Fulbright US Student Program

Jake Hansen was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado, and throughout childhood fostered interests primarily in the areas of chemistry and mathematics. It was not until he arrived in Seattle that he began to take a serious interest in philology and language learning. Since then, he has studied abroad in St. Petersburg, been selected as recipient of several departmental awards and as an ACTR Russian Scholar Laureate, and is now completing a B.A. in Russian Language, Literature, and Culture here at UW.

With hopes to continue developing as a philologist and teacher, Hansen has applied for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Grant to Russia. While in Russia, he would work as an assistant in a university English program and also pursue the formation of collaborative relationships with young Russian authors and musicians.
Hansen has in the past collaborated with Russian authors to produce translations, including with Russian prose stylist Olga Isayeva, whose short story Avtobus (“The Bus”), a masterfully crafted portrait of everyday life in the late Soviet Union, he is currently working to get published in American literary journals.

In addition to translation praxis, Hansen is interested in the theoretical side of translation and its interaction with linguistic models. In February 2018 he delivered a talk at the Praxis Conference here at UW discussing some problems in legal translation and ways in which they have been addressed by professionals.

After spending a period of time teaching abroad, both expanding his knowledge and honing his teaching abilities, Hansen has interest in returning to American academia and continuing his development as a language specialist and scholar of Slavic Studies.

While not studying, Hansen enjoys working as a barista at the Café Allegro, spending time with friends and family, playing the drums, watching films, riding his bicycle, connecting with the natural world, and making forays into creative writing.

Yesenia Navarro is a recent graduate of the University of Washington(Class of 2017), with majors in Human Evolutionary Biology and Anthropology of Globalization. During her undergraduate career, Yesenia was very active in the fields of anthropology and research.
As a research assistant to Dr.Holman, Yesenia worked two years of her undergraduate career on a project that involved research on women’s reproductive health. In this role, she first learned how to analyze data and conduct statistical analysis. Additionally, she was introduced to programming languages that would enable further data manipulation.

Her time alongside Dr.Holman was instrumental in creating and sustaining a longtime passion for research. She soon discovered from this pivotal point in her life that she wanted to focus her career path for the prevention of infectious diseases.
Furthermore, once Yesenia graduated from the University of Washington, she attended the T.H Chan School of Public Health Summer Epidemiology Program. She learned over the course of the program, that it is through the field of Epidemiology, that bridges together the implementation of statistical strategy with community-level interactions that control and prevent the spread of disease.
Overall, her experiences as a undergraduate and postgraduate allowed Yesenia to fully comprehend her passion for public health. Her recent research interests include HIV/Tuberculosis prevention and zoonotic diseases endemic to Latin America. She is also particularly eager to learn how to use novel statistical methods to model infectious disease outbreaks.

Yesenia’s Tips for Future Fulbright Applicants:
Time management is a integral aspect of the application process. The grant writing process proved to be a daunting task. What made it manageable was creating personal deadlines and accountability to those deadlines with your mentor. Having someone to personally overlook your work and see if your are making progress its also another key to success.

Philip Palios is interested in the intersection of the environment and the humanities. He’ll start exploring that more in September through a yearlong U.S. Student Fulbright grant, earning a master’s in environment, culture and communication at the University of Glasgow Dumfries campus in southwest Scotland. Learn more about Philip in the UWB article.

Since my junior year of high school, I have been deeply involved in biomedical research, driven by a curious scientific mind and a commitment to advancing the field of medicine. These motivations guided my pursuit of an undergraduate degree in Bioengineering here at UW. Throughout my undergraduate studies, I have had the opportunity to work in many different labs across a breadth of fields. A turning point in my career came during my participation in a summer research program at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research under Dr. Michele De Palma. There, I studied a novel cancer vaccination platform that was already showing the ability to limit tumor burden in preclinical studies. Witnessing the remarkable therapeutic potential of this vaccine firsthand cemented my commitment to a career in cancer research, working toward the development of similar treatments. This experience also drove my application to the Fulbright program, which would support my return to Switzerland to continue work on this promising therapeutic.

Outside of the lab, I have participated in Bioengineers Without Borders for several years, working on the design of a low-cost hydration monitor for application in the developing world. I also strive to help prospective bioengineers through their coursework as an undergraduate teaching assistant for three different departmental classes. Following my graduation in the spring, I plan to continue both biomedical research and teaching by pursuing graduate school and an eventual academic career, where I hope to lead my own lab devoted to the translation of cancer therapeutics.

Caleb’s Tips for Future Fulbright Applicants:
Choose the country and project wisely based on how you can craft the strongest application — how can you make this specific project in this specific country relevant to your previous experiences and future goals?

After taking a gap year in Germany through the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Scholarship, Tammy entered the UW as a premedical student with an interest in global health. To supplement her premedical coursework, her background as a Lebanese American led her to pursue opportunities such as serving as an Arabic-English medical interpreter at the MAPS/MCRC health clinic in Seattle, and studying abroad in Jordan to volunteer in a Palestinian refugee health clinic through UNRWA. These experiences helped her identify a strong interest in pursuing a career in global health with a focus on underserved populations, specifically Arabic-speaking refugee/immigrant communities.

As a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grant recipient, Tammy will work with students from refugee and minority backgrounds in Germany. She hopes to contribute her Arab-American background, past experience in Germany, and teaching experience to these students and their classroom experience. At the same time, she hopes to further her career goals through this opportunity to keep working with underserved populations in international settings, and by taking concurrent coursework in Global Health.

Tammy’s Tips for Future Fulbright Applicants:
Start earlier than you think you need to, and don’t hesitate to use the many resources the UW makes available for applicants.

As a recent graduate of the University of Washington, I have applied to the Fulbright Student Program to be an English teaching assistant in Spain. As an ETA I would be able to gain invaluable experience working in a classroom with English language learners that would further prepare me to apply for a Master in Teaching program upon my return to the United States. My long-term goal is to become a dual language teacher for elementary school children, so that I am able to teach both English to native Spanish speakers and Spanish to native English speakers. After graduating from UW with a B.A. in Spanish, I strongly believe in the importance of learning a second language, as it opens up doors for communication and the understanding of different cultures, and I would love to serve as an aide to students during their academic journey.

After studying abroad in Cádiz, Spain through UW’s program, I would be excited to return to Spain to immerse myself in the Spanish language so that I can become fluent. Living abroad in Spain helped me to grow as a person and gain new experiences and I am eager to learn even more by returning. I also would be excited to travel not only around Spain, but other European countries as well. After my first visit, I have added many more places to my bucket list that I am ready to cross off!

Kylie’s Tips for Future Fulbright Applicants:
My advice would be to ask for your letters of recommendation and write your essays far in advance so that you can come into interviews confident with specific questions for improvement.

Growing up, I was fortunate to have been exposed to a variety of cultures and languages. By the beginning of high school, I had seen 5 of the 7 continents. Over the years, I transitioned from being a tourist to a cultural ambassador by setting out on each new adventure with a personal goal of furthering my understanding of the delicate and dynamic art of communication.

As a premed, I am committed towards improving access to not only quality healthcare, but also to vital resources necessary for people to live sustainable lives. Teaching English excites me because it provides people with skills necessary to take part in the larger global economy. Opening up this opportunity allows people to not only improve the quality of their own lives, but also promote social and economic development in their countries.

I hope to heighten my social perceptiveness and cultural competency, which will be useful for communicating effectively with my future patients as a doctor. Pursuing a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship would take me one step closer to this goal. As an aspiring physician, taking advantage of any opportunity to use and build upon my cultural insights will continue to inform my passion for incorporating cultural awareness into patient care.

Currently in my gap year, I enjoy working at Swedish Hospital as both a scribe in the Emergency Department and as a technician for an otolaryngologist. In my free time, I love rock climbing, playing the harp, volunteering at a nursing home, and teaching English to refugees in Seattle.

Anika’s Tips for Future Fulbright Applicants:
Scheduling meetings with the Fulbright advisors was very valuable for me. I brainstormed ideas for why I am interested in Fulbright and what makes me competitive with them, and they helped me mold my thoughts/ideas into a more coherent story. I also encourage future students to reach out to previous Fulbrighters early — names of previous winners can be found on the website, I looked them up on Facebook, sent them a message, and they were more than happy to help and answer questions. What I learned from talking to past Fulbrighters helped me determine whether this was something I truly wanted to do, and how I could frame my application in the most competitive manner possible. Whether or not I receive a Fulbright Scholarship, it is these conversations that have made me reflect on my life’s story to understand why I am where I am today, making me 100% sure of the career path I have chosen to take.

Nicole Shermer graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Washington with a B.A. in International Studies in 2016. In both the Running Start program and at UW, she engaged in extensive advocacy and organizing experience as a Campus Leader for the ONE Campaign, an organization focused on fighting extreme poverty and preventable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. She met with elected officials, campaigned on important legislation, and found a passion for global development issues.

Nicole eventually interned for both the ONE Campaign in Washington, D.C. and the African Chamber of the Pacific Northwest (ACCPNW) in Seattle. She also studied abroad in San Sebastian, Spain, during her senior year. She currently works as the Program Coordinator for the Middle East Center at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. Her Fulbright experience in Zana, Peru, will allow her to explore the intersections of sustainable environmental development and cultural history and develop valuable personal relationships within a community abroad. After the Fulbright, Nicole hopes to attend graduate school to study Environment and Development and eventually work for an international development organization.

Nicole’s Tips for Future Fulbright Applicants:
Start as early as possible – feel free to email professors and possible contacts even if you don’t feel like you have a full idea of what you want your project to be. They can help you come up with ideas and possible directions for your research. If I had done that my application process would have been a lot easier. It’s also a good idea to have an adviser or a professor look over your grant proposal many times to help you with feedback; at some point though you just have to go with your gut when people give conflicting advice or advice you disagree with. Also, make sure your recommenders know that exact date of the application deadline.

Katie Anastas graduated from the UW in August 2017 with a degree in Communication (Journalism) and a minor in Spanish. She is currently a production assistant at NPR Music.

As an undergraduate, Katie worked as a features intern at The Seattle Times, an editorial intern at Crosscut, a DJ at Rainy Dawg Radio and an editor at The Daily. She was also a research associate with the Mapping American Social Movements project in the Department of History, where she helped produce interactive maps of the United Farm Workers movement, the underground press of the Vietnam War era, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the women’s suffrage movement.

During summer quarter of 2017, Katie studied abroad in Berlin, where she learned about community responses to the arrival of immigrants and refugees. She conducted a research project comparing past and present struggles with immigrant and refugee housing in Berlin. The project allowed her to combine her love of conducting interviews, researching public policy, learning about history and producing multimedia projects.

If selected for the Fulbright program, Katie would bring her love of teaching to Spain. In high school, Katie spent her summers working as a Girl Scout camp counselor, and she eventually earned the Girl Scout Gold Award for teaching computer classes in English and Spanish to middle school girls in San Diego county. Katie hopes to learn about how education and women’s empowerment intersect in Spanish culture.

Katie’s Tips for Future Fulbright Applicants:
Try your best to meet the campus deadline for the Fulbright application. I also applied last year, but missed the campus deadline, and I realize now just how many valuable resources I was missing out on. The advisers at UW helped make my application more polished and detailed, and they pointed out areas of improvement I would have overlooked on my own.

My undergraduate studies are a direct reflection of where my passions lie. I graduated with a Bachelors of Art degree in International Studies with a focus in Global Development through the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. In addition, I double minored in Global Health and Chinese Language. Altogether, these areas of study deepened my understanding of international development and health. I aspire to allow these passions to dictate my career path which is why I am pursing Fulbright Scholarship and a career in international development. During my time at the UW, I spent four months studying abroad in Kunming, China, taking intensive Mandarin classes and conducting an independent research project on HIV and hepatitis C Co-infection. My second study abroad experience in Nepal exposed me to the the difficulties of managing aid organizations in the wake of a crippling earth quake. Now that I have finished my degree, I work for a social enterprise company, MiiR, which donates 3% of its profits to clean water initiatives and other empowerment projects. A Fulbright English Teaching Award would be the culmination to my previous experiences because it would enable me to gain a sharper understanding of international development and a deeper cross-cultural connection.

