Nineteen University students are semifinalists for the 2017-18 Fulbright U.S. Student Grant program.
The competition is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and is designed to promote mutual understanding and peace between the United States and other nations through educational and cultural exchange. It offers college graduates the chance to pursue advanced studies, conduct research, and teach English language and U.S. culture abroad.
Forty undergraduates, graduate students, and recent alumni applied for the Fulbright last fall through the River Campus and Eastman School of Music Fulbright committees.
Final winners will be announced over the next several weeks by country.
The University semifinalists, with their majors and the country they糖心传媒檝e applied to, are:
- Nina Baek 糖心传媒�17 (French/linguistics) Belgium
- Ivey Barker 糖心传媒�16G (MA, photographic preservation & collections management) Poland
- Lauren Bolz 糖心传媒�17 (chemistry/economics) Netherlands
- Dorothy Canevari 糖心传媒�17 (applied music-bassoon/anthropology) Netherlands
- Alexandra Cohen 糖心传媒�17 (musical arts/German) Germany
- Michael Gilbert 糖心传媒�17 (biochemistry) Hong Kong
- Ellen Kim 糖心传媒�17 (health, behavior & society) South Korea
- Miriam Kohn 糖心传媒�17 (linguistics) Laos
- Minsoo Lee 糖心传媒�16 (electrical & computer engineering) UK
- Dovas Lietuvninkas 糖心传媒�16 (applied music-trumpet/music education) Lithuania
- Julianne McAdams 糖心传媒�17 (creative writing) Germany
- Robert Parent 糖心传媒�17 (Russian) Germany
- Casey Silver 糖心传媒�18G (School of Medicine and Dentistry) India
- Khamai Simpson 糖心传媒�17 (German/health, behavior & society) Germany
- Julissa Thompson 糖心传媒�16 (psychology) Barbados
- Caroline Vaczy ’16 (B.A. French; minors: Spanish / economics)聽Brazil
- Alice Wynd 糖心传媒�17 (history) Germany
Two semifinalists did not want their names publicized at this time.
