7 students awarded federal scholarships for study abroad
Seven undergraduates have been awarded federal Benjamin A. Gilman International Study Scholarships for the fall.
The awards averaged $3,000 and a total of 700 were awarded nationwide. The students will be traveling to Chile, Italy, Japan and Spain.
The students are:
Pei-ju Chen, a senior Philosophy major from Amherst, will be studying at Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakata City, Japan, for the fall semester.
Natasha Labbe, a senior Classics and Communications major from Randolph, will be studying in Rome, during the fall semester.
Jessica Lee, a junior Japanese and Linguistics major from La Habra, Calif., will study in Tokyo for the year.
Alina Lindblom, a junior Political Science and Philosophy major from Northborough, will study in Seville, Spain for the year.
Temari Pimentel, junior in the Isenberg School of Management from Dorchester, will be studying in Rome for the fall semester.
Joseph Stahl, a junior from Needham majoring in Journalism, will be studying in Santiago, Chile for the fall semester.
Nicole St. Pierre, senior Sociology from Fairhaven, will be studying in Hirakata City, Japan, for the fall semester.
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the congressionally funded Gilman International Study Scholarship Program aims to support students who have been traditionally underrepresented in study abroad programs. A student must be a Pell Grant recipient in order to be nominated by the Education Abroad Office.
The Education Abroad Advisors welcome student, faculty and staff inquiries about this scholarship program.
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June 15, 2009.
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