Jessica’s Tips for Future Fulbright Applicants:
Begin exploring Fulbright far ahead of the deadline due date and talk to people who have completed a similar scholarship journey.

I am from Puyallup Washington, 30 miles south of Seattle. I have two sisters, one older, one younger. My parents are both teachers in the Puyallup School District. I had the esteemed opportunity to run track and field at the UW under coaches Greg Metcalf and Jason Drake. I had a terrific experience at the UW and learned the meaning of service and connectivity. I returned to Puyallup during college and spoke at the local schools; touching on leadership qualities, goal-setting and tips on how to balance schoolwork and athletics. However, I learned from the students as much as they learned from me. The value of education is invaluable, I am taking this opportunity to teach abroad, to widen my audience and to learn from students overseas. I plan to attend law school and provide a legal service to those most in need. As an Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Spain, I will be given the communication skills necessary to provide a free legal service to the low-income members of our community, especially in Spanish-speaking areas otherwise denied access to legal aid.

Mason’s Tips for Future Fulbright Applicants:
Think and reflect on why it is you want to go or study what you study to provide a strong underlying reason as to why you deserve a certain scholarship.

I wanted to apply for the Fulbright to India because I want to gain more experience in the country, research experience and more language training. I would like the Fulbright because it is a great opportunity to meet other like-minded students and it would prepare me for grad school and/or future career.

Gary’s Tips for Future Fulbright Applicants:
Start early, because there are a lot of components that take a long time to come through. For example, some Fulbright countries require a foreign institution to serve as your sponsor. and those contacts might take a long time to reply. However, don’t let that deter you if you begin late, you never know what can happen if you don’t try.

Jessica Lo is a graduating senior who is pursuing a Bachelor’s of Science in both Neurobiology and Biochemistry. She is a neuroscientist to her core, blending a passion for work at the bench with a desire to engage people in her communities. For the past two years, Jessica has worked in a neurodevelopment lab studying autism in relation to the Tbr1 and Tbr2 genes. Specifically, her research has concentrated on characterizing these genes in the basal forebrain and midbrain. Her research is currently on its way to publication, and she hopes that her work will provide a deeper understanding of how the Tbr1/2 genes contribute to global development of glutamatergic neurons.

In her time away from lab, Jessica founded and currently acts as president of a student organization dedicated to serving survivors of brain injury. She has grown the organization from one person to thirty (and counting) in the course of a year, avidly growing partnerships with organizations in Seattle in order to provide a robust resource to the brain injury community. Jessica also interns with Full Life Care, working with survivors of brain injury in low-income situations through physical- and social-based rehabilitation.

As a Fulbright-er in the United Kingdom, Jessica sees her passion for science and communities continuing to blend together. With the support of the Fulbright commission, Jessica will work with Dr. Zoltan Molnar to understand myelination of long-range projection neurons, a process that is disrupted in diseases such as multiple sclerosis and potentially even schizophrenia. She hopes to start a similar brain injury support organization oversees at Oxford, too. In all, Jessica hopes to continue working with the brain injury community and pursuing research from the standpoint of a physician. Upon returning the US, Jessica plans to apply to medical school and eventually become a neurosurgeon.

Jessica’s Tips for Future Fulbright Applicants:
Get started early on finding an overseas contact for a letter of affiliation (if it is required). I started six months in advance and still wished that I had more time. People become busy, and it’s always a leap to reach out to someone you may not meet face-to-face. However, just be persistent and be proactive. I helped my affiliate write my letter after talking to him about his research once–it expedited the process, and I’m sure it saved him some time, too!

I was born and raised in New York and dove into uncertainty by deciding to attend the University of Washington four years ago. With an academic background studying marketing and information systems at the Foster School of Business and strong interests in social justice, I hope to pursue a career in marketing strategy and content creation for positive social impact. Throughout college I have been involved with a co-ed business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi as the VP of Community Service, founded an undergraduate chapter of Net Impact as an RSO under Foster, and co-founded an arts and culture magazine in Seattle called Human Condition. At the core of these involvements is a passion for people, curiosity to learn, and inclination to work hard and stay involved with my community. I owe a great deal to the educators, mentors, and institutions that shaped the educational journey of my life and am inspired to help shape the journey of others. Fulbright is an incredible opportunity to engage in understanding others, practicing empathy, refining communication skills, and interacting cross culturally. It embodies the values I see in marketing when it comes to building relationships and communicating ideologies through a constant willingness to learn and grow an understanding of one another. As a Fulbright Scholar semifinalist I am honored and humbled to be considered for the incredible opportunity to be an English Teaching Assistant in Taiwan. If chosen, I aim to contribute whole heartedly and learn humbly from this experience.

Jennifer’s Tips for Future Fulbright Applicants:
Like any application, I recommend doing lots of self reflection prior to and during the Fulbright application. It’s critical to truly take the time to ask yourself the tough questions and dig deeper beyond what the application questions state point blank. For example, my answer for why I chose the specific country took me weeks of questioning and thinking to get right. My number one advice is to be genuine and unique in your answers while tying it to the big picture. Don’t be afraid to reach out and ask for help, you likely won’t get this on your first, second, or even third try but it helps to have another or multiple other pair of eyes take a look at what you’re submitting!

Max graduated from the UW’s Romance Linguistics program in December 2015. As a Post-Baccalaureate student, he conducted research on Spanish-speakers’ acquisition of certain English consonants and the language attitudes to Spanish held by its speakers in Washington State. Max had the opportunity to present his research at the UW’s 5­­th Annual Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium and the Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics. Currently, he works as an Associate Spanish Teacher and a part-time ESL teacher in the Seattle area.

Before coming to the UW, Max became interested in linguistics and Spanish through a variety of experiences both at home and abroad. After minoring in Spanish at Western Washington University, Max participated in the North American Language and Cultural Assistants program in Almería, Spain, worked as an ESL instructor to adults in Mexico City, and led trips of high school students to Latin America. These experiences are what provoked his interest in linguistics.

By pursuing graduate programs in Mexico, Max hopes to gain the requisite knowledge to pursue a career that widens the American perspective of Latin America and fosters intercultural understanding. He hopes to accomplish this by applying linguistic theory to language learning, for example, by creating pedagogical materials that are optimized for students with particular language backgrounds and make us of Computer Assisted Language Learning. This could include anything from a flash card application that contains high-frequency false cognates between English and Spanish (English ‘actually’ ≠ Spanish ‘actualmente’) to lesson plans for Spanish classes that contain multimedia materials with a healthy balance of different dialect regions. In addition, Max is interested in experiencing with simultaneous bilingual instruction, that is, concurrent English instruction for Spanish-speakers and Spanish instruction for English-speakers followed by interactive activities. In addition to applied linguistics, Max is also interested in learning more about theoretical linguistics.

Benjamin Lee graduated from University of Washington in June 2015 with highest honors in Chinese and International Studies. He studied under the departmental honors programs at the Jackson School and the Asian Languages & Literatures Department.

During his junior year, Ben studied abroad in National Taiwan University as a Boren Scholar. He studied Mandarin, Taiwanese politics, and cross-strait relations. He also received the UW Presidential Scholarship for the 2014 – 2015 academic year, which funded his senior honors research project that compared how democratization in Taiwan and South Korea affected cross-Strait and inter-Korean relations. Ben presented his research findings in three different undergraduate conferences in Seattle, Cheney and Seoul.

In November 2014, Ben participated in in Strait Talk, a student conference on cross-Strait relations at Brown University. He worked as the Editor in Chief of the consensus document, which listed proposals from U.S., Chinese and Taiwanese delegates on how to maintain peace across the Taiwan Strait. Ben was also one of three undergraduate Young Global Leaders at the Slade Gorton International Policy Center, where he was awarded the Sally Gorton Leadership award for his preparation of a policy table with former U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke.

After graduation, Ben worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a junior fellow for the Asia program. He assisted senior scholars’ research on security issues in US-China relations and published several articles for the Diplomat. For the 2017-2018 academic year, he was awarded the Fulbright Research and Study Grant to China to conduct research on cross-Strait relations. Eventually, Ben would like to work in the government where he can contribute to American foreign policy in the Asia-Pacific.

Sophie Nop (Computer Science & Systems, BS ‘16) has been offered a grant from the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program to Cambodia for 2017-18. She will be spending a year in Kralanh, Cambodia and plans to work with a local NGO on a participatory research project: Her goal is to better understand how mobile app development can advance digital literacy in rural areas, and how Cambodian youth interact with technology. Huge congratulations to Sophie and to everyone who’s taught, inspired, and supported her during her time at UW Tacoma.

While at UW Tacoma, Sophie served as ASUWT president from 2015-16 and was recognized in the inaugural Husky 100 cohort. She also founded UW Tacoma Dreams Big — a technology conference to encourage everyone, especially women and people of color, to pursue STEM careers.

Alexandra was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. An avid language learner, Alexandra spends much of her free time improving her skills in Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Spanish, and Russian. After studying abroad with AFS in Latvia as a senior in high school, Alexandra moved to Scotland, where she studied International Relations at the University of St. Andrews and competed with the university’s ski team. In 2016 she transferred to the University of Washington and focused her studies on the politics, societies, and defense of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia as a Scandinavian Studies major with a Baltic focus. Inspired by her time in Latvia, where she was exposed to the country’s thriving BMX culture, Alexandra’s Fulbright research centers around the history and impact of BMX on the community of Valmiera and the relationship between grassroots and elite sports and development. She plans to return to UW’s Scandinavian Studies Department in the future as a graduate student, and pursue a career as a Baltic scholar.

Olivia Smith is a soon to be graduate from the University of Washington with a degree in Sociology, and a minor in Spanish. Throughout her time in college, Olivia has been heavily involved with First Year Programs, where she served as both an Orientation Leader and FIG Leader, as a mentor through the UW Dream Project, and the Black Student Union, in which she served as the president during her senior year. After having her first experience abroad in Spain, through a summer study abroad program, Olivia hoped that she would once more have the opportunity to explore worlds outside of the US. Combining her yearn to travel and her passion for education, Olivia is excited to pursue an English Teaching Assistant Grant through Fulbright. Through this Fulbright opportunity in Mexico, Olivia hopes to make valuable connections with students, as well as strengthen her sense of cultural awareness and competency, that will furthermore translate to her future experiences within education. Upon returning from Mexico, Olivia hopes to attend graduate school, where she can receive a master’s in education or teaching.

Kevin has been selected as a finalist for the Fulbright US Student Research Program. If selected, he will spend a year in Kampala, Uganda, studying the influence of viruses on the development of cancers at the Hutchinson Center Research Institute Uganda.

Kevin is a Senior, majoring in International Studies in the Jackson School Honors Program. Kevin is also pre-med, and plans to apply to medical schools after a gap year focused on research.

Throughout Kevin’s four years at the UW, he has been involved in student government and research. Kevin served on the leadership of the ASUW Student Senate for three years, and currently chairs the Provost Advisory Committee for Students. Kevin also works at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and participated in the Fred Hutch Summer Undergraduate Research Program in 2016. For the past three years, Kevin has also volunteered as a mentor in the UW Leaders program.

Kevin hopes to help shape a more equitable world at the intersection of research and policy, and  the Fulbright US Student Research Program would take him one step closer to this goal.

Society, Ethics, & Human Behavior and Health Studies (Bothell) major

With a high school math teacher and a university biology professor as parents, I’ve always known the importance of both education and educators. Seeing as educators develop the next generation of great minds, ideas, and innovation, my hope is eventually teach and lead a research laboratory at the university level. I’m currently in Dr. Ying Zheng’s lab where my research focuses on developing a renal cell carcinoma kidney-tumor-on-a-chip to recapitulate tumor-induced angiogenesis. The goal is to develop a microphysiological model that better simulates the human microenvironment in order to more efficiently test developing cancer therapeutics. Outside of research, I am deeply involved in student leadership as the President of the UW Chapter Biomedical Engineering Society and Co-Founder/Editor-in-Chief of Denatured Journal. In whatever spare time I have, I love to travel to new places, try new cuisines, and go to sporting events around Seattle. After graduation I plan to pursue a Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering in order to continue to develop as a researcher. After graduate school, I hope to pursue a professorship and be a leader in the classroom and the laboratory.

