The event is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-753-6952.

Kong wanted to learn more about the Hakka culture, a subgroup of China’s dominant Han people, and compare the influence of that culture in a city of the new China and in Mauritius, with the ultimate goal of better understanding her own identity as a Hakka. She wants to raise awareness about the danger of culture loss due to acculturalism, where new immigrants tend to integrate the surrounding culture as quickly as possible.

The Phillips Student Fellowships were begun in 1999 by Charles F. Phillips, the fourth president of Bates, and his wife Evelyn Minard Phillips, with a $9 million endowment gift. These fellowships are granted to students who create exceptionally good international or cross-cultural projects that focus on research, service-learning or career exploration.

With topics including the effects of ethnic Chinese migration on Tibet and the outlook for farming in Norway, Bates College students who have conducted projects abroad supported by the college’s Otis and Phillips fellowships will discuss their findings in evening presentations throughout October.

These events are open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-753-6952.

Two Otis Fellows talk about their projects starting at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave.

A presentation by Ellen Sabina, a senior from Newcastle, is titled To Kill a Whale: Exploring the Ties that Bind the Faeroes to the Sea.

Sabina traveled to the Faeroe Islands (also spelled Faroe), in the North Atlantic, where she explored the relationship between the Faroese people and the sea. Isolated and fiercely proud of their heritage, the Faroese depend almost entirely on the sea, yet find this relationship changing dramatically in the face of globalization.

Anna Skarstad, a sophomore from Pleasantville, N.Y., offers a talk called Farming in the Western Fjords of Norway: An Endangered Life?

Skarstad visited two traditional sheep farms in Norway’s western fjord region, one farm located high in the mountains, the other on a remote, mostly abandoned island. Exploring how these farms manage to thrive despite nature’s extreme impacts, she questioned the strength and profundity of the farmers’ relationship with their land.

Also in Skelton Lounge, three Phillips Fellows will describe their projects starting at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8.

Seniors Anne Sheldon of Brookline, Mass., and Ilana Adler-Bell of Canton, Conn., present Empowerment Through Education: 10,000 Girls Program, Kaolack, Senegal.

As participants in the 10,000 Girls Program in Kaolack, the pair worked with seventh- and eighth-grade girls, focusing on English-language practice and a mapping project with the goal of expanding opportunities and understandings of the power of women’s voice, place and actions in the local-global communities.

Also a senior, Corey Pattison of Dedham gives a talk called Toward Autonomy or Assimilation: Addressing Tibetan Sinicization in a Global Era. Specifically analyzing the socioeconomic implications of the recently constructed Qinghai-Lhasa railway, this presentation examines the increasingly marginal status held by Tibetans within their own society, a status directly resulting from widespread immigration ethnic Han Chinese into the Tibetan Autonomous Region.

Two more Phillips Fellows present their fellowship-funded projects starting at 7 p.m., Monday, Oct. 13, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

A senior from Katonah, N.Y., Jacob Lewis gives a talk titled The Power of Pilgrimage: Finding Meaning on El Camino de Santiago.

He examined why people undertake the grueling pilgrimage on this network of roads that since medieval times has brought travelers from all over Europe to the Christian shrine of Santiago de Compostela. Covering more than 500 miles across most of northern Spain, the Camino leaves a pilgrim plenty of time to ask, “Why do people still do this? And what am I doing here?”

Clyde Bango, a sophomore from Harare, Zimbabwe, gives a talk titled Preserving Art and Culture at Taller Portobelo. Bango undertook a residency at the Spelman College Summer Art Colony at the Panamanian arts workshop called Taller Portobelo.

He looked specifically at the Congo people in Panama, African descendants who are working to document their language, music and other cultural practices. This year, under Arturo Lindsay, a Panamanian artist and art professor at Spelman, students explored bio-safe ways of constructing sustainable architectural structures.

Lina Kong, a sophomore from Rose Hill, Mauritius, presents her Phillips-funded research in a talk titled Crosscultural Study of Mauritian and Chinese Cultures through the Hakka Linkage at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in Skelton Lounge.

