Radcliffe College has awarded Carol K. Pforzheimer Student Fellowships to 13 undergraduate women, fellowships that will enable them to conduct research at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. The students will research their senior honors thesis or independent projects during the summer of 1996 or during the 1996-97 academic year.

The recipients and their topics are:

Diana Adair, Cambridge, "Radical Eroticism: Towards a New 'Lesbian' Identity"; Gina C. Ang, Mather House, "Coming of Age in America: Menarche and Eating Concerns in Adolescent Girls"; Anne C.L. Astley, Pforzheimer House, "Ma Jay Sati Bhagavati: An American Guru"; Theresa June Chung, Pforzheimer House, "Immigration Oral Histories, Past and Present"; Holly Crisp, Kirkland House, "Defining the New Woman in Home Economics, 1910-1930"; E. Megan Hall, Cambridge, "The Politicization of the Massachusetts Birth Control Movement in the 1930s and 1940s"; Janna Hansen, Adams House, "Taking Jesus Seriously: Women in the United States' Religious Right";

Amy Beth Isikoff, Lowell House, "Women's Anti-Nuclear Activism and Goddess Spirituality in the Early 1980s: The Spirituality of Women's Politics"; Sloan Johnston, Pforzheimer House, "Decisional Privacy, Abortion Organizing and the Future of RU-486"; Jessica C. Linebaugh, Cabot House, "The Feminine Science of Flowers: Harvard's Women Botanical Collectors, 1830-1910"; Angelica Marin, Quincy House, "Children as Research Subjects"; Elizabeth Montgomery, Currier House, "From Votes to Test Tubes: Historical Focuses of Feminism"; and Ruth Ochs, Quincy House, "An Examination of Four Compositions of Mabel Wheeler Daniels."

The Pforzheimer Student Fellowship Program is administered by the Schlesinger Library. The awards are supported by an endowed fund given to Radcliffe College by the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Inc. in honor of Carol K. Pforzheimer, who attended Radcliffe College from 1927 to 1930, and received an A.B. from Barnard College in 1931. A director of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association from 1964 to 1967, Pforzheimer was a trustee of the College from 1967 to 1979. She and her husband, Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. '28, MBA '30, received Harvard Medals in June 1987 for their extraordinary service to the University.

The next application deadline for Pforzheimer Student Fellowships is March 27, 1997. Awards can range from $100 to $2,500. Funds can cover expenses or be used as a stipend in lieu of term or summer employment. Of special interest are projects on women's work and the family, women and health, the history of community service and volunteer work, and the culinary arts, topics reflecting the interests of Pforzheimer and those of five of her grandchildren who studied at Harvard and Radcliffe.