Four UD students were selected to receive grants from the highly competitive Fulbright Program that will support their education at overseas institutions. They include graduate students Adrienne Harding in music, Devin Wardell in fashion and apparel studies, and Corinne Weidinger in art history, and undergraduate Kimberly Stevenson in biological sciences.
Stevenson will attend the University of St. Andrews in Scotland to pursue a master of research in medicine degree and to work with orthopedic surgeon James Robb and Prof. Peter Donnelly, studying hip dislocation prevention and treatment in children with cerebral palsy (CP).
"Having the rare chance to work with a renowned orthopedic surgeon on work so important to me is once-in-a-lifetime," said Stevenson, who will enter medical school at Georgetown University in 2012. A student in the University Honors Program, her undergraduate research at UD focused on orthopedic issues seen in children with CP. The work means so much to her, she said, because her younger sister has CP.
Harding, a supplemental faculty member who earned bachelor's and master's degrees in music as a flute performance major at UD, will continue her studies in Austria. In an interdisciplinary project combining her experience as a professional musician and her ballroom dance training, she will study the implications of 18th-century social dance as it pertains to musical pedagogy.
Wardell is pursing the Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies' graduate certificate in Socially Responsible and Sustainable Apparel Business, which addresses labor and environmental problems in the global supply chains for the apparel, textile and footwear industries. She will travel to India to partner with a professor at the National Institute of Fashion Technology in New Delhi on research on handcraft development projects there, with special emphasis on handloom weaving.
Weidinger received a nine-month grant to conduct research in Belgium for her doctoral dissertation, "Labor, Technology and the Body: Representing Mine and Factory Work in Wallonia, 1880–1905." It examines works of art by Belgian artist Constantin Meunier and French painter Maximillien Luce depicting miners, factory workers and industrial landscapes in Wallonia, the southern, French-speaking region of Belgium.