Law, Economics and Public Policy and Global Studies (Bothell) major

As a Fulbright Scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia I hope pursue an MA in Geography where I will study the ways human governance and economic systems influence the circulation of capital and living beings in the context of zoos, agriculture, and wildlife refuges. Canada is notable among developed nations for the portion of its economy comprised by agriculture, forestry, fossil fuel extraction, and mining, contributing globally significant exports in all these sectors.  Its large swathes of wilderness and rich environmental history also make it an ideal setting to study how these settings transform through commodification. By studying contemporary and historical land use commodity chains in Canada, I will gain a richer understanding of the issues than I could by conducting this research elsewhere. This work will propel me through a PhD and eventually professional scholarship in geography that I will use to help scholars, policymakers, and the public recognize the lands and peoples with which their lives are bound and grasp how global economic systems and the narratives people tell about them both create and confound these bounds.

As I pursue my graduate work at UBC, I also plan to spend time getting to know the people and geographies of British Columbia through recreation and volunteer work. As an avid biker, cycling will allow me to explore the Vancouver region more extensively than I would be able to on foot and more intimately than I could by car. Although British Columbia has one of the smallest Francophone populations of all Canadian provinces, I also hope to continue improving my French language skills and familiarity with francophone cultures by volunteering with Le Centre Culturel Francophone de Vancouver, an organization that hosts language courses and francophone art and cultural events in Vancouver, BC.

Senior, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (Tacoma) major

International Studies

Caleb is a builder, thinker, truth-seeker, fact-gatherer, and self-taught web designer. A true native of Seattle, Caleb loves the outdoors and a good down jacket. When he isn’t working, his bags are packed and he’s on the move. This eagerness to experience the world led him to pursue a degree from University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies.

During his time at UW, Caleb spent a semester abroad in Geneva, Switzerland studying multilateral diplomacy and sustainable development. While there, he conducted research for the Global Institute for Water, Environment, and Health on the utility of private sector investment in alleviating environmental crises. This research led Caleb to develop an intense curiosity for clean technologies and how they can be used to overcome social and environmental challenges. The following year Caleb participated in a task force researching approaches to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030. His section of the report evaluated current development practices in South and Southeast Asia and identified strategies for reforming aid practices to better assist in promoting economic development and protecting the environment.

After graduating, Caleb worked as the Washington Policy Associate for the Seattle-based clean energy economy nonprofit, Climate Solutions. There he served as the lead analyst for legislative and regulatory policy development covering state and federal climate policy, clean energy, carbon markets, utility regulation, and transportation fuels. Most recently, Caleb has been working as a research partner with a cohort of urban sustainability professionals, developing a report identifying pathways to improve the efficacy of urban climate action programs.

Caleb also serves on the board of the nonprofit New Dawn Guatemala, an organization that works to foster ecological sustainability, economic vitality, and educational advancement in rural Guatemalan communities. In 2016, Caleb traveled down to Guatemala with a film crew to collect footage for a documentary film about the economic, political, and environmental pressures inflicting these communities.

Drama and English major

Senior, Social Welfare major

Rachel Abramson is a graduating senior in Honors Anthropology, completing the Medical Anthropology and Global Health option. She will be conducting research on childhood nutrition and obesity in Chengdu, China during her Fulbright year. Rachel is focusing on how increasing childhood obesity may be related to other changes that urban and rural families are experiencing around Chengdu, specifically urbanization and globalization. This topic stems from her Honors Thesis, which looked at the relationship between childhood obesity and household composition (presence of one or both parents, grandparents, and/or siblings). While her honors research provided a big-picture view of childhood nutrition in China, she hopes her Fulbright research will contribute to a better understanding of the underlying cause and effect.

Like many developing nations, China is transitioning away from acute disease toward chronic, and nutrition is a key factor in these changes. Rachel is fascinated by these global health trends, and as half-Chinese, is interested in China’s public health problems in particular. She has taken four years of Mandarin as an undergraduate, with her 3rd year of Chinese taken intensively in a summer abroad at Sichuan University in Chengdu. Rachel looks forward to returning to Chengdu to conduct her Fulbright research. She will be working with an epidemiologist at Sichuan University’s School of Public Health to conduct a field study on the local nutritional changes. Rachel hopes to pursue a degree in epidemiology and ultimately a career in global health.

Margaret Babayan is a UW graduate with a B.S. in Public Health, the daughter of Armenian immigrants, and an advocate for human rights and health equity. Having once struggled to read and write in English, Margaret was thrilled to help students build their confidence in writing as a Writing Adviser at the Center for Learning & Undergraduate Enrichment (CLUE). Working one on one with students at CLUE piqued her interest in pursuing an English Teaching Assistantship in Armenia.

After graduating, Margaret continued her work with Health Equity Circle as a core leadership team member and co-instructor for “Community Organizing for Health Equity,” an inter-professional UW seminar. Margaret also found opportunities to engage with human rights off campus as a Commissioner, and later Co-Chair, for the Seattle Human Rights Commission.

Margaret plans to pursue a Master’s Degree in Public Health after completing her year in Armenia. She hopes her time there will be an exercise in pedagogy that will inform a career in community-driven public health practice and policy development. She sees parallels between how Fulbright ETAs build trust within their classrooms and how public health professionals form relationships within the communities they collaborate with. By working closely with students in the classroom, Margaret hopes to cultivate the leadership capacity necessary for a career in public health, all the while advancing her fluency in Armenian and promoting mutual understanding between Armenia and the United States.

Taylor Boyd is a senior in the interdisciplinary honors program, studying neurobiology, and could not be more excited to dive into post-graduation life as a teacher in South Korea so that she can use her global life experiences, and passion for teaching and empowering young people , to encourage student success and confidence. It was the completion of her final honors research project on Korean language and education, during which she learned about the barriers in heritage language retention, faced by many Korean immigrants and first generation Korean-Americans students attending public schools in Washington, which sparked her love and interest in Korean culture.

During the past three years as a Student Ambassador for the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity and also as a youth ESL tutor, she has been using tutoring and college-readiness assistance to help minority, refugee and first-generation students recognize their true personal and academic potentials. Further, her experiences of teaching, researching and volunteering in the Vhembe District of South Africa, Southern India and Darien Panama have taught her how to adapt quickly to new learning and teaching environments and cater more effectively to students of diverse backgrounds. These are skills, which she believes will allow her to be an effective teacher and help students in Korea thrive by creating culturally competent, innovative and intellectually stimulating lessons on learning the English language.

After her Fulbright Tay plans to join the next generation of health professionals by earning her MD-PhD and becoming a researcher, professor and a physician for Doctors Without Borders – a career choice which will definitely allow her to utilize what she has learned abroad about the beauty and power of cross-cultural learning and teaching.

Kelsey Brewster is a graduating senior in the Jackson School of International Studies. Her formative years growing up in Germany and in 5 different states along the East Coast have fueled her passion for international affairs and travel. When she arrived at the UW in 2012, she followed her interests abroad and spent a year in Lyon, France at Université Jean Moulin.

Her time at UW has been spent learning about global affairs as well as what is happening right here in Seattle. She spent a summer interning for Horn of Africa Services, a non-profit focused on empowering the East African community of Seattle. Kelsey participated in their Summer Youth Engagement Program (SYEP), where she helped lead lesson plans and develop curriculum for the SYEP on the topics of healthy eating, active living, cultural competency, environmental stewardship, and community engagement. She hopes to apply some of what she learned to her teaching assistantship in Malaysia.

Following her Fulbright, Kelsey is not too sure what her future holds. She plans to pursue graduate studies or a career in diplomacy or the foreign service. She hopes to have a clearer idea after her time in Malaysia teaching English and enhancing cross-cultural relations. She is thrilled at having been selected for the Fulbright Fellowship and can’t wait to see what her time in Malaysia has in store for her.

Elizabeth Castro grew up in Mesa, Washington and Veracruz, Mexico. She identifies as the daughter of farm workers, as this term captures many of her childhood experiences crisscrossing between rural communities in two countries.

At the age of seventeen, Elizabeth was selected as a Junior Counselor in South Korea’s Camp Fulbright. In order to pay for a flight across the Pacific Ocean, Elizabeth worked thinning apple trees in Washington orchards and held a local fundraiser. Camp Fulbright is a two-week English language immersion program. Living and working with Korean students and engaging in cultural exchange convinced Elizabeth she would one day apply to become a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant.

Elizabeth and her older sister, Jessica, make up the first-generation in their family to attend college. Elizabeth graduated from Columbia Basin College, where she attended as a Washington Running Start student. At UW, Elizabeth has actively participated in the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP), which serves students from a seasonal and migrant farmworker background during their transition to campus.

Elizabeth is now a senior in the UW Jackson School of International Studies. Her Task Force research explored post-secondary education for indigenous students in the Canadian Arctic and increased her awareness of Inuit language education. As a Ronald E. McNair Scholar, her current work highlights Mexican student advocacy in rural teacher colleges.

Elizabeth knows the process of language acquisition is a critical aspect in the lives of many underrepresented, low-income Latinx youth. Raised in a Spanish-speaking home, Elizabeth once confessed to her father her struggle to understand her teacher. She looks forward to a year of learning and growth as she supports students in Mexico who are learning English. Upon completion of her Fulbright award, Elizabeth will transition to the Education Policy and Management master’s program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Tessa Fager will graduate in June 2016 with a double major in Political Science and Near Eastern Languages and Civilization (NELC). She was first introduced to Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies after she was awarded a National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) to study abroad in Morocco the fall after graduating high school. Tessa has since dedicated her collegiate studies and extracurricular activities to expand her knowledge and familiarity of the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region. For two years she served as an officer for the national student initiative Project Nur, which seeks to create a discourse of cross-cultural understanding of MENA peoples and culture on college campuses.

Eager to gain more experience living in the MENA region, Tessa spent her junior undergraduate year in Amman, Jordan where she studied Arabic at Qasid Language Institute. In additional to daily language classes, she volunteered with Dar al-Yasmin, a local NGO, teaching English to local Jordanians and Syrian refugees in Zaatari Village. Her time in Jordan was a valuable experience that inspired her to apply to the Fulbright program. She now looks forward to returning to Jordan to both continue her Arabic studies and share the gift of language learning with others as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant.

During the summer of 2015, Tessa had the opportunity to study at Howard University as a Rangel Scholar, which exposed her to various public sector careers. The Rangel Program helped shape her career goals and subsequently confirmed her ambitions to enter a career in public service. Upon returning from her Fulbright, Tessa plans to apply to graduate school for a master’s in Public Policy. She hopes to use her language and knowledge of the MENA to contribute to global development, influence international policy, and inspire cross-cultural understanding.

Emma Kibort-Crocker was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. After graduating high school a year early, she spent two months in Ghana on a service-learning trip before moving to Rhode Island to complete a year of service with the AmeriCorps program City Year. She worked full-time in the lowest performing middle school in the state, tutoring and mentoring at-risk students during the day and running after school programs aimed to expand students’ horizons through international studies and wellness initiatives.

She returned to Seattle for college to attend the University of Washington where she studies literature and education. She has continued to work with at-risk youth throughout college, and has enjoyed working with many diverse communities in Seattle. She is currently an intern with the International Rescue Committee’s resettlement programs in King County, where she has facilitated cultural orientation classes, run a summer day camp, and worked with families and youth on school enrollment and preparation.

As an ETA in Vietnam, Emma hopes to utilize her experience in the field of education to connect with her students academically and personally and help them improve their English language skills. She also hopes to increase her own understanding of Vietnamese culture and language and explore the beautiful country of Vietnam. After Fulbright, Emma plans to obtain a Masters in Public Administration to aid and empower vulnerable populations.

Class of 2014, Civil Engineering major

Class of 2015, Near Eastern Studies Language and Civilization and English major

Hamda Yusuf is a senior majoring in International Studies and minoring in German and African Studies. She is a Somali-American and calls both Hargeisa, Somalia and Seattle, Washington home. Hamda has been heavily involved with the Somali Student Association on campus and served as the Community Affairs Officer. Earlier in the school year she was able to intern with Senator Maria Cantwell’s Seattle office where she focused on immigration and visa issues. During her time at UW she developed a passion for studying immigration pathways, cultural studies, and human rights. These passions were a big motivation in her applying for the Community Based Combined Grant in Austria during the 2016-2017 year. Having already participated in the Spring in Vienna study abroad program her sophomore year, Hamda feels well prepared to return to a city that she found both beautiful and perplexing. She will work as an English teaching assistant in an Austrian secondary school, attend classes at the University of Vienna, and work with an organization that finds better housing for refugees in Austria. If she manages to have any free time, she hopes to fulfill her dream of hiking parts of the Alps.

After her Fulbright year, Hamda plans to join the Rangel Fellowship Program and do her graduate studies at the New School’s Milano School of International Affairs in New York City where she will focus on conflict and security. Hamda hopes to eventually serve as a consular officer for the Foreign Service, where she will be able to work to promote security and increase understanding between nations. As a first-generation college student, Hamda wants to recognize her parents for always motivating her to be a positive force in the world.

Class of 2015, Math and Economics major

Class of 2015, Business Administration major

Class of 2015, Anthropology major

Class of 2015, Environmental Science & Resource Management and Environmental Studies major

Political Science, Philosophy, and Economics major

Global Studies major

Biochemistry and Communication major

Sustainable Urban Development major

Drama and English major

Shannon Foss is a 2015 UW graduate with double majors in Comparative History of Ideas and Communication and Interdisciplinary Honors. She became interested in education after taking several classes in the Honors program and working as a tutor both through the UW Pipeline Project and at the Odegaard Writing and Research Center (OWRC). The latter of these experiences also fostered her interest in English Language Learning, which was part of her motivation for applying to be an English Teaching Assistant in Romania during the 2015-16 year.

Another influencing factor was her experience studying abroad in Romania during the early fall of 2013, when she went on an Exploration Seminar with Professor Ileana Marin and wrote her final essay for the program on the discursive elements of post-Communist higher education. Since this experience she has continued to use discourse studies and rhetoric as frameworks for approaching issues in education. Her CHID senior thesis mobilizes rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis to examine the genre of the U.S. college applications essay and to critique the ways in which knowledge about it is commodified. She also gained further international experience while studying abroad in Prague with the CHID department in Autumn 2014, visiting several other Central and Eastern European countries in the process.

As an ETA in Romania, Shannon hopes to employ the pedagogical principles she has acquired as a tutor at the OWRC to Romanian higher education while simultaneously studying and learning from the country’s rhetorical environment. She is also excited about the opportunity for cultural exchange that the program will provide and hopes to strengthen her Romanian language skills. After her year with Fulbright, she plans to pursue a graduate education in discourse studies or rhetoric.

Senior, Economics major

Jade Graddy is a native of Eatonville, Washington located in the shadow of Mt. Rainier and possessing a single traffic light. Despite her small town roots Jade has always had big dreams, and following her graduation from Washington State’s Running Start program opted to pursue a gap year with an AmeriCorps program based in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle. During her service term, she worked as an ESL literacy tutor with students from a diverse array of backgrounds and this experience motivated her to study Linguistics with a minor in Human Rights at the University of Washington.

During her time at UW Jade was deeply involved in social justice pursuits including SARVA and the Dream Project. She led a College of Education-sponsored seminar discussing institutionalized racism and classism in the US education system for student leaders and ultimately impacted over 1200 students in the Greater Seattle Area. While an undergraduate, Jade was also able to study abroad through the School for International Training’s program in Rabat, Morocco, where she conducted a creative research project on Amazigh language and identity.

After earning her degree at the University of Washington, Jade knew she wanted to continue to broaden her horizons and was selected as an international intern with Tomorrow’s Youth Organization in Nablus, Palestine. Her time in the West Bank was incredibly impactful, and has shaped her desire to pursue a career in diplomacy in the future.

While in Jordan, Jade will be teaching English and volunteering with refugee communities in Amman. She is thrilled for this next chapter and the opportunity to represent UW and the USA as a cultural ambassador in the Middle East.

As a 2015 Bioengineering graduate, Sharon Newman will be conducting research on neuroprosthetic devices in her Fulbright year. Her fascination with neuroprosthetic systems and brain-computer interfaces stems from her undergraduate work. For the past four years, she has worked in the BioRobotics Laboratory on topics ranging from low-cost synthetic tissues and 3D printed surgical training tools, to automating robotic sensory mapping. Additionally, Sharon worked to simulate a more natural gait cycle in exoskeletal robots during a summer internship in Taiwan.

Outside of the lab, Sharon is involved with outreach to younger students through elementary science fairs, a coding camp, and volunteering and judging at FIRST robotics competitions. She has also developed a bioengineering high school curriculum with the Gates Foundation and is a UW Residential Advisor. Throughout her undergraduate career, Sharon has striven to inspire peers and younger students to explore the world around them and to nurture their curiosity for science.

Following her graduation, Sharon will be working in Germany and collaborating with universities and hospitals in Switzerland and Italy to analyze neural signals for use in prosthetics. By working internationally, she hopes to utilize diverse ideas to create more effective healthcare and medical technology. After her Fulbright year, Sharon hopes to pursue a medical degree and continue her research helping to increase the accessibility of assistive devices.

Though only five credits away from receiving his degree in History and Near Eastern Studies, Richard Ruoff decided to spend a year studying abroad at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, intending to gain firsthand experience and understanding in the language, culture and history of Turkey in preparation for a graduate program specializing in Ottoman studies. He hopes this will lay the foundation of a successful career in academia.

He has gained invaluable experience and knowledge in his time abroad, but Richard, having once questioned whether he would be ready for Istanbul, now realizes with some bemusement how ready Istanbul was for him. Living and studying in an area with a mostly bilingual population, Richard has found it difficult to exercise his Turkish within a community that hospitably yet insistently accommodates the needs of the foreign students of Istanbul. While he greatly appreciates being treated as an honored guest in a foreign land, Richard knows his desire to become fully fluent in the Turkish language and break down the barrier between Foreigner and Native demands that he relocate to a more immersive environment. Having traveled the Anatolian heartland, he knows how much one’s language ability can grow when falling back on English is no longer an option. For this reason, Richard applied for the Fulbright Program in order to work in a newly-established university in a provincial locale far away from the cosmopolitan metropolis of Istanbul, where he hopes to absorb the language living less urbanized and more traditional parts of Turkish society.

While Richard looks forward to living and learning in a region where English is virtually unknown, he also intends to help his host community take a step toward changing the status quo. Having accepted a Fulbright English Teaching Assistanceship, he looks forward to providing his future students with prolonged exposure and access to a native speaker, which Richard knows can be a rare sight outside of Turkey’s main tourist cities. He hopes it will be a relationship of great mutual benefit.

Katherine Schroeder is a graduating senior in the Jackson School of International Studies Honors Program. When she was fifteen, she received a grant to travel from her rural hometown in Central Washington to Gatchina, Russia for a language immersion program. This began her lifelong passion for Russian studies, helped her understand the value of foreign language education for cross-cultural understanding, and ultimately led to her desire to apply for a Fulbright English teaching position in Russia.

While at the Jackson School, Katherine undertook a senior thesis on online protest groups in Russia, and the intersection between discourse and historical narratives. This project involved ethnographic research in Kazan, Russia during the summer of 2014, as well as textual analysis in Russia. Not only does she hope to continue to explore the power of social media in Russia next year through the Fulbright ETA program, her desire to serve as a teacher has been motivated by her time as a writing tutor at the Political Science writing department, as well as her involvement with the Freshman Interest Group (FIG) program. These teaching experiences helped her explore the challenges and rewards of conveying knowledge to students. While in Russia, such experiences will help her work with students in a new cultural setting. She hopes her time with the Fulbright ETA program will allow her to make a positive difference for Russian students, and allow them to explore their own academic and political passions. After her time with Fulbright, Katherine plans to attend law school and eventually work in international law.

Clara Summers graduated from UW cum laude in 2014 with a BA in Honors Anthropology and Czech Language, and a minor in Environmental Science. Following graduation she joined Episcopal Service Corps in Baltimore, a program that combines community living with work at a non-profit. Clara works as the Maryland Program Associate for Interfaith Power & Light, an organization that does climate change education and advocacy with faith communities.

Having spent two years of her childhood in Indonesia, Clara is excited to return to Indonesia with a Fulbright ETA fellowship and get a new perspective on a country that shaped her in so many ways. While in Indonesia, Clara hopes to achieve fluency in Bahasa Indonesia (which she studied throughout her time at UW) and get involved in local conservation and agricultural work.

In the long term, Clara is interested in a career in international social and/or environmental justice, and hopes to apply her Fulbright experience to further intercultural dialogue and understanding.

Senior, Anthropology major

Senior, Medical Anthropology and Global Health major

Nursing (Bothell)

Class of 2014, Public Health and Comparative History of Ideas (CHID) major

Class of 2014, Society, Ethics, & Human Behavior (Bothell) major

Interdisciplinary Studies: Law, Economics, Public Policy (Bothell) major

n May 2011 and summer 2012, Julia Evans volunteered in boarding houses in Arequipa and Macusani, Peru teaching English to the children who lived there, several of whom were orphans. These children were incredibly impoverished and underprivileged, so much so that they would have to walk a mile just to wash their clothes in a dirty river. Julia saw teaching English as preparing them for an increasingly globalized world and a brighter future. In 2013, Julia participated in a 3-month study abroad program in Quito, Ecuador. While there, she took classes at the Andean Center for Latin American Studies, lived with a local family, and volunteered at an association that works with terminally ill children.

These experiences in Peru and Ecuador reinforced her desire to become an ESL/Spanish teacher, and cultivated in her a deep fondness for South America. Since then, Julia has studied at the UW as a Spanish and Romance Linguistics double-major, graduated Cum Laude in March 2014, volunteered as a tutor for bilingual elementary students through Union Gospel Mission as well as an In-class facilitator for UW’s International English Language Program. As an English Teaching Assistant (ETA) in Bogota, Colombia, Julia hopes to help her students achieve native-like English pronunciation through a method known as articulatory phonetic training (APT). This technique aims to lessen a foreign accent by explicitly instructing language learners on the manner and place of articulation of target-language sounds. Julia began researching APT for her Romance linguistics senior capstone project and hopes to use her experience in Colombia as a springboard for her thesis in graduate school where she will continue researching it more in-depth.

Julia is grateful for this opportunity provided through the Fulbright grant and looks forward to living in Bogota for a year. In the future, Julia hopes to attend graduate school, serve in the Peace Corps, teach ESL/Spanish abroad, learn more languages, travel the world, and further her understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity.

Philmon Haile’s background, formative events in his early years, participation in OneWorld Now!, and his pursuit of higher education have fueled his passion to address global issues of equal access to education for underrepresented youth. Philmon was born in Sudan to Eritrean parents, who were both soldiers in the Eritrean War of Independence. He arrived as a refugee in Seattle at age three. He speaks Mandarin, Arabic, and Tigrinya.

Through OneWorld Now! (OWN), a global leadership program for underserved high school students, Philmon began to study Mandarin Chinese and develop leadership skills. Through the support of OWN, he spent his junior year in the U.S. House of Representatives Page Program. In his senior year of high school, he was awarded an OWN study abroad scholarship to Anshan, China for an academic year where he attended a local high school.

Following high school graduation, Philmon was accepted to Swarthmore College, where he was involved in a Chinese NGO that promotes awareness of Hansen’s disease survivors, leading a work camp in a rural village in Southern China recovering from the disease. At UW, he began to study Arabic, earning a U.S. State Department internship working at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing with Ambassador Gary Locke. Last summer, he studied Arabic in Jordan and began formulating his Fulbright research project while there.

Philmon was recently chosen to speak on a panel and present an award to Ambassador Gary Locke in Washington, D.C. Soon after, First Lady Michelle Obama quoted Philmon in a major speech in Beijing about the importance of studying abroad. After his Fulbright year in Jordan, Philmon will begin graduate study as a Rangel Fellow and looks forward to a career in the State Department Foreign Service.

As a 2014 graduate of bioengineering, Hani Mahmoud spent a significant portion of his undergraduate career in research labs designing everything from surgical robots to devices to study the mechanics of proteins involved in strokes and heart attacks. When not in the lab, he could often be found around Seattle, collaborating with local institutions, striving to help reinvent the future of medicine. In the past, Hani had the opportunity to apply his bioengineering skills as an intern at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Philips Healthcare. He also worked with global health organizations like PATH and the Gates Foundation to develop novel tools for low-resource settings. Although Hani enjoys bioengineering work, he feels he is neither content nor realizing his full potential when limited solely to the lab. As a “people-person” and a cultural enthusiast, he embraces opportunities to become a more versatile scientist by first ensuring that he is an informed and engaged world citizen. Throughout his college career, Hani made it a priority to balance his engineering roles with interpersonal roles in which he could learn from others, share his knowledge, and work with many new people from diverse backgrounds. Over time, he has developed an affinity for educational roles, serving as a Peer Educator, Adviser, Dream Project Mentor, and Student-Athlete Tutor. He also enjoyed sharing science and medicine with local youth, engaging in educational outreach through the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research, UW, and the Pacific Science Center.

Next year, Hani intends to continue impacting medicine and making global connections by undertaking research and educational outreach as a Fulbrighter at Dasman Diabetes Institute (DDI) in Kuwait. In an effort to improve Kuwaiti health by decreasing diabetes rates (currently 25% of the population), Hani proposes to interview and study molecular samples from children exposed to a video game-based exercise routine. This will allow him to both study the molecular basis of exercise and develop lifestyle-based solutions to prevent diabetes. He will also participate in DDI’s educational outreach, hosting camps for local youth and visiting Kuwaiti schools and health centers. Hani hopes his work at DDI will foster collaboration between Americans and Kuwaitis, using their diverse perspectives and resources to attack shared issues from different angles.

After Fulbright, Hani intends to pursue an MD/PhD, allowing him to continue his medical research, and supplementing it with people-facing clinical work as a doctor who teaches and practices in both the US and Middle East.

Business Administration (Bothell) major

Vincent Pham is a graduating senior in the Honors Department of the English Language & Literature program. As the son of Vietnamese immigrants, he had to reconcile the two demands of honoring everything his family did to provide him a good education while understanding that he had to live his own life. He luckily received a renewable scholarship intended for those who are passionate about a career in education. The experience of receiving this scholarship has offered Vincent the security and confidence to pursue his academic interests. More importantly, this experience has shown him that a single scholarship can change the narrative of not only a student’s education, but a family’s also. Therefore Vincent has been thrilled to be able to work so extensively with college access/scholarship literacy programs like the University of Washington Dream Project and the non-profit Scholarship Junkies.

At the University of Washington, Vincent been able to participate in an active community of undergraduate students interested in the relationship between higher education and social mobility. However, Vincent is interested to see how education can be a catalyst for social change in other countries, which is why he believes that serving as both a teacher and cultural ambassador in Vietnam will be so essential to his development into the best teacher and education advocate he can be.

Following his time with Fulbright, Vincent will examine other opportunities to teach overseas and experience education in different contexts before returning back to receive a Masters’ degree to teach in a low-income, urban high school for five to ten years. Eventually, he wants to use his experiences of working with underrepresented and marginalized communities as a basis for an Ed.D at a university. From there he wants to work with undergraduate students as they critically reflect on the intersectional ties in their identities and lives and use this personal growth to support others in a way that affirms, instead of patronizes underrepresented communities.

Emi Preston graduated in June 2014 as a Spanish major and Chinese minor in the University Interdisciplinary Honors Program. Her appetite for exploration, cultivated as a child living in seven different states, has led her to study abroad in Japan, Hawaii, and Spain throughout her academic career.

Her attraction to Taiwan stems from a desire to understand the unity and diversity that permeates Chinese culture. She hopes to add context to her comprehension and develop her skills as an instructor. Outside the classroom, she has had experience teaching and mentoring in a number of capacities: ESL tutor, Honors peer mentor, Vice President of Alumni Relations in Alpha Kappa Psi, and certified personal trainer. Unable to choose between pursuing language and fitness education in the future, Emi hopes her Fulbright experience will shed light upon a way to merge her two passions.

Kevin Shaw will be going to Sichuan Province in China to study the effects of rapid urbanization on rural and peri-urban access to health care. He hopes to shed light on the intersection of China’s public health and urbanization policies and their implications for village residents and economic migrants. Before the beginning of his fellowship, he will spend four months strengthening his Chinese language skills in the city of Harbin. He is excited and grateful for the chance to redeem his literacy after years of procrastinating through Chinese school.

In August 2013, Kevin graduated from the University of Washington, where he double majored in International Studies and Law, Societies & Justice with a minor in Global Health. As a student, he worked with Amnesty International USA, Williamsworks, and the Council on Foreign Relations on projects relating to immigrants’ rights, neglected tropical disease, and universal health coverage. Before graduating, he attended a planning fieldwork studio in rural China that laid the groundwork for his Fulbright project proposal. He went on to work as a research assistant in the Department of Social Medicine at National Taiwan University, where he studies the effects of globalization on medical education.

Since September 2013, Kevin has lived and worked in Taiwan, where his parents were born. More than simply a research opportunity, the Fulbright presents the chance to continue an exploration: of roots, history, language, and diaspora.

Taylor Sloane graduated from the University of Washington in 2010 magna cum laude from the Honors Department with concentrations in Finance and Accounting. Taylor’s love of Spanish and Latin America was kindled in 2008 when he studied abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since that time Taylor has travelled regularly to Latin America including Brazil where he lived for three months to learn Portuguese. It was these experiences that solidified Taylor’s desire to pursue international business in Latin America as he sees it as a way to both have a meaningful career and explore the world. Taylor would like to thank the professors he had at the University of Washington including Clarke Speed, Tod Bergstrom, and Alan Hess for helping him mold his doughy young mind.

After graduating from the University of Washington, Taylor worked as a CPA at a Big Four accounting firm in San Francisco for three years where he became an Excel wizard and gained valuable practical work experience. During this time Taylor volunteered his skills in Spanish and as a CPA to help lower-income Bay Area families prepare tax returns. He also coordinated corporate volunteer opportunities with local social enterprises like The Bread Project.

During his Fulbright Taylor will be studying international business at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and interning at an international organization in Mexico City. Taylor is very excited to learn more about international business between the United States and Mexico as well as the social and political context of doing business in Mexico and Latin America. He plans to complement these activities with a healthy dose of playing soccer, making friends, volunteering, and eating street tacos.

Following the Fulbright, Taylor will attend the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC to pursue a Master of Arts in International Studies with focuses on International Economics and Energy, Resources, & Environment.

Senior, International Studies and Law, Society & Justice major

Norwegian and Psychology major

Nursing (Bothell)

Gennie Gebhart, a Sacramento native and now a proud Seattlite, grew up exploring libraries. Gennie plans to graduate from the University of Washington in June 2013 with a degree in International Studies and Economics. While her academic studies at the UW have focused on environmental economics and international energy politics, she is aiming to extend these fields of study into a career in information justice and international librarianship.

The UW Libraries have opened countless doors for Gennie, and she owes her current informatics skills and aspirations to them. Having worked at the UW Libraries‘ Odegaard Undergraduate Library, the Northwest branch of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, and the UW’s Media Center (the main multimedia library), Gennie has had hands-on experience in what it takes to keep a university library running from day to day through everything from budget cuts to large-scale renovations.

Gennie’s introduction to the art and study of cinema at the Media Center has led to her current senior Honors thesis on Italian film, which she has been fortunate to undertake in Rome during winter quarter 2013. Her activities in Italy so far have included trips to Naples for Christmas and New Years with strangers-turned-family, trying to fix her apartment’s water heater, and speaking as much Italian as possible.

Gennie’s greatest passion lies in the problem-solving and advocacy she has found as a student representative on the UW’s Library Student Advisory Committee and Faculty Council on University Libraries. In these groups, terms like “open access,” “information justice,” and “digital commons” have taken on tangible and urgent meaning. Gennie hopes to enter the global open access debate armed with international experience, a multidisciplinary education, and constant mindfulness of the vital human side of digital information technology. Gennie is a Luce Scholar.

Jade Graddy is a native of Eatonville, Washington located in the shadow of Mt. Rainier and possessing a single traffic light. Despite her small town roots Jade has always had big dreams, and following her graduation from Washington State’s Running Start program opted to pursue a gap year with an AmeriCorps program based in the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle. During her service term, she worked as an ESL literacy tutor with students from a diverse array of backgrounds and this experience motivated her to study Linguistics with a minor in Human Rights at the University of Washington.

During her time at UW Jade was deeply involved in social justice pursuits including SARVA and the Dream Project. She led a College of Education-sponsored seminar discussing institutionalized racism and classism in the US education system for student leaders and ultimately impacted over 1200 students in the Greater Seattle Area. While an undergraduate, Jade was also able to study abroad through the School for International Training’s program in Rabat, Morocco, where she conducted a creative research project on Amazigh language and identity.

After earning her degree at the University of Washington, Jade knew she wanted to continue to broaden her horizons and was selected as an international intern with Tomorrow’s Youth Organization in Nablus, Palestine. Her time in the West Bank was incredibly impactful, and has shaped her desire to pursue a career in diplomacy in the future.

Environmental Science major

History major

Chinese Language & Literature and International Studies: Asia major

Taylor Boren will research the evolving disability rights movement within Sweden—particularly, the unexpected intersection between the rise of dual-income households and disability decentralization, which has negatively affected many Swedish children with disabilities. Working in tandem with Jönköping University, he will distill his findings into policy proposals for the global disability movement and present these findings via lecture at the Swedish Institute for Disability Research (SIDR).

In June 2012, he graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts in Law, Societies, and Justice (with Departmental Honors); a Bachelor of Science in Psychology; and minors in Philosophy, Political Science, and Human Rights. Inspired by an Honors Seminar on international law and disability rights during his junior year, Taylor began designing and implementing disability-related social justice projects through the Bipartisan Coalition, an organization which he had founded a year prior. Last spring, for instance, he led a campaign to finance disability-related efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa; this effort ultimately garnered the endorsement of Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI), an NGO that helped the United Nations craft its recent Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Taylor has also worked to scientifically further the disability movement through the Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors, helping design studies to identify better treatments for psychological disabilities such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Finally, Taylor has explored international disability rights through an academic lens, completing a topical Honors Thesis (on the intersection between disability and Jewish Law in Israel) as well as a Senior Thesis (on the modern-day disability movement in Sweden)— the latter serving as the basis for his upcoming research throughout Sweden.

Ultimately, Taylor aspires to further the global disability movement—through continued disability-related research and, via further education, a career in disability law.

Merzamie Sison Cagaitan (Mimi) is a graduating senior in the Honors Department of both English Language & Literature and Comparative History of Ideas (CHID). A first-generation immigrant and first-generation college student in the U.S., Mimi grew up believing in the promise of education to not only empower and liberate, but also to enrich and facilitate a kind of cross-cultural story-sharing that has informed much of her independent work as a McNair, Presidential, MacRae, and Mary Gates Research Scholar.

Mimi believes teaching in South Korea will be an important and relevant step in broadening her understanding of cultural identity and the effects of globalization. Consistently demonstrating great capacity for mentoring and teaching, Mimi has served as a tutor/mentor for UW’s Student Academic Programs, Dream Project, and YouthCare’s Casa de los Amigos. Mimi also served two years as a Resident Adviser on campus, three years as a Freshman Interest Group Peer Instructor, and two quarters as a Peer Facilitator in a class she designed and taught through CHID.

Her time in South Korea will help her further develop the abilities she needs to be an effective educator in what, someday, she hopes will be borderless classrooms. Her desire to teach in South Korea grows out of a fascination with its education system that is simultaneously extolled and criticized for producing overachieving exceptional students. Mimi wants to understand the reasons behind this ambivalence.

Following her Fulbright teaching appointment, Mimi will pursue a Ph.D. in English, and a position as an English professor at a university. She hopes to continue her studies on the cultural and corporeal geographies of transnationalism in literature, to implement her own educational programs addressing diversity and difference, and to research and teach on the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, and national identity in the lives of today’s increasingly mobile global population.

