UND NSPA Monthly Communiqué

The 2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Scholarship competition has now opened. As I prepare for this year's competition, I want to share some prescient words by the late Senator J. William Fulbright, the namesake of the Fulbright Scholarship Program, who championed international educational exchange as a strategy to secure world peace.

In the aftermath of WWII, Senator Fulbright presented a bill to the U.S. Congress, signed into law by President Truman, about an international educational exchange program that became the Fulbright Program. Fulbright believed that mutual understanding between nations occurs at the person to person level. Educational exchange offered that mechanism as scholars collaborate with others from different countries on academic projects of mutual interest.

“International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that men can learn to live in peace--eventually even to cooperate in constructive activities rather than compete in a mindless contest of mutual destruction....We must try to expand the boundaries of human wisdom, empathy and perception, and there is no way of doing that except through education." [From remarks on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the Fulbright Program, 1976]… Senator J. William Fulbright (1945-1974)

I hope you consider Fulbright, Critical Language Scholarships, CBYX, Gilman, Boren or other study abroad scholarships as part of your journey to make this world better.

Yee Han Chu PhD MSSW

Academic Support and Fellowship Opportunities Coordinator

Three UND students win prestigious national/international scholarships.

• Taylor Roehl, a Fulbright Semi-finalist (competition still in progress), wins the 2022 CBYX Young Professionals Program Fellowship. Among the 500 CBYX Young Professional applicants who applied nationwide, Taylor was one of 75 American students selected to represent the United States as a citizen ambassador while studying at a German University the next academic year.
• Sydney Menne wins the 2022 Goldwater Scholarship. Sydney joins the ranks of the brightest undergraduate researchers in the nation. 417 new scholarships were awarded for the 2022 competition following nominations from 433 institutions. UND’s last Goldwater recipient was in 2013. The Goldwater scholarship, which was created in 1986 in honor of the late Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, is considered one of the most prestigious scholarships available to undergraduate students studying natural science, engineering, or mathematics. She already successfully secured many prestigious local (Pearl Young) and international (2021 DAAD-Rise/2022 Brooke Owens) scholarships.
• Sabrina Sullivan, a transfer student from New Mexico completing her first year at UND, wins the 2022 Goldwater Scholarship. Sabrina has 14 years of experience working in the oil and gas field and 4 years working in the Air Force before she transferred to UND to pursue her online undergraduate degree in petroleum engineering. Her most recent and proudest achievement is helping to develop an innovative lift to more efficiently and ecologically extract oil. This lift is currently under review with the US Patent and Trademark Office.
• Sydney Menne and Sabrina Sullivan in UND Today: Two UND students named 2022 Goldwater Scholars

Congratulations to Taylor, Sydney, and Sabrina!

Shealynn Wells—a Cobell Scholar, a United Health Foundation Tribal Scholar, and a McNair Scholar—received the Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship from UCLA to fund her studies in the UCLA Nursing PhD program starting Fall 2022. Shealynn is completing her bachelor’s degree in Nursing with a minor in Anthropology. This fellowship is considered one of UCLA's most prestigious awards for entering doctoral students interested in a career in college or university teaching and research. Shealynn will receive a minimum of four years of funding from the Graduate Division and her home department: up to $25,000/year for two years from the graduate division and the same stipend amount from her department for another two years.

The U.S Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Spark Program is a pilot initiative providing virtual opportunities for U.S. undergraduate students to learn languages essential to America’s engagement with the world. CLS Spark will offer Arabic and Russian instruction for students with no previous experience in these languages, and Chinese instruction for students with one year of experience (advanced beginners). The CLS Spark Program will be offered in academic year 2022/2023 with approximately 18 hours of virtual language instruction offered per month, as well as monthly cultural activities. Applications will open in April with a deadline of May 26, 2022.

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program's 2023-24 Competition is open, featuring over 400 awards offered in more than 130 countries in all world regions. Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards allow U.S. citizens to teach, research, and carry out professional projects abroad. Applications are due September 15, 2022.

Upcoming Webinars - Join Fulbright to learn more

Visit Fulbright's Webinar Schedule for details about events throughout the competition, featuring specific countries, regions and disciplines. Upcoming events include:

• April 6: Opportunities in STEM
• April 13: Opportunities in Law and Political Science
• April 14: U.S. Scholar Opportunities in the United Kingdom
• April 20: Opportunities in Social Sciences and the Humanities
• April 28: Scholar-in-Residence Opportunities for Community Colleges and Minority-Serving Institutions
• April 28: Webinar for American Historical Association (Opportunities in History)
• May 4: Opportunities in American Studies
• May 5: Opportunities in Fine Arts

Can't join Fulbright live? All webinars are archived on our site here. Note that any times listed for webinars or other live resource events are in U.S. Eastern standard time.

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