Fourteen Cornell students and recent alumni are setting out this fall for destinations around the world, thanks to grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Gilbert Levine, Fulbright adviser and Cornell professor emeritus of biological and environmental engineering, reports that three of the awardees will work as English teaching assistants and 11 will pursue study or research projects.
鈥淥ur applicants reflect the full range of research interests at Cornell, from anthropology to avian studies,鈥 Levine said. 鈥淲e congratulate all of the 2017-18 Fulbright recipients.鈥
Grace Ahn 鈥16 (biological sciences/CALS) will travel to South Korea to study palliative care for terminal cancer patients and new policy reforms that promote hospice care.
Salem Argaw 鈥17 (biological sciences/A&S) will work with international organizations in Switzerland to investigate how the conflict in Syria has shattered the health care system and how the international community can help.
Selena Cardona 鈥17 (sociology/A&S) will teach English in Colombia, focusing on working-class communities.
Cole DeVoy 鈥17 (China and Asia-Pacific studies/A&S) will travel to Taiwan to teach English and start an English-language theater club for youth.
Matthew Fisher-Post, MPA 鈥14, (Cornell Institute for Public Affairs) will study rural-to-urban migration in France and francophone West Africa at the Paris School of Economics.
David Guhl 鈥15 (applied economics and management/CALS and Cornell SC Johnson College of Business) will study in Mexico City and intern with a Mexican company through Fulbright鈥檚 Binational Business Program.
Eric Gulson 鈥15 (interdisciplinary studies/CALS) will promote conservation of threatened bird species by testing different styles of artificial nesting cavities on Sulawesi island in Indonesia.
Corey Keating, DMA 鈥19, (music composition) will collaborate with folk musicians and contemporary composers in Vietnam to learn how technology and globalization are affecting the Vietnamese musical tradition.
Ethan Keller, M.Eng. 鈥16, (computer science) will travel to Honduras to pilot a smartphone tracker he designed for . The device allows operators to record and monitor daily water quality.
Danyoung Kim 鈥16 (government, music/A&S) will conduct ethnographic research on opera audiences at Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Italy.
Rachel Odhner, Ph.D. 鈥20, (anthropology) will work with smallholder farmers and government and development stakeholders to learn how farming communities in Nicaragua are responding to water scarcity.
J.R. Rothstein, LL.M./J.D. 鈥10, (Law School) will research how observant Muslims and Jews in Canada combine their commitment to religious legal codes with citizenship in a secular-liberal democratic society.
Nigel Van der Woude 鈥17 (linguistics/A&S) will teach English in Italy and tutor Mediterranean refugees in English and Italian.
Justin Weinstock 鈥16 (anthropology, Asian studies/A&S) will investigate how caretakers, scientists and local communities coexist with elephants at the National Elephant Conservation Center in Malaysia.
Fulbright award recipients are selected for their outstanding academic achievement, service and leadership in their fields. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the largest U.S. exchange program for students and young professionals. The program awards about 1,900 grants each year in more than 140 countries.
The administers the program at Cornell and supports applicants, offering information sessions, research help and advising.
Sheri Englund is a writer for the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. This article also appeared
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