Wheaton seniors Jennifer Bombasaro-Brady and Ru-Shyan Yen are two of 50 college students nationwide selected today to receive a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. The $25,000 award will support a year of travel and research for each student. Bombasaro-Brady plans to investigate the social significance of historical re-enactments; Yen will explore varied artistic techniques for creating batik.
Senior Kara Schamell’s research into the meaning of a spiritual Zimbabwean music form played on an indigenous instrument and its transformation as a secular art form embraced in the World Music industry won recognition as the best undergraduate project of the year at a regional anthropology conference.
A series of African films and an accompanying lecture provide glimpses into the diversity of African cultures through issues such as gender and class.
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