Kong wanted to learn more about the Hakka culture, a subgroup of China’s dominant Han people, and compare the influence of that culture in a city of the new China and in Mauritius, with the ultimate goal of better understanding her own identity as a Hakka. She wants to raise awareness about the danger of culture loss due to acculturalism, where new immigrants tend to integrate the surrounding culture as quickly as possible.

The Philip J. Otis Endowment was established in 1996 by Margaret V.B. and C. Angus Wurtele to memorialize their son, Philip, a member of the Bates graduating class of 1995, who died while trying to rescue an injured climber on Mount Rainier. The purpose of the program is to encourage among Bates students the same concern for nature that Otis demonstrated. The student projects selected for this endowment are generally concerned with the relationship between humans and the environment.

The Phillips Student Fellowships were begun in 1999 by Charles F. Phillips, the fourth president of Bates, and his wife Evelyn Minard Phillips, with a $9 million endowment gift. These fellowships are granted to students who create exceptionally good international or cross-cultural projects that focus on research, service-learning or career exploration.

Three students have received Philip J. Otis Fellowships to support research into the relationships among individuals, societies and nature.

Six have been awarded Phillips Student Fellowships, providing funding for summer projects involving meaningful immersion in different cultures.

The 2005 Otis recipients are:

Lindsy Blazej, a junior from Dixmont, Maine. She will go to Europe to investigate “ecovillages,” settlements designed to support a full range of human activities with the least impact on the natural environment.

Carlos Challen Willemsen, a sophomore from Guatemala City, Guatemala. He will travel to the Peruvian Andes to visit the native Quechua people and study their relationships to the plant life around them and their traditional uses of plants as medicine and food.

Andrea Wolf, a junior from Nashville, Tenn. She will visit the Central Andes to study the traditional weavings of the Aymara indigenous group, examining how woven textiles symbolize Aymara cosmology and express the wider relationship of communities with the environment.

The 2005 Phillips recipients are:

Ainur Begim, a sophomore from Aktobe City, Kazakhstan, who will visit Britain and Greece to research the Panathenaic Festival, the most important religious festival in ancient Athens.

Jacob Bluestone, a sophomore from Huntington, N.Y. In Bolivia, he will teach and work with disadvantaged children, and he hopes to supply his students with disposable cameras to record life in their neighborhoods.

Arda Gucler, a sophomore from Istanbul, Turkey, who will investigate aspects of the World War I battle of Gallipoli through interviews with the families of Gallipoli veterans in Australia and New Zealand.

Tyler Paul, a junior from Great Falls, Mont. Paul will travel to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to study the economic progress and national identity of these former Soviet republics.

Vanni Thach, a junior from Camden, N.J. She will go to Cambodia to explore her personal heritage and the history of Cambodia, especially its recent past and legacy of genocide.

Chelsea Tryder, a junior from Fryeburg, Maine. She will spend the summer at an orphanage for girls in Santiago, Chile, assisting with the day-to-day activities of the orphanage, teaching dance to the girls and working with them to create a mural.

Established in 1996 by Margaret V.B. and C. Angus Wurtele, the Philip J. Otis Endowment commemorates their son, Philip, a member of the Bates class of 1995. A park ranger, Otis died attempting to rescue an injured climber on Mount Rainier.

Otis was deeply concerned with nurturing a sense of responsibility for the natural environment. The Otis Endowment sponsors opportunities for study, exploration and reflection by students, faculty and other members of the Bates community. Each year a small number of students are selected as Otis Fellows to receive grants between $2,000 and $5,000 to support off-campus projects that explore an environmental and/or eco-spiritual topic.

Phillips Student Fellowships support students who design exceptional international or cross-cultural projects focusing on research, service-learning, career exploration or a combination of the three. The Phillips Student Fellowships, Phillips Faculty Fellowships and Phillips Professorships at Bates are part of the Phillips Endowment Program, an initiative of awards, honors and opportunities funded by a $9 million endowment bequest made to the college in 1999 by Charles F. Phillips, fourth president of Bates, and his wife, Evelyn Minard Phillips.

Three of the six recipients are sophomores: Ainur Begim, of Aktobe City, Kazakhstan, Jacob Bluestone, of Huntington, N.Y., and Arda Gucler, of Istanbul, Turkey.

