Genshaft Global Presidential Scholarship

Global engagement is at the center of the Judy Genshaft Honors College mission. One important program that supports this goal is the College’s most prestigious award, the Genshaft Global Presidential Scholarship (GGPS). This award is intended to empower some of the most capable Honors students to put global engagement at the center of their Honors experience.

GGPS students are selected on the basis of their academic accomplishments and receive an award of $10,000 to support participation in Honors study abroad experiences. They can use their funding to participate in immersive experiences, such as the Semester in Exeter, or in multiple short-term programs. Past GGPS students have studied in Italy, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada.

GGPS students also enroll in a special section of the Honors first-year seminar, Acquisition of Knowledge. This shared experience at the very start of Honors undergraduate studies introduces them to new friends, future collaborators, and fellow world travelers, and makes for a rich mix of interdisciplinary ideas, projects, and practices. One such product of the program is the Honors Health Humanities Circle (3HC), an organization founded by GGPS students that supports the Medical Humanities in a Global Context Pathway within the Judy Genshaft Honors College. Through their focus on supporting undergraduate research, these students have made connections across the globe, including a collaboration between researchers at the Wellcome Center for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and community health leaders with the Kerolle Initiative in the Dominican Republic. They have also connected coursework on the architecture of hospitality (Omotenashi) in Japanese hospitals with efforts to understand cross-cultural constructions of human reproduction in India.

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- Dr. Benjamin Young

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United Kingdom Dominican Republic

Italy Japan

GGPS recipients visited Italy, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada.