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Around the QuadsSTUDENT NEWSUdallThe Morris K. Udall Foundation recently awarded Anaja Sharma ’05 one of its 2003 scholarships. The San Mateo, Calif., native said she will use the award’s $5,000 prize to further her pursuit of an undergraduate degree in environmental biology. Sharma, a dedicated vegetarian and environmentalist, plans to pursue a master’s degree in public health. On campus, she was vice president of Amnesty International and a member of Economic and Environmental Justice. Last summer, she was a lab technician in the Bay Area for the Federal Drug Administration. Sharma will receive the award in Arizona in August. The foundation awards the Udall Scholarship each year to 80 college sophomores and juniors working with Native American issues or studying environmental issues. The foundation and scholarship are named in honor of Arizona Congressman Morris K. Udall (D), a political voice for Native Americans and the National Park system. BeineckeMahriana Rofheart ’04 plans to earn a Ph.D. in comparative literature one day. The prestigious Beinecke Scholarship, which she was awarded in April, should make that goal more attainable. Rofheart, a comparative literature and society major from Long Island who spent the spring semester studying African literature in Cameroon, hopes to enroll in UCLA or Stanford after completing her undergraduate work. She is interested in postcolonial African and Caribbean literature, and her goal is to become a literature professor. “Researching, reading and really analyzing literature [are] what I most love to do, and I want to be able to do it for as long as possible,” she said. The Beinecke Scholarship supports two years of graduate study for students who will attend graduate school in the arts, humanities or social sciences. The board of directors of the Sperry and Hutchinson Co. awards 20 Beinecke Scholarships every year from a pool of 100 nominees from 100 colleges. Requirements include an excellent academic record and a demonstrated need for financial aid. NominatedAt the End of Words: A Daughter’s Memoir (Candlewick Press, 2003) by Miriam Stone ’03 recently was nominated for the 2004 Best Books for Young Adults Award, an honor bestowed by the American Library Association’s Young Adult Library Association. At the End of Words, a book of poetry and prose, traces the months surrounding the death of Stone’s mother, Martha Kaufman Stone, after her five-year fight against breast cancer. Stone, an anthropology major and participant in the Creative Writing program, began writing an initial draft of the memoir during her first three semesters at Columbia. She took a semester off during the spring of her sophomore year in order to finish a complete draft and send it to her publisher. Stone says she initially “envisioned the book as all poetry, which one could read from beginning to end as a narrative, or as individual pieces. This proved to be quite difficult, so I began to write prose pieces to connect the poems. I think this form makes the book more accessible to people who don’t always connect to poetry, yet allows for the artistic elements of poetry to come through, which I feel is my strongest genre. I am very happy with how it turned out, and couldn’t imagine it another way.”
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