KU nominates junior for the Beinecke Scholarship Program

LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has nominated a junior for the Beinecke Scholarship Program. Each year the Beinecke Scholarship offers 20 scholarships to undergraduates who intend to pursue a research-focused master’s or doctoral program in the arts, humanities or social sciences. Selected students receive $30,000 to be used for graduate study and $4,000 in their senior year.

KU’s nominee is Katherine Price of Lawrence, a junior majoring in history with minors in French and education studies. Price is the daughter of Robert and Rachel Price. Price is a member of the University Honors Program, serves as an undergraduate representative to the Department of History and has worked for two years at KU’s Hilltop Child Development Center. Currently studying abroad in Angers, France, Price has received study abroad scholarships from Study Abroad & Global Engagement and from the departments of History and French, Francophone & Italian Studies. 

Price has worked as a research assistant for Andrew Denning, associate professor of history, and completed internships with the Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum and the Wyandotte County Historical Society. This spring, she is a recipient of an Undergraduate Research Award from the Center for Undergraduate Research.

Her paper, “Contradictions in the Treatment of Roma and Sinti During the Holocaust,” has been published in Zenith! Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities.

Only 135 colleges and universities around the country are invited to nominate one student for the scholarship each year. KU is the only participating institution in Kansas. At KU, the nomination process is coordinated by the Office of Fellowships.

The Beinecke Scholarship Program was established in 1971 by the board of directors of the Sperry and Hutchinson Company to honor Edwin, Frederick, and Walter Beinecke. The board created an endowment to provide substantial scholarships for the graduate education of young people of exceptional promise. Candidates should be U.S. citizens and college juniors who demonstrate superior standards of intellectual ability, scholastic achievement and personal promise during their undergraduate career.