{"id":3139,"date":"2017-09-22T15:48:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2017-09-22T15:48:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T15:48:53","slug":"alum-informs-fulbright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2017\/09\/22\/alum-informs-fulbright\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum informs, Fulbright"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p>By Hunter Keip, staff writer<\/p>\n<p>A LVC graduate recalled details of her 10 months abroad as part of the Fulbright Program.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Pell, a 2016 physics and music major, spoke to students after returning from Austria; her overseas experience was made possible by the Fulbright Program.<\/p>\n<p>The Fulbright Program, created by Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, gives approximately 8,000 awards annually to students who want to travel and work abroad.\u00a0 Pell was awarded a grant allowing her to study abroad and serve as an English teaching assistant to students in Austria last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Fulbright program gives you the opportunity to live and work abroad,&#8221; Pell said. &#8220;It&#8217;s invaluable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pell&#8217;s application process took two years to complete.\u00a0 She recommended all students who are interested in working abroad to go on Fulbright&#8217;s website and contact Dr. Phillip Benesch, professor of politics, for further information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being awarded a Fulbright grant creates a new set of options for students, a great level of recognition and graduate schools look for honors like this,&#8221; Benesch.<\/p>\n<p>Benesch suggest students talk to him during their sophomore or junior year if they are interested.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, LVC has two graduates abroad who received Fulbright grants: Jasmine Olvany &#8217;17, a biochemistry and molecular biology major, who is in Hungary and Megan Lough &#8217;17, an English and secondary education major, who is in Bulgaria.\u00a0 The two women left the first week of September.<\/p>\n<p>After her Fulbright experience, Pell plans to attend graduate school at the University of Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you have a track to follow, you get lost and Fulbright allowed me to reflect on myself for the better,&#8221; Pell said.<\/p>\n<p>If interested in the program, students can reach Dr. Benesch at benesch@lvc.edu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Hunter Keip, staff writer A LVC graduate recalled details of her 10 months abroad as part of the Fulbright Program. Hannah Pell, a 2016 physics and music major, spoke to students after returning from <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2017\/09\/22\/alum-informs-fulbright\/\" title=\"Alum informs, Fulbright\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}