In the News: Students to Engage Around the World through Fulbright Grants

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Zainab Abdali has worked with Syracuse’s refugee community during her four years at Syracuse. Her experience tutoring and talking to Somali high school students who grew up in refugee camps in Kenya motivated her to apply for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program English Teaching Assistantship in Kenya. Abdali, a senior majoring in English and textual…

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Starting Early: Fulbright Summer UK Program

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Students who apply for the Fulbright Summer Institutes in the UK come from all backgrounds and have a multitude of goals. Danielle Schaf, Samantha Lucas, Sarah Feustle and Sarah Schroder all decided to apply to a variety of programs sponsored by the US-UK Fulbright Commission in the U.K. this summer. Danielle Schaf, a sophomore triple major…

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Fulbright Semi-Finalists: Teaching English to the Next Generation

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The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers research, study and teaching opportunities in over 140 countries to recent graduates and graduate students. Syracuse University has fifteen semi-finalists who have applied to Open Study/Research Awards, Teaching Assistant Awards, the Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship and the J. William Fulbright – Hillary Rodham Clinton Public Policy Fellowship. These…

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