Scholarship Awards

Saint Andrew's Society of Washington, DC's Washington Scots Charity & Education Fund Scholarship Program

Congratulations to the recipients of the grants awarded for the 2010-2011 academic year.

• Mr. Jujhar Singh Dhanda has been awarded The James & Mary Dawson Scholarship of $5,000 for Scots coming to the USA for graduate or post-graduate level study.  Hailing from Southpark Village, Glasgow, Scotland,  he’ll be pursuing a Master of Laws degree at Columbia Law School in New York City.  Mr. Singh, currently serving as a Policy Officer in the Scottish Government’s Justice Department, is a First Class Honors graduate of the University of Glasgow School of Law.  Planning to return to government service, his concentration in Labor Law and Industrial Relations will lay the foundation for future contributions to the analysis and formulation of labor rights policies and regulations in a post-referendum Scotland.
• Mr. Aaron Jentzen of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has been awarded The Donald Malcolm MacArthur Scholarship of $2,500, for Americans studying in Scotland.  A Rhodes Scholar nominee, Grade I Champion piper and the Music Editor of the Pittsburgh City Paper, he will be working toward a dual MA/MLitt degree in Professional Writing and Investigative Journalism at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.  His plans include investigating changes in technology and new communications paradigms challenging traditional print media and book-length non-fiction writing on a range of topics including bagpiping culture in the United States.
• A St. Andrew’s Scholarship in the amount of $2,500 has been awarded to Ms. Cassandra Smith-Christmas, of Stafford, Virginia, who is working toward a Ph.D. in Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow. A champion Scottish fiddler and linguist with cum laude degrees from the College of William and Mary in Virginia and the Universiteit Leiden in The Netherlands, her doctoral work centers on the preservation of endangered languages – specifically Scottish Gaelic.  Her long-term aims include an academic post in Linguistics, research and teaching contributions to Gaelic language preservation programs, and the creation of a publishing house for children’s books in endangered languages.

St. Andrew’s Scholarships in the amount of $2,000 each have been awarded to each of the following:

• Mr. Alexander Whittaker Smith an award-winning Honors graduate of the august Glasgow School of Art, coming to Columbia University in New York City for a Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Arts.
• Mr. Craig Iffland of Centreville, VA, an MLitt candidate in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he will study the effects of the Scottish Enlightenment on contemporary political and moral thought.
• Ms. Abigail Lowry Campbell of Arlington, VA, beginning her MD at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York City.  Born in Dundee, Scotland, she is a graduate of Princeton University and University College, Dublin.
• Mr. Michael Collins of Glasgow, Scotland, pursuing an MSFS degree at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service here in Washington.
• Ms. C. Rowan McGirr of Clackmannan, Scotland, a remarkably talented young violin scholar working toward her BM in Violin Performance at the prestigious conservatory of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.