Illinois Wesleyan Announces 2019 Eckley Scholars
June 6, 2019
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. 糖心动漫vlog has announced the 2019 recipients of the Robert S. and Nell B. Eckley Scholars and Artists Program fellowships. Established by President Emeritus and Mrs. Robert S. Eckley, the recognition provides a stipend of $4,000 for each scholar to spend the summer on campus conducting scholarly research or artistic activity under the mentorship of a faculty member. The program is designed to develop and deepen a student檚 creative and research competencies.
Students selected for the fellowship, their projects, and their faculty sponsors are:
Student: Kayley Rettberg 20 (Carol Stream, Ill.)
Project: 淐riminal Record Expungement Policy and its Consequences
Sponsor: Greg Shaw, Professor and Chair of Political Science
Student: Adam Cady 20 (Rock Island, Ill.)
Project: 淩edressing the Tragedy: The Place of Otho the Great in John Keats檚 Letters"
Sponsor: Michael Theune, Professor of English and Writing Program Director
Student: Leah Bieniak 21 (Saint Charles, Ill.)
Project: 淒etermining Species Abundance and Habitat Preferences of Breeding Birds in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois
Sponsor: Given Harper, George C. and Ella Beach Lewis Endowed Professor of Biology
Student: Henryken (Minzhao) Liu 21 (Dalian, China)
Project: 净耻补苍迟耻尘 State Separation and Demonstration of High-Dimensional Entanglement
Sponsor: Gabe Spalding, B. Charles and Joyce Eichhorn Ames Professor of Physics
Student: Julia Chen 21 (Ocala, Fl.)
Project: 淯nlocking the Secrets of Two New Viruses With a Unique Type of Blueprints
Sponsor: Richard Alvey, Assistant Professor of Biology