Undergraduate research awards made for 2015-2016

May 4, 2015

The Franke Program in Science and the Humanities is pleased to announce the winners of its second annual Undergraduate Research Awards. The Franke Program, made possible by a generous gift from Richard (’53) and Barbara Franke, is committed to forging new links between the humanities and the sciences across Yale. The undergraduate fellowships offered by the program support the work of seniors at Yale College whose research is at the intersection of humanistic, artistic, and scientific fields.

From a very strong field of applicants, the following eight students have been chosen to receive fellowships.

Awardees will attend dinners with Franke Program faculty in the Fall 2015 term and will present the results of their projects in the Spring 2016 term.

A list of the awardees and the titles of their projects follow.


Alexander Borsa, “Truvada Who? PrEP, Biopolitics, and the Construction of Sexual Subjectivity”


Caroline Sydney, “The Complex Geometry of William Morris and the Kelmscott Press”


Cecilia Dumouchel, “The Rise of Medical Specialization and the Death of Holistic Medicine in America”


Duncan Tomlin, “Painting World Order: Network Analysis of Religious Art and State Theology In Buddhist East Asia and Early Christian Europe”

 


Hans Bilger, “Ecologies of Sound”

 
Julia Rothchild, ” ‘The Mother Tongue of our Imagination’: The Natural World in George Eliot’s Novels”


Caitlin Miller, “
Natural History and Narrative in Greek Literature”


Catherine Colford, “Wooden Sculpture Building: Generative Design with Analog Tools”