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Eight University students will gain international experience next year with research and teaching assignments as recipients of prestigious Fulbright grants.
Crystal Denise Byrd, Regina Sierra Carter, Kimberly K. Cavanagh, Denise Leigh Dunovant, Matthew Thomas Enright, Stephanie Glotfelty, Sarah Elizabeth Schwartz, and Pamela Lauren Szathmary are 2007-08 Fulbright winners.
The Fulbright Scholarship, developed in 1946 and sponsored by the Institute of International Education, is one of the most prestigious study abroad programs for students in the United States and Abroad. In 2007 the institute awarded about 6,000 grants totaling more than $262 million to U.S. students, teachers, professionals, and scholars to study, teach, lecture, and conduct research in more than 155 countries.
Byrd graduated in May with dual degrees in mechanical engineering and Russian. She was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Russia and plans to later work with Cummins Inc. as a service engineer with the possibility of pursuing a master's degree in either engineering or linguistics.
Carter, a May graduate, was awarded an English Teaching Assistantship in Indonesia. She plans to return to the United States in 2009 to attend the University of Illinois to pursue a graduate degree in education policy studies.
Cavanagh, a 2006 master's graduate (anthropology), has been awarded a Fulbright to facilitate her Ph.D. dissertation research on the development of tourism in Jordan in light of the political economic framework of that country. Cavanagh expects to receive her Ph.D. from Carolina in 2010.
Dunovant, a May graduate, received a Fulbright Research Scholarship to investigate the ability of people in Uganda to pursue their goals following the end of the war in the north and to reestablish their lives, communities, and livelihoods.
Enright graduated in May with degrees in physics, mathematics, and French and will be a Fulbright Research Scholar in Germany. Enright plans to earn a Ph.D. to prepare him for a career in university teaching and research in nuclear physics.
Glotfelty, a graduate student in linguistics, will be teaching English in Poland as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant during the 200-09 academic year. Upon her return to the states, she plans to teach both English and ESOL and to be involved with American-Polish organizations, providing language and cultural opportunities for Polish-Americans who wish to learn more about their ancestry, culture, and language.
Schwartz, who earned an MA in geography from Carolina, has been awarded a Fulbright Research Grant to Swaziland where she will research prevention strategies for HIV/AIDS in two communities.
Szathmary is a 2004 graduate in marine science and earned a master's degree in biology in 2006. She will conduct research for her Ph.D. in marine biology in New Zealand with her Fulbright Research Award. After she has completed her Ph.D. at Carolina, she hopes to become a marine conservation biologist.
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