Jeremy Coppock originally applied for a Fulbright ETA in Russia, but was waitlisted. He was then contacted by the Fulbright staff and asked if he would be interested in going to Belarus instead. He could not pass up such an opportunity. Jeremy double majored in Russian and Eastern European Literature, Languages, and Culture (Czech). He has been interested in this part of the world since high school, when he first started taking Russian. As a junior in college, Jeremy studied abroad for a year in Moscow, where he had many opportunities. Besides taking Russian language and culture classes, he travelled widely throughout European Russia with friends. Jeremy tutored Russians at the Center for American Education on how to write an application essay for American colleges and also gave several presentations about college culture in America. He held informal English conversation classes for friends of friends, gaining experience teaching English. He was also able to take independent translation classes with a visiting scholar. Upon his return to the United States, Jeremy continued studying Russian language, literature, translation, and Czech. He also completed an honors thesis about Nabokov’s last novel in Russian, The Gift.

Natalie Downs graduated from the UW in March 2013 with a double degree in Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Italian Studies. During her studies she pursued both science and language education in the hopes of becoming an educator, and as such worked to gain as much teaching experience as possible. She began by volunteering abroad with non-profit groups, teaching health education in South Africa and English in rural Thailand. These experiences led her to take on her own classes as a TA and FIG leader, testing her skills as a teacher and knowledge as a biology student. Over the last two years she has held a very similar role as a peer advisor, providing guidance to underclassmen through academic advising. She finds this role of mentor and educator very rewarding and enjoys taking her experience as a student and sharing it with others. Being a student of foreign language herself, this will be her primary goal through an English Teaching Assistantship in Italy.

Following her time with the Fulbright program, Natalie intends to synthesize her science education, teaching and advising backgrounds in the completion of a master’s program in genetic counseling. Her volunteer work abroad helped her develop a passion for global health and development, and she would ultimately like to find a way to utilize genetic counseling in an international capacity. This may be achieved by also completing a subsequent master’s in public health or public health genetics.

Nursing (Bothell)

Benjamin O’Connor’s love of German began with swearing. Learning swear words to entertain the German foreign exchange students at his high school actually sparked serious academic pursuits and a career pathway. He majored in German in college, spent a semester at a German University, and now has a Teaching Assistantship at a local high school in Germany.

Benjamin graduated from the University of Washington in 2011, and in addition to his Germanics degree, he also completed the prerequisites for UW’s nursing program. He hopes to become a nurse a few years down the road, and is excited to explore the ways teaching a language might be good preparation for nursing. Both practices involve understanding something so well you can explain it simply, and both require practice, excitement, and empathy.

When Benjamin isn’t thinking, talking, and dreaming in German, he loves to expand his expertise on all things Canadian – hockey, beards, and polite conversation. He looks forward to the Fulbright program for the opportunity to see what life is like as a longtime resident of another country, to get involved in a new and different community, and to become part of it.

Anna Stehle graduated in June 2013 with a degree in Economics and two minors in Spanish and Labor Studies. Her interest in international affairs started in high school through friendships with peers from Latin America and Europe. At UW, Anna continued to focus her studies on an international scope and studied the implications of global poverty and stratification as well as economic courses in population and development, emerging markets and trade. Outside of the classroom she trained and competed on the rowing team for three years, participated on the student-athlete advisory committee, mentored students in the Dream Project and volunteered with a local union to develop educational workshops on immigration reform. Anna has also worked as a community development intern in her hometown with El Centro Su Teatro through a sponsorship from The Denver Foundation.

This will be Anna’s third time in South America. She has previously volunteered with a water infrastructure project in La Cuidad de Dios community in northern Peru as well as studied and worked in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In Argentina she worked at a language camp with middle school students to develop their English skills outside of the formal classroom through activities centered on cultural exchange. She is looking forward to developing lessons that will prompt bicultural dialogue and strengthen the linguistic skills of students as they prepare to be ambassadors for Brazil during the upcoming World Cup and Olympic Games.

In addition to teaching, Anna would like to become involved in research focusing on agricultural development in Brazil. Since graduation, she has been focusing on economic challenges for beef producers in Oklahoma and Texas as a scholar at The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation in Ardmore, Oklahoma. She is planning to combine this agricultural interest with her international experience to pursue a master’s degree in agricultural economics once returning to the United States.

Spanish and South Asian Languages major

English (Creative Writing) major

Willy Cheung grew up in Monterey Park, California and moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington in 2006. He graduated in 2011 with a degree in Computer Science with departmental honors. His honors thesis project involved developing brain-computer interfaces, which allows users to control devices directly with brain signals. On this project, he was able to combine two of his passions: understanding the human brain and making technology accessible to people. While working on research, he also found he loved the personal responsibility required, and being actively involved in an academic community where every day brings new knowledge.

For Willy, education has played a vital role in his life. Throughout college, he strived to improve his teaching skills, bring the joy of learning to others, and develop a deeper understanding of what education means. As a tutor for Seattle Education Access, an organization that provides higher education opportunities to people struggling with poverty and adversity, he has enjoyed teaching math and English. During his three active years in Pi Alpha Phi fraternity, he has mentored others and seeks to develop leadership qualities in its members.

Reflecting on his five years at the UW, Willy realized that his education not only consisted of academic coursework and research, but encompassed everything from becoming independent to experiencing the dynamic and diverse culture on the UW campus. When he found out about the Fulbright, he realized it would be an excellent opportunity to continue expanding his cultural horizons while pursuing his research. Willy’s Fulbright project involves developing a brain-computer interface framework based on reinforcing learning, so that the user and computer system can adapt to each other cooperatively.

Nick Crown is a senior majoring in History and Italian Studies. A native of Seattle, Nick has a passion for teaching, the legal system and trial advocacy. Shortly after arriving on campus, he co-founded the university’s mock trial program, which strives to provide hands-on legal education and an intellectually stimulating, competitive outlet for UW undergrads. In December of 2010, he co-hosted a mock trial tournament at the UW School of Law, drawing 20 teams from a dozen universities across the country. Nick also volunteers with the UW Dream Project, Teen Feed and a local high school mock trial program. He is a recipient of the Sleizer Scholarships, a Mary Gates Leadership Scholarship and has received eight Outstanding Mock Trial Attorney Awards. After the Fulbright, he will be attending the University of Virginia School of Law starting in August 2013. Ultimately, Nick intends to apply his academic skills to a career as a teacher and attorney.

James Mahady struck out on the first leg of his international journey when he spent his junior year abroad in Cádiz, Spain with the University of Washington’s NW Cádiz Program. Although he had been in Spain several times before on family trips, it was during his nine months in Cádiz that he got to know Spain in earnest and, among other things, was impressed by its plethora of renewable energies. As he finished his studies at the UW in Seattle the next year he became increasingly set on returning for more.

James graduated with a double major in Spanish and International Studies: European Studies in 2010. He wrote his Senior Research Thesis on Renewable Energies in Spain and the European Union, and began looking for a way to return to Spain as well as opportunities in the Spanish renewable energies sector. He moved to Madrid in September 2010 to work as an English language assistant in an elementary school to fund his stay and garner a visa. He began volunteering for an NGO that works with renewable energies when various internship opportunities were stymied by visa limitations.

Outside of school and volunteering, James became part of various Spanish and international communities, improved his language skills, and embraced the city and culture and made them his own. In January 2013, James will set out to use his Fulbright Fellowship in Uruguay to study the development of renewable energies in an emerging economy, which he believes to be a burgeoning, fascinating field. It will be a vital step in his personal and professional development, and will pave the way for a prospective career in renewables. James will study at the Universidad de La República and collaborate with the PROBIO project team in Montevideo. PROBIO is installing a bio-fuel energy plant which sources residual waste from the paper and agriculture industries for fuel, and receives its funding from the United Nations Development Programme. His research will focus on the economic, international collaboration, public policy and business aspects of the undertaking. James is elated to have this opportunity, and is eternally grateful to everyone involved in helping him along the way.

As an undergraduate, Amy Tseng tutored immigrant elementary and middle school students in math, reading, writing, and comprehension. In addition to working with young children, she was a Freshman Interest Group Leader for three consecutive years and taught incoming college freshmen topics ranging from diversity, tolerance, justice, health and wellness.

Born as an American to Taiwanese parents, Amy has always been aware of cultural differences and intrigued by the complexities of languages and traditional customs. Throughout college, she studied abroad in South Korea, Switzerland, and Taiwan. Learning some basic Korean from her three week UW Exploration Seminar to Korea only fueled Amy’s passion to become fluent in the language. Through that brief one-time trip in 2008, she fell in love with Korea and has been yearning to go back. Continuing her exploration of languages, Amy went on a semester long direct exchange at National Taiwan University in 2010. She felt it was truly eye-opening and inspiring to attend public health courses and volunteer with a student club that traveled to a rural county to conduct home health screenings of aborigines.

With a Bachelor’s in Public Health and Geography, Amy’s future goal is to work in the public health field with underserved communities, linking them to basic necessities and care. Working as a full-time Health Resource AmeriCorps Member at the Neighborcare Health Rainier Beach Medical and Dental Clinic, Amy has organized over 40 dental education presentations and dental screenings for elementary and middle school classrooms, parent meetings, and community events. She sees the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship as a perfect fit in improving her ability to be culturally competent on an international level as well as acquiring other organizing and leadership skills. In the future, Amy wants to work in a setting where she will be educating a diverse group of people on healthy behaviors, and understanding another language and culture will be a valuable asset. She feels this teaching experience will better prepare her for graduate school and a job in the public health field.

Nick Wong graduated in 2007 from the University of Washington with a double degree in Sociology and American Ethnics Studies, and a minor in Law, Society and Justice. On advice from his sister, he stayed a fifth year to study abroad in Granada, Spain and discovered a passion for traveling. In 2007 he won the Bonderman Travel Fellowship and spent 18 months wandering through the boxing gyms of Latin America. From Guatemala to Argentina, he trained and fought in 11 gyms through 9 countries, collecting stories of fighters and documenting what the sport meant to them. Since returning, he has been sharing his travel stories about boxing in presentations and seminars, and has been a regular speaker at Franklin High School to encourage underrepresented students to pursue travel in their lives. Recently he has been selected as a 2012 Jack Straw Writer and will be giving readings about his journey throughout the Puget Sound.

With the Fulbright, he plans to study sociology with Professor Sonia Giacomini at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and work closely with the organization “Fight For Peace”, a non-profit using a combined program of boxing, education and employment to deter young children from the drug trade in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Using the research method of participant observation, he plans to engage in all gym activities to better understand the operations of the organization and how the sport and program function in the lives of its participants. He hopes this experience will move him closer to his goal of opening boxing gyms around the world.

Alana Zimmerman graduated from the University of Washington in August 2011 with a degree in Germanics and a minor in European Studies. Beginning her study of the German language during her second year at the UW, she discovered an interest in studying languages and learning about other cultures. This led her to participate in the UW’s Spring in Vienna Program, which not only further developed her German language skills, but also reinforced her fascination with languages and culture. Studying abroad also fostered a yearning to travel even more. While at UW, Alana found it very rewarding to teach and help others to learn through proctoring for a German film class and tutoring for a German linguistics class. She now volunteers at her former grade school, helping third-graders to learn reading, math, art, etc.

Alana is excited to return to Germany (she traveled around Europe following her time in Vienna) and is extremely grateful for the opportunity afforded her by the Fulbright Program to serve as an unofficial United States ambassador, while helping others to learn English and immersing herself in the culture. Outside the classroom, she is looking forward not only to exploring more of Germany and surrounding countries while meeting lots of new and interesting people, but also to dancing as much as possible. Alana is trained in classical ballet and loves almost all styles of dance as well as yoga. Although still unsure of her ultimate career path, Alana is excited by the chance to participate in a Fulbright program and the opportunities and possibilities that will arise as a result.

International Studies: Latin America major

Psychology major

Psychology major

Sara Hefny is a senior in the Near Eastern Studies department with a focus in Languages and Civilizations. For the past two years she has worked with the Ottoman Texts Archive Project as an undergraduate researcher, translating and researching the history of a set of 19th century Iraqi diaries. In her research, she was struck by the migratory trends of the various ethnic communities in the Middle East and how they were affected by the political standing of the Ottoman Empire. Sara will carry this research to Rome for the 2011-2012 year to study the migration trends of Arab populations to Italy and the European Union as a result of the recent political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa. Following graduation and return from Rome, she hopes to go onto graduate school at Oxford or the Geneva Graduate Institute to study migration and development. In addition to her studies, Sara works at a downtown restaurant to fund her travel bug and coaches volleyball at Seattle’s Cascade Volleyball Club. She is a member of Washington’s Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and is a recipient of the University of Washington’s Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Scholarship for her work with the Svoboda Diary Project. In her free time she enjoys playing volleyball, experimenting in the kitchen, and trivia nights with her friends.

