Four UB Students Receive Fulbright Scholarships

By Mara McGinnis

Release Date: January 8, 1999 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Four University at Buffalo graduate students have been awarded Fulbright scholarships for the 1998-99 academic year.

The recipients are Kristine Horner-Manning of Alexandria, Va.; Warren Lewis of Niskayuna; Karen Niemel of North Tonawanda and Natasha Snyder of Cheektowaga.

Horner-Manning, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, is teaching English as a foreign language in Luxembourg, where she also is laying the groundwork for a comparative study on German-English codeswitching. She is interested in bilingualism and multilingualism, especially as they relate to the linguistic situation in Luxembourg.

Lewis, who is a graduate of the UB Department of Chemistry, is in Germany working on a project entitled "Drug Design - A Synthesis of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry." He is focusing on bacterial resistance to antibiotics and discovering ways in which antibiotics can be improved through organic synthetic techniques.

Niemel, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology, is studying the impact of migration and the development of ethnicity in post-classic Nicaragua through the intensive excavation and analysis of the site at San Ignacio, Granada.

Snyder also is a doctoral candidate in anthropology. She is conducting a research project in Canada involving a study of one-room, school-house structures in Southern Ontario with regard to their distribution across the landscape, their construction and abandonment, and changes in architectural styles through time and space.

Snyder is the second recipient of the John R. Oishei Foundation Fulbright Scholarship to Canada, a fully endowed annual award designated for Buffalo-area residents.

The U.S. Congress created the Fulbright program -- the U.S. government's premier scholarship program -- in 1946 to foster mutual understanding among nations through educational and cultural exchanges.

Each year, the Fulbright program allows Americans to study or conduct research in more than 100 nations.