Three '07 grads receive Fulbright grants for research, teaching

Three University of Richmond 2007 graduates have been awarded grants by the U.S Department of State's 2006-07 Fulbright Program. The program provides funds for international graduate study, research and teaching.

Genevieve Goulding of Corapeake, N.C., Jessica Loman of New Port Richey, Fla., and Kate McKinney of Waynesboro, Pa., were among 1,300 recipients.

Goulding, a rhetoric and communication studies and international studies double major, will conduct research at L'Institute de Sciences-Politiques in Paris, France, where she will study the consequences of recent restrictions placed on asylum seekers in France as well as the effectiveness of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' response to be their advocate. While at Richmond, she volunteered with the Virginia Council of Churches' Refugee Resettlement Service and made a humanitarian trip to Tanzania. She was a University and Quest scholar.

Loman, a rhetoric and communication studies major, will teach English to high school seniors in Indonesia. While at Richmond, she served on the Campus Activities Board and in Westhampton College's senate, studied abroad in Monterrey, Mexico, and completed internships at the South Bank Centre, an arts complex in London, England, and a small record label in Los Angeles.

McKinney, an economics and German double major, will teach English to middle and secondary students in Duesseldorf, Germany, and volunteer with immigrant students in a primary school. While at Richmond, McKinney held the Herman P. Thomas Economics Scholarship, was a member of the equestrian team and taught English as a second language.

The Fulbright Program is named after the late Sen. J. William Fulbright, who introduced a bill in Congress in 1945 to create a program "promoting international good will through the exchange of students in the fields of education, culture and science." More than 275,000 people from the United States and abroad have participated in the resulting cross-cultural exchanges.