Release date: May 1, 2007
Contact: Beverly Cox Clark at 404-712-8780 or beverly.clark@emory.edu

Emory Student Receives $32,000 Beinecke Scholarship

Emory University student John Devlin has been selected as one of only 22 college juniors across the country to receive a $32,000 Beinecke Scholarship for graduate study. The Beinecke Scholarship Program seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue opportunities available to them and to be courageous in the selection of a graduated course of study.

"This is a highly competitive scholarship, and it is a tremendous honor for John to win this," says Joanne Brzinski, associate dean for academic affairs, adding that Emory only nominates one junior a year from a strong pool of candidates for the Beinecke Scholarship.

Devlin, a junior from Bronxville, N.Y., is a junior music and Latin double major. He is a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar, recipient of Emory's highest merit scholar award. In 2006, he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.

He is a member of the Emory University Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and the Chamber Music Program. He is a clarinet player and he has been the assistant conductor of the Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra since fall 2005. Other conducting experience includes his participation in the Conductors Institute at Bard College in New York, and the student conducting program at Boston University's Tanglewood Institute in Lenox, Mass. He also is a member of the Emory's varsity cross country track and field team.

Each Beinecke scholar receives $2,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 while attending graduate school. There are no geographic restrictions on the use of the scholarship, and recipients are allowed to supplement the award with other scholarships, assistantships and research grants. The award is limited to students planning to attend graduate school in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Emory University is one of the nation's leading private research universities and a member of the Association of American Universities. Known for its demanding academics, outstanding undergraduate college of arts and sciences, highly ranked professional schools and state-of-the-art research facilities, Emory is ranked as one of the country's top 20 national universities by U.S. News & World Report. In addition to its nine schools, the university encompasses The Carter Center, Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Healthcare, the state's largest and most comprehensive health care system.

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