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Date: December 14, 1995
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Three Princeton Seniors Receive Marshall Scholarships
Princeton, N.J.--Three members of the senior class at Princeton University have been awarded the 1996 Marshall Scholarship, which funds two years of study at a British University.
Each year, up to 40 American students are selected for Marshall Scholarships by a committee chaired by the British Ambassador to the United States and the Chairman of the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission. The awards are granted in the memory of U.S. General George C. Marshall, creator of the economic assistance program to rebuild Europe after World War II.
Marshall Scholars are selected on criteria that include outstanding academic achievement and their capacity to make significant contributions to society, both at the British university where they choose to study and in their own communities. Each scholar receives an annual stipend of about $22,500 a year to cover tuition and living expenses.
The 1996 Marshall Scholars from Princeton University are:
Amy Nicole Kapczynski of Red Hook, N.Y. Kapczynski is a politics major who attended the U.N. Women's Conference in Beijing. Kapczynski will use her scholarship to continue studies in modern political theory at the University of Cambridge. She plans to enroll in a broad-based master's course in intellectual history and political thought, designed to give students a firm academic background from which they will choose an area of study for their Ph.D. Kapczynski said she is considering a career either in academia or social services. She spent most of the summer of 1995 in Berlin doing research for her senior thesis, which will deal with issues of reunification and the women's movement in East and West Germany. Kapczynski also plans to complete a certificate in the Women's Studies Program at Princeton.
Derek Christian Kilmer of Port Angeles, Wash. Kilmer is a Woodrow Wilson School major who is interested in returning to his hometown to help address the social problems that have resulted from distress in the timber industry, the town's chief business. Kilmer plans to take part in the Comparative Social Research program at the University of Oxford. Kilmer said the program explores ``the sociology of economic life,'' which he hopes will give him insight into the ways the problems of Port Angeles are being repeated around the globe. Kilmer serves as vice president of his senior class and has extensive political experience off-campus: In the summer of 1993, he worked for U.S. Rep. Al Swift, D-Wash., and last summer he worked in the White House Office of Domestic Policy. Kilmer also worked for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in the spring of 1995.
Jonathan Marc Orszag of Princeton, N.J. Orszag is an economics major who spent the 1994-95 academic year working as a special assistant to Alan Krueger, a Princeton professor who is on leave while serving as chief economist for U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Orszag also assisted Democratic political consultant James Carville in the preparation of a forthcoming book, We're Right, They're Wrong: A Handbook for Spirited Progressives. Orszag will return to Washington, D.C., this spring to work in the office of President Clinton's National Economic Advisor, Laura D'Andrea Tyson. Orszag's senior thesis at Princeton is entitled, ``Productivity Is Up, But Wages Are Not: What's Going On?''