Ria Han awarded the Conway/Proetz Scholarship to attend Washington University in St. Louis

2013 Aug 2

Ria Han of Great Neck, N.Y. (11020), recently received the Conway/Proetz Scholarship to study in the College of Art at Washington University in St. Louis.

Han, a 2013 graduate of The Gunnery, will be a freshman in the university's Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts when the fall semester begins Aug. 27. The scholarship is awarded to an entering first-year student whose artistic and academic potential is judged outstanding by a faculty selection committee.

The program offers full- and partial-tuition scholarships renewable for four years. Tuition for the 2013-14 academic year is $44,100.

The scholarship is supported by two endowed funds: The Fred Conway Scholarship fund and the Arthur and Esther Proetz Scholarship fund.

Fred Conway was a distinguished professor of painting at Washington University and the Conway scholarship was established in memory of him.

Arthur Proetz served as professor of clinical otolaryngology at the Washington University School of Medicine from 1919-1954. The Proetz scholarship fund was established to honor the Proetzes commitment to the arts.

Washington University is counted among the world’s leaders in teaching and research, and it draws students and faculty to St. Louis from all 50 states and more than 100 nations. The total student body is nearly 14,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students.

The approximately 3,400 faculty teach in seven schools: Arts & Sciences, Brown School, Olin Business School, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, School of Engineering & Applied Science, School of Law and School of Medicine. Twenty-three Nobel laureates have been associated with Washington University, with nine doing the major portion of their pioneering research there.

The university offers more than 90 programs and almost 1,500 courses leading to bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in a broad spectrum of traditional and interdisciplinary fields, with additional opportunities for minor concentrations and individualized programs.