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E-PrinceWilson School major Jess Lanney ’10 has been named a 2010 Marshall Scholar. Lanney, who is pursuing a certificate in urban studies, said she will use the scholarship to complete two one-year master’s programs at the London School of ...(back to the article)
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congrats Jess!
Congrats!
Soooooo proud =)))))
Way to go, Jess!
I HEART JESS LANNEY. She deserves this honor through and through. Great gal. You betcha!!
...anyone notice how her strengths seem to be "passion" more than anything else. also..social planning and urban studies? is there a skew in these prestigious scholarships for people in policy studies rather than more intellectually demanding fields like physics, maths, or even international relations?
JESS IS AMAZING! CONGRATULATIONS!
YOU ARE UNBELIEVABLY AWESOME AND HAVE FUN ROWING IN ENGLAND! You deserve it!
oh yay! Congrats!
CONGRATS JESS! YOU ARE THE BOMB! no one could deserve this more than you!!!
I don't want to get into a flame war pitting department or fields against one another, but arguing that policy studies isn't intellectually demanding is just foolish. Henry (the Rhodes Scholar) and Jess are just interested in more practical/applied issues, but that doesn't make finding solutions (or even coming to understand the full scope of the problems behind those issues) any less challenging than what other students are doing.
As for your other argument that there might be a skew in these prestigious scholarships, that's also false. Looking back a couple of years shows that Rhodes, Marshall, Gates, etc. scholars from Princeton have come from all the different departments - math, physics, philosophy, etc. And, if you look at the other Rhodes/Marshall scholars for this year, you'll find a similarly diverse distribution.
That said, it also shouldn't be too surprising that wws students make up a disproportionate number of past scholarship winners (Jess, Henry, Mike Shih '09 and Scott Moore '08 from last year, Sarah Vander Ploeg '08 from two years ago). I mean, the sheer size of the department (one of the five biggest at Princeton) and the selectivity of the process (regardless of whether you think that's fair or justified) means that statistically, we should expect more winners to be coming from policy backgrounds