Four more University of Richmond seniors awarded Fulbright teaching grants, bringing 2009 total to six
April 29, 2009
Four more University of Richmond seniors have received Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship grants.
Lauren Grewe of Tulsa, Okla., and Kate Simma of Richardson, Texas, will teach for one academic year in Bangladesh and Peru, respectively. Jill Eisenberg of Lexington, Mass., and John Calhoun of Bronx, N.Y., will both teach in Taiwan.
The grants cover the cost of travel, living expenses, medical insurance and enrichment activities overseas.
Selection of Richmond students Kyle Bell and Aaron Daugherty by the Fulbright teaching grants program was announced earlier this month.
The Fulbright Program, established in 1946, is named after the late Sen. J. William Fulbright, who introduced a bill in Congress to create a program "promoting international good will through the exchange of students in the fields of education, culture and science." Approximately 1,500 grants are awarded each year to U.S. students to study, do research or assistant-teach abroad in more than 155 countries.