by Marc Williams | Mar 18, 2021
Home » Projects Tong-Soon Kwak Barbour Scholar Tong-Soon Kwak, Rackham and School of Music, Theater, and Dance alumna, has performed organ music across North America, Europe, and Asia, thanks to a strong family background in music and the support she found at U-M. It...
by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » 1913 to 1916 Kameyo Sadakata (1914), the first Barbour Scholar, arrived at the University of Michigan from Japan in 1914, three years before Barbour officially endowed the program in 1917. Kameyo’s English was very limited and she...
by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Projects » Page 4 Yi-fang Wu (1922) became the first Barbour Scholar (along with Maria Lanzar) to earn a doctoral degree in 1928. Dr. Wu, born on January 26, 1893 in Hupei, China, as a child underwent the tortures of foot binding. Realizing that she could not...
by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Projects » Page 4 Maria Lanzar (1923) was the first Barbour Scholar to earn a doctoral degree, along with Yi-fang Wu, in 1928. Mariagraduated with a doctorate in Political Science in 1928. As the first Barbour Scholar from Manila, Lanzar studied the methods by...
by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Projects » Page 4 Tsui-fung Wong (1924) served as Dean of Women and Professor of Sociology at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. At the end of WWII, she traveled to England and Scotland, as a guest of the British Aid to China Fund, in order to study...
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...
