Fifteen latest graduates will train English or pursue analysis in Taiwan, Germany, Austria, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Slovak Republic, South Korea, Spain, and the UK.
The fellows, who embody fourteen graduating seniors and a latest alumnus, be part of a rising Bowdoin cohort. For the previous 4 years, the School has produced extra Fulbright fellows than some other school within the US.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken this winter congratulated Bowdoin on this achievement, which he known as “a testomony to your establishment’s deep dedication to worldwide change and to constructing lasting connections between the individuals of the USA and the individuals of different nations.”
The Fulbright US Pupil Program is a prestigious tutorial change program sponsored by the federal authorities to encourage “connections in a fancy and altering world.” At Bowdoin, it’s administered by the Workplace of Pupil Fellowships and Analysis.
Parker Beatty ’23, English Educating Assistant, Taiwan
“I hope that I can collect concepts on how the Taiwanese allocentric (community-based) tradition emphasizes group and concord, in order a future educator/coach I can instill a mindset in my pupils that prioritizes the collective even throughout the US’s individualist society.”
Main: Neuroscience
Minor: Anthropology
Daniel Chi ’24, English Educating Assistant, Germany
“I wish to return to Germany, which I had no prior connection to earlier than school, and listen to individuals’s tales that in any other case I’d by no means hear.”
Majors: Biochemistry, German
Thomas Daley ’22, English Educating Assistant, Greece
“Within the spirit of my Hellenic historic ancestors, instructing is a chance for reciprocal studying. I want to discover my Greco-American identification by means of service to a rustic I’ve by no means been to however yearn to name house.”
Majors: Earth and Oceanographic Science, Math
Kate Ishida ’24, English Educating Assistant, Austria
“My software is basically primarily based on my curiosity in music and holistic pedagogical approaches. I initially studied overseas in Austria to immerse myself within the landscapes that impressed the classical composers I grew up taking part in. Quickly, the German language turned a bridge to understanding music higher, and I wish to strengthen that bridge by bettering my language abilities. [Additionally,] I wish to immerse myself in Austria’s extra holistic method in training that emphasizes not solely tutorial achievement, but in addition social, inventive, and emotional well-being.
Majors: Psychology, Music
Minor: German
Katie Kurtz ’24, Research/Analysis, Italy
“I’ll examine the grassroots administration and design of the ‘city outside’ in Palermo alongside Dr. Marco Picone and his colleagues on the College of Palermo. Additional, I’ll examine how grassroots organizations are designing the bodily setting of various inexperienced areas to enhance group entry.”
Main: Environmental Research, Italian Research
Minor: City Research
Karla Lainez ’24, English Educating Assistant, Mexico
“As a local Spanish speaker and queer, first-generation Mexican and Salvadoran American, I really feel I can convey a distinct perspective due to my intersecting identities. My want is that being assured in and happy with my identification invitations others to do the identical—being happy with who they’re and the experiences which have formed them.”
Majors: Latin American, Caribbean & Latinx Research, Sociology
Cole Matthews ’24, English Educating Assistant, Slovak Republic
“Throughout a analysis challenge for a images class whereas learning overseas final spring, I used to be entranced with Slovakia by means of the lens of the Slovak panorama photographer, Stefan Condik. He stirred a need in me to discover the Western Carpathians, and impressed me to embark alone panorama images journey. …I plan to make deeper connections with documentary images whereas in Slovakia—taking footage of others and experiencing new methods of life, immersing myself throughout the wealthy Slovak tradition, and cultivating lifelong friendships.”
Main: Sociology
Minor: Visible Arts
Paulina Morales ’24, English Educating Assistant, Mexico
“Because the daughter of Mexican immigrants, I’m concerned about Mexico resulting from its intensive immigration historical past with the US, and the way the border wall has contributed to bodily, cultural, and social divisions. Thus, I wish to use my English classes to show my college students to communities, cultures, and histories past their neighborhoods to strengthen one another’s understanding of Mexican-American relationships. Moreover, I’ve by no means been capable of go to Mexico, and I wish to be taught and expertise my household’s tradition and historical past.”
