The Caldwell Fellows Program Selects Its Class of 2012
~posted 03.25.2009

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The Caldwell Fellows program—NC State’s original and oldest university-wide merit scholarship program—has selected 21 first-year students for its Class of 2012. The Alumni Association and its 83 endowments finance the Caldwell Fellows scholarships, stipends and programs.

Photo of Arialle Crabtree. Click here to read about her and the other Caldwell Fellows in the Class of 2012.

The newest Caldwells were selected from a pool of 192 applicants and 45 finalists. In an intensive two-part process, a volunteer corps of 90 alumni, faculty and friends reviewed applications and interviewed finalists to choose 20 Fellows. One other student in the Class of 2012 had been selected last spring as a Shelton Scholar and Caldwell Fellow.

These students, joining 81 other Caldwells, will receive a three-year Fellowship valued at more than $17,000. It includes funding for tuition, training at the internationally acclaimed Center for Creative Leadership, global internships and service projects, a 10-day wilderness experience and a rigorous program of seminars, individual coaching and retreats.

With a programmatic focus on servant leadership, Caldwell Fellows have designed and executed projects in recent years that have taken them to Bosnia to study conflict resolution, the Philippines to support the assessment of HIV/AIDS education, to St. Croix to investigate aggressive behaviors in fish, to Siberia to support educators in the development of curricula related to sustainable development, and to Israel to participate in an archaeological dig.

Locally, they’ve also initiated and led service projects at Haven House, Kids’ Café, Open Door Clinic, WE Recycle and SATELLITE, a science and technology camp at NC State for high schools students from under-served, rural communities.

The scholarship program was created in 1977 by the NC State Alumni Association to honor the legacy of Chancellor John T. Caldwell. It merged with the NC Fellows program in 2000 and today is the only university-wide merit award at NC State for first-year students. The Alumni Association and its 83 endowments finance the Caldwell Fellows scholarships, stipends and programs.

Students are chosen as Caldwell Fellows based on the strength of their academic performance, leadership experience and potential, interest in community and service, commitment to physical challenge and personal growth, and commitment to the program.

Caldwell Fellows figure prominently in NC State student achievement. Senior Sarah Yasin won the 2009 NC State Mathews Medal for service to the campus community. Juniors Halli Sigal and Natalie Bunch were tapped recently for Golden Chain. Brian Clark ‘08, currently at Cambridge University in England on a Marshall Scholarship, has received a fellowship to MIT to study physics. Seniors Allison Barbour and Adriana Horton were inducted into the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa national honor society.

Learn more about the Caldwell Fellows at www.ncsu.edu/caldwell.