchill Scholarship Program. For many years, the Churchill Scholarship lagged well behind in its level of support in contrast with the other UK prestigious scholarships, so much so scholarship advisors reported that some students were unwilling to apply for the Churchill. Currently the least expensive program (Part III Mathematics) is £27,709 (approximately $44,600), and the most expensive program (the MPhil in Translational Medicine) is £31,769 ($51,148). DONORS 2010 The Foundation is grateful to those Churchill Schol‑ ars, Friends, and Trustees who have con tributed to the Churchill Scholar Program. The Foundation is a charity and welcomes donations to keep the the Scholarship Program strong. At the current rate of exchange each Churchill Scholarship costs $40,000‑ $50,000. CHURCHILL SCHOLARS Up to $35 René Boiteau (2009) Moira Gresham (2004) Brandon Levin (2007) Elizabeth Simmons (1986) Adam Wolpaw (2003) $36‑$50 Jonathan Bagger (1977) Michelle Wang Baldonado (1991) Christopher Batten (1999) Christopher Beasley (1999 Rosalind Beckwith (2007) Antonia Bluher (1984) Michael Brenner (1965) Ann Marie Cody (2003) David Fike (2001) PAGE 1 8 Autumn 2011 Do you remember the apple trees behind the hostels on Storey’s Way? Christopher Hayward (2005) Cara Marie Malandro (2006) Kipp Weiskopf (2007) Saniyah Ahsan Leblanc (2003) Katherine Leitch (2007) Aaron Levine (2001) Alexander Pekker (2001) Brenda Rubenstein (2007) Emily R. Russell (2007) Jennie Traschen (1977) Robert Tupelo‑Schneck (1997) Patrick Ward (2005) Bruce Maxwell (1991) $51‑$75 Stephen Craig (1991) Nathan Gouwens (2003) Daniel Neill (2001) Joanne Promsilow (1991) Diane Thomson (1994) Salil Vadhan (1995) Vijay Sankaran (2002) Yolanda Tseng (2003) $76‑$150 Jakob Begun (1997) Larry K. Benninger (1969) Jeffrey Berman (1979) Rameen Beroukhim (1991) Chi‑Bin Bien (1981) David Bomse (1975) John Bossert (1996) Thomas Cusick (1964) Francis J. Doyle, III (1985) Ron Dror (1997) C HURC HILL NEWS Adam Durst (1996) Margaret Ebert (2003) Peter Eisenhardt (1978) Adrienne Erickcek (2003) Lawrence Eron (1966) Joseph Fields (1971) Douglas Foy (1969) Carol D. Frost (1979) Lisa Gloss‑Lessmann (1988) David Goodrich (1980) Diane Graziano (1979) Nicholas Guydosh (2001) Jennifer Hampton (1995) Paul Hmiel (1980) Jason Johnson (1965) Andrew Knapp (1979) John Kuhlman (1992) Larissa Lee (1999) David Liben‑Nowell (1999) Nikolaus Loening (1997) William Russell Mann (1995) Jeffrey Marcus (1995) Joanna Mattis (2006) Colin Phoon (1985) Michelle Povinelli (1997) Lawrence Riddle (1976) Emily Riehl (2006) Daniel P. Riordan (2002) Mark Robbins (1977) Joshuah M. Sabloff (1996) Howard Scott (1975) David R. Speth (1972) Todd Squires (1995) David Wright (1977) James Jason West (1994) Scott Wunsch (1992) $151‑499 Laird Bloom (1985 Peter Blossey (1991) Alexander Brown (1993) David Dankworth (1986) Malisa Troutman Dorn (1992) Kenneth E. Gray (1966) David Hinds (1988) Thomas Jones (1972) Jonathan Lenchner (1981) Arwen Long (2001) William Leaf‑Hermann (1984) Keith Meyer (1972) Peter Mucha (1993) Krishna Niyogi (1986) Leslie Phinney (1990) Paul E. Rapp (1972) Eric Rains (1991) CHU R C H I L L N E WS Michael K. Rosen (1987) Alan H. Rosenberg (1968) David Stern (1981) Stephen Scherr (1980) $500‑$999 Philip Cole (1984) Nathan Dean (1965) Edward W. Kaiser (1964 Eugene Katz (1966) David Matsumoto (1982) Charles McNally (1976) Michael K. Rosen (1987) $1,000 and above Dmitry Green (1994) Robert Hutchinson (1981) Joel Miller (2001) Peter Monaco (1989) Mitchio Okumura (1979) John Simpson (1964) Frank Sottile (1985) FRIENDS AND TRUSTEES Up to $100 Mr. and Mrs. Eric Cody Susie Elson Autumn 2011 PA G E 19 $101‑$999 Dale Coudert Earle I. Mack Mary O'Keefe Alberto Mariaca Marguerite Mangin Peter C. Patrikis Dr. Wai War Phoon $1,000‑$4,900 Jeremy Biggs Roberto de Guardiola William Lee Hanley Torrence C. Harder Thomas Hassen Kessler Family Foundation Nicholas Kirkbride Margo Langenbach Carl M. Loeb, III Earle I. Mack Robert Nederlander Mandell Ourisman Sallie B. Phillips R&K Foundation William D. Rollnick Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Rooney Wilbur and Hillary Ross Elaine L. Schoch A&T Vavasis Philanthropic Fund PAGE 2 0 Autumn 2011 $5,000‑$9,999 C HURC HILL NEWS BOARD David and Nanette Burrows John K. Castle Marvin and Mary Davidson Mario J. Gabelli Joyce Lanier Milner Foundation Katherine Johnson Rayner $10,000 and above Deborah L. Brice Patrick A. Gerschel Mary W. Harriman Foundation David H. Koch Hon. John L. Loeb, Jr. Susan Lloyd Alfred and Jane Ross Jeff C. Tarr Damon Wells Winokur Family Foundation OF TRUSTEES HRH The Duke Of Edinbugh, Honorary Trustee Hon. John L. Loeb, Jr., Chairman Patrick A. Gerschel, President James A. FitzPatrick, Jr., Esq., Secretary David D. Burrows, Treasurer William L. Bernhard Deborah L. Brice Lord Broers Randolph L.S. Churchill MalisaV. (Troutman) Dorn (CS1992‑1993) Mario J. Gabelli Warren B. Kanders Marguerite Mangin Alfred Ross Bruno L. Schroder Emma Soames The Lady Soames Jeff C. Tarr Sir David Wallace DamonWells Peter C. Patrikis, Executive Director Please detach this form and mail it along with your donation. Thank you very much. THE WINSTON CHURCHILL FOUNDATION OF THE UNITED STATES 600 MADISON AVENUE - SUITE 1601 NEW YORK, NY 10022-1737 I wish to support the Churchill Scholarship Program and enclose my donation. 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