13 Students Selected to Study Abroad on Fulbrights - Georgetown College

The Fulbright Program has awarded 13 students and recent graduates with 2009-2010 fellowships this fall.

The recipients will travel abroad to conduct research and study a variety of topics, including environmental regulations in China, modern word derivation in Syria and the roles of women in rebel armies in Sierra Leone.

"We take great pride at Georgetown in the accomplishments of this year's Fulbright awardees," said President John J. DeGioia. "These are remarkable men and women working to make a difference around the world."

The Fulbright Program, sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State, is the flagship international educational exchange program that aims to build mutual understanding and respect between the United States and the rest of the world. The Fulbright Scholarship Board selected Georgetown students and alumni based on their academic achievement and leadership potential. 
 
University officials said the pool of interested applicants continues to grow on campus.

"The robust growth in recent years of Fulbright applicants and recipients at Georgetown shows that globalism is a core value in the Georgetown experience," said John Glavin, university fellowship secretary and director of the Gervase Programs.

The 2009-10 Georgetown Fulbright award winners are:

• Lindsay Aylesworth (SFS'06) will live and study in Brazil.
• Priya Bapat (SFS'06) will live in Mumbai, India, to conduct research on empowering women's groups in India. She also will attend an intensive summer course to better learn the Marathi language.
• Carolyn Barnett (SFS'09) will study Arabic and pursue an internship with a Cairo-based nongovernmental organization in Egypt.
• Walter Chahanovich (C'09) will live and study in Egypt.
• Anthony Edwards (C'08, G'09) will study the role that modern word derivation plays in the preservation and promotion of the Arab identity in an age of globalization in Damascus, Syria.
• Perry Guevara (G'09) will serve as an English teaching assistant at a bilingual secondary school in Spain.
• Sabrina Karim (SFS'07) will study the impact of climate change on poor children in Peru.
• Zoe Marks (C'07) will study in Sierra Leone and examine the roles of women in the Revolutionary United Front. She plans to interview former participants in the rebel army as well as community and NGO leaders to better understand war as a social process, not just violence.
• Mary O'Loughlin (SFS'09) will study China's new environmental regulations, particularly the ban on the distribution of free plastic bags in stores.
• Alex Schank (C'08) will examine the portrayal of the Nahda in primary and secondary school history textbooks in Jordan. Schank plans to research how Nahda, which is the Arab renaissance period during the early 20th century, is used in current efforts to foster interreligious dialogue.
• Rod Solaimani (SFS'08) will study ethnomusicology in Morocco and promote the need for cross-cultural exchange between the East and West.  
• Kimberly Stolz (G'07) will study in Jordan and explore the migrations to Amman from the perspective of one or two Jordanian host communities.
• Laura Tulchin (C'09) will examine meanings of race and the effects of new racial quotas in admissions to Brazilian universities in Rio de Janeiro.