The others are juniors: Tyler Paul, of Great Falls, Mont., Vanni Thach, of Camden, N.J., and Chelsea Tryder, of Fryeburg, Maine.

Begim’s project is titled The Study of the Panathenaic Festival, Greece and Great Britain. She will explore social hierarchies of ancient Greece through in-depth study of the Panathenaic Festival. The most important religious festival in ancient Athens, it maintained the ancient Greek social hierarchy through symbolism and ritual. In particular, Begim is interested in the place of women in that hierarchy and how religion shaped their roles and values.

In Athens, Begim will study the ancient sites along the Panathenaic processional way, as well as objects in museum collections. She will also visit the British Museum, London, to study the Elgin Marbles, which depict the Panathenaic procession.

For his project titled The Honesty of Broken Language, Bluestone will spend eight weeks in Cochabamba, Bolivia, volunteering to teach and work with disadvantaged children. An accomplished photographer, Bluestone will document his work and the community. He hopes to supply his students with disposable cameras, teach them about photography and set them off to record life in their neighborhoods.

For The Anzac Soldiers: Faces of War, Australia and New Zealand, Gucler will travel to Australia and New Zealand to interview the families of veterans of the World War I battle of Gallipoli. This conflict between Allied and Ottoman forces in Turkey resulted in appalling casualties on both sides. Gucler will explore how individual soldiers in the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps — the Anzacs — experienced the battle, and will place those experiences in the context of national history and modern views of the battle.

Paul’s project, Exploring Identity and Economic Development in Central Asia, will take him to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan for eight weeks to study the economic progress and national identity of these former Soviet republics. In home stays in countries along the historic Silk Road, Paul will try to understand the impact of political and economic change on individuals and communities.

Thach’s project, titled Cambodia’s Genocide: Finding Myself in the Killing Fields, will take her to Cambodia to make personal and historical discoveries. Visiting museums, archives, religious sites and the villages of her family, who were displaced after the Vietnam War, Thach will seek to better understand her heritage and will explore the history of Cambodia, especially its recent past and legacy of genocide.

In her project, Accessing the Arts: Hogar Nuestra Señora de la Paz, Chile, Tryder will spend the summer at an orphanage for girls in Santiago, Chile. She will work as a volunteer assisting with the day-to-day activities of the orphanage, teach dance to the girls and create a mural. In addition, as the orphanage is one of a network throughout the city, Tryder will direct an art committee for volunteers from the other orphanages.

Phillips Student Fellowships support students who design exceptional international or cross-cultural projects focusing on research, service-learning, career exploration or a combination of the three. The best Phillips Fellowships are challenging and transformative experiences for the students who undertake them.

The Phillips Student Fellowships, Phillips Faculty Fellowships and Phillips Professorships at Bates are part of the Phillips Endowment Program, an initiative of awards, honors and opportunities funded by a $9 million endowment bequest made to the college in 1999 by Charles F. Phillips, fourth president of Bates, and his wife, Evelyn Minard Phillips.

Three recipients are sophomores: Aarjan Dixit, of Kathmandu, Nepal; Samuel Falls, of Hartland, Vt.; and Sarah Mazur, an English major from Norwich, Vt.

The remaining three include two juniors — John Karass of Whitefield, Maine, and Rachel Silver, an anthropology major from Houston, Texas — and one first-year student, Kathryn Moore of Pelham, N.H.

For his project titled “Traversing the Ganges,” Dixit will examine whether the economic gains from India’s Inter-Rivers Linking Project, which will harness major rivers to transport large volumes of water into dry regions, are large enough to cover concomitant economic losses and social and environmental consequences. Traveling to cities along the Ganges, he will interview pilgrims dependent upon the river, local religious leaders and academics at the Banares Hindu University.

Fall’s project is titled “Theravada Buddhist Pilgrimage to Wat Suan Mokkhabalarama.” He will travel to Wat Suan Mokkhabalarma, a Theravada Buddhist monastery in southern Thailand, to expand his understanding of Buddhism through first-hand exposure to its practices and beliefs.

Mazur and Moore will work together on a project titled “The Evolution of Celtic Music and Culture in the Canadian Maritime Provinces and Southern Appalachia.” They will visit northeastern Canada and southern Appalachia in the United States, regions where Celtic music and culture first arrived on this continent. They will attend musical festivals, jam sessions, community dances and the Ceilidh Trail School of Celtic Music in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and will interview and play with various musicians.

