by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » 1926 to 1941 Janaki Ammal Edvaleth Kakkat A Woman of Many Firsts Janaki Ammal led a remarkable life. Her persistence and dedication to research changed her country’s food supply and its economy; her status as an unmarried woman of...
by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Projects » Page 5 Maria Pastrana Castrence (1927) endured major personal losses during WWII: the deaths of four family members and the destruction of her house, in which five of her completed research manuscripts went to ashes, including the Bibliography of...
by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Projects » Page 5 Zing-whai Ku (1928) began her university studies in 1920, when she enrolled in Shanghai DaTong University. Three years later, she participated in a government-funded program as an exchange scholar at Cornell. After earning an A.B. at Cornell...
by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Projects » Page 5 Violet Lang Wu (1928) earned her Ph.D. in Physics. Her dissertation was titled “The Infrared Absorption Spectrum of Propane” (1939). After completing her doctoral degree, Dr. Wu returned to China and taught Physics and Mathematics at Hwa Nen...
by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Projects » Page 5 Sharkeshwari Agha (1928) was described, in a Barbour Scholars newsletter, as “a young woman from a high-class Kashmiri Brahmin family.” Sharkeshwari earned a B.A., M.A., and LL.B. from the University of Allahabad and served as principal of the...
by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 2 Me-Iung Ting (1929, Barbour Fellow) graduated from the U-M Medical School in 1920 and then returned to China, where she served as head surgeon, supervising nurse, and director of Peiyang Women’s Hospital, Tientsin....
by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 3 Kapila Khandvala (1930) served as secretary of the Bombay Women’s Association, a branch of the All India Women’s Conference. She was elected as a delegate to represent Bombay at the conference held in Hychrasad....
by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 3 Stella Chun-Yi Wang (1931), who earned her M.A. in Education from the University of Michigan in 1933, never dreamed that she would be immortalized in print. When she received her copy of the 1984 Rackham Reports,...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Whang-Kyung Koh (1931) graduated from the Seoul, Korea Higher Common School for Girls at the age of sixteen and from Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan with a B.A. in law at the age of nineteen. A profile in the October 10, 1930 issue of the Osaka Mainichi chronicled...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 3 Maria Kalaw Katigbak’s (1932) wide-ranging accomplishments include beauty queen, scholar, Senator, and civic leader. After graduating as high school valedictorian, Maria earned her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy...
