U-M ranks fourth in Student Fulbright Awards tally

Twenty-one U-M students have been awarded Fulbright Fellowships for 2006-07.

Only Yale, Harvard and Brown universities produced more Fulbright winners this year.

U-M tied with Columbia University and the University of California, Berkley, which had 21 fellows each.

Fulbright fellows undertake self-designed programs in disciplines ranging from social sciences, business, communication and performing arts, to physical sciences, engineering and education. More than 1,300 students nationwide competed for the honor, including 76 applicants from U-M.

Last year, U-M had more applicants and ranked No. 1 with 29 winners and 100 applicants.

Among U-M's 2006-07 Fulbright Fellows, Lori Khatchadourian, a doctoral student in archaeology, will travel to Armenia to explore the "political and social dynamics that local communities of the Yervandid polity constructed ... " during the Armenian plateau in the mid-first millennium B.C. Ariel Djanikian will travel to the Canadian Yukon to further research related to her historical novel about the Klondike Gold Rush.

Other 2005-06 U-M awardees and their destinations:

Senesi Blake, India; Robert Campbell IV, Ireland; Lyric Chen, China; Allison Davis, Peru; Christina Davis, India; David Epstein, Israel; Rachel Frey, Spain; Charles Guzak, Syria; Joshua Irizarry, Japan; Laura Kennedy, Russia; Alicia Krzyczkowski, Czech Republic; Ylinne Lynch, Germany; Dustin McMahon, Ireland; Joel Selway, Thailand; Sadaf Shaukat, Jordan; Olesya Tkacheva, Russia; Benjamin Van Dyke, Netherlands; Kendra Walker, Gabon; Matthew Wegehaupt, South Korea; and Christian Williams, Namibia.

The U.S. Congress created the Fulbright Program in 1946, immediately after World War II in order to foster mutual understanding among nations through educational and cultural exchanges. Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., sponsor of the legislation, saw it as a step toward building an alternative to armed conflict. Fulbright grants are available for study, research, teaching, and work in the creative and performing arts.

For more on the Fulbright program go to us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html

The Fulbright competition is administered at University of Michigan through the International Institute. U-M students and alumni interested in applying for a Fulbright award should contact the campus Fulbright program adviser, Amy Kehoe, at 763-3297 or akehoe@umich.edu for information.

For more on the International Institute go to www.umich.edu/~iinet/.

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