Holy Cross Students Earn Prestigious Fulbright Awards

Amy Atkocius '04, a double major in German and sociology, will spend a year at Humboldt Universitaet in Germany studying refugee immigration and asylum. Atkocius is a member of the Dean's List and Alpha Kappa Delta, the National Honor Society of Sociology. She is a resident of Auburn, Mass.

Edward Butterfield '01 has been awarded a teaching assistantship in Chile. He will be teaching English classes at the university level and conducting independent research on Chilean and Latin American identity. While at Holy Cross, he was a member of the College's Honors Program and Sigma Delta Pi, the Spanish National Honor Society. He studied in Spain during his junior year. Upon graduation, Butterfield spent a year in Japan teaching English. Since his return to the United States, he has served as the apartment manager at the Little Sisters of the Poor in Chicago, Ill.

Renee Chachakis '04 has been awarded a teaching assistantship in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, where she will teach English to high school students. A political science major from West Warwick, R.I., she is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, and Delta Phi Alpha, the National German Honor Society. Named to the National Dean's List in 2003, Chachakis was honored with a German Book Award from the German Consulate in Boston in 2002 and 2003, for excellence in the study of German.

Lisbeth Garassino '04 will travel to Romania to teach English to high school and college students. An English major, Garassino has held internships in broadcast journalism, including working for the CBS4-TV Investigative Team in Boston and for Worcester News Tonight. She hopes to become a reporter of international affairs. A resident of Watertown, Conn., Garassino served as a high school English teacher in Bosnia last summer.

Olivia-Thao (Libby) Vo '04, a psychology major and anthropology minor with a biological psychology concentration, will conduct fieldwork on the effects of children with congenital birth defects or developmental delays on family life in her native country of Vietnam. Active on campus, she serves as co-chair of both the Worcester House Organization and the biological psychology concentration, and as a senior interviewer for the Admissions Office. One of four Holy Cross students nominated for the prestigious Watson Fellowship, she was recently nominated for the Holy Cross Presidential Award. Vo is a resident of Worcester, Mass.

The following student was chosen as an alternate:

Stephanie Baker '04, a double major in Spanish and Sociology, has been named as an alternate for her proposal to study the gender role socialization of preschool students in Castilla-León, Spain. Baker studied at the Universidad de Sevilla in Spain during her junior year, where she completed an independent study project on early childhood education. A resident of Everett, Mass., she is a member of the Dean's List; Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Delta Pi, the National Spanish Honor Society; and Alpha Kappa Delta, the National Honor Society of Sociology.