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    Devin Reese '18
    Watson Fellowship Confronting Entropy: Elder Care in an Aging World Devin Reese '18
    Devin Reese '18

    Watson Fellowship

    Confronting Entropy: Elder Care in an Aging World

    Hometown: San Francisco

    Major: biology and film and media studies

    Interests: documentary film, rugby, nursing homes

    Best Travel Experience: visiting distant relatives in La Marche, Italy.

    What People Don't Know About Me: I always listen to music with my headphones on full volume.

    Words to live by: If it's exciting and scary, you should probably do it.

    Nina Finley
    Watson Fellowship Independent travel and study in Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia, Malaysia and Russia Nina Finley '17
    Nina Finley

    Watson Fellowship

    Independent travel and study in Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia, Malaysia and Russia

    Hometown: Seattle, Washington

    Major: Biology-Environmental Studies

    Interests: wildlife disease, geckos, collaborative survival with microbes, the Anthropocene extinction, Ultimate frisbee

    Best travel experience: Bathing in streams everywhere I go, whether I'm sitting under a pounding waterfall in Brazil or pouring gold-flecked water over myself in Madagascar.

    What people don't know about me: My spirit primate is the greater dwarf lemur because it cradles its nest in a tree fern.

    Words to live by: "I've been watching stars rely on the darkness they resist." (Mark Nepo)

    Sarah Cornett '16
    Core Fellows Program Fellow in Public Affairs at FOCUS, St. Louis, Missouri Sarah Cornett '16
    Sarah Cornett '16

    Core Fellows Program

    Fellow in Public Affairs at FOCUS, St. Louis, Missouri

    Hometown: Sacramento

    Major: History

    Interests: Running slowly and reading long form journalism

    Best travel experience: Trying to find a train with friends in the Czech countryside while studying abroad.

    What people don't know about me: I love listening to Top 40 in the car.

    Words to live by: "Go to where the silence is and say something." -- Amy Goodman

    Olmedo '12
    Princeton in Asia Fellowship Environmental Conservation with TRAFFIC, Hanoi, Vietnam Alegria Olmedo '12
    Olmedo '12

    Princeton in Asia Fellowship

    Environmental Conservation with TRAFFIC, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Hometown: Quito, Ecuador

    Interests/pleasures: Charcoal drawing, dancing, running, writing

    Best travel experience: Visiting Burma's ancient capital, Bagan, in 2011

    What people don't know about me: I really wish I could sing well.

    Words to live by: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Dr. Seuss)

    Salvador '07
    Fulbright U.S. Student Program English teaching assistantship, Bolu, Turkey Jessica Salvador '07
    Salvador '07

    Fulbright U.S. Student Program

    English teaching assistantship, Bolu, Turkey

    Hometown: Seattle, Washington

    Interests/pleasures: teaching, cooking, preserving food, backgammon, painting

    Best travel experience: Trying a macaroon for the first time in Paris when I was 13. We called them "dessert hamburgers"!

    What people don't know about me: I could grow old happily in Walla Walla.

    Words to live by: "Alice laughed. ‘One can't believe impossible things.' ‘I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. ‘. . .Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'"
    (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, 1871)

    Hardee '12
    DAAD InternXchange Program Radio journalism and production, Berlin, Germany Anya Caitlin Hardee '12
    Hardee '12

    DAAD InternXchange Program

    Radio journalism and production, Berlin, Germany

    Hometown: Seattle, WashingtonMajor: German Studies

    Interests/pleasures: radio, music, journalism, travel, languages

    Best travel experience: Wandering Istanbul with my Kumpels.

    What people don't know about me: Although I keep ending up in landlocked places, I love surfing. In my old age, I will become a beach bum.

    Words to live by: "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night . . . wake in the day to find out that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." (T.E. Lawrence)

    Lowry '12
    French Teaching Assistants Program (TAPIF) English teaching assistantship, Auch, France Cara Lowry '12
    Lowry '12

    French Teaching Assistants Program (TAPIF)

    English teaching assistantship, Auch, France

    Hometown: Hermosa Beach, California

    Major: Foreign Languages and Literatures (French)

    Interests/pleasures: Reading, new foods, museum-hopping, cats

    Best travel experience: Marseille, Aix-en-Provence and Arles, Fall 2012

    What people don't know about me: I have a male alter ego named Carl.

