Spring 2005 Bridging Scholarships Awarded

Thirty-three undergraduate students have been awarded Bridging Scholarships for Study Abroad in Japan. The winners will receive up to $4,000 to assist with their living expenses while they study in Japan beginning in Spring 2005. The scholarship program is administered by ATJ, with the generous support of the Japan-US Friendship Commission and the US-Japan Bridging Foundation, which solicits donations from corporations and foundations including Boeing Japan, Citigroup, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, The Freeman Foundation, Lockheed Martin, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, PricewaterhouseCoopers & Chuo-Aoyama Audit Corp., Shinsei Bank, The Starr Foundation, and Weyerhaeuser. Since 1999, a total of 510 scholarships have been awarded to students studying abroad in Japan.

The scholarship recipients were selected by a committee of 12 ATJ members, and we are grateful to them for the many hours they spent reviewing and rating the applicants. The committee members were Christopher Thompson, Masako Beecken, Pamela Fields, David Mills, Patty Thornton, Yasuko Ito Watt, Phyllis Larson, Suwako Watanabe, Ken-ichi Miura, Judith Rabinvitch, Lawrence Marceau, and Seiichi Makino.

The Spring 2005 Bridging Scholars are:

Christopher Achatz (University of Colorado)
Alison Brady (Middlebury College)
Mariko Chang (University of Redlands)
Michelle Cheng (University of Texas)
Loren Eaton (Oklahoma Baptist University)
Nicholas Gallagher (University of Oregon)
Michael Gelman (Carnegie Mellon University)
Lateefah Gray (Howard University)
Michael Hahn (Pennsylvania State University)
Ilana Hecht (California State University–Long Beach)
Sienna Houtte (Willamette University)
Cheryl Inouye (Olin College of Engineering)
Adam Jardine (University of New Hampshire)
Don Joffe (Babson College)
Sally Joyner (University of Memphis)
Jessica Kendall (New York University)
Justin Klein (University of California–San Diego)
Andrew Lee (Yale University)
Allen Leggett (University of Arizona)
Jennifer Lehnhardt (University of California–Riverside)
Heather Macleish (University of Miami)
Ariana Maher (Central Washington University)
Laura Marshall (University of Idaho)
Samantha Marta (Illinois State University)
Georgia Mu (University of Oregon)
M. Allan Noble (University of West Alabama)
Katherine Petrie (University of Pittsburgh)
Chris Quackenbush (New York University)
Emily Ryan (University of Hawaii)
Joshua Schendel (University of Wisconsin –Platteville)
Le-An Tran (University of Texas–Austin)
Carver Wilcox, Jr. (University of Washington)
Sandy Yu (Stanford University)

ATJ is now accepting applications beginning for the next group of Bridging Scholarships, for study in Japan beginning in Fall 2005. Please encourage your students who are going on study-abroad programs to apply. Information and application forms are on the Web at www.colorado.edu/ealc/atj/Bridging/scholarships.html.