4 Claremont Students Win Watson Grants
Four students at the Claremont Colleges are among winners of Thomas J. Watson fellowships for a year of independent study and travel abroad after graduation.
The $13,000 grants support a year of study in a field in which the recipient has demonstrated the potential for leadership.
* Jennifer Richard, political economics major at Scripps College, will study the “Cultural Definitions of Taboo and How ‘Taboo’ Persons Live Their Lives” in South Africa, Zimbabwe and England.
* Ellen Liu, engineering major at Harvey Mudd College, will study koto music in China, Taiwan and Japan. The koto is a stringed instrument.
* Julie Hagelin, a biology and German literature major at Pomona College, will investigate how native societies of New Zealand, New Guinea, Australia and Greenland use indigenous birds for survival and ceremonial purposes.
* Cai Thorman, a major in classics and studio art at Pomona College and a scuba diver, will study nautical archeology in the Mediterranean. She plans to participate in the excavation of a Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Turkey and work on an underwater excavation project with the Hellenic Institute of Marine Archeology in Greece.
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