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Undergraduate News ( 2007 - 2008 )
Minsoo Kim May 2008 Minsoo Kim, an Art History Major, is being awarded the $620 William E and Julia Nelo Clark Excellence Scholarship. This scholarship was established to recognize outstanding students enrolled in the College of Arts & Architecture at Penn State who have achieved positive academic records. Caroline Mansour April 2008 Caroline Mansour, received a Creative Achievement Award from the College of Arts & Architecture. She is a Schreyer Honors College junior who is pursuing concurrent majors in art history and French (language and literature). Her research for her honors thesis (under the direction of Dr. Nancy Locke) centers on Géricault's portraits of monomaniacs, the medical discourse on monomania in early nineteenth-century France, and the possible medical uses of the images. On her own initiative, she sought out, and received, a Faculty Outreach grant to work as an undergraduate research assistant to Dr. Sarah Rich. Caroline has distinguished herself academically with outstanding work in many 400-level courses. The child of an Iraqi father and a Mexican mother, she has worked as a tutor to foreign-born students on campus in CAS 100 (a required communications course), and as an ESL instructor. Katherine Kunkel April 2008 Katherine Kunkel, was awarded an Alumni Society Scholarship. She is a junior majoring in Art History and Chemistry. She entered Penn State with enough advanced placement credits to allow her the pursuit of two different areas of study. Katherine is a Schreyer Honors Scholar and serves as a mentor to science and honors students. She has worked for the Chemistry Department as a teaching assistant, grader, or proctor for the past two years. In addition she volunteers her time in the community as an emergency Medical Technician. She has studied art in Italy and takes graduate-level courses in borth art history and organic chemistry. Ultimately, she hopes to purse a career in medicine. Katherine is from Mars, Pennsylvania. Barbara Greene March 2008 Barbara Greene, Art History major at Penn State, will be presenting a paper, "Literary Connections and Societal Repressions: VALIE EXPORT's Koerperkonfigurationen Series and its Connection to Vienna's Women Writers," at the Intercollegiate Art History Symposium, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, on March 30, 2008. Amy Raffel April 2007 Amy Raffel, undergraduate major in art history, was awarded a 2007 Creative Achievement Award: Amy Raffel is a Schreyer Honors Student with a double major in Art History and Advertising. Her outstanding academic work has been recognized with several awards, including the President's Freshman Award, the President's Sparks Award, the Evan Pugh Scholar Award, and the Christopher Frassinelli Memorial Scholarship for Study Abroad in Todi, Italy. She has recently served as a research intern at the Palmer Museum of Art, where she has been conducting primary source research on objects in the American art collection and contributing to future exhibition development. She has been an active participant in the Art History Association and a leader in the organization of Thon events, and was instrumental in the organization and installation of a student run art exhibition, "2006- Identity through Art," during the past year. This spring, Amy presented an outstanding and very well-received paper on "General Idea's 1980 Boutique and the Museum Gift Shop," at the Second Annual Undergraduate Art History Symposium at Bucknell University. This paper develops themes from her honors thesis on the 1980s collective art group called "General Idea," which she is now completing under the supervision of Professor Sarah Rich. Amy is graduating this spring with an exemplary academic record, an achievement for which she has been named the Art History Department's Student Marshal. A previous recipient of the Creative Achievement Award, she has been nominated again in recognition of her ongoing intellectual and creative achievements over the past year. Montana Rozmus April 2007 Montana Rozmus, undergraduate major in art history and art, has been awarded a 2007 Summer Discovery Grant from Penn State for her project "Surface Treatment of Egyptian Early Dynastic Pottery." |
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Last Updated: Thursday, May 15, 2008
