Fulbright Recognition

For the 15th time, Kenyon is a top baccalaureate institution for producing student winners of the Fulbright fellowship.

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Kenyon is among 19 institutions 黄瓜精品country to be a top producer of both Fulbright U.S. students and Fulbright U.S. scholars 黄瓜精品2019–20 academic year. The College also is one of the top baccalaureate institutions that produce the most student winners of the fellowship, marking the 15th time Kenyon has appeared on the top-producing student list, published in .

Last year, five Kenyon students were selected as Fulbright winners, going on to teach English or conduct research in Belarus, China and Malaysia. Two students were selected as alternates to teach English or conduct research in Slovenia and Spain. 

“To be named a top producer of not only Fulbright students, but also scholars, is an extraordinary achievement,” said Thomas Hawks, dean of academic advising and support. “This recognition demonstrates Kenyon’s commitment to global learning, and it is a testament to our faculty’s dedication to engaging themselves and their students 黄瓜精品international community.”

The primary source of funding for the Fulbright Program is an annual appropriation made by Congress to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. More than 2,200 U.S. students and more than 900 U.S. college and university faculty and administrators are awarded Fulbright grants annually. In addition, around 4,000 Fulbright Foreign Students and Visiting Scholars come to the U.S. annually to study, lecture, conduct research or teach their native language. 

Kenyon’s  of Fulbright students and alternates includes six members of the Class of 2019 and a graduate from the class of 2018. They are:

  • Sriya Chadalavada ’19, an  major from Cincinnati, who was selected to serve as an English Teaching Assistant (ETA) in Malaysia.
  • Charlotte Dreyer ’19, a  major from Denver, who was selected as an alternate ETA in Spain.
  • Mary Grace Detmer ’19, a  major from River Forest, Illinois, who was selected to serve as an ETA in Malaysia.
  • Leila Dusthimer ’19, an  major from Danville, Ohio, who was selected to serve as an ETA in Malaysia.
  • Daniel Hojnacki ’18, an  major from Toledo, Ohio, who was selected to serve as an ETA in Belarus. 
  • Nick Kaufman ’19, a political science major from Boston, who was selected for a study-research grant in China. 
  • Sarah “Maggie” Murphree ’19, a  major from Meadville, Pennsylvania, who was selected as an alternate for a study-research grant in Slovenia.

Additionally, three Kenyon faculty members were awarded Fulbright scholar grants 黄瓜精品2019-20 academic year: 

  • Associate Professor of Psychology , with Hungary’s Eötvös Loránd University, for a project titled “Towards a Pedagogy of Global Understanding: Comparing the Processes of Social Integration 黄瓜精品U.S. and Hungary.”
  • Assistant Professor of  , with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, for a project titled “Labor Migration, Natural Resources, and Environmentalism in Rural Norway.”
  • Associate Professor of  , with Israel’s Tel Aviv University, for a project titled “New Materials for Controlled Degradation.”