41 students selected for Nichols Humanitarian Fund Award
Forty-one students have been selected to receive the Nichols Humanitarian Fund Award to pursue humanitarian projects during the summer of 2016.
Since it was established, the Fund has awarded scholarships to 262 Vanderbilt students to enable them to go on humanitarian missions to virtually every part of the world.
The following students are the 2016 Nichols Humanitarian Fund Award Recipients:
Natalie Brackett | Chattanooga, TN – M.Ed. International Education Policy and Management
Mary Isobel Casey | Maspeth, NY – Medicine, Health, and Society, 2018
Leah Crisholm | Atlanta, GA – Neuroscience, 2016
Marissa Davis | Paducah, KY – English Literary Studies, 2017
Miah Davis | Orlando, FL – Political Science, 2019
Terrance Dean | New York, NY – Ph.D. Graduate Department of Religion
Zack Ely | Cleveland, TN – Biological Science and Literary Studies, 2018
Leah Fassinger | Nashville, TN – Biomedical Engineering and Russian, 2018
Rachel Gilfarb │ Miami, FL – Neuroscience, 2018
Haley Green | Greenbrier, TN – Child Development and Psychology, 2018
Venus Green | Jackson, MS – M.A. Medicine, Health, and Society
Arulita Gupta | Atlanta, GA – Neuroscience and Medicine, Health, and Society, 2017
Safiah Hassan | Murray, KY – Medicine, Health, and Society and Spanish, 2016
Caleb Hayes | Hendersonville, TN – M.A. Latin American Studies
Shelby House | Blackshear, GA – Comparative Politics and Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies, 2017
Audrianna Irving | Dallas, TX – Cognitive Studies, 2017
Allison Katz | Armonk, NY – Human and Organizational Development, 2017
Peter Kent-Stoll | Santa Cruz, CA – M.A. Medicine, Health, and Society
Heebong Kim | New York, NY – Earth and Environmental Science, 2019
Samantha Long | Johnston, IA – Musical Arts, 2018
Rediate Molla | Columbus, OH – Economics and Public Policy, 2018
Morgan Newman | Bloomington, TN – Public Policy and Sociology, 2019
Karin Oh | Cincinnati, OH – Medicine, Health, and Society, 2018
Kelly Perry | Chiang Mai, Thailand – English, Neuroscience, Medicine, Health, and Society, 2018
Mona Quarless | Brooklyn, NY – M.Ed. Child Studies
Megan Ramirez | Vernon Hill, IL – Special Education and Child Studies, 2017
Matt Reynolds | Westport, CT – Medicine, Health, and Society, 2016
Radha Sathanayagam | Staten Island, NY – Medicine, Health, and Society, 2018
Layla Shahmohammadi | Pueblo, CO – Human Organizational Development and Political Science, 2019
Paul Snider | Mandeville, Jamaica – Biology and English, 2016
Carly Stewart | Libertyville, IL – Psychology and Medicine, Health, and Society, 2017
Joanna Sun | Highland Park, IL – Economics, 2018
Harini Suresh | Celina, TX – Oboe Performance and Chemistry, 2017
Courtland Sutton | Charleston, SC – Communication Studies and Public Policy, 2017
Ana Vassan | Western Springs, IL – Cognitive Studies, 2018
Justin Yeh | Auburn, AL – Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2016
Chelsea Yip | Tampa, FL – Computer Science, 2018
Abel Yosef | Nashville, TN – Economics and Medicine, Health, and Society, 2018
Three awards were also granted to students from the Vanderbilt Law School:
Rachel Z. Johnson | Temple, TX
Olivia Marshall | Washington, D.C.
Alexandre Todorov | St. Louis, MO
The award enables students to work with communities on humanitarian efforts including human rights, public health, immigrant rights, early childhood education, and environmental sustainability. The average GPA of the student recipients is 3.5 and the countries where they will work include Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, England, Ethiopia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, India, Morocco, the Netherlands, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Tanzania, and the United States.
The Nichols Humanitarian Fund was established in 2006 by the E.C. and Lucile Hamby Nichols Trust, and by Edward C. Nichols, Jr. (JD ’70) and his wife, Janice Nichols. The Fund is a companion scholarship fund to the Nichols-Chancellor’s Medal, and encourages Vanderbilt students to become better citizens of the world and to broaden their thinking by volunteering for humanitarian efforts. The Fund enables students to volunteer for domestic or international humanitarian service opportunities by making support available for educational, travel, and living expenses during their time of service. The fund distributes awards based on merit and need to Vanderbilt students to pay the expenses of their humanitarian activities.
