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Seniors Kelsey Price and Idris Leppla Awarded Fulbright Scholarships
updated
04.22.08
Kelsey Price |
Idris Leppla |
Kelsey
Price, a Latin American Studies major, has been awarded a
Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) for Spain.
She is not only strong academically, but also has an exemplary
record of extracurricular interests, including involvement
with Community Impact, the Barnard Bulletin, the Columbia
Science Journal, the Rotaract Club, and the Barnard College
Diversity Committee. Following her year in Spain, she plans
to go to graduate school to study Spanish or public health.
Idris
Leppla, a political science major from San Francisco, has
been awarded the Fulbright to support a year of research on
heroin and prescription drug addiction in France. Outside
the classroom, she has written for the Columbia Spectator,
played the piano in the Columbia Jazz Ensemble, and served
for a year as the SGA's Vice President for Communications.
After her Fulbright year, Idris plans to pursue a joint degree
in medicine and public health.
Established
in 1946, the Fulbright Program aims to "increase mutual
understanding between the people of the United States and
the people of other countries." Approximately 279,500
"Fulbrighters," 105,400 from the United States and
174,100 from other countries, have participated in the Program
since its inception sixty years ago.
For information
about the Program, visit: us.fulbrightonline.org/about.html
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