Lafayette Campus News (www.lafayette.edu), November 6, 2009 — Stephanie Fosbenner ’10 (Perkasie, Pa.) and Max Minckler ’10 (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) have been selected as finalists in the 2010 Marshall Scholarship competition.
Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to 40 scholars are selected each year to study at the graduate level at a U.K. institution in any field of study. Each scholarship is held for two years. Fosbenner and Minckler are both scheduled to be interviewed by a regional Marshall selection panel this month.
For information on applying for scholarships and fellowships, contact Julia A. Goldberg, associate dean of the College, at (610) 330-5521. See a list of recent Lafayette recipients of national and international scholarships and fellowships for undergraduate and post-graduate study.
In the summer of 2008, Fosbenner, a neuroscience major, spent six weeks volunteering in the family planning unit and pediatric ward at the Bagamoyo District Hospital in rural Tanzania. She collaborated with Lisa Gabel, assistant professor of psychology, on an independent study focusing on Fragile X-Syndrome, the most common form of inheritable mental retardation.
In March, she presented research on the ethical responsibility of pharmaceutical companies to provide AIDS medicine to countries in the developing world at the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference held at Harvard University. Over the summer, she worked with Jay Weiss '62, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at Emory University School of Medicine, on research using rats to study how stress might relate to bipolar disorder and depression.
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Minckler, who is a double major in English and the self-designed philosophy of religion, received a Humanity in Action Summer Fellowship to study human rights in Warsaw, Poland, during the summer of 2008. He performed research with Suzanne Westfall, professor and head of English, through the College’s EXCEL Scholars program. As part of the project, he worked to create an Internet edition of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Minckler is a Marquis Scholar and a writing associate for the College Writing Program. He has tutored local students and volunteers at Easton’s Third Street Alliance through programs run by the Landis Community Outreach Center. He is a member of the Arts Society and has lived in the Arts Houses living community on Parsons Street. He also plays trumpet in the College Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Orchestra, and in the pit for College Theater musicals.
