Fulbright Fellowships Awarded
Morgan Warners '08 has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowships for Study Abroad to pursue an MA in American Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He will also participate in an internship at the human rights organization Choice for Youth.
Maguerite O'Haire '08 has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowships for Study Abroad to Australia to work at the Centre for Companion Animal Health at the University of Queensland to study the effects of Animal-Assisted Therapy on adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Emma Woelk '08 has been awarded a Fulbright grant to Germany to study health care and social services for the disabled in the German Democratic Republic. She plans to use the academic and archival resources, along with personal interviews, to assess the extent to which the development of services for and attitudes towards the disabled were affected by the German past and differed from the development process in the FRG.
Erin Bergevin '08 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. While in Germany, she hopes to create an Internet-based program for overseas communication between German students learning English and American students learning German. She also plans to conduct a small study on the function of music in early childhood education settings.
Tracey Balsenheim '08 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Turkey. While not teaching in the classroom Tracey plans to research the Battle of Gallipoli and the implications of this bloody conflict on the field of International Relations Theory. More specifically he plans to examine the ways in which the battle is remembered in the war memorials, novels, films, and memories of the Turkish people, and to analyze the impact of these modes of remembrance on contemporary Turkish international diplomacy.
Anna Volk '08 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Columbia. Anna plans to do volunteer work when she is not in the classroom, perhaps at a local battered women's shelter.
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