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2013-2014 Beinecke Scholarship Recipient

April 18, 2013 College of Arts and Humanities | Linguistics | Philosophy

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ARHU student receives prestigious Beinecke Scholarship.

Last Updated: 4/18/2013

ARHU’s Beinecke Scholarship recipient will be pursuing a Ph.D. in Philosophy with a concentration in Cognitive Science.

The Beinecke Scholarship Program was established in 1971 by the Board of Directors of The Sperry and Hutchinson Company to honor Edwin, Frederick, and Walter Beinecke. The Board created an endowment to provide substantial scholarships for the graduate education of young men and women of exceptional promise. The program seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue opportunities available to them and to be courageous in the selection of a graduate course of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Since 1975 the program has selected more than 500 college juniors from more than 100 different undergraduate institutions for support during graduate study at any accredited university.

Each scholar receives $4,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate school. There are no geographic restrictions on the use of the scholarship, and recipients are allowed to supplement the award with other scholarships, assistantships and research grants. Scholars are encouraged to begin graduated study as soon as possible following graduation from college, and must utilize all of the funding within five years of completion of undergraduate studies.

Maryland has been a nominating institution for the Beinecke Scholarship for three years, earning two awards in that time.

PLEASE NOTE: Announcements are made on a rolling deadline. We will keep this list as current as possible as additional winners are announced.

ARHU Recipient

Sophia Sanborn, Department of Philosophy and Department of Linguistics

 

Sophia Sanborn, a junior double majoring in Philosophy and Linguistics, has just been named a 2013 Beinecke Scholar. 

Sophia plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Philosophy with a concentration in Cognitive Science. The Department of Philosophy recognized her academic achievements by awarding her the Joseph and Elizabeth Duckett Scholarship for the most outstanding junior in Philosophy. Sophia’s research focuses on the connection between language, thoughts, and the brain. She also received the Baggett Fellowship, and will spend the summer working on her honors thesis and researching language acquisition under Dr. Jeff Lidz.