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Six fourth-year students recently received Fulbright grants to teach and conduct research in other countries upon graduation.
Conor Devine, an English major in the premed program from
Orchard Park, N.Y., has been awarded a grant to work and
study in Korea. He will live with a host family and teach
English conversation in a Korean secondary school, supervised
by a certified Korean teacher. Devine’s career goal
is to go to medical school and become a doctor. He would
like to participate in the Doctors Without Borders organization,
working with people from lesser developed nations. He is
also interested in pursuing a writing career.
Carly Fowler, a history major and German minor from Roswell,
Ga., will live in Vienna, Austria, teach English at a local
secondary school and study diplomacy and international relations.
She also hopes to work in the community with refugees and
audition for a local choir. Her career goal is to work in
international relations, either at the academic or policy
level.
Meagan Gorman, a Russian major from West Babylon, N.Y.,
will work and study in Russia. Gorman’s proposal for
the Fulbright included three components: to travel to an
orphanage outside Moscow and teach English to the children;
to set up a volunteer mentoring program between the elderly
in the community and the orphans; and to write and illustrate
a series of children’s books describing “summer
camp” in America. Gorman sees this work as helping
to make the children’s transition less traumatic when
they travel and stay with host families in America. Gorman’s
career aspirations include becoming a coordinator of a summer
program that brings orphans to the United States for the
summer and introduces them to families interested in adoption.
Jennifer Hughes, a history major with a minor in Russian
from North Plainfield, N.J., will teach English in a Russian
high school. At Holy Cross, she was in the College Honors
Program, the National History Honors Society and the Russian
Club. Through SPUD (Student Programs for Urban Development),
Hughes served as a Big Sister and also worked at Abby’s
House, a shelter for abused and battered women in Worcester.
In addition, she held an internship at AIDS Project Worcester.
Katie Lamberto, a classics major from West Boylston, Mass.,
will work and study in Slovenia, examining how cultural institutions
in the country run their museums and design exhibitions;
among other related topics, she also plans to take a Slovenian
language class. Lamberto hopes to pursue either a Ph.D. in
classics, with the intention of becoming a professor, or
a master’s degree in museum studies, with the goal
of securing a position as a curator.
Megan Osborne, an anthropology and history double major
with a concentration in Asian Studies, from Redding, Conn.,
will work at the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore;
she also plans to study there during her stay. Osborne hopes
eventually to earn a degree in museum studies and a Ph.D.
in anthropology, leading to a career as a museum curator.
Each year approximately 1,000 college students are awarded
Fulbright grants through the U.S. government’s flagship
program in international educational exchange. U.S. citizens
and nationals of other countries are eligible to apply for
a variety of educational activities; since the program’s
inception in 1946, more than 250,000 participants—selected
on the basis of academic merits and leadership potential—have
had the opportunity to learn firsthand about the political,
economic and cultural institutions of another country.
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