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Pomona Seniors Awarded Prestigious Watson Fellowships
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Two Pomona College students have been awarded the
prestigious Watson Fellowship for a year of independent
exploration and travel outside the United States.
Tony Tiu and Jacqueline Wong-Hernandez are recipients of the
one-year grant. The award is given each year to 50
graduating seniors at one of 50 participating private
liberal arts colleges and universities. Each fellow is
awarded $22,000 for the year of travel and study.
“I’m very thankful that they chose to give me the award
because there were a lot of qualified people who applied,”
says Tiu.
Tiu, of Walnut, Calif., will document in story and
photographs the Chinese immigrant experience in Germany,
Spain, France, Peru, South Africa and Australia. His winning
independent study project is titled “Chinatown Around the
World: Chinese Diaspora Through Stories and Photographs.”
Wong-Hernandez, of Sacramento, Calif., will investigate folk
medicine in Mexico, Guatamala, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia for
her project, titled “Needing to Know: An Exploration of
Curanderas, Fear, and My Grandmother.”
The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Program was begun in 1968 by
the children of Thomas J. Watson Sr., the founder of IBM
Corporation, and his wife, Jeannette K. Watson, to honor
their parents' longstanding interest in education and world
affairs.
More than 1,000 students applied for the 50 fellowships
awarded this year. In addition to the Pomona award-winners,
one student each from Harvey Mudd, Pitzer and Scripps was
awarded a Watson Fellowship this year. |
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