9 undergraduates earned public service fellowships from the Frederick Honors College

Throughout the summer, the Frederick Honors College Office of Community Engaged Learning provides support through the generosity of David C. Frederick (A&S ’83) to students who are participating in congressional or other public service internships, covering the cost-of-living and other associated expenses.

This summer, the Frederick Honors College awarded 90 fellowship and internship awards — including the prestigious Brackenridge Fellowship as well as opportunities in community research, creative arts, health sciences research and engineering. Students from across all disciplines can apply by proposing a research topic, finding a faculty sponsor and committing to completing and presenting their research by the end of summer.

The Rebecca S. Pringle Scholarship supports a Frederick Honors student who wishes to do work in in public service with a field of labor, such as education. This year’s Pringle scholar is Caroline Guo, a political science major in the Dietrich School and Frederick Honors College.

The David C. Frederick Public Service Internship Awards and William J. Keefe Congressional Fellowships support Pitt students pursuing unpaid public service internships outside of Pittsburgh during the summer.

Recipients of the Frederick and Keefe awards are:

• Elizabeth Dickerson, a politics and philosophy and urban studies major in the Dietrich School and the Frederick Honors College
• Liam Horan, a political science major in the Dietrich School and the Frederick Honors College
• Raafay Khan-Afridi, an economics and political science major in the Dietrich School and the Frederick Honors College
• Livia LeMarca, a political science and sociology major in the Dietrich School and the Frederick Honors College
• Samantha Podnar, a politics and philosophy major in the Dietrich School and the Frederick Honors College
• Andrew Pruden, a political science and computational social science major in the Dietrich School, the Frederick Honors College and the School of Computing and Information
• Chloe Simpson, an urban studies major in the Dietrich School and the Frederick Honors College
• Jacob Sosinsky, a political science major in the Dietrich School and the Frederick Honors College