Muhlenberg Student Receives Fulbright Award
Meghan Healy ’08, of Westwood, N.J., has received notification of a teaching and study award through the Fulbright program for Argentina.Tuesday, May 13, 2008 01:59 PM
Meghan is a business and Spanish double major at Muhlenberg College and has been on the Dean's list multiple times. Her research project will involve studying the intersections of poverty and education.
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since its inception, the Fulbright Program has exchanged approximately 273,500 people-102,900 American who have studied, taught or researched abroad and 170,600 students, scholars and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States. The Program operates in over 150 countries worldwide.
Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. Among the thousands of prominent Fulbright alumni are: Mohamed Benaissa, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Morocco; Dolores Kendrick, Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia; and Robert Shaye, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, New Line Cinema.
Fulbright recipients are among over 30,000 individuals participating in U.S. department of State exchange programs each year. For more than forty years, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has supported programs that seek to promote mutual understanding and respect between the people of the United States and people of other countries. The Fulbright Scholar Program is administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.
