From staff reports
Trinity senior Shawn Salvant has been awarded a Mellon Fellowship for graduate study in the humanities. The Mellon Fellowship, a program of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, includes a stipend of $13,500 plus tuition and mandated fees. Salvant will pursue a Ph.D. in American Literature with a specialization in African-American literature at the University of California at Berkeley. Eighty scholarships are awarded nationally each year.
Senior wins scholarship: Trinity senior Carlos Bagley is this year's recipient of the University's Wallace Wade Scholarship. The scholarship is a $12,000 grant funded by former football coach Wallace Wade to honor students who have lettered in a varsity sport and who plan to continue their studies in a University graduate or professional school.
Wade, one of the University's greatest coaches, created the scholarship to award students who demonstrate leadership, character and academic ability.
Bagley, a biology major, will begin his studies at the medical school in the fall. He plans to specialize in surgery, with the hopes of pursuing teaching and research interests.
Bagley distinguished himself as a leader on the football team and was named the team's Most Valuable Linebacker in 1995, as well as the leading tackler in both 1994 and 1995.
Scholarship established: Alum John Mack and his wife Christy have donated $1 million to the University to provide funds for students from their hometown of Mooresville, N.C.
The Alice Azouri Mack Scholarship Endowment Fund is named in honor of John Mack's mother. The scholarship promotes its namesake's deep belief in the importance of education and her love of North Carolina and the University.
Mack, who is president of the New York-based Morgan Stanley Group, Inc., a global investment banking firm, said he and his wife established the grant to help deserving students from his hometown attend his alma mater. Mack graduated in 1968.
"Christy and I are pleased to make this contribution in order to benefit students from Mooresville and Iredell County who would not ordinarily have the chance to pursue the outstanding educational opportunities available at Duke University," Mack said. "We are happy to be able to give something back to the community in her name."
Seventy-five percent of the grant money will assist undergraduate students, while the remaining 25 percent will be given to graduate students.
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