Newsmakers
NATIONAL HISPANIC RECOGNITION SCHOLAR FABIANA BERENGUER GIL ’14 Activities: Member, Varsity Tennis (four years), Co-captain (2012); Advanced Dance; Peer Educator; Tea Club. WISE project: In 2013, Fabi worked in The Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering Department of Civil Engineering to design a structure on computer-aided design (CAD) programs to withstand earthquakes. She constructed a 6-foot model and used the shake table to test the acceleration of the building at different points. Favorite class: “I want to be an architect, and I really enjoy creating things, so Architectural Modeling and Architectural Drawing classes were fun. 3D Studio Class sophomore year, though, had the greatest impact. I hadn't had that much experience with sculpting before, but I loved it.” College plans: Studying architecture at Cornell University. Pictured in the GFS studio, crafting a piece of jewelry.
COMMENDED SCHOLAR ANNA GORMAN ’14
COMMENDED SCHOLAR ASHLEY MITCHELL ‘14
Activities: Member, Da Vinci, Global Philanthropy and Tea clubs; Manager, Varsity Badminton and Basketball; Member, independent service team that made a trip to Haiti in December 2012 to build an orphanage.
Activities: Founding member, Student Diversity Leadership Council; Advanced Dance; Forum Class Representative; President, 2013-14 Ragged Robins.
WISE projects: The only student in the 10-year history of WISE to do two separate projects, Anna spent fall 2012 in Hopkins’ Gerecht Lab, Biomolecular Engineering Department, Whiting School of Engineering studying how the matrix outside of breast cancer cells affects the growth of tumors. In 2014, she translated ancient Roman funerary inscriptions at The Johns Hopkins Archeological Museum with Amanda Witherspoon ’14.
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WISE project: In 2013, Ashley participated in a cross-disciplinary study of the autoimmune disease scleroderma, working with the JHU departments of Geography and Environmental Engineering to identify associations between deadly manifestations of the disease and blood measurements. Most rewarding GFS experience: “With WISE, I was put into a situation where I didn’t understand all the information. No one was holding my hand teaching me about complex statistical analysis and biological processes. I had to learn how to ask questions when I was confused. My graduate student mentor told me, ‘It’s OK to say I don’t know.’ That advice has been priceless.”
Most rewarding GFS experience: “My summer trip to Spain with Ms. Hurley and other GFS students was the experience of a lifetime. I experienced a culture outside of my own and cultivated my independence. While it was a bit overwhelming to be living with a family that spoke no English, I [took it as] a challenge to become more comfortable in different environments.”
College plans: Studying computer science at William & Mary.
College plans: Studying biology and computer science at Bucknell University.
Pictured at Garland Theater, where she was the only GFS soloist with Loyola Blakefield’s Dave London Orchestra.
Pictured in Johns Hopkins’ Gerecht Lab.
2014 GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL