Fulbright recipients this year
With 31 students receiving Fulbright grants to study or teach abroad, Yale is this year's "top producer" among institutions participating in the prestigious awards program.
The 60-year-old international exchange program, which is funded by Congress through the U.S. State Department, offers graduate students, scholars and young professionals an opportunity to conduct research, take courses or teach around the world. It also affords students from other countries the same academic opportunities in the United States.
The largest U.S. exchange program of its kind, the Fulbright this year awarded 1,300 grants to Americans in all fields of study. The program operates in more than 140 countries.
Since Fulbrights are only granted to individuals who have already earned their bachelor's degrees, only undergraduates in their senior year are eligible to apply. The grant is applied the following academic year.
Yale College also broke its own record for number of applicants, with 58 students applying for the 2006-2007 awards, according to Linda De Laurentis, who oversees the program for undergraduates. The number of current Yale College seniors applying for 2007-2008 grants is 62, she notes.
The projects being undertaken by this year's Fulbright Scholars include studying attitudes toward disabilities in a remote town in the Himalayas, translating a major collection of Syrian short stories from Arabic to English in Damascus, working to improve the water system in a rural town in Peru and conducting research on autism at the University of Cambridge.
The Yale Fulbright winners and the countries they will be working in are: Alexander T. Dadok, Peru; Andrea C. Ezie, Mauritius; Andrew S. Paster, Peru; Argenta M. Price, Argentina; Conroy L. Chow, Taiwan; Daniel B. Levin-Becker, France; Emily Wang, Belgium; Henri S. Benaim, China; Jennifer L. Barnes, United Kingdom; John D. Murray, France; Leslie J. Root, Russia; Molly C. Lubin, India; Nahaliel I. Kanfer, Syria; Olivia S. Haesloop, Germany; Sarah R. Cannon, Ghana; Tammer M. Qaddumi, Syria; Adam J. Franklin-Lyons, Spain; Alexis E. Ringwald, India; Caitlin E. Barrett, Greece; Christina H. Moon, Korea, South; Derek T. Chester, Germany; John C. Wei, Germany; Jonathan E. Kobrinski, Australia; Lea V. Bishop, South Africa; Manuel A. Somoza, Uruguay; Melissa E. Ingersoll, Germany; Olga K. Sooudi, Japan; Reilly R. Dibner, Ireland; Sarah Cameron, Kazakhstan; Sholly M. Gunter, Uganda; and Yana Ross, Lithuania.
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With 31 winners, Yale has most Fulbright recipients this year
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