    Words to live by: "Il est utile de connaître d'autres langues que la sienna . . . C'est comme de connaître d'autres gens, d'autres pays." ("It is useful to know languages other than your own . . . It's like knowing other people, other countries.") (Assia Djebar)

    Brandner '13
    Goldwater Scholarship Science research scholarship Dieter Brandner '13
    Brandner '13

    Goldwater Scholarship

    Science research scholarship

    Hometown: Anchorage, Alaska

    Major: Biology

    Interests/pleasures: biology, reading, foreign-exchange markets, technical writing, flightless birds, human evolution, carotenoids

    Best travel experience: Italy, 2011, with professors Chris Wallace and Ginger Withers for International Brain Organization World Congress.

    What people don't know about me: I've always wanted to live in Arizona.

    Words to live by: "Theories have four stages of acceptance: 1) this is worthless; 2)this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; 3)this is true, but quite unimportant; 4) I always said so." (J.B.S. Haldane)

    Kevin Michael Dyer ’13
    DAAD Summer Study Grant German studies, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Kevin Michael Dyer ’13
    Kevin Michael Dyer ’13

    DAAD Summer Study Grant

    German studies, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Hometown: Carson City, NevadaMajor: English

    Interests/pleasures: writing, reading, swimming, magic, music (The Gathering)

    Best travel experience: climbing the Volkerschlacht Denkmal in Leipzig, a massive memorial commemorating the defeat of Napoleon near Leipzig.

    What people don't know about me: While I'm an introvert at heart, I really enjoy meeting new people, even if I don't show it at the time.

    Words to live by: "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." (Arthur Edgar O'Shaughnessy)

    Nathan Abrams ‘12
    Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology Nathan Abrams ‘12
    Nathan Abrams ‘12

    Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

    Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology

    Hometown: Bainbridge Island, WashingtonMajor: Applied Physics (through the 3/2 program)

    Interests/pleasures: skiing, basketball, sailing, baseball, coffee

    Best travel experience: Sailing with my family in the San Juan Islands.

    What people don't know about me: I worked for a summer at a salmon processing plant in Alaska.

    Words to live by: "Ask people how they got there, because I guarantee that no one took a direct path with no detours."

    Seth Bergeson '10
    Watson Fellowship Independent travel and study in Belgium, France, Egypt, UAE, China Seth Bergeson '10
    Seth Bergeson '10

    Watson Fellowship

    Independent travel and study in Belgium, France, Egypt, UAE, China

    Hometown: Seattle, WashingtonMajor: History

    Interests/pleasures: cycling, chocolate fondue, people, "oldies" records

    Best travel experience: An 88-hour bus trip across Senegal and Mali.

    What people don't know about me: I'm a scholar of British romantic comedies.

    Words to live by: "If things start happening, don't worry. Don't stew. Just go right along, and you'll start happening too." (Dr. Seuss)

    Patricia Vanderbilt ‘12
    Fulbright U.S. Student Program Hindi studies, Jaipur, India Patricia Vanderbilt ‘12
    Patricia Vanderbilt ‘12

    Fulbright U.S. Student Program

    Hindi studies, Jaipur, India

    Hometown: Bellingham, Washington

    Major: English

    Interests/pleasures: creative writing, Drama Club, The Pioneer

    Best travel experience: Study abroad in India, 2010.

    What people don't know about me: In high school I was a member of a mime troupe.

    Words to live by: "Vertigo is the conflict between fear of falling and the desire to fall" (Rushdie)

    Nicholas Gottschall '09
    Fulbright U.S. Student Program English teaching assistantship, India Nicholas Gottschall '09
    Nicholas Gottschall '09

    Fulbright U.S. Student Program

    English teaching assistantship, India

    Hometown: Walla Walla, Washington

    Interests/pleasures: Music, food, playing drums, travel, reading, baseball, trying to speak foreign languages

    Best travel experience: Independent study project in Bodhgaya, India, on study abroad, 2007.

    What people don't know about me: I'm a synaesthete; I experience music and sound as colorful, visual shapes and landscapes in my mind's eye.

    Words to live by: "How strange it is to be anything at all." (Jeff Mangum)

    Lian Caspi '13
    Watson Fellowship Independent travel and study in United Kingdom, India, Nepal, South Africa and Colombia Lian Caspi '13
    Lian Caspi '13

    Watson Fellowship

    Independent travel and study in United Kingdom, India, Nepal, South Africa and Colombia

    Hometown: Seattle, Washington

    Major: Psychology

    Interests/pleasures: Music, hiking, new ways to dance and move, baking, slacklining, chocolate, rafting, languages, swimming, travel, new instruments

    Best travel experience: Going to a friend's village to visit his family for Teej, the women's festival, in Nepal.

    What people don't know about me: My feet are as flat as a pancake.

