Word: ueno
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Such a request was merely par for the course for this senior whiz kid from Williston, Long Island. Born on June 8, 1966, to Japanese parents who met as students at the University of Pennsylvania, Ueno has been wowing her teachers and fellow students since grammar school. In sixth grade she began studying French, the first of five languages she has mastered, including Latin, German, Japanese and Italian. In the tenth grade as a student at the Wheatley School in Old Westbury, N.Y., at the instigation of her history teacher, she completed, in addition to her regular course work, three...
...really loved all of my subjects," says Ueno, "especially foreign languages." She was able to combine her love of history and languages and her affinity for science in a complex project on royal geneology she submitted to the prestigious Westinghouse science competition. Studying the phenomenon of inbreeding in mankind as evidenced by several royal houses in the 19th century, Ueno came to the conclusion that "myths about inbreeding are exaggerated." Problems arise "only if there is a bad gene to start with." Although Ueno did not advance to the finals of the competition, she made a very respectable showing...
...This year] is my chance to have fun and also learn a lot about the period between the wars," comments Ueno, who says she is relieved that, for a change, there won't be "much pressure...
...Ueno has a more pragmatic goal for the years at Columbia. Working on a Master's Degree in European history and possibly toward a Ph.D. in that field, she will decide whether she would like to continue in academia or go on to Law School. A Magna Cum Laude degree candidate in the all-honors History and Literature concentration, she readily admits that "for me, my primary commitment was always academics," and feels a strong emotional pull in the direction of the ivory tower...
Elizabeth McKinsey '70, president of Radcliffe College's Iota chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, to which Ueno was elected in the fall of her junior year as one of the "Junior Twelve," describes the senior as the perfect marshall for that organization "because she's already a scholar...