Karass, in a project called “Following the Footsteps of Epicurus,” will follow the geographical path of Epicurus, the last prolific Greek philosopher to teach in Athens. Karass will trace the spread of Epicurus’ philosophy, a unique blend of atomism and hedonism, from its beginnings on the Greek island of Samos across the Aegean Sea to Athens, hoping to gain a better understanding of a philosophy that still influences contemporary thinking.

For her project “Exploring Purposes of Schooling: Harambee Education in Kenya,” Silver will live, teach and conduct research in Ebukhaya, a rural community in Kenya. She will work at a school in the NGO-run Harambee program to better understand how Kenyans regard this grassroots, community-based approach to education and how they distinguish these schools from standard government schools. She will focus on tensions between the vestiges of colonialism and the egalitarian values on which Harambee schools are built.

Phillips Student Fellowships support students who design exceptional international or cross-cultural projects focusing on research, service-learning, career exploration or a combination of the three. The best Phillips Fellowships are challenging and transformative experiences for the students who undertake them.

The Phillips Student Fellowships, Phillips Faculty Fellowships and Phillips Professorships at Bates are part of the Phillips Endowment Program, an initiative of awards, honors and opportunities funded by a $9 million endowment bequest made to the college in 1999 by Charles F. Phillips, fourth president of Bates, and his wife, Evelyn Minard Phillips.

Twelve Bates College students have been awarded fellowships to support unusual off-campus research.

Seven were named 2004 Phillips Student Fellows, recipients of an award that provides major funding for summer research projects involving meaningful immersion in different cultures.

Five have received Philip J. Otis Fellowships to support exceptional research into the relationship among individuals and societies and the natural world.

Four Phillips recipients are sophomores: Aarjan Dixit, of Kathmandu, Nepal; Samuel Falls, of Hartland, Vt.; Cynthia Freeman of Cameron, Ariz.; and Sarah Mazur, an English major from Norwich, Vt. The remaining three include two juniors — John Karass of Whitefield, Maine, and Rachel Silver, an anthropology major from Houston, Texas — and one first-year student, Kathryn Moore of Pelham, N.H.

The five Otis Fellows are Colin Hollister, a sophomore from Pittsfield, Mass.; Peter Keays, a sophomore from Madison, N.J.; Nicholas Martin, a junior economics major from Hopkinton, N.H.; Khoabane Phoofolo, a sophomore from Maseru, Lesotho; and Brian Wilmot, a junior political science major from Bellingham, Wash.

These are the Phillips Student Fellows and their projects:

For his project titled “Traversing the Ganges,” Dixit will examine whether the economic gains from India’s Inter-Rivers Linking Project, which will harness major rivers to transport large volumes of water into dry regions, are large enough to cover concomitant economic losses and social and environmental consequences. Traveling to cities along the Ganges, he will interview pilgrims dependent upon the river, local religious leaders and academics at the Banares Hindu University.

Fall’s project is titled “Theravada Buddhist Pilgrimage to Wat Suan Mokkhabalarama.” He will travel to Wat Suan Mokkhabalarma, a Theravada Buddhist monastery in southern Thailand, to expand his understanding of Buddhism through first-hand exposure to its practices and beliefs.

Freeman will use her fellowship to explore the intersections among African Americans and indigenous people in the Seminole community of Texas and Mexico, looking particularly at the experiences of women. She is interested in how the many “Black Indians” among the Seminole are perceived by both indigenous and African American communities, how the two cultures merge and how families are structured.

Mazur and Moore will work together on a project titled “The Evolution of Celtic Music and Culture in the Canadian Maritime Provinces and Southern Appalachia.” They will visit northeastern Canada and southern Appalachia in the United States, regions where Celtic music and culture first arrived on this continent. They will attend musical festivals, jam sessions, community dances and the Ceilidh Trail School of Celtic Music in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and will interview and play with various musicians.