Majors: Training, Authorities and Authorized Research
Afia Oduro-Manu ’24, English Educating Assistant, South Korea
“Korean is a language that I’ve lengthy been concerned about and am excited to be taught; as a young person, I used to be drawn to the glamorous world of Ok-pop and Ok-dramas. However now my curiosity in Korea has matured, as I’m drawn to international coverage and the position that South Korea performs within the Indo-Pacific area in addition to the nation’s linguistic historical past. As an ETA in Korea, I look ahead to studying extra about Korean tradition from my college students and host household, and utilizing cross-cultural change to nuance their understanding of what it means to be an American, as when most individuals consider People, they don’t envision individuals who appear to be me.”
Majors: Authorities and Authorized Research, Asian Research
Alondra Romero ’24, English Educating Assistant, Spain
“As a printmaker, Spanish artwork has enomored me, however after researching the position of creatives in remembering the dictatorship in Argetina this previous 12 months, I turned wanting to see how the framework of utilizing artwork to retain nationwide identification post-dictatorship manifests itself in Spain. I’m excited to be taught from Spaniards about how they resonate with artwork on a private and nationwide degree by partaking with my local people not solely as a trainer but in addition as an lively group member.”
Main: Latin American, Caribbean & Latinx Research
Minor: Psychology
Emily Simons ’24, Research/Analysis, Germany
“Cardiovascular illnesses are a number one explanation for demise in Germany and worldwide, and the data sequestered in well being information has the potential to raised our understanding these circumstances. In collaboration with our scientific companions, I’ll develop machine studying fashions to establish scientific threat elements that predict the onset and outcomes of heart problems, leveraging the blossoming discipline of topological information evaluation to handle the distinctive challenges posed by well being information.”
Main: Math
Minor: Laptop Science
Megan Stretch ’24, English Educating Assistant, Germany
“As an aspiring biologist, I wish to discover Germany’s position in cross-cultural biotechnology developments and science training by means of the Fulbright ETA. In and outdoors of the classroom, I additionally am excited to have discussions about Germany’s ‘Willkommenskultur’ and its distinctive place within the European Union on migration as I join it to my very own understanding of migration in Maine and California.”
Majors: Biology, German
Minor: Visible Arts
Josie Tidmore ’24, Research/Analysis, Wales
“I plan to pursue a one-year challenge as a masters of philosophy scholar within the lab of Donald Fraser at Cardiff College, the place I’ll uncover sex-specific variations in continual kidney illness utilizing human stem cell-derived proximal tubule cells, that are a potential driver of the illness’s pathogenesis. The Fraser lab is one in all solely a handful worldwide that makes use of this stem cell-based mannequin to check the position of proximal tubules in continual kidney illness with a selected concentrate on intercourse variations.”
Majors: English, Neuroscience
Juliana Vandermark ’24, English Educating Assistant, Spain
“As a highschool instructing assistant in Madrid, Spain, I’ll construct on my instructing and curriculum-writing expertise, spiritual historical past analysis, love for Spanish literature, and keenness for storytelling by means of a number of mediums—dancing, writing, and instructing.”
Main: Historical past
Minor: Hispanic Research
Paul Wang ’24, English Educating Assistant, Taiwan
“As a passionate environmentalist, I am curious to discover Taiwan’s rising environmental motion and its spectacular nationwide assets. Actually, my ardour for nature originated by means of listening to bedtime tales of the Taiwanese countryside from my mother and father, and I’ve lengthy sought to raised perceive my household’s roots and tradition. I see the Taiwan English instructing assistant program as the proper alternative to leverage my instructing background and keenness for service with my deep curiosity in Taiwan.”
Majors: Environmental Research, Biology
Revealed Might 13, 2024
