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Two University of Delaware juniors, Kristen Shae Johnson and Sarah Ruiz, have received national scholarships of $1,000 from the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. The national grants are given to recognize and assist undergraduates as they seek knowledge abroad or through work outside the academic program.
Johnson, a Dean’s Scholar in international journalism and Asian politics, received the Phi Kappa Phi Internship Grant. She said she plans to go to Beijing, China, for an 8-week internship as an international journalist with the CNN bureau chief there.
She said international journalism is one of her main interests. “The internship with CNN could not be a more ideal venue for hands-on experience in my field,” Johnson said.
Ruiz, a Dean’s Scholar in gerontology in the College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy, received the Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grant. She currently is completing the first part of her Honors senior thesis at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. She will study how socialized economic and political systems provide services to the aging.
She said she is also doing a comparative analysis of the elder policy in Denmark and the U.S., which will form the foundation for her senior thesis. “I hope to gain a thorough understanding of how it works, “ she said.
Ruiz is studying through Denmark’s International Study Program. She said she choose DIS because it has an excellent reputation and is allowing her to take classes while working on her project as independent study.
“The Phi Kappa Phi Chapter at the University of Delaware is extremely proud of the achievements of these two highly able undergraduates,” Roberta M. Golinkoff, president of the UD chapter and H. Rodney Sharp Professor in the School of Education, said. “Their winning these scholarships is a tribute both to their commitment and to the excellence of the academic program at the University of Delaware.”
Story by Randi Hornstein
April 22, 2002
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