Karass, in a project called “Following the Footsteps of Epicurus,” will follow the geographical path of Epicurus, the last prolific Greek philosopher to teach in Athens. Karass will trace the spread of Epicurus’ philosophy, a unique blend of atomism and hedonism, from its beginnings on the Greek island of Samos across the Aegean Sea to Athens, hoping to gain a better understanding of a philosophy that still influences contemporary thinking.

For her project “Exploring Purposes of Schooling: Harambee Education in Kenya,” Silver will live, teach and conduct research in Ebukhaya, a rural community in Kenya. She will work at a school in the NGO-run Harambee program to better understand how Kenyans regard this grassroots, community-based approach to education and how they distinguish these schools from standard government schools. She will focus on tensions between the vestiges of colonialism and the egalitarian values on which Harambee schools are built.

And here are the Otis Fellows and their projects:

For their project “The Appalachian Trial and a Sense of Self,” Hollister and Keays will hike the entire Appalachian Trial to better understand why individuals become through-hikers and how the experience influences one’s sense of self and relationship with the natural world. Through interviews, photography and personal experiences, they will investigate the AT’s “through-hiking culture.”

Martin, for a project titled “Mining in Mongolia: How Do the Herders Fit In?”, will explore the effects of the Ivanhoe mines in Mongolia on the traditional nomadic people of the area around the mines currently under development. He will speak and interact with the herders to learn more about the place of Mongolian culture in a changing world.

For his project “Lesotho’s White Gold,” Phoofolo will take part in a grassroots project to bring water security and improved sanitation to Lesotho. He will also explore the human impact of four major dams constructed as one of Africa’s most ambitious engineering schemes, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.

Wilmot’s project is titled “How Individuals, Governments and NGOs Balance Environmental Preservation and Economic Growth.” He will spend the summer in the region of Russia around Lake Baikal, an enormous freshwater lake of great environmental, economic and spiritual importance to Russians, Siberians and Mongolians.

Phillips Student Fellowships support students who design exceptional international or cross-cultural projects focusing on research, service-learning, career exploration or a combination of the three. The best Phillips Fellowships are challenging and transformative experiences for the students who undertake them.

The Phillips Student Fellowships, Phillips Faculty Fellowships and Phillips Professorships at Bates are part of the Phillips Endowment Program, an initiative of awards, honors and opportunities funded by a $9 million endowment bequest made to the college in 1999 by Charles F. Phillips, fourth president of Bates, and his wife, Evelyn Minard Phillips.

Established in 1996 by Margaret V.B. and C. Angus Wurtele, the Philip J. Otis Endowment commemorates their son, Philip, a member of the Bates class of 1995. A park ranger, Otis died attempting to rescue an injured climber on Mount Rainier.

Otis was deeply concerned with nurturing a sense of responsibility for the natural environment. The Otis Endowment sponsors opportunities for study, exploration and reflection by students, faculty and other members of the Bates community. The endowment also supports an annual lectureship on environmental issues and the spiritual and moral dimensions of ecology.

Each year a small number of students, usually two to five, are selected as Otis Fellows to receive grants between $2,000 and $5,000 to support off-campus projects that explore an environmental and/or eco-spiritual topic. Otis projects typically involve substantial off-campus research or reflection, usually accomplished during the summer or a Short Term leave.

In all, nine Bates students have received research fellowships that will take them to distant places this summer in pursuit of a deeper knowledge of the world’s workings. Six were named Phillips Student Fellows, beneficiaries of an award that provides major funding for research projects involving meaningful immersion in different cultures. Three received Philip J. Otis Fellowships, which support explorations of the relationship between humankind and nature.

Four of the Phillips Fellows are juniors: Edwin Amonoo, an economics major from Cape Coast, Ghana; David Charron, of Portland, who has a double major in psychology and theater; Fikile Mahlangu, a political science major from Endwell, N.Y.; and Katherine Marshall, a history major from Bethesda, Md. The others are sophomores: Mario Lugo, an American cultural studies major from Hartford, Conn., and Victor Rivera of New York, N.Y. (major as yet undeclared).

The Otis Fellows are Renee Blacken ’04, a double major in chemistry and religion from Ithaca, N.Y.; A. Currier Stokes, a sophomore from Gettysburg, Pa. (major as yet undeclared); and Christopher Urban, a junior environmental studies major from Monkton, Vt.

