Bard College Students and Alumni/ae Awarded 2019 Fellowships
History and Middle Eastern studies major Eric Raimondi ’19 won a $10,000 Davis Projects for Peace Prize in support of his work with refugees and asylum seekers on the island of Samos, Greece. Raimondi’s project aims to establish a multigenre language curriculum at the Samos refugee camp. In its 12th year, the Davis Projects for Peace program invited undergraduates to design grassroots peace-building projects to be implemented during the summer of 2019 and selected the most promising and feasible projects to be funded.
Several Bard students received competitive Fulbright scholarships for the 2019–20 academic year. Alexa Frank ’15 and Marion Adams ’19 won Fulbright Study/Research Awards. Frank, who graduated with a dual degree in film and Asian studies, will pursue her graduate studies at Waseda University in Tokyo. Adams, a German studies and philosophy major, will travel to Austria to teach English and study how Jewish museums there negotiate their country’s role in commemorating traditional and stimulating contemporary Austrian-Jewish culture. Economics and human rights major Sofia Hardt ’18 was named an alternate for the Fulbright Study/Research Award to Argentina. Tonery Rogers ’19 has been named an alternate for the Fulbright Study/Research Award to Morocco. Asian studies majors Corrina Gross ’19 and Kerri Anne Bigornia ’19 won Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Awards to Taiwan, where they will teach English to primary and middle school students. Olivia Donahue ’19 has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany, where she will spend next year teaching English.
Several Bard students received competitive Fulbright scholarships for the 2019–20 academic year. Alexa Frank ’15 and Marion Adams ’19 won Fulbright Study/Research Awards. Frank, who graduated with a dual degree in film and Asian studies, will pursue her graduate studies at Waseda University in Tokyo. Adams, a German studies and philosophy major, will travel to Austria to teach English and study how Jewish museums there negotiate their country’s role in commemorating traditional and stimulating contemporary Austrian-Jewish culture. Economics and human rights major Sofia Hardt ’18 was named an alternate for the Fulbright Study/Research Award to Argentina. Tonery Rogers ’19 has been named an alternate for the Fulbright Study/Research Award to Morocco. Asian studies majors Corrina Gross ’19 and Kerri Anne Bigornia ’19 won Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Awards to Taiwan, where they will teach English to primary and middle school students. Olivia Donahue ’19 has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany, where she will spend next year teaching English.
Two students, global and international studies major Getzamany Correa ’21 and biology major Elizabeth Thomas ‘20, received prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships through the U.S. Department of State to spend a semester abroad. Correa studied in the Department of International Relations at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Thomas did research at the University College Roosevelt in Middelburg, Netherlands. Correa and Thomas were two of 844 American undergraduate students from 335 colleges and universities across the United States to receive the congressionally funded Gilman scholarship, which provides up to $5,000 to American undergraduate students of limited financial means to study or intern abroad.
Post Date: 04-25-2019