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Four Miami students awarded Fulbright grants
6/7/06
Four Miami University students have been awarded Fulbright grants for graduate study and research abroad in the 2006-07 academic year.
The students are among more than 1,000 selected from across the country. They are:
- Christopher Michel, a master’s student in English, will work in Georgia with Irakli Kenchoshvili at the Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature in Tbilisi translating the work of Galaktion Tabidze (1892-1959). “English poets have much to gain through exposure to his work, which is deeply complex, powerfully charged and technically innovative,” he says.
- Christopher Chailland, a doctoral student in chemistry, will research obesity related health concerns in Denmark. Chailland is a graduate of Hanover College, has been a teaching assistant at Miami since 2003 and was awarded a National Science Foundation Experience for Undergraduates Fellowship in 2002.
- Ariana Falk, a master’s student in music, will study cello in Germany with Wolfgang Schmidt. Falk received bachelor and master’s degrees in music from Yale University; she is working on a second master’s degree at Miami. She says, “I wish to immerse myself in today’s brilliant German style of playing and contemporary music… and to explore the role of arts journalism in German performance culture.”
- Christina Synowiec, a graduating senior in Miami’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies with a minor in Latin American studies, will work in South Korea as a teaching assistant. Through the Fulbright, Synowiec says she will be able to “witness firsthand the culture, history and language of the Korean citizens and how they themselves relate to a very different Korea than the one in which I lived as a child.”
David Keitges, Miami’s director of international education, announced the recipients. “Miami students – bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral students – continue to win these prestigious Fulbright awards year after year in competition with students at the best American universities,” he says. “We are all very proud of their successes.”
Students are assisted in their application by Miami’s Fulbright interview committee, composed of Roscoe Ward (paper and chemical engineering), William Houk (physics) and Keitges. A number of individual faculty also assisted the students with their proposals and letters of reference.