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Date: February 2, 1998
Psychology Major Shalani Alisharan Named Winner of Sachs Scholarship
Senior from Vancouver, B.C., to Study at Oxford University
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Shalani Alisharan '98, a psychology major, has been named this year's winner of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Scholarship.
Alisharan plans to earn a master's degree in neuroscience, or some other branch of psychology, at Worcester College, Oxford University, with an eye toward an eventual career in academic psychology. Her senior thesis examines neuronal characteristics of the ventral premotor cortex in monkeys.
At Princeton, she has been active in the Black Arts Company, both as a dancer and as the group's business manager. A tutor and project manager at the University's Community House, Alisharan works with Hamilton Twp., N.J., youngsters aged six to 13. She is also a board member of Stevenson Hall.
The Sachs Scholarship has been awarded since 1970 in memory of a football and lacrosse player also elected to Phi Beta Kappa, who went on to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and then to Harvard Law School. Sachs died of cancer at age 28. In establishing the award in his honor, classmates and friends stipulated that it be given annually to the senior who best exemplifies Sachs's character, intelligence and commitment and whose prospective career "would be most likely to have consequences of value to the public."
The award supports two years of graduate study and also provides a stipend for expenses.
Alisharan, who lives in Vancouver, B.C., holds joint Jamaican and Canadian citizenship. Her parents are Robert and Patricia Alisharan of Vancouver.
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