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For immediate release - May 18, 2004
Contact: Nina Lentini (860) 439-2505; nmlen@conncoll.edu
NEW LONDON, Conn. - Two graduating Connecticut College seniors have been selected to receive prestigious Fulbright Grants to live and conduct research abroad, both in South Korea. A third student was named an alternate and may travel to Mongolia.
Erika Senneseth of North Oaks, Minn., a scholar in the certificate program of the College´s Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, will travel to South Korea to teach English to children. She has double-majored in human development and gender and women´s studies and served as the Connecticut College Children´s Program literacy coordinator.
Benjamin Knight of Bethesda, Md., a Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts scholar with a double major in international relations and East Asian studies, also plans to teach English in South Korea. Having studied in China and Japan, Knight seeks to become an East Asian specialist and hopes to join the U.S. State Department.
Daniel Cayer of Shelton, an alternate, would travel to Ulaan Baatar to conduct research with two of the country´s most influential organizations, the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition and the Mormon Mission. A philosophy major, Cayer was chosen by his class to be its speaker at Commencement on Sunday, May 23.
In the past decade, Connecticut College has had an average of more than one Fulbright Fellow annually working on various projects in Ecuador, Germany, Argentina, Korea, Japan, Italy and Switzerland.
Ranked among the most selective private liberal arts colleges in the nation, Connecticut College has an enrollment of 1,850 men and women from 45 states, the District of Columbia, and 35 countries. The college is particularly known for interdisciplinary studies, innovative international programs, paid internships, a wide range of student-faculty research opportunities and service learning. Founded in 1911, the college operates under an 82-year-old honor code and has no Greek system. The scenic 750-acre campus is managed as an arboretum and overlooks Long Island Sound. For more information, see www.conncoll.edu. Connecticut College is located at 270 Mohegan Ave., New London.
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Two Connecticut College graduating seniors to teach English in South Korea on Fulbright Grants
05/18/2004
Contact: Nina Lentini (860) 439-2505; nmlen@conncoll.edu
NEW LONDON, Conn. - Two graduating Connecticut College seniors have been selected to receive prestigious Fulbright Grants to live and conduct research abroad, both in South Korea. A third student was named an alternate and may travel to Mongolia.
Erika Senneseth of North Oaks, Minn., a scholar in the certificate program of the College´s Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, will travel to South Korea to teach English to children. She has double-majored in human development and gender and women´s studies and served as the Connecticut College Children´s Program literacy coordinator.
Benjamin Knight of Bethesda, Md., a Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts scholar with a double major in international relations and East Asian studies, also plans to teach English in South Korea. Having studied in China and Japan, Knight seeks to become an East Asian specialist and hopes to join the U.S. State Department.
Daniel Cayer of Shelton, an alternate, would travel to Ulaan Baatar to conduct research with two of the country´s most influential organizations, the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition and the Mormon Mission. A philosophy major, Cayer was chosen by his class to be its speaker at Commencement on Sunday, May 23.
In the past decade, Connecticut College has had an average of more than one Fulbright Fellow annually working on various projects in Ecuador, Germany, Argentina, Korea, Japan, Italy and Switzerland.
Ranked among the most selective private liberal arts colleges in the nation, Connecticut College has an enrollment of 1,850 men and women from 45 states, the District of Columbia, and 35 countries. The college is particularly known for interdisciplinary studies, innovative international programs, paid internships, a wide range of student-faculty research opportunities and service learning. Founded in 1911, the college operates under an 82-year-old honor code and has no Greek system. The scenic 750-acre campus is managed as an arboretum and overlooks Long Island Sound. For more information, see www.conncoll.edu. Connecticut College is located at 270 Mohegan Ave., New London.
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Amy Martin, 860-439-2526, a.martin@conncoll.edu or Deborah MacDonnell (860) 439-2504, dmacdonn@conncoll.edu
