[lg policy] Schools With Most Student Fulbrights

Fri Nov 19 15:57:09 UTC 2010

UNC Among Schools With Most Student Fulbrights

Carolina is tied for 10th among top research universities in the
number of students and recent graduates receiving Fulbright grants.

With 15 students teaching, conducting research and studying abroad
this year on Fulbright U.S. Student Program Grants, Carolina tied with
the universities of Rutgers at New Brunswick and Washington. UNC tied
for fourth among public institutions, again, with Rutgers and
Washington. The figures apply to the current academic year, 2010-11,
and are compiled by the Institute of International Education.

Administered at UNC by the Center for Global Initiatives, the
Fulbright program is the flagship international educational exchange
program sponsored by the U.S. government. It is designed to increase
mutual understanding between the people of the United States and those
of other countries.

An annual appropriation by Congress to the U.S. State Department’s
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs is the main funding source
for the program.

“These impressive students rose to the top through three rounds of
application review,” said Tripp Tuttle ’05, UNC’s Fulbright program
adviser. “They are conducting research, taking courses or serving as
English teaching assistants in one of the more than 150 countries
where grants are offered.”

Fulbright alumni have achieved distinction in government, science, the
arts, business, philanthropy, education and athletics. Forty Fulbright
alumni from 11 countries have been awarded the Nobel Prize, and 75
alumni have received Pulitzer Prizes.

Prominent Fulbright alumni include Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh,
winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize; John Atta Mills, president of
Ghana; Lee Evans, Olympic Gold Medalist; Ruth Simmons, president of
Brown University; and Renee Fleming, soprano.

The 2010-11 student Fulbright recipients and their current activities
abroad are listed below in alphabetical order by N.C. town and by
state for out-of-state students.

North Carolina

Apex

    *
      Melissa Asmar ’10, who majored in nutrition at the Gillings
School of Global Public Health. She is teaching English in Germany and
studying German nutritional status and dietary habits. She hopes to
become a professor in biochemistry or biomedicine, with an emphasis on
nutrition.

Chapel Hill

    *
      Erin Shigekawa ’10, who majored in health policy and management
at the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is studying
whether a relationship exists between socioeconomic status and obesity
in patients with chronic kidney disease in Taiwan.
    *
      Patrick Tobin ’09 (MA), a doctoral candidate in history at UNC,
who is in Germany researching how people interpreted and responded to
the chaos of postwar West Germany amid the government’s attempts to
reorder society.

Pinehurst

    *
      Rebecca Ruck ’10, who majored in global studies. She is teaching
English in Moldova and seeking to bridge cultural and language
barriers between Moldovans and Americans by teaching about American
culture, language and history.

Raleigh

    *
      Carolyn Moore ’10, who majored in journalism and mass
communication. She is teaching English in Argentina and observing how
effectively health information is shared with young adults and
adolescents, particularly regarding sexual practices and nutrition.

Vilas

    *
      Robert Hrozencik ’10, who majored in economics. He is teaching
English in Egypt while studying modern Arabic and the Egyptian
dialect.

Wakefield

    *
      Jacqueline Knee ’08 (’10 MSPH), who majored in public health and
this year completed her master’s degree in environmental sciences and
engineering at the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is
examining physical and sanitary conditions of rainwater harvesting
systems and use practices in rural communities in Thailand that depend
on rainwater for drinking and household use.

Whispering Pines

    *
      Kurt Davies ’10, who majored in linguistics and anthropology. He
is studying implementation and attitudes toward language policies in
the Kyrgyzstan educational system.

Out of State

    *
      Sabrina Boyce ’10 (MPH) of Fair Oaks, Calif., who is conducting
a study in Leon, Nicaragua, seeking to illuminate the influence of
gender roles on contraceptive decision-making and reveal communication
patterns that encourage or discourage contraception use.
    *
      John Robertson ’09 (MA) of Fort Collins, Colo., a doctoral
candidate in history at UNC. He is studing industrial mobilization,
labor resistance and their cultural legacies in the former
Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic, focusing on the industrial
labor force in the coal district from World War I to Czechoslovakia’s
early years.
    *
      Caroline Wisler ’10 (MA), of Rockford, Ill., a doctoral
candidate in anthropology at UNC. She is teaching English in Bosnia
and Herzegovina, where English is considered a language of neutrality,
equality and collaboration. She is focusing on communities
experiencing adverse conditions to fulfill her main goal of
post-conflict rehabilitation of cultural resources.
    *
      Nicholas Swisher ’10 of Nicholasville, Ky., who majored in
chemistry. He is conducting research at the Institute for Organic
Chemistry at Aachen University in Germany and will focus on the
possibility of using iron and copper salts as catalysts in organic
synthesis, with the intention of making the process cheaper and more
accessible.
    *
      Stephanie Van Sant '10 of Webster Groves, Mo., who majored in
global studies and German. She is teaching English in Germany and
working to improve her German language skills. She hopes for a career
teaching German.
    *
      Annelies Goger of Asbury, N.J., a doctoral candidate in
geography. She is studying ethics in the Sri Lankan garment industry
by surveying academic, business and political officials, as well as at
factories, about factory characteristics and ethical initiatives.
    *
      Ivo Dimitrov of Beaverton, Ore., a master’s degree candidate in
political science. He is in the European Union studying conditions
that allowed Spain to remove fascism from its political structure and
society while Bulgaria still struggles with its transition from
communism to democracy.

http://alumni.unc.edu/article.aspx?sid=7943

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