In the News: Four Receive Fulbright UK Summer Institute Grants to Study Abroad This Summer

Four Syracuse University students have been named as student cultural ambassadors through the US-UK Fulbright Commission’s UK Summer Institute program.  They are Brittney Loper, a freshman dual major in marketing in the Whitman School of Management and television, radio and film in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications; Alaina Marra, a freshman student in the School of Architecture; Kevin Treadway, a freshman history and political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs; and Janaisa Walker, a sophomore policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School.

The Fulbright UK Summer Institutes are fully funded three- to four-week summer study programs for first- and second-year U.S. undergraduates. For 2018, the program is offering nine institutes, each focused on different disciplines and issues, at universities across the U.K. The Summer Institutes are made possible through generous donations from private individuals and through partnership with some of the top universities in the U.K. Participants are selected based on leadership skills, academic achievement, character, adaptability and ambassadorial qualities, as well as demonstrated interest in the U.K. and its culture. Applicants complete a written application and semifinalists are invited to interview over Skype with Fulbright selectors in the U.K. Selection is highly competitive.  Read more about this in SU News…