IAS Student Awards/ Honors/ Grad School:
IAS First Honors: Kailey Kluge
IAS Second Honors: Kanan Gole
Kailey and Kanan were also Drexel’s 2015 Carnegie Junior Fellows Nominees. The Carnegie Junior Fellows Program is a highly competitive award that enables recent graduates to work for a year with a senior fellow in one of the program areas of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Each year the Endowment offers 10-12 one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors and individuals who have graduated during the past academic year. They are selected from a pool of nominees from close to 400 participating colleges. Carnegie Junior Fellows work as research assistants to the Endowment's senior associates.
Jennifer Siew's determination, brilliance, generosity, and efforts have made her a role model here at Drexel. Because of her outstanding academic career, as well as her passion for social justice, she served as the student commencement speaker for Bachelor’s graduates in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, the College of Arts and Sciences, and Pennoni Honors College (Custom Design Majors) on June 13, 2015. Watch/listen to her speech here!
Additionally, Jennifer was recently awarded a Critical Language Scholarship from the State Department to study Arabic in Morocco for the summer of 2015. “Her prior experiences include living, studying and working in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including Jordan, Egypt, and Palestine, the West Bank. She also conducted research in Brazil as a Boren Scholar, dealing with the Public Healthcare System (O Sistema Unico de Saude or SUS) as well as the network of microfinance organizations working to lift people out of poverty.” Read more here.
Graduate School:
Katie Bassion: Dual MS in Public Policy/Foreign Service: Georgetown
Niacka Carty: MA in International Education at NYU
Greg Kunkel: Dual MD/MPH: Hahnemann/Drexel University College of Medicine; is applying for a deferral so he can spend a year in Ghana & Uganda doing global health work with the Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children
Greg Porter: MA in Journalism: University of Kent (England)
Kaelee Shepherd: MPH at NYU
Seynique Smythe: MA in International Relations at University of Chicago
Ruifan Wang: MS in Education Counseling at NYU
Teaching Abroad:
Mackenize Grapes: Teaching position in Spain with CIEE - Competitive one year
teaching award