For her project Monastic Life and the Wilderness in Ireland, Blacken will explore the importance of the wilderness to the monastic spiritual mission. Concentrating on Cistercian and Benedictine monks in Ireland, Blacken will stay at different monasteries and hike to remote monastic sites and ruins to better understand why monks are drawn to such a way of life.

Stokes, for a project titled Energy Use, Culture, and Natural Place in Joquicingo, Mexico, will explore Mexico’s environmental history through the study of domestic energy use and agrarian practices in and around Joquincingo, a rural village in central Mexico. He will examine the influence of household energy use and farming practices on culture, community and sense of place in the natural world.

Urban’s project asks Can Quechua Agriculture and Religious Practices Survive Economic Development and Change? Living with rural families in two Andean communities in Bolivia, he will research how the global economy and city culture of Cochabamba influence the agricultural and religious practices of the pre-European, or Quechua, culture. Urban will relate this experience to his understanding of how economic pressures affect the sense of place among farmers in Vermont, his home state.

Among the Phillips recipients, Charron’s project is titled Exploring the ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ Qualitatively and Quantitatively. He will work with a theater company in Antony, France, that practices “theater of the oppressed,” an interactive, improvisational and empowering approach to theater that addresses societal and political issues. Charron will document his experience with a daily journal, photos and movies.

Amonoo’s project is titled Funding Economic and Monetary Union in Africa: The Role of Africa’s Emerging Markets. Incorporating a five-week independent study at Bates and approximately eight weeks at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Amonoo will expand his studies of the economic and monetary union of Europe with Africa.

Mahlangu’s project is titled Women and Peacebuilding in Cape Town, South Africa. She will serve as an intern with a South African non-governmental organization, U Managing Conflict, that works to empower women while dealing with issues of racial and gender inequity that have negatively affected women’s lives.

Marshall, in a project called Responding to Visual Space and Political Aesthetics in Revolutionary Cuba, will spend eight weeks in Havana to investigate how the Cuban Revolution is visually defined through such sources as contemporary art, public monuments and billboards. Marshall will document her experience through photography and interviews with Cuban artists, museum workers and museum visitors.

Lugo and Rivera are collaborating on a research project titled Return Migration: Voices of Dominicans and Puerto Ricans. They will conduct a six-week examination of realities and hardships experienced by Puerto Ricans and Dominicans during immigration and assimilation in the United States that caused them to return to their homeland.

Phillips Student Fellowships are part of the Phillips Endowment Program, an initiative of awards, honors and opportunities funded by a $9 million endowment bequest made to the college in 1999 by Charles F. Phillips, fourth president of Bates, and his wife, Evelyn Minard Phillips.

Established in 1996 by Margaret V.B. and C. Angus Wurtele, the Philip J. Otis Endowment commemorates their son, Philip, a member of the Bates class of 1995. A park ranger, Otis died attempting to rescue an injured climber on Mount Rainier.

The Otis Endowment sponsors the annual fellowship program and an annual lectureship on environmental issues and the spiritual and moral dimensions of ecology.

Seven Bates juniors have been named 2001 Phillips Student Fellows and will each receive grants of up to $10,000 for summer research projects. The 2001 Phillips Student Fellows are Smadar Bakovic of Neve Ilan, Israel; Jenny Blau of Greenbrae, Calif.; Abdelfetah Jibril of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Brian O’Doherty of Kennebunkport, Maine; Diana Sepehri of Rancho Cordova, Calif.; Volkan Stodolsky of Germantown, Md.; and Jason Surdukowski of Concord, N.H.Phillips Student Fellowships provide major funding to students who design exceptional international or cross-cultural projects focusing on research, service-learning, or career exploration, or some combination of the three. Projects must involve substantial immersion in a different culture.Bakovic will live in Arab villages and Bedouin settlements in her native Israel, in an effort to understand the non-Jewish cultures of Israel, she will reflect, from the Arab side, on the history of mistrust among Arabs and Jews in that country. She will create a documentary upon her return to Bates.

Blau will volunteer in health education and family planning in a rural health center and examine the complex social, medical, and humans rights issues facing such centers.

