Four accept Fulbright scholar opportunities

Four accept Fulbright scholar opportunities

Four graduates will study or work abroad through the Fulbright Scholars Program: Steven Parker, Tanvir Hussain, Sirish Kishore and Mariel Davenport-Pollock.

Parker, who received his master’s degree this month in trombone performance, will be studying at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen, Germany. He will work on experimental techniques for the trombone, including singing while playing, vocalizing techniques, mute experimentation and incorporating dance, theater and video into performances, he said. Parker also will be studying how and why classical music is so much more successful in Germany than in the United States.

Hussain received a Fulbright to the United Kingdom where he will be studying for a master’s of science in social epidemiology at University College London.

A relatively new field, social epidemiology involves the study of how social conditions (race, gender, income, geographic location, religion, etc.) affect health outcomes, Hussain said. “This program will be the first of its kind in the entire world, and I will be among the first 15 in the world to receive such a degree,” he said.

After receiving his master’s, Hussain will pursue an M.D./Ph.D. at Columbia University.

Kishore will be studying in Barcelona, Spain, with an interdisciplinary and multinational group. There he will be investigating the interaction of tobacco use and genetic background in the progression of bladder cancer.

Davenport-Pollock earned a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship that will take her to France where she will teach English to high school students in Versailles.

Martha Jeong also was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship but declined the award to pursue other opportunities.