The Board of Directors of the American Handel Society is pleased to announce that the 2002 J. Merrill Knapp Research Fellowship is awarded to Minji Kim, a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. The fellowship will support travel to London for research on the topic "Handel's Israel in Egypt: a Three-Anthem Oratorio." Ms. Kim seeks to analyze and interpret the original version of the oratorio (1739) based on issues of autograph evidence, compositional process, musical language, biblical and theological context, musical and textual design, borrowings, and revisions. Ms. Kim holds a B.M. in History and Literature of Music from Boston University. The committee for the 2002 award consisted of Prof. Olga Termini, Prof. David Hurley, and Prof. William Gudger, chair.