Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
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29 Year in Review • 2013–2014 MPA graduate student Anjelica A. Butler '13 was awarded a highly competitive postgraduate administrative fellowship with CHE Trinity Health, one of the nation's largest health systems. The paid fellowship provides future health care leaders with opportunities to gain an in-depth understanding of hospital operations, to participate in hands-on leadership activities, and to foster professional growth. The Village of Ossining Board of Trustees unanimously adopted an energy resiliency policy authored by students from the new Environmental Policy Clinic of the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies. Among the co-authors were three Dyson College students— Nadya Lani Hall '16, Sara Moriarty '16, and James Ward '14. The policy lays the groundwork for creating a community microgrid, a locally-based energy supply, and distribution system that produces reliable power even if the rest of the grid goes down. Environmental science graduate student Anna Kusler '16 received a five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Biology major Raheem Lawrence '15 was accepted as a 2014–2015 American Society for Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellow. Lawrence will use genetic approaches to identify new genes in tuberculosis that protect it from the human immune response. Of the 101 applicants, only 41 were funded. Three Dyson students earned scholarships from the New York Women in Communications Foundation. Alanna McCatty '19 received the Interpublic Group Scholarship, Opal Vadhan '16 was awarded the New York Women in Communications Alumna Award of Excellence Scholarship, and Melissa Vargas '16 received the Esperanza Scholarship. The Foundation awards 15–20 scholarships annually to young women pursuing communications degrees. Political science majors Jessica Meredith '17 and Annamaria Watson '17 were each selected as Jeannette K. Watson Fellows. This competitive fellowship provides outstanding undergraduates the opportunity for paid internships for three successive summers. Student Achievements