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Ellie Dombrowski | Friday, May 15, 2020
The class of 2020, with a total of 43 fellowship recipients, is heading into this fall with promising prospects. Of these, 25 are Fulbright grants, one is a Rhodes scholarship, 14 are Gilman scholarships and two are National Science Foundation research fellowships. With its largest number of fellowships awarded to Notre Dame students yet, Dr.
Nicole White | Monday, February 25, 2019
Notre Dame is currently hosting 11 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTAs). The FLTA program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The prestigious program supports teaching assistantships in over 30 languages at hundreds of institutions of higher learning. The program has motives similar to that of study
Ciara Hopkinson | Friday, May 18, 2018
Fourteen members of the class of 2018 will be heading off this fall to conduct research, attend graduate school or teach English with the aid of national and international fellowships and grants. The majority of those students are Fulbright grant recipients. Jeffrey Thibert, director of the Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE), said Fulbright grants
Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Twenty-seven Notre Dame students were granted Fulbright grants in the 2016-2017 program, according to a University press release. These Fulbright awardees are currently working on their projects abroad. Notre Dame was tied for second with Georgetown University in the number of Fulbright scholars this year, trailing only Brown University. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program Top
Selena Ponio | Thursday, March 3, 2016
For the second consecutive year, Notre Dame has been on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Fulbright U.S. Student Program Top Producing List. Fourteen students have received Fulbright grants for the 2015-2016 program and have been given chances to pursue their academic passions and inquiries in countries such as Brazil, Senegal, Italy and more. Mae Kilker,
Carolyn Hutyra | Thursday, February 19, 2015
Ten students from Notre Dame were awarded Fulbright grants for the 2014-15 program, ranking the University as a top-producing institution of grant recipients. Jeffrey Thibert, assistant director of national fellowships in Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE), said placement on the list is a significant honor for the University, raising its profile even further among U.S.
Tabitha Ricketts | Sunday, April 13, 2014
Saint Mary’s College hosted 2014 Fulbright Women’s Re-entry Seminar this past week. The seminar, held April 9-13, included about 45 female Fulbright graduate students from Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the Saint Mary’s press release. In the seminar, students examined the difficulties they may face in their re-entry into the professional communities of