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University of Richmond Student Awarded Scholarship to Study in Mexico

June 17, 2005

LaWanda Weatherspoon, a University of Richmond rising junior from Rocky Mount, Va., has been awarded a $2,000 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study in Guadalajara, Mexico. She is the first Richmond student to receive a Gilman scholarship.

Weatherspoon will study next semester through the University of Richmond Study Abroad Program at ITESO (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente), one of the university’s partner institutions. Weatherspoon is majoring in Spanish and rhetoric and communication studies.

Only 281of 1,303 applicants were awarded the scholarships.