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Fenwick Scholar Program

Fenwick Scholar Program

The Fenwick Scholarship is one of the highest academic honors the College bestows. From among third-year students nominated by their major departments, the Fenwick Selection Committee chooses the student(s) most worthy of this unique academic opportunity. The Scholar designs, with one or more advisors, a program of independent research or a project that will be worth between 3 and 8 course credits for the senior year. Projects are expected to complete the Fenwick Scholar's undergraduate education in the most challenging, creative, and meaningful way. At the end of the fourth year, the Fenwick Scholar is required to give a public presentation to the College community, and to present an appropriate record of this achievement to the College.

Projects from 2023 2023

Intricacies of Agency: Rational Choice, Behavioral Economics, and Our Normative Commitments, Max Hendrix

Projects from 2015 2015

Identities and Experiences of the Transplanted Self: How Recipients Manage the Risk of Organ Transplantation, Nicholas R. Cormier

Projects from 2006 2006

From Court to Collar: Post-Elizabethan Poetics and the Submissive Stance, Timothy J. Duffy

Projects from 2004 2004

Beginning Reading Instruction in Massachusetts Public Schools: Research, Policy, and Teachers' Knowledge and Beliefs, Shayne B. Piasta

Projects from 2000 2000

Sound, Structure, and Meaning: Text and Music in Balinese Shadow Theatre, Bethany Collier

Projects from 1996 1996

James Joyce and His Other Language: the "abnihilization of the etym", Lisa J. Fluet '96

Projects from 1994 1994

Hippocratic Pharmacology: Investigations into the Theoretical Assumptions and Function of Drug Therapy in the Corpus Hippocraticum, Edward G. Soltesz '94

Projects from 1993 1993

Living in a Disenchanted World, John Margiotta

Projects from 1990 1990

Signs of Culture: Deafness in Nineteenth-Century America, Rebecca A. Rourke '90

Projects from 1989 1989

Dance as Religious Experience, Christine S. Freemer

Projects from 1988 1988

Riemann Surfaces: Distribution of Weierstrass Points on Nodal Curves of Genus 2, Kathryn A. Furio '88

Projects from 1986 1986

Beowulf for Modern Man: Orality and Literacy and the Anglo-Saxon Heroic Poem, Mark David Nevins

Projects from 1985 1985

"My Present Past": A Dramatic Monologue Based on the Life and Works of George Eliot, Gael Reilly

Projects from 1983 1983

Valley at Dusk, Gary J. Gala '83

Projects from 1980 1980

American Revival Songs, 1820-1850: The Christian Lyre and Spiritual Songs for Social Worship, Paula M. Kane '80

Projects from 1977 1977

Investigation into the Sex Pheromones of Two Species of Flies: Sarcophaga Bullata and Musca Domestica, F. Joseph Germino '77

Projects from 1974 1974

Oxygen Consumption by Acrylamide Polymerization for Rapid Screening of Chemotherapeutic Agents, Richard A. Johnson '74

Three Papers in Mathematical Logic, Henry P. Miranda '74

Projects from 1973 1973

A Study of the Connotations and Meanings of the Greek Word [Philos] and Its Cognates in the Works of Homer, Hesiod and Selected Lyric Poets, Brian W. Hattery '73

Projects from 1972 1972

Sophocles in the Age of Goethe: An Analysis of Sophoclean Influence in the Klassik-Romantik Era, Edward J. Vodoklys '72

Projects from 1970 1970

The Attitude of William Wilberforce and the Evangelicals Toward the Reform of Working-Class Conditions in Early Nineteenth-Century England, James J. Dorey '70