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CREATING GLOBAL CITIZENS

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2016–17 NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

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10 Fulbright Scholarships 10 Gilman Scholarships 9 Critical Language Scholarships 7 Boren Scholarships 4 Teaching Assistantships in France 2 Hollings Scholarship

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STUDENTS STUDIED ABROAD

ASIA

Meizhen Wang, M.P.S. ’16 interpreting, completed the highly competitive training program for United Nations interpreters in New York. Wang, who works in Chinese, interned with the International Monetary

Fund while she was still in the program.

Sarah Reynolds ’13, French, studied Indonesian in Malang, Indonesia through a critical language scholarship.

Jasper Surrett ’17, Persian and government and politics, studied Persian in Dushanbe, Tajikistan through the Global Fellows program.

CENTRAL and SOUTH AMERICA

Eben Levey, Ph.D. student in history, spent the year in Mexico on a Fulbright research grant studying the impact of Catholicism on indigenous communities.

Theresa Brecker ’15, Spanish, taught English in Colombia through a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.

Kate Spanos, Ph.D. ’16 dance and performance studies and current coordinator of marketing and communications in the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, won a Postdoctoral Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to study dance in Brazil.

FROM INDONESIA TO MEXICO TO GHANA, ARHU’S COMMUNITY

REACHES ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE

AFRICA

Dance M.F.A. student Meghan Abadoo ’16 studied Ghanaian contemporary dance in Dodowa, Ghana through a

Fulbright research grant.

EUROPE

Sarah Marsteller ’16, German and history, taught English in Germany through a

Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.

Alisa Tsaturov ’15, Russian studies and government and politics, taught English in Latvia through a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.

MIDDLE EAST

Zachary Goldblatt ’18, Arabic and government and politics double major, studied Arabic in Ibri, Oman as a Global Fellow.

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