International Studies and International Studies: Asia major

Senior, Math and English major

James Connelly began his studies at the University of Washington intent on pursuing a degree and career in Architecture. He began an internship at an international architecture firm, developed technical architectural skills and was also able to connect his core beliefs about conservation to architecture by researching sustainable projects for a firm’s major client. At the same time James became fascinated with the explosion of construction and economic activity in China, when he was exposed to some truly amazing projects his firm was designing in Shanghai. He decided to broaden his educational focus to international studies, and began to realize how architectural issues influenced and are affected by the broader economic and cultural forces in a society.

James became a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited Professional the summer after he began the architecture program and completed another internship focusing on a variety of LEED certified projects in Seattle. His second year in the architecture program, he participated in an exchange program in Hong Kong and rediscovered a fascination with architecture in China as well as a new passion for the Chinese culture, language, and people. James committed himself to Chinese language studies when he returned to the US, and then spent the next summer at an intensive language program in Chengdu, China. Upon returning to the US, he focused all his academic pursuit on studying China’s environment, society, and economics. For his senior capstone project, James led a fifteen-member team in crafting a 250-page report on the US-China economic relationship.

James’ immediate plans on returning to the US are to pursue a career in the green building industry with a particular focus on China. He would like to work for an architecture firm, real estate development firm, or green building consulting firm that works on Chinese projects. He is also considering returning to graduate school, in law, urban planning, or architecture to further his skills and understanding of how green building rating systems and environmental regulation can influence a green future for China.

Will Damon graduated from the University of Washington in June of 2010 with a double major in English and Laws, Societies, and Justice. While at the University of Washington Will took hold of as many opportunity as he could find time for. He helped manage an emergency shelter for homeless adults, volunteered with Real Change (a local street newspaper), interned for the Washington State Bar Association’s Access to Justice Committee, and studied abroad twice (first to Sarajevo, Bosnia then Reykjavik, Iceland). He took part in the Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities and conducted research with the support of the Mary Gates Undergraduate Research award. He worked as a research assistant to a professor studying the politics of genetically modified crops in Hawaii and assisted a public defender’s office in Seattle with a project to help homeless adults contest bans from public places. Will’s honors thesis for Laws, Societies, and Justice studied the effects of the Seattle Public Library’s increased use of trespass authority on homeless adults. Since graduation he has worked as a program assistant to Columbia Legal Services Homeless Education Advocacy Project. As an advocate for homeless youth Will assists a team of attorneys with a multi-modal advocacy strategy integrating GIS mapping and data analysis, traditional legal advocacy, and community education and outreach. He will bring these newly acquired skills to bear on his upcoming Fulbright research in Vancouver, Canada. With the support of the Fulbright grant he will research the effects of a recent B.C Supreme Court ruling that partially legalized camping in public spaces.

Senior, Germanics and Music major

Elizabeth Hiskey is graduating in spring 2011 with departmental honors in both English and French. After completing several education courses in high school, she decided to pursue a career in teaching. Then, while studying abroad in Paris, Elizabeth rediscovered her love for travel and began searching for other international opportunities available after college. During her time at the University of Washington, Elizabeth spent four quarters volunteering with the Pipeline Project in classrooms at T.T. Minor Elementary and Hamilton International Middle School. She also volunteered as a conversation facilitator with the UW’s English Language Program during her junior year. Elizabeth served as the co-president of the UW French Conversation Club for two years and has enjoyed seeing the club grow over the last few quarters. Over the course of her senior year, she worked as an assistant preschool teacher at a bilingual French daycare, teaching French to Seattle-area toddlers. Elizabeth hopes that her experience working with prospective college students as a campus tour guide and with incoming freshman as a FIG leader have helped prepare her to teach English at the University of Ghent beginning this fall. While in Belgium, she plans to continue studying languages and hopes to improve her French and Spanish while also immersing herself in Dutch. After completing her Fulbright grant, Elizabeth will spend the next two years teaching in a low-income school district with Teach for America and believes that the knowledge and skills she will learn while in Belgium will help her achieve significant gains with her future students.

Ken Li is a senior at the University of Washington graduating in June 2011 with a degree in International Studies and a minor in Education, Learning, and Societies. Ken chose to study International Studies because of his interest in developing a better understanding of global issues and his passion for learning different languages and culture. During his freshman year, Ken was involved with a student-led group called the University of Washington Dream Project which allowed him to explore critical issues in education such as social mobility, the achievement gap, and educational equality. This pushed him to pursue a minor in education, opening the door to deeper discussions in education related topics and issues. During the summer of 2008 and 2009, Ken traveled to southern Taiwan to participate in an English teaching program that served to help junior high and high school students improve their English conversation skills. Through his teaching program, Ken became interested in how overwhelming academic stress and parental pressure affected student creativity and independent thinking. This led him to participate in a direct exchange program with National Taiwan University the following academic year, hoping to gain a deeper understanding of local student views on education and future success. After returning to Seattle, Ken began interning with Teachers Without Borders, a non-profit organization that aims to enhance the quality of education globally through teacher resources and support networks. As a Fulbright recipient to South Korea for 2011-2012, Ken hopes to take advantage of his time inside school classrooms to not only serve as an English Teaching Assistant, but also to interact with the local Korean community, further understanding the Korean education system.

Spanish and History major

Kristen Olson was born and raised in Richland, WA. Her parents are Richard and Alexandra Olson. Kristen enrolled at the University of Washington to pursue a degree in International Studies. During the course of her studies she managed to study abroad three times in Russia, India, and Canada. In addition for her love of global affairs, Kristen also has a long-standing interest in education as a profession. She was a Freshmen Interest Group Leader at the UW for two years helping college freshmen transition during their fall quarter by teaching a two-credit seminar class about university resources. During the spring of her senior year she volunteered with the Alternative Spring Break Program through the Pipeline Project in La Push, WA. This experience solidified her resolve to apply to Teach for America. After graduation in 2005 Kristen flew to Baton Rouge to commit the next two years of her life to teach in a low-income community. Kristen’s experiences with Teach for America inspired her to combine her passions for international studies and education by applying for an English Teaching Assistantship Fulbright Award to Georgia. With her background in Russian and enthusiasm for learning Georgian, Kristen is looking forward to the opportunity to engage with a fascinating culture and uphold the goals of the Fulbright program to promote greater international understanding. Kristen hopes to apply for the Foreign Service after completing the Fulbright program or enroll in a Master of Education program. Kristen is also a certified Zumba instructor in her spare time and enjoys all forms of dance.

This is Cory Potts’ second year applying for a Fulbright grant. Last year, 2010, he applied for a full grant to study law in France, was nominated as a finalist, ultimately rejected, and decided anyway to move to Paris and teach English. He made it his goal to move to a country where he would speak French. Cory is really pleased that he went to Paris even after the negative response to his grant proposal. He found work as a bike courier and mechanic, lived and worked in the banlieue instead of a chic Paris neighborhood, and rarely speak English. Now, in response to his second attempt in 2011, he has been selected as a Fulbrighter to study criminology in Bruxelles.

Christopher Raastad moved to Olympia, Washington in middle school from Midwestern roots, his childhood split between the remote grasslands of Upton, Wyoming and the beautiful Black Hills of Spearfish, South Dakota. A graduating senior with degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, a minor in Music, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa honor society, his four years at UW have been a unique jostling journey of academic and cultural exploration with music and quantitative reasoning as a foundation. His passion for mathematics sprung from attending the exhilarating SIMUW high school summer math program. He enrolled UW passionate about Mathematics and Physics to explore the foundations of the abstract and physical universe. He studied abroad four months in Hungary in the acclaimed Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program.

His research experiences in computational Geology, Polar Science, and Plasma Physics pushed him towards applied mathematics, and to switch to Computer Science. A summer REU program in High Performance Computing at UMBC revealed that his true interest was fundamental Computer Science. While doing research in Quantum Computing, a Computer Security class undoubtedly changed his interest to investigate the technical and social implications of the concern of this decade: Cybersecurity. During these academic shifts, he was absolutely committed to Choral music, singing in the audition University Chorale for three years, the graduate audition University Chamber Singers his final year, and even in a choir at the Lizst Academy of Music during his time in Budapest. These two paths crossed on a Baltic States choir tour where he discovered Estonia, a small country on the Baltic sea with an exceptional choral history and presence in technology and computer security. Chris will use his Fulbright to pursue a Masters program in Cybersecurity to research the influence of the 2007 Cyberattacks on Estonian education and culture, consider the implications of the adoption of Estonian technological and Internet conveniences to US society, and gain valuable skills in computer security applicable to government, business, and industry.

Eric Ravet graduated from the University of Washington in June 2011 with departmental honors in Chemical Engineering. Eric was raised in Colville, Washington before applying to the University of Washington. In his five years at the UW, Eric has spent his free time volunteering at Engineering Days where he aided students of all ages in creating and learning about the chemistry behind Silly Putty. He also helped out with the refurbishment of the undergraduate Chemical Engineering laboratory capable of turning sugar into fuel-grade ethanol.

In the fall of 2008, Eric had the opportunity to study abroad in Nantes, France through the UW. In those short four months, he fell in love with both the language and culture and has longed to return since. Upon returning to Seattle, he strived to further his knowledge of the French language and next year, he will be able to put this to good use. In September, he will be traveling France’s neighbor, Switzerland, to conduct research on composite materials at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne. Here, Eric will work under Dr. Jan-Anders Månson, a leading specialist in his field, to investigate the effects of introducing nanoparticles in fiber-reinforced composites created from renewable and recyclable materials. After his completion of the Fulbright, Eric hopes to continue his education at the graduate level and pursue his lifelong dream of becoming an astronaut.

A third generation Husky, Jordan Swarthout was born and raised in Olympia. An international focus began with his first immersion in foreign cultures during a high school trip to Europe. Lectures on campus by former UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright ignited his interest in nonproliferation and nuclear disarmament. Arms control became an informal emphasis within his International Studies major. Jordan has been active on campus through a variety of student organizations including the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Washington Student-Athlete Advisory Council, and most recently as Vice President of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management. He returned for a fifth year to complete a second degree in Russian Language and Literature, as well as continue competing on the Cross Country and Track teams. A two time NCAA National Championship competitor in Cross Country, he specialized in the 5,000m and 10,000m distances on the track.

Jordan spent the last two summers in Russia both working and studying the language. Summer 2009 he completed an intensive immersion program, studying in Kaliningrad under the auspices of the Critical Language Scholarship. This past summer he interned in the political section of the U.S. embassy in Moscow, where his portfolio included political-military affairs. Jordan recently passed the written section of the Foreign Service Exam and has long been interested in a career with the State Department. Also interested in positions through the Energy Department and other security related fields, Jordan will be pursuing a master’s in Security Studies at Georgetown University upon completion of the Fulbright.

American Ethnic Studies and Sociology major, Law Society & Justice minor

Geography major

Lindsey Einhaus, a native of Port Orchard, WA, graduated cum laude from UW in December 2006 with double majors in Philosophy and History. As an undergraduate, Lindsey spent a summer teaching English in rural China, studied German language at the Goethe Institute in Berlin, and spent a semester studying and conducting independent field research in Kumasi, Ghana as part of a Jackson School of International Studies program. Upon graduation, Lindsey took a position as Legislative Aide for banking and finance regulation to U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) in Washington, DC. After covering the global financial crisis in this position for nearly two years, Lindsey joined the Peace Corps in March 2009 with an intention to serve in Ukraine so she could learn more about post-Soviet political and economic development. From 2009 to May 2011, Lindsey worked in the small city of Zhmerynka, Ukraine, as an official partner of the Zhmerynka City Council. Her work with the Council focused on helping it build relationships with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and during her service she designed and implemented three grants funded by the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) totaling more than $10,000. She also founded a group for volunteers in Ukraine called the Business and Economic Development Working Group, which serves as a forum for volunteers to meet with Ukrainian business leaders and discuss Ukrainian economic issues. Lindsey plans to pursue a joint Master’s degree in business and public policy.

