Robert Howe ’05 Receives Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship
Robert Charles Howe ’05, a double major in environmental science and biology who minored in studio art, was named a recipient of a Jack Kent Cooke scholarship, a $39,000 grant. He is the first Allegheny student to win this prestigious award. In 2008 the Cooke Organization awarded just thirty-eight scholarships out of about 1,100 applicants, who themselves are nominated by their undergraduate institutions.
“He’s a kind of poster person for what Allegheny students can combine, I think,” says Associate Professor of English Ben Slote, who directed the College’s scholarship mentoring program in 2007-2008. “After Allegheny he’d been in the Peace Corps, doing agroforestry work in Paraguay; in his junior year he spent a semester in Jaipur, India, studying international development, and a semester in the UK at Lancaster University. In 2003 he won a Doane Prize in sculpture and ceramics and a Gilman Scholarship from the U.S. State Department. Charlie is a person who, through both patience and adventure, has equipped himself to know his field of work in truly three-dimensional ways–with a full sense of its human consequence, its environmental responsibilities, its beauty.” Howe will attend the Harvard Graduate School of Design for landscape architecture.
This article appeared in the summer 2008 issue of Allegheny magazine.
