Spring is the time when many fellowships and grants are distributed and several Department of Music graduate students have received significant awards. Benjamin Breuer (historical musicology) and Ivan Jimenez (composition and theory) received Mellon Predoctoral Fellowships for 2006-2007; Ron Horton (ethnomusicology) was awarded the K. Leroy Irvis Summer Research Fellowship; Dorcinda Knauth (ethnomusicology) received a J. William Fullbright Grant and a Foreign Language Studies Scholarship for Indonesian; Brandi Neal (historical musicology) won an FLAS Scholarship for German. Neal also won the prestigious 2006 Elizabeth Barranger Excellence in Teaching Award.