International Studies major

2007 Graduate, Economics and International Studies major

Masha Burina immigrated to the United States at a young age from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A 2007 graduate majoring in Economics and International Studies, she undertook various projects applying her studies of global inequalities and development conundrums to her civic life. She engaged in issues by co-founding the national Student Trade Justice Campaign, traveling throughout the country, mobilizing other college students to advocate for equitable trade policies. On campus, she collaborated with other student leaders to affect administrative and corporate policies regarding Fair Trade Certification. Active in Washington State Model United Nations, Oxfam, and interning at a French NGO Aide et Action, and other human rights/activist projects indulged her intrigue with the famous Margaret Mead quote to “never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has.” While working for an immigration law firm, she served on the Seattle Women’s Commission and as a steering committee member of the Community Alliance for Global Justice – amplifying local voices to the chambers of elected leaders. Thrilled to be back in the Balkans, her research will focus on similar issues of governance and civic participation. Through a labor lens, her project will focus on the state of civic engagement in Croatia, in the midst of a post-war and post-communist state of affairs, and EU accessionist policies. The research seeks to identify how one segment of civil society determines its appropriate channels for advocacy and articulates the concerns of its members to government.

Glorya Cho, a native of Bainbridge Island, WA, graduated cum laude and with College Honors from the University of Washington in June 2007 with double degrees in International Studies and Economics and a Minor in African Studies. As an undergraduate, Glorya participated in Model United Nations, volunteered with the global youth organization One World Now!, worked with a middle school student as a mentor through the Journey Unlimited Mentoring Program, and undertook research through the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies’ Honors Program. Her undergraduate research focused on Ghanaian youth as agents of cultural change and active participants in the public sphere, as exhibited through the Ghanaian youth musical movement called “hiplife”. She also worked with Future Island School (FIS), a primary school in Offinso, Ghana, as a fundraiser, hosting two benefit concerts in Seattle that raised more than $7,000 for the construction of the FIS school house. Upon graduation, she interned with an international non-governmental organization in the Democratic Republic of Congo, studied Korean language in Seoul, and studied Mandarin Chinese in Beijing and Taiwan.

Glorya combined her passion for Chinese language and African youth studies by applying for a Fulbright Research Grant to Zambia to study the implications of globalization, as seen through increases in Chinese migration and investment, on youth development policy. She will conduct this research in Zambia during the 2010-2011 academic year. Glorya’s background also piqued her interest in foreign affairs and diplomacy. As a result, she applied for and received the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship, which prepares students for careers in the U.S. Foreign Service. She will attend the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Masters in Public Policy degree program in fall 2011 as a Rangel Fellow.

Glorya would like to thank Ms. Mona Pitre Collins and Ms. Robin Chan of the UW Undergraduate Scholarship Office and Professor Deborah Porter, Adviser Linda Iltis, and Professor Joel Migdal of the Jackson School of International Studies for their unparalleled support and encouragement.

Class of 2009, Latin American studies major, Spanish and Human Rights minor

I grew up in Seattle, WA, and first attended UW on a rowing scholarship. I became interested in working in Central America after my sophomore year when I participated in an exploration seminar on human rights issues in Guatemala, led by Angelina Godoy. I went to El Salvador for the first time in 2009 to volunteer as an election volunteer and write my undergraduate thesis for Latin America Studies on the social effects of violence on young males from marginalized urban communities. Through this research, I became interested in the broader issue of creating a juvenile justice system that effectively rehabilitates and reinserts youth back into society so they may have successful futures and not fall into the revolving door of the adult penitentiary system.

My Fulbright research will involve examining the current juvenile justice system, conducting interviews within the courts and youth detention centers, political and popular discourse on youth violence and civil society efforts to implement reforms. In the future, I plan on pursuing a career in social work or psychology and working directly with incarcerated youth. I currently live in El Salvador and work with Voices on the Border, a NGO that focuses on sustainable local development in rural communities. I have been greatly influenced by my mother, who worked for years in a boys group home, my father and step-mother, who have taught in schools in marginalized communities in Seattle and Bakersfield, CA, and a multitude of young activists that I have had the opportunity to meet or work with in the US and El Salvador, whose energy and initiative are a constant source of inspiration.

Joji Kohjima was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. His father is from Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, and his mother is from Richmond, VA. His mother’s grandfather was a surgeon who spent most of his career as a medical missionary to Korea from 1907 until 1941, when he and other American missionaries fled at the insistence of the Japanese government. He worked to treat leprosy, or Hansen’s disease, which was a common ailment in Korea at that time.

Joji’s interest in Korea began with hearing stories from his maternal grandfather, who grew up in Korea. This interest increased as he learned more about East Asian history and cultures. His interest in East Asia centers around cultural commonalities, such as philosophical traditions and linguistic relationships between nations. He is also interested in the divergent paths of Asian nations during the modern era. He studied abroad with professor Christoph Giebel to Vietnam in the Summer of 2007. He has also traveled in Japan, Thailand, Ghana, and Nicaragua, and has basic proficiency in Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese. He has also studied Burmese and Korean.

His goal in going to Korea is to better understand Korean history, his family history and the legacy of medical missionaries in Korea. He also wants to understand the plight of leprosy patients in Korea during the 20th century. He hopes to become proficient in Korean.

Joji completed a degree in International Studies at the UW, and has been studying biochemistry and related sciences for the past two years. His goal is to go to the UW Medical School after he returns from Korea.

Sam Lim is a senior at the University of Washington in Seattle graduating in June 2010 with a degree in International Studies and a minor in European Studies. Over his four years at the UW, Sam has helped lead the student-initiated, student-run University of Washington Dream Project, a unique high school outreach/college degree completion program that partners college students with local high school students to assist in the college admissions process while simultaneously teaching undergraduates about issues of social mobility, educational opportunity, and equal access. His experience in working with dozens of students across Seattle in their pursuit of post-secondary education has inspired him to pursue a career dedicated to public service. Outside of his leadership in the UW Dream Project, Sam also worked for the UW State GEAR UP Program as a Summer Institute Team Leader and for the Making Connections program at the UW Women’s Center as the scholarship coach. Sam also founded ScholarshipJunkies.com, a scholarship resource website designed to provide scholarship applicants with tips, advice, and suggestions from former national scholarship winners to assist in compiling competitive scholarship applications. Sam has spoken to students, families, and educators across the country about how to make the most of scholarship opportunities. As an undergraduate, Sam also traveled and researched abroad in Germany, Italy, Greece, and Guatemala through UW-sponsored and as a 2008 Humanity in Action Fellow. Combining his academic interests and passion for international travel, Sam has expanded his research interests to explore issues of college access and affordability around the world. As a Fulbright Scholar to Germany for 2010-2011, Sam will conduct an ethnographic research project to explore the relationship between access to higher education and social mobility in Germany.

Senior, English Literature major, Political Science minor

International Studies and Geography major

Senior, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations major

Caitlin Pratt is a senior in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilization department, focusing on literary Arabic, and will graduate in Spring 2010. She first became interested in studying Arabic and Middle Eastern cultures when she visited Morocco in 2005 during a trip to Spain. Later, after beginning her study of Arabic at UW, she decided to take Persian and Japanese to further broaden her ability to connect with people from other cultures. Because of her focus on languages, she began volunteering with the UW’s English Language Program, helping facilitate in-class discussions for students learning English, helping to improve their confidence and ability to converse in English, and also functioning as a “cultural ambassador” to help foster understanding and friendship among speakers of different languages. It was this work that led her to apply for the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Egypt, and, due to this year’s opening of a brand new program in Morocco, she was offered a chance to return to Morocco. In addition to gaining experience as an English-as-a-foreign-language teacher, Caitlin will study the Moroccan dialect of Arabic. She will continue working as an English teacher, in addition to considering careers in translation and international relations as her fluency in Arabic increases. She feels that the work of cultural ambassadors is extremely valuable to future relationships between the United States and the rest of the world.

Senior, International Studies and Economics major

Nathan is senior at the University of Washington graduating with degrees in international studies and economics. During his time at the university, Nathan has pursued academic interests in China’s economy, rule of law in China, and economic growth theory. For his senior thesis, he conducted a survey of court cases from Guangdong province to determine how the court system is being used to adjudicate intellectual property rights disputes in China. He speaks Mandarin fluently and studied Mandarin intensively abroad in Beijing during 2008 and again in Harbin, China in summer 2009 courtesy of a U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship. Since January 2009 Nathan has been a research intern at the Washington State Department of Commerce, primarily focusing on trade issues between China and Washington State. In the near-term he wants to spend a few years working in China in an international trade related job before entering an international relations graduate program. Nathan’s long-term goal is a career in US-China policy with academic or research institutions.

Nathan has a strong passion for education and found personal satisfaction as a campus tour guide throughout his four years at the University of Washington. Tour guiding has provided opportunities to share his college experience with prospective students and their families while enjoying the challenge of interacting with a spectrum of people. Nathan built upon this experience and worked at the 2008 Beijing Olympics as an on-site manager for the Coca Cola Company’s VIP hospitality program. Additionally, Nathan has enjoyed exploring the outdoors since the time he was small enough to be carried up mountains on his father’s shoulders. At the university, he continued pursuing his outdoor interest as an active member of the university’s Climbing Club. Nathan enjoys climbing and skiing Washington’s Cascade Mountains. He fully expects to continue his outdoor adventures regardless of where his future takes him.

I developed my Public Health interest through my UW coursework and after my first year of college I wanted to apply my classroom analysis towards working with people. My two goals are to improve children’s health and learn first-hand about the importance of intercultural work.

Through Cultivating Youth, I taught children nutrition in a multicultural Seattle neighborhood. These elementary school children asked me questions demonstrating their newfound knowledge as we grew, harvested, and discussed the benefits of vegetables. I learned about foods in students’ homes, gaining an international perspective on nutrition.

I subsequently developed research and analytical skills, abstracting nutrition policies for Washington State public school districts. Alarmed by inadequate guidelines for fat content in snacks and soda sizes, I contributed to evaluations of strong and weak policies on the “Healthy Schools, Successful Students” website for Washington state school management, parents, and the community. By analyzing and reporting how schools influence children’s eating environments, I revealed gaping disparities in food standards.

The graduate-level epidemiology classes I took helped me grow in my field and learn sophisticated research methods for calculating risks of diseases and identifying confounding factors that muddle research validity. I grasped determinants of health when rigorously analyzing nutrients and costs of foods served to children in daycare; I acquired a picture of what children were eating and discovered how income plays a major role in nutrition. For my honors senior thesis, I investigated students’ stipends and eating behaviors in a Seattle public school, learning how to create a survey, complete the Human Subjects application, and analyze my data with statistical software.

I will further my studies with an MD and a Masters in Public Health to continue to help people improve their health and conduct epidemiologic research focusing on child health. My hands-on experience in public health has granted me the knowledge to form a more comprehensive view of public health, which I hope to further next year during my Fulbright scholarship.

Class of 2006, Business Administration (Marketing) and Communications major

I first became interested in community-based models of tourism while I was in the DR serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer. The primarily rural tourist attractions and projects I encountered there and beyond encouraged and excited me to consider community-based tourism as an integral solution to poverty alleviation, cross-cultural understanding, and community development. I consider myself a global citizen with multiple transnational relationships, including one with the Philippines that stems from my upbringing as a first-generation Filipina-American. I look forward to researching the challenges and prospects of community-based tourism in the Philippines, not only for the professional and academic opportunities it presents in exploring a field of international development I find extremely intriguing, but also because of the personal stories and experiences it will afford me.

I am thankful for programs such as the Fulbright Scholarship that encourage citizens to not just learn about the other places in the world, but to experience them from a place of inquiry, courage, and understanding. I believe that a transformative learning experience that an opportunity like the Fulbright can offer can be a catalyst for recognizing oneself as an agent for change.

English (Comparative Literature) and European Studies major

Business (Marketing and International) major

European Studies and Germanics major

Russian Studies major, Linguistic minor

Near Eastern Language and Civilization major (1st year grad student)

International Studies and History major

International Studies: Europe major

Dance major

Biochemistry major