Hunter College Junior One of 22 Students Across the Country Selected for Nationally Prestigious Scholarship to Pursue Graduate Studies

Date: May 1, 2003
Contact: Deborah Sack (deborah.sack@hunter.cuny.edu)
Phone: (212) 772-4070

Suzanne Barnett, a Hunter College junior, has been selected to receive a 2003 Beinecke Scholarship.  Beinecke Scholarships are awarded to juniors who have demonstrated superior intellectual ability, scholastic achievement and personal promise during their undergraduate career and who plan graduate study in the arts, humanities or social sciences.  Barnett will receive $32,000 towards her graduate study.

More than 100 colleges are invited to nominate one student for this nationally prestigious award.  Barnett is one of 22 students selected from across the country and joins winners from Stanford, Williams, Princeton and Yale universities.  Her majors are English, classical studies and the Thomas Hunter honors program. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in British literature.

The Beinecke Scholarship was established in 1971 by the board of directors of The Sperry and Hutchinson Company to honor Edwin, Frederick, and Walter Beinecke.  The Board created an endowment to provide substantial scholarships for the graduate education of young men and women of exceptional promise.

The program seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue opportunities available to them and to be courageous in the selection of a graduated course of study.  Since 1975 the program has selected more than 315 college juniors from 94 different schools for support during graduate study at any accredited university.  Each scholar receives $2,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate school. 

Barnett joins past Hunter College Beinecke Scholars, Carina Garcia who is pursuing advanced studies in religion, and Hope Jennings who is studying for an advanced degree in English literature at St. Andrews College, Scotland.

For more information about the Beinecke Scholarship Program go to http://www.beineckescholarship.org

About Hunter
With a highly diverse student population of more than 20,000, Hunter is the largest college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system and the first choice among all CUNY applicants. Founded in 1870, the College offers more than 170 undergraduate and graduate programs. Hunter is noted for its professional schools in education, health sciences, nursing and social work, as well as its excellence in the liberal arts. Heralded as the "Crown Jewel of CUNY" by The Princeton Review, Hunter College has a distinguished reputation for nurturing talented minority scientists and meeting the challenge of providing high-quality science education in the 21st century. The College also oversees the Hunter College Campus Schools serving gifted and talented students, preschool through grade 12. For more information about Hunter College, please visit our Web site at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu.

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