Posted on May 10: Travel scholarships broaden students’ horizons
Six McMaster travel scholarships are awarding students the world.
One student will experience and research the rural and eco-development issues of the Himalayans, another will travel to Poland to learn about the Holocaust and another will visit Switzerland to investigate the inner workings of the fundamental particles that make up the universe.
These are some of the experiences students will have with help from McMaster's Office of Student Financial Aid & Scholarship.
The 2004 Travel Scholarships were awarded to:
The Arts & Science Experiential Learning Travel Scholarship: This was awarded to third-year arts and science student Aaron Orkin. Orkin will use the $1,000 scholarship to travel to Poland as a chaperone for a group of secondary school students. The group will visit various concentration camps and other historical sites to learn about the Holocaust.
The Beale-Lincoln-Hall Travel Scholarship: Third-year arts and science student Victoria Maystruk and second-year social science student Monique Muise were awarded this $2,500 scholarship. With the funds, Maystruk is studying mathematics at the University of Newcastle in Australia, and is traveling around the country experiencing Australian culture. Muise will use the scholarship to help fund part of an exchange to England, where she will be studying at the University of Leeds from late September to early June 2005.
The Class of '37 Travel Scholarship in Arts and Science: Third-year arts and science student Jasmine Yu will use this $1,250 to help fund a trip to northern India this summer. In the 33-day World University Service of Canada McMaster Social & Ecological Studies research project, Yu and 13 other university students will experience and research rural and eco-development issues in the Gharwal region of the Himalayans.
The John P. Evans Travel Scholarship: Third-year arts and science student Claire Vayalumkal, who is still working out details of her trip, received a $2,000 award.
The E.T. Salmon Scholarship: Third-year humanities student Jessica Vahl will use the $2,500 scholarship to travel to Italy to visit ancient sites in Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Cumae and Paestum.
The T. Russell Wilkins Memorial Scholarship: Third-year science student Kristen Koopmans was awarded $6,000, which she will use to work with researchers at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. CERN is the world's leader in research into elementary particle physics, investigating the inner workings of the fundamental particles that make up the universe. Koopmans will work with a team in the commissioning, testing and data collecting of a cosmics calibration set-up of the calorimeters.
