Six students were awarded Tanner Fellowships for 2008, encouraging students "to enlarge their capacities to make a positive and creative mark on the world by enabling them to design and pursue educational experiences not otherwise available to them."

The Tanner Fellowship was first awarded in 1995; to date, 48 have been awarded. It was created by the friends and family of Tanner Cornwell, late son of Grant '79 and Peg Cornwell '79, to honor the memory of Tanner, whose short but extraordinary life touched many people. The Fellowship carries a stipend of $2,500 and projects must be completed by March of the year following the time of the award. Fellows give campus presentations on their projects.

For more information on the Tanner Fellowship and previous projects, visit the Web site.

The Tanner Fellowships awarded in 2008, with a description of the projects, are:

Yuki Poudyal '09 Sociology/psychology major from Kathmandu, Nepal A videodocumentary on the stories of street children in Nepal	Chloe LaFrance '09 Psychology /English major from Lewis, NY Funds will support her attendance at a writers conference, to further her creative writing skills and career	Meredith Atkinson '09 English major, with a minor in film studies, from Watertown, NY Writing short stories about a traveling carnival/circus
April Costa '09 Fine arts major from West Newbury, MA An artistic and scientific study of birds in the Peruvian Amazon	Adriana Cordero- Calderon '09 sociology and music major, with a minor in Caribbean/Latin American studies, from San Jose, Costa Rica Reconstructing Costa Rican history through ethnomusicology	Katie Powers '09 Environmental studies and English major from Cornwall, VT A project in environmental journalism, exploring by sailboat environmental threats along the Eastern Seaboard

Posted May 28, 2008