Fulbright Scholar
Atlanta native and former Berry Bonner Scholar Tanner Huýnh (11C) is currently exploring his parents’ homeland of Vietnam as an English Teaching Assistant at Nha Trang College of Art-Culture and Tourism in Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa Province, Vietnam. Huynh credits the Bonner program for his courage to courage to explore and the importance of volunteerism and helping the under-privileged.
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Outstanding Undergraduate is Now Whitehead Fellow
Meredith Smith (11C) is gaining valuable experience in the nonprofit sector as this year’s Woodruff and Whitehead Foundations Fellow. The 2011 recipient of the Martha Berry Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement, Smith deferred her graduate admission to Harvard University in order to accept the annual fellowship, established in 1994 and available to students at select Georgia colleges and universities. She is the fifth Berry student to be selected for the program, which is sponsored by the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, Lettie Pate Evans Foundation and Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation.
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Pine Leaf Project
Professor Martin Cipollini's Pine Leaf project is a fire-maintained Mountain Longleaf ecosystem on Lavender Mountain, just north of Rome, GA. In comparison with other pines, Longleaf Pines are less susceptible to regional diseases and pests, including the Southern Pine Beetle. Healthy stands must be maintained by frequent controlled (prescribed) burns, which reduces the likelihood of devastating wildfires in managed areas.
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Wildlife
Building on her animal science degree from Berry, Stephanie Graham has traversed the globe in pursuit of a career as a conservationist. From Africa to Central America, she has studied a wide range of birds and animals. Graham is in the process of gathering the extensive experience necessary to gain admission to a high-level Ph.D. program. As a result, she is constantly moving from one research project to the next. She has traveled to Belize for a month-long assignment as a research assistant studying jaguars and other felines. As part of a deployment in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, she traveled to Laguna Atascosa, Texas, to work with the last remaining ocelots.
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