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Displaying Articles for News: Office of Scholar Development News, Category: Study Abroad
Jun 10th, 2024
Two WKU students were awarded the Freeman Award for Study in Asia (Freeman-ASIA), and three additional students were awarded Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grants.
View ArticleMay 9th, 2024
18 WKU students earned the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad in the March 2024 application cycle, more than any other college or university in Kentucky.
View ArticleMay 7th, 2024
Three WKU students were awarded Fund for Education Abroad (FEA) scholarships for study abroad in the Spring 2024 application cycle, tied for the most of any institution in the country and the only institution in Kentucky with FEA recipients.
View ArticleMay 7th, 2024
Parker Stallings, a first-year student in Professional Legal Studies and English, has been selected for the highly competitive Fulbright US-UK Summer Institutes. Parker will study in a fully-funded three-week program at the University of Bristol.
View ArticleApr 29th, 2024
WKU students Kirstin Bobbitt, Carolyn Brueggemann, Allison Francis, Samuel Gorecki, Maria Julian, Kierigan McEvoy, and Serena White have each been awarded $25,000 David L. Boren Scholarships to fund language-focused study abroad in 2024-25.
View ArticleMar 25th, 2024
Two WKU students have been offered 2024 Critical Language Scholarships, and two have been designated alternates. CLS is an intensive overseas language and cultural program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
View ArticleJan 18th, 2024
Four WKU students have been selected this spring as Semi-Finalists for 2024 Critical Language Scholarships, an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities.
View ArticleJan 12th, 2024
Three WKU student were awarded Fund for Education Abroad (FEA) scholarships for study abroad in the Fall 2023 application cycle.
View ArticleJan 8th, 2024
22 WKU students earned the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad in the October 2023 application cycle, more than all of Kentucky's other colleges and universities combined. Their awards totaled $77,500.
View ArticleNov 1st, 2023
WKU has been named a Top Producer of Gilman Scholarship recipients by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).
View ArticleJun 1st, 2023
20 WKU students earned the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad in the March 2023 application cycle—as many as all other colleges and universities in Kentucky combined.
View ArticleMay 26th, 2023
Two WKU students were awarded the Freeman-ASIA scholarship, and three additional WKU students were awarded Phi Kappa Phi study abroad grants. Their awards totaled $11,000.
View ArticleMay 5th, 2023
Annie Whaley, a second-year student in Public Relations and International Affairs, has been selected for the highly competitive Fulbright US-UK Summer Institutes. Pah Meh, a first-year student in Computer Science, was a finalist.
View ArticleApr 28th, 2023
Olivia Blackmon, Noah Lyles, and Langley Williams have been awarded $25,000 David L. Boren Scholarships to fund intensive language study in Taiwan during the 2023-2024 academic year. Reece Gillespie has been named an alternate in the competition. All are
View ArticleApr 6th, 2023
Seven WKU students have been offered 2023 Critical Language Scholarships, and one has been designated an alternate. The CLS Program fully funds summer intensive language study abroad in 15 languages critical to U.S. national security.
View ArticleApr 5th, 2023
Two WKU students were awarded Fund for Education Abroad (FEA) scholarships for study abroad during the Summer 2023 term.
View ArticleFeb 22nd, 2023
Eight WKU students have been selected this spring as Semi-Finalists for the 2023 Critical Language Scholarship Program, a summer intensive language program fully funded by the US Department of State.
View ArticleFeb 20th, 2023
31 WKU students earned the Gilman Scholarship in the October 2022 application cycle, more than in any other cycle and more than all of Kentucky's other public institutions combined. The awards totaled $128,000.
View ArticleJan 19th, 2023
WKU students have earned over $1 million from the nationally competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program. Since the program's inception in 2001, 291 WKU students have been named Gilman Scholars.
View ArticleJan 17th, 2023
WKU student Tramaine Hawkins of Hopkinsville was named the institution’s first Gilman-McCain Scholar, a designation awarded to 100 child and spousal dependents of active or activated U.S. military personnel for study abroad per academic year.
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