Tolentino wins Fulbright
A third Cornellian, Lucio Tolentino ’09, has won a Fulbright grant this year.
A third Cornellian, Lucio Tolentino ’09, has won a Fulbright grant this year.
Chris Stadler, a 2012 graduate of Cornell College from Portland, Ore., has accepted a Fulbright grant through the U.S. Department of State to serve as an English teaching assistant in Germany. He is one of 140 students selected to teach in Germany during the 2012-2013 school year, and he expects to be placed in the southwestern state of Saarland and work with a range of students in grades 5-12.
Will Dinneen ’12 won a Fulbright scholarship to teach English in Turkey. Dinneen was active in both academic and co-curricular groups while on campus, and served as president of Student Senate, a member of the Sigma Kappa Psi fraternity, the Mock Trial team and Cornell’s Concert Choir.
Laura Erceg ’06 earned a Fulbright award as a senior and spent 2006-07 in Vladivostok, Russia, working with at-risk youth for a variety of programs. As a student, she studied for a semester in Krasnodar, Russia through an Associated Colleges of the Midwest program.
MOUNT VERNON – Cornell College senior Nic Wondra of Centennial, Colo. has received a Fulbright Award for 2009-2010 to study the educational system of the Republic of Georgia.
MOUNT VERNON – Sam Peters, a Monroe resident and a sophomore at Cornell College, has been selected to receive an Aegon Transamerica Foundation Scholarship for the 2009-10 academic year.
Science research opportunities at Cornell took Alyssa Borowske around the globe, and her efforts earned her a 2007 Fulbright grant to study the impacts of Australian magpies on native bird species in New Zealand.
MOUNT VERNON — Senior Alyssa Borowske has been awarded a Fulbright grant to study the impacts of Australian magpies on native bird species in New Zealand. She will work with researchers at the University of Waikato using radio telemetry to track habitat use of two endemic species, the Tui and the Wood Pigeon, in areas [...]
MOUNT VERNON – Laura Erceg of Bemidji, Minn., a recent graduate of Cornell College with majors in Russian and sociology, has been awarded a Fulbright grant, the second Cornell student to receive a Fulbright this year. Beginning in August, Erceg will spend 10 1/2 months in Russia hosted by the psychology and social sciences department [...]
MOUNT VERNON – Ryan Taugher, a senior international relations major from Madison, Wis., has been awarded a Fulbright grant. Starting in September he will spend nine months in Turkey studying and researching the international impact of controlling the region’s water resources. The Turkish government has started a $32 billion project to build 22 dams to [...]