Special Section

Five students will pursue advanced studies, conduct research, and teach English in host countries around the world after receiving grants from the highly competitive Fulbright international educational exchange program. They were among about 1,900 American university and college students who applied under the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

Jacek (Jack) Blaszkiewicz, a doctoral student in musicology at the Eastman School of Music, received a grant to study in France, while Lauren Kee ’15, an economics major from Newton Center, Massachusetts, was awarded a grant to conduct research on higher education in the Philippines.

Melissa Zgouridi ’15 (T5), an applied music major at Eastman and a Take Five Scholar from Fullerton, California, received an arts study grant to pursue her voice studies and teach English in Austria.

Benjamin Landwersiek ’15, a double major in Spanish and neuroscience from Phoenix, New York, was selected for an English teaching assistantship (ETA) grant to teach in Spain, and Samantha Whalen ’15, an anthropology major from Wilton, New York, received a grant to teach in Malaysia.

A sixth student, Kathryn (Kaight) Conheady ’15, a history major from Rochester, was offered a Fulbright ETA to Germany, but she declined it to participate in a separate program in Austria.