    Words to live by: "Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." (Rumi)

    Jeremy Norden ’12
    Davis Projects for Peace “Building Community and Ultimate Peace,” Colombia Jeremy Norden ’12
    Jeremy Norden ’12

    Davis Projects for Peace

    “Building Community and Ultimate Peace,” Colombia

    Hometown: Seattle, WashingtonMajor: Social Psychology

    Interests/pleasures: international travel, Ultimate Frisbee, ceramics, whitewater rafting, snowboarding

    Best travel experience: Hearing our team's name echo from the stadium speakers as World Champion and "Spirit of the Game" award recipient for sportsmanship. Never have I had a prouder moment as a coach.

    What people don't know about me: Growing up, I spent multiple nights sleeping in igloos on snowboarding trips in the Northwest.

    Words to live by: Live in the moment and cherish every moment.

    Gabriella Friedman ’13
    Beinecke Scholarship Funding for graduate study in arts, humanities or social sciences Gabriella Friedman ’13
    Gabriella Friedman ’13

    Beinecke Scholarship

    Funding for graduate study in arts, humanities or social sciences

    Hometown: Glendale, WisconsinMajor: English

    Interests/pleasures: Literature, literary theory, continental philosophy, swimming, ceramics, French, cats, board games

    Best travel experience: study abroad in Paris.

    What people don't know about me: I was not born in the United States.

    Words to live by: "It is as if I am indebted to - I don't know to whom - to thinking responsibly. I am in a situation of trying to learn to whom, finally, I am responsible." (Jacques Derrida)

    Jay Barlow ’14
    Killam Fellowship Independent study, University of Alberta Jay Barlow ’14
    Jay Barlow ’14

    Killam Fellowship

    Independent study, University of Alberta

    Hometown: Missoula, MontanaMajor: BBMB (Biophysics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)

    Interests/pleasures: biking, skiing, hunting

    Best travel experience: Killam vs. Fulbright hockey game in Ottawa.

    What people don't know about me: My favorite season is fall.

    Words to live by: Git 'r done.

    Xialing Ann Chen ’14
    Critical Language Scholarship Korean Studies, Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea Xialing Ann Chen ’14
    Xialing Ann Chen ’14

    Critical Language Scholarship

    Korean Studies, Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea

    Hometown: San Francisco, California

    Major: Film and Media Studies

    Interests/pleasures: Language learning, astronomy, reading, writing, filmmaking, karaoke, blogging, badminton, contemplating about the meaning of life

    Best travel experience: Whitman Summer Studies in China - Yunnan

    What people don't know about me: I aspire to learn fluent Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Mandarin and Cantonese.

    Words to live by: "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

    Maxx Borges '18
    Fulbright U.K. Summer Institutes Academic study, Wales Summer Institute Maxx Borges '18
    Maxx Borges '18

    Fulbright U.K. Summer Institutes

    Academic study, Wales Summer Institute

    Hometown: New Bedford, Massachusetts

    Interests/pleasures: Being a writer who doesn't write and a reader who never has time to read; alternatively, dogs and keeping my ears warm

    Best travel experience: A night on the town in Aberystwyth, Wales

    What people don't know about me: I wrote a book! I'm still editing it, though.

    Words to live by: "Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens." - J.R.R. Tolkien

    Rhiannon Clarke ’15
    Fulbright U.S. Student Program English Teaching Assistantship, Argentina Rhiannon Clarke ’15
    Rhiannon Clarke ’15

    Fulbright U.S. Student Program

    English Teaching Assistantship, Argentina

    Hometown: Olympia, WashingtonMajors: Spanish, Philosophy

    Interests/pleasures: Creative writing, foreign languages, drawing, animals

    Best travel experience: the walk from the Blue Mosque to the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul

    What people don't know about me: I keep a detailed dream journal.

    Words to live by: "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." -Rumi

    Janni Conrad ’15
    Fulbright U.S. Student Program Research: Arsenic contamination and human health, Mexico Janni Conrad ’15
    Janni Conrad ’15

    Fulbright U.S. Student Program

    Research: Arsenic contamination and human health, Mexico

    Hometown: Granby, ColoradoMajor: Chemistry

    Interests/pleasures: oatmeal, coffee, socks

    Best travel experience: saving a trapped donkey in Spain

    What people don't know about me: I consider all squirrels to be my arch nemeses.

    Words to live by: "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time."

    Rand '13
    Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs Leadership training Cory Rand ’13
    Rand '13

    Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs

    Leadership training

    Hometown: Mill Valley, California

    Interests/pleasures: Running, climbing, reading science fiction

    Best travel experience: Semester abroad in Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo

    What people don't know about me: I can't watch horror movies because I get too scared.

    Words to live by: "If we were supposed to talk more than we listen, we would have two mouths and one ear." (Mark Twain)

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