A record 27 University of Rochester students and recent alumni have been named semifinalists in the prestigious Fulbright US Student Grant Program, the government’s flagship international educational exchange program. The program is sponsored by the State Department and offers opportunities to pursue advanced studies, conduct research, and teach English language and American culture abroad.
Final award offers will be announced on a country-by-country basis over the next few months. This year’s semifinalists include 23 from the College and four from the Eastman School of Music. Thirty-seven candidates applied through Fulbright review committees on the River Campus and at Eastman.
Rochester has been recognized as a top producer of Fulbright student grant awardees three times in the past five years.
Here are the semifinalists, with name, major, country of application, and type of grant sought. Two semifinalists have requested that their names not be published at this time:
Eastman School of Music
Colin Crake ’19E (applied music: saxophone); France – study/research: studies in saxophone performance and French saxophone style and repertoire
Jasmine Daquin ‘19MM (performance & literature, oboe) France – study/research: performing artist diploma studies, with a focus on post-war and contemporary classical repertoire
Hannah Dick ‘19E/19 (applied music: percussion and brain & cognitive sciences); Sweden – study/research: studies in percussion performance, improvisation, and pedagogy
Benton Gordon ‘19E (applied music: flute); Taiwan – English Teaching Assistantship (ETA)
Arts, Sciences & Engineering
Sophie Aroesty ’18 (psychology and English: Language, Media & Communications); Macedonia – ETA
Angela Benson ’19 (anthropology and public health: health, behavior & society); Taiwan – ETA
Lauren Bolz ’17 (chemistry and economics); United Kingdom – study/research: master’s degree in education policy
Jonathan Campanaro ’18/19W (Spanish, M.S., TESOL); Mexico – ETA
Elise Catania ’19 (mathematics); Hungary – study/research: Budapest Semesters in Mathematics-Rényi Institute program
Jason Cherin ’19 (biology); Portugal – ETA
Jerome Dent ‘GS (Ph.D. candidate, visual & cultural studies); Netherlands – study/research: critical studies in art, representation, race, and culture
Tiffany Dias ’19 (computational biology and international relations); New Zealand – study/research: development of gene markers for disease resistance in the kakapo species
Madeline Hoey ’19 (biochemistry); Denmark – study/research: applications for LPMO enzymes in photobioreactors for conversion of biomass to ethanol
Alexander Johnson ’18 (physics); Belgium – study/research: carillon science, history, composition, and performance
Emma Luke ’19 (biomedical engineering); United Kingdom – study/research: master’s degree in biomedical engineering; traumatic brain injury research
Daria Lynch ‘18/T5’19 (history); Turkey – ETA
Graeme McGuire ‘18/T5’19 (linguistics and computer science; Georgia – ETA
Scott Mistler-Ferguson ’18 (political science and English: Creative Writing); Argentina – ETA
Allison Morningstar ’19 (neuroscience); Germany – study/research: characterization of microglial actin cytoskeleton regulation over the course of Alzheimer’s disease pathology
Nicole Naselaris ’19 (optical engineering); Spain – ETA
Emily Radford ’19 (psychology and gender, sexuality & women’s studies; Argentina – ETA
Andrew Russo ‘GS (Ph.D. candidate, history); Morocco – study/research: archival research on Morisco communities following their 17th century expulsion from Spain
Siobhan Seigne ’19 (Russian); Russia – ETA
Jacqueline Tran ’18 (anthropology); Jordan – study/research: social practices of Islamic call to prayer smartphone applications among youth in Amman
Rachel Yang ‘18/T5’19 (microbiology); South Korea – ETA