Jibril will tutor Jamaican middle-and high-school students in math and physics. He will observe the teaching and learning of math and science at Mannings High School in Sav la Mar, and will hold regular tutoring sessions throughout the summer, in an effort to enrich students’ understanding of physics and math, and to encourage more Jamaican students to continue their studies in the sciences beyond high school.

O’Doherty, a member of the Brooks Quimby Debate Council, will establish in Washington, D.C., high schools an intra-city parliamentary debate league, involving high school teachers and debate team members from area colleges as mentors and coaches.

Sepehri, who participated in the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Off-Campus Study Program in Ecuador, will study traditional medicine in Ecuador and Bolivia by interviewing shamans of indigenous communities, to explore the natural and spiritual remedies they employ.

Stodolsky will interview Bosnian Muslims in Sarajevo who were children and teenagers during the Bosnian War. He will explore the relationship between war and cultural identity and will investigate in particular the myth of “ancient hatreds” used to explain longstanding conflicts in the region.

Surdukowski will conduct field research and interviews in preparation for his senior thesis in political science connecting the discourse of law with the reality of genocide. Working in Arusha, Tanzania and Rwanda, he will study the intersection of law and reality by examining the views of prosecutors, judges, court staff, witnesses, victims, and defendants, and political dissidents, all players in the Rwandan genocide.

The Phillips Student Fellowships, along with the Phillips Faculty Fellowships and Phillips Professorships at Bates, are part of the Phillips Endowment Program, an ambitious initiative of awards, honors and opportunities for faculty and students funded by a $9-million endowment bequest to the College from former Bates President Charles F. Phillips and his wife, Evelyn Minard Phillips, in 1999.

The Phillips Student Fellowships, along with the Phillips Faculty Fellowships and Phillips Professorships at Bates, are part of the Phillips Endowment Program, an ambitious initiative of awards, honors and opportunities for faculty and students funded by a $9-million endowment bequest to the College from former Bates President Charles F. Phillips and his wife, Evelyn Minard Phillips, in 1999.

Bakovic will live in Arab villages and Bedouin settlements in her native Israel, in an effort to understand the non-Jewish cultures of Israel, she will reflect, from the Arab side, on the history of mistrust among Arabs and Jews in that country. Her work will include intensive Arabic language study and she will interview, photograph, and videotape subjects as a way of widening her own horizons about Arab society in Israel. She will create a documentary upon her return to Bates.

Blau will volunteer in health education and family planning in a rural health center and examine the complex social, medical, and humans rights issues facing such centers. While at Bates, Blau has worked as a Spanish translator and volunteer in Lewiston’s Bates Street Health Center. She will also use her background in pre-medical sciences, her summer 2000 research experience at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and her junior semester abroad experience in Spain.

Jibril will tutor Jamaican middle-and high-school students in math and physics. He will observe the teaching and learning of math and science at Mannings High School in Sav la Mar, and will hold regular tutoring sessions throughout the summer, in an effort to enrich students’ understanding of physics and math, and to encourage more Jamaican students to continue their studies in the sciences beyond high school.

O’Doherty, a member of the Brooks Quimby Debate Council, will establish in Washington, D.C., high schools an intra-city parliamentary debate league, envolving high school teachers and debate team members from area colleges as mentors and coaches. Debates will take place throughout the fall, and O’Doherty will develop an organizational structure ensuring program continuity after his fellowship ends.

Sepehri, who participated in the Colby–Bates–Bowdoin Off-Campus Study Program in Ecuador, will continue the work in ethnomedicine she began to explore in fall 2000. She will study traditional medicine in Ecuador and Bolivia by interviewing shamans of indigenous communities, to explore the natural and spiritual remedies they employ.

Stodolsky will interview Bosnian Muslims in Sarajevo who were children and teenagers during the Bosnian War. He will explore the relationship between war and cultural identity and will investigate in particular the myth of “ancient hatreds” used to explain longstanding conflicts in the region.

Surdukowski will conduct field research and interviews in preparation for his senior thesis in political science connecting the discourse of law with the reality of genocide. Working in Arusha, Tanzania and Rwanda, he will study the intersection of law and reality by examining the views of prosecutors, judges, court staff, witnesses, victims, and defendants, and political dissidents, all players in the Rwandan genocide.