Mar 07, 2005 - Claremont, Calif. -

Text of announcement by President Jon Strauss

March 8, 2005

Colleagues:

Please join me in congratulating Whitney Duim '05 and Carl Yerger '05 who have been awarded prestigious graduate fellowships to study at Cambridge University in England next year.

Chemistry major Whitney Duim '05 has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study colloid and interface chemistry with Stuart Clarke in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University. Whitney will build on her research experience with HMC professors Gerald Van Hecke and Kerry Karukstis, with whom she studied the phase diagrams of lyotropic liquid crystals. Whitney is a Beckman Scholar and was awarded both the Sly and Campbell prizes during her time here at Harvey Mudd. While Whitney has traveled widely in the United States, her trip to Cambridge will be her first trip abroad and she is looking forward to exploring England and the rest of Europe.

Whitney is Harvey Mudd College's first Gates Cambridge Scholar. The scholarships were founded in 2000 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support international scholarship at the University of Cambridge.

Mathematics major Carl Yerger '05 has been awarded a Churchill Scholarship to study at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University. He will pursue a Certificate of Advanced Study in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. As an undergraduate, Carl was awarded both Harvey Mudd College's Nova Scholarship and a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Carl has pursued research in combinatorics and graph theory with HMC professors Art Benjamin and Francis Su during his time at Harvey Mudd College and has submitted 11 publications to various mathematical journals. Carl is also an avid tennis player (recognized as an NCAA Division III Academic All-American in 2004), and is looking forward to learning to play on grass courts in England.

Carl is Harvey Mudd College's twelfth Churchill Scholar; he joins Christopher Rudolfa '04 (chemistry) who is doing graduate work in chemistry and Joel Miller '00 (mathematics), who is pursuing a Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge. The Winston Churchill Foundation was established in 1959 in recognition of the eponymous statesman; it supports roughly a dozen scholars each year for advanced study at Cambridge.