The MSC L.T. Jordan Institute
for International Awareness

Previous Fellows

The 5th Class of L. T. Jordan Fellows (1991-1992)

Melissa Richardson Banks is a graduate student in Educational Administration who will travel to U. S. affiliated universities in Japan to study administrative processes undertaken by U. S. administrators.

Denise Burgos is a junior biology major who will travel to Spain to study the Spanish language and to observe medical doctors.

Thomas Burnett is a senior electrical engineering technology major who will travel to China to study the language for a year at the Guizhou Institute for minorities.

Byron Cargill is a graduate student in clinical psychology who will travel to Italy to research the attitudes and behavioral patterns of college students as they relate to a healthy life style.

Donald Griffiths is a senior English and Russian double major who will travel to Moscow to study the poet Vladimir Vysotsky and to Kazan to research the Tartar nationalist movement.

Richard Herron, is a graduate student in nautical archeology who will travel to Indonesia to research shipping vessels.

Crista Hirmas is a senior history major who will travel to Papua, New Guinea to aid linguists in developing a written language for one of the native peoples and assist with other literacy work.

Ravi Krishnan is a senior medical student who will travel to a town in Northern India to perform clinical work in family medicine and do an ophthalmologic study on the indigenous population.

Wesley Taylor is a senior in veterinary medicine who will travel to France to do molecular biology research with a professor at the University of Limoges College of Medicine.