Miami graduate student receives Fulbright grant offer, two alternates named
Three undergraduate students receive Gilman Scholarships for study abroad
Miami graduate student receives Fulbright grant offer, two alternates named
Three undergraduate students receive Gilman Scholarships for study abroad
Miami University graduate student Becca Borton ’25 has received a Fulbright grant offer, and two alumni are alternates.
The three were among five students and alumni who were semifinalists in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Borton is a master’s student in History. She majored in Integrated Social Studies Education and Political Science with minors in Music Theatre, History, and Spanish as an undergraduate student at Miami. She will be an English Teaching Assistant in Poland this fall.
Borton traveled to Poland on a program led by mentors Tom Misco, professor of Teaching, Curriculum, and Educational Inquiry, and John Forren, executive director of the Menard Center for Democracy. There she had a "brief experience teaching English, which is what initiated her interest in applying for the Fulbright," said Karla Guinigundo, director of Global Partnerships in Miami's Global Initiatives.
Alternate Sam Ross ’23 majored in Spanish with a Premedical Studies co-major and a minor in Sociology. He would be doing Medical Sciences Research in Spain.
Alternate Sarah Johnson ’24 majored in Microbiology with a Premedical Studies co-major. She would be an English Teaching Assistant in Mongolia.
Fulbright records list Miami’s first Fulbright U.S. Student Program grantee in 1949 — a research grantee to France in French language and literature.
In February, Miami was named among “Top Producing Institutions” for Fulbrights.
Gilman Scholars named
Three Miami students have been awarded a collective $9,000 from the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program to help fund their study abroad experiences.
They are:
- Peyton Morrow, a senior majoring in Biology, who will be attending Miami University’s John E. Dolibois European Center (MUDEC) this summer.
- Jordyn Pryor, a senior majoring in Games and Simulation, who will be studying eSports at Konkuk University in South Korea this summer.
- Evelyn Vonderwell, a first-year student majoring in Kinesiology, who will be attending MUDEC in the fall.
More than 100 Miami students have received Gilman Scholarships to support study abroad experiences in the past decade.
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