{"id":303652,"date":"2018-03-08T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=303652"},"modified":"2018-03-08T14:26:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T19:26:44","slug":"13-rochester-students-recent-alumni-named-fulbright-semifinalists-303652","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/13-rochester-students-recent-alumni-named-fulbright-semifinalists-303652\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Rochester students, recent alumni named Fulbright semifinalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-304232\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-fulbright-top-producer.png\" alt=\"logo reads 2017-2018 Fulbright US Student Top Producer\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-fulbright-top-producer.png 400w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-fulbright-top-producer-32x32.png 32w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-fulbright-top-producer-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-fulbright-top-producer-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-fulbright-top-producer-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-fulbright-top-producer-128x128.png 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Thirteen University of Rochester students and recent alumni are semifinalists in the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/us.fulbrightonline.org\/fulbright-us-student-program\">Fulbright U.S. Student Grant Program<\/a>, the government\u2019s flagship international educational exchange program. Sponsored by the State Department, it offers opportunities to pursue advanced studies, conduct research, and teach English language and U.S. culture abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Final award offers will be announced on a country-by-country basis over the next three to four months.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-two candidates applied to this year\u2019s competition through Fulbright review committees at the River Campus and at Eastman.<\/p>\n<p>Rochester also has been named a \u201ctop producer\u201d of Fulbright US Student Grant winners for the 2017-18 academic year. The University had 40 applicants and 10 who accepted grants last year. Two other students were offered Fulbright grants but declined.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second year in a row Rochester has been designated a top producer, and the third time in the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the 13 semifinalists, along with their hometowns, majors, country of application, and type of grant sought:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cherish Blackman<\/strong> <strong>\u201918<\/strong> (Rochester)<\/p>\n<p>East Asian studies\/Russian<\/p>\n<p>China: study\/research language and literature<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Cowie-Haskell<\/strong> <strong>\u201918<\/strong> (Marshfield, Massachusetts)<\/p>\n<p>Anthropology<\/p>\n<p>Kenya: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meg Cutting \u201918E<\/strong> (Salem-Keizer, Oregon)<\/p>\n<p>Organ performance<\/p>\n<p>France: study creative and performing arts in organ performance<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ella DeFalco \u201918 <\/strong>(Skaneateles, New York)<\/p>\n<p>Linguistics<\/p>\n<p>Belgium: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Annamarie Forestiere \u201918<\/strong> (Pulaski, New York)<\/p>\n<p>Business\/music<\/p>\n<p>United Kingdom: study\/research arts management<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oleaser Johnson \u201918<\/strong> (University Heights, Ohio)<\/p>\n<p>French\/linguistics<\/p>\n<p>South Korea: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amelia Kelly \u201918<\/strong> (Camillus, New York)<\/p>\n<p>Anthropology\/history<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crystal Lee \u201918<\/strong> (Rochester)<\/p>\n<p>Brain and cognitive sciences\/linguistics<\/p>\n<p>Netherlands: study\/research psychology and cognitive science<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lauren Oey \u201918<\/strong> (Mountain Lakes, New Jersey)<\/p>\n<p>Brain and cognitive sciences\/linguistics\/statistics<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong: study\/research linguistics and cognitive science<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reva Peer \u201918<\/strong> (Roseland, California)<\/p>\n<p>Molecular genetics<\/p>\n<p>South Korea: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph Plyan-Franke \u201917 (T5)<\/strong> (Syracuse, New York)<\/p>\n<p>Computer science\/linguistics<\/p>\n<p>Laos: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Erin Straight \u201917<\/strong> (Wolcott, New York)<\/p>\n<p>International relations\/Spanish<\/p>\n<p>Colombia: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexis Wallace \u201918<\/strong> (Carthage, New York)<\/p>\n<p>Political science\/Russian<\/p>\n<p>Russia: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen students and recent alumni are semifinalists in the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Grant Program, and this is the second year in a row that the University of Rochester has been designated a Fulbright  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