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Winter Fellows Circumnavigate the Globe

By Chris Lydgate ’90 on December 17, 2015 02:56 PM

Nine intrepid Reed students won fellowships to pursue projects around the globe over Winter Break. (And yes, the guy in the sport coat is President Kroger.)

Nine intrepid Reed students will travel the globe this winter as part of Reed's Fellowship for Winter International Travel.

The nine fellows won $3,000 each to pursue a passion, develop a professional skill, or perform service for others over Winter Break. 

Chemistry major Joohee Bang ’16 will learn about carbon fiber in South Korea through a program offered by Korea Mirae Technology. "As a chemist who is pursuing academic career in materials science and engineering, I hope to gain further insights into new materials with industrial purposes and their applications," she writes.

Environmental science-political science major Kate Hilts ’16 will travel to Madagascar to photograph rare plants and animals that are threatened by climate change. She will visit the 14,000-acre Ambohitantely Reserve in the central part of the island, one of the most biologically diverse areas of the world.

Physics major Irene Globus-Harris ’18 will travel to the Netherlands to analyze data from the Westerbork Telescope run by ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, focusing on the lenticular galaxy in the Cygnus constellation, NGC 6798.

Find out more about the 2015 fellows and their global exploits. 

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