Gettysburg is committed to helping every student reach his or her goals, including Luke Norris, Class of 2006, who became the College's third Rhodes Scholar and was also awarded a Marshall Scholarship.
Scores of students each year earn fellowships, scholarships, and grants, and conduct research in close collaboration with faculty members. For example, Marc Fialkoff, Class of 2010, worked with professors Donald Jameson and Tim Funk to develop greener experimental procedures for the campus's organic chemistry labs. (Jameson and Fialkoff are in photo.)
Articles and videos tell more students' stories:
Piracy and parasites among highlights of Mellon summer research projects
From archaeology to cinema, Mellon grants support students' summer research
Colloquium celebrates student research and creative activity
Gettysburg College students win Fulbright, Goldwater grants
Student, prof use laser to research 'space weather'
Gettysburg College students win Mellon grants for summer research
Student, prof research HIV in Botswana
$50K from Mellon Foundation to support summer research at Gettysburg College
Overall undergraduate research video
Nicole Puza '08, majoring in biology, collected tropical marine snails in Nicaragua for her work with biology professors Istvan Urcuyo and Steven James. Watch video
Jeff Parkinson '07, majoring in history and minoring in German and secondary education, worked with history professor William Bowman to conduct research on international soccer as a global phenomenon from the late 19th century to the modern day. Watch video
Leanne Tyler '07, a double major in political science and economics, worked with political science professor Caroline Hartzell to explain why some states achieve peace following the end of an armed civil war while others do not. Tyler earned a full scholarship to Columbia University's doctoral program in political science. Watch video
Freya Gibbon '07, majoring in environmental studies with a minor in writing, worked with environmental studies professor Randall Wilson to establish an organic garden on the College's campus to produce food for the local food bank and campus dining services. Watch video
Kristen Rhodes '07, majoring in philosophy and minoring in art history, explored juvenile crime and the juvenile justice system. Working closely with philosophy professor Lisa Portmess, she read widely in disciplines ranging from biology to history, visited juvenile courts in several states, and interviewed individuals working in the juvenile justice system in Adams County. She combined these lines of research to prepare a paper examining the practice of treating juvenile offenders as adult criminal. Watch video
Archana Dinesh Patel, a 2003 Gettysburg College graduate from Alexandria, Va., received an award to support postgraduate research in India from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. A paralegal at O'Melveny and Myers law firm in Washington, D.C., Patel traveled for nine months in India to research microfinance programs' impact on the political empowerment of women.
Other past recipients include:
Maribeth Black '07, Fulbright Teaching Assistantship, 2007
Laura Hough '06, Fulbright Teaching Assistantship, 2006
Walt Kowtoniuk '05, Goldwater Scholarship, 2004 and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2005
Luke Norris '06, Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships, 2006
Archana Patel '03, Fulbright grant to India in Women's Studies, 2004
Carlo Testa '06, James Madison Graduate Fellowship, 2006
Carolyn Tory Harper '05, Fulbright grant to Argentina in Public Health, 2005
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