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Four graduating students have received prestigious Fulbright
awards to teach and conduct research in other countries:
Amy Atkocius, a double major in German and sociology, will spend
a year at Humboldt Universitaet in Germany studying refugee
immigration and asylum. Atkocius is a member of the dean’s list
and Alpha Kappa Delta, the national honor society of sociology. She
is a resident of Auburn , Mass.
Renée Chachakis has been awarded a teaching assistantship
in Rheinland-Pfalz , Germany , where she will teach English to high
school students. A political science major from West Warwick , R.I.
, she is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science
honor society, and Delta Phi Alpha, the national German honor society.
Named to the National Dean’s List in 2003, Chachakis was honored
with a German Book Award from the German Consulate in Boston in 2002
and 2003, for excellence in the study of German.
Lisbeth Garassino will travel to Romania to teach English to high
school and college students. An English major, Garassino has held
internships in broadcast journalism, including working for the CBS-4
TV investigative team in Boston and for Worcester News Tonight.
She hopes to become a reporter of international affairs. A resident
of Watertown , Conn. , Garassino served as a high school English teacher
in Bosnia last summer.
Thao P. “Libby” Vo, of Worcester,will
return to her native Vietnam to conduct fieldwork on the effects of
children with congenital birth defects or developmental delays on
Vietnamese family life. Vo’s research will examine how Vietnamese
parents, especially mothers, respond to and cope with their children’s
disabilities. Vo came to the United States from Vietnam when she was
four years old, after having spent two years in various refugee camps.
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