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Deadline for applications is january 31, 2024.

The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) announces its annual Grants Program for academic year 2024-2025 beginning in June 2024. The Grant Program offers grants to U.S. scholars to conduct research on North African topics in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, or Tunisia. AIMS Overseas Research Centers in Oran, Tunis, and Tangier facilitate AIMS grants and support AIMS scholars. AIMS funds only primary research conducted in the Maghrib.

Short-Term Research Grants AIMS awards short-term grants for one to three months for up to $6,000. These awards may also be used in combination with grants from other sources for projects of longer duration.

Long-Term Research Grants AIMS offers awards with a maximum of $15,000 for projects longer than three months. In the event a grantee declines an AIMS award to accept another grant, AIMS may provide a small allowance for supplementary research expenses.

In accordance with agreements with other major funding agencies, applicants may not accept multiple grants concurrently for the same project. Some privately funded grants are exempt from this rule.

Eligibility Graduate students currently enrolled in an M.A. or Ph.D. program, independent scholars, and faculty in all disciplines are eligible to apply. Applicants must be current AIMS members and U.S. citizen at the time of application. Recipients of AIMS awards in either of the two previous funding cycles are ineligible to apply. Researchers who will need IRB approval must obtain IRB clearance before departure to North Africa.

Requirements All AIMS grantees are required to present on their research at one of the AIMS Overseas Research Centers or affiliated centers: CEMA in Oran, Algeria; CEMAT in Tunis, Tunisia; TALIM in Tangier, Morocco; Dar Si-Hmad in Sidi Ifni and Agadir, Morocco. AIMS Grantees must also submit a written report to the AIMS Secretariat within one month of completion of their fieldwork.

Applications must be submitted online and include the following (application link below): 

• Completed Applicant Information
• Proposal or research design of no more than 1,500 words The proposal should describe the research topic, significance of the topic for your field/s and North African studies and, as relevant, for advancing comparative, transnational, and/or global theory and methodology; research design (e.g. the design and its feasibility, together with contingency planning, given current and shifting political-landscapes, methodological problems that may arise, and/or inability to gain “access”, and secure your interlocutors safety), and how your research might contribute to the mission of AIMS and/or its overseas research centers.
• A proposed research itinerary with approximate dates
• Budget, including research grants for this project from all sources
• Vitae, including indication of language proficiency and institutional affiliation at home and if applicable, in the field
• One-page summary of the proposed research in either French or Arabic written by the applicant
• Letters of recommendation from two referees, including the candidate’s dissertation advisor, or in the case of applicants holding a Ph.D., the names of two persons who may be contacted for references.

To apply, go to: https://orcfellowships.smapply.org/prog/aims_annual_grants_program_2024-2025/ Only applications submitted through SM Apply will be accepted.

The deadline for applications is January 31 st , 2024. Applications submitted after this date will not be considered.

Questions can be directed to Terry Ryan at [email protected].

Awards will be announced in April/May 2024. Information on research clearance procedures will be distributed to successful applicants and must be followed. Research clearance through AIMS must be received before departure to North Africa. Grantees are advised that it can take up to six months to obtain the necessary research clearances and also that air travel from the U.S. must meet the conditions of the Fly America Act.

AIMS recognizes that disruptions caused by unforeseen travel restrictions may alter travel plans. While funds cannot be used past the funding cycle, AIMS understands that travel plans may shift. Following receipt of an award, AIMS will work with the fellows to confirm travel plans, as feasible. 

~ ~ ~ These awards are made possible through grants from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State

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AIMS Research Grant Awards for 2021

The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) announces its annual Grants Program for academic year 2021-2022 beginning in July 2021. The Grant Program offers grants to U.S. scholars to conduct research on North African topics in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, or Tunisia. AIMS Overseas Research Centers in Oran, Tunis, and Tangier facilitate AIMS grants and support AIMS scholars. AIMS funds only primary research conducted in the Maghrib. Awards are available as short-term grants up to $6,000 and long-term grants up to $12,000. Applications due January 31, 2021.

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Specific Aims Workshop: Your Grant in a Sound Bite

Dorothy a. kozlowski.

1 Neuroscience Program, Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60614

Jacqueline K. Rose

2 Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225

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Grant writing is an essential component of research. In an increasingly competitive funding environment, writing successful grants has become an important focus of workshops and websites with each grant proposal component requiring detailed attention. The FUN 2017 Workshop session “Specific Aims: Your Grant in a Sound Bite” was dedicated to provide information and guidance in constructing and composing a Specific Aims document. This workshop drew on the presenters’ collective combination of grant experience ranging from successful submissions to serving as grant reviewers. The focus of the session was to provide some key points with regards to the purpose of a Specific Aims document, the typical audience who will read the Specific Aims, and how to construct Specific Aims that catch the attention of reviewers and provide a clear and concise overview of the grant with the goal of attracting funding. The following is a brief summary of this workshop and includes links to additional resources to help construct a Specific Aims document that provides clarity and outlines the impact of proposed research.

Almost all granting agencies that rely on a panel/committee grant review process require some form of an abbreviated summary and impact statement. Grant proposals to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) refer to this document specifically as the “Specific Aims” page. Other granting bodies require a similar page where the impact and contribution of your research must be provided; for instance, the National Science Foundation requires a summary page where the Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts of the research proposal must be outlined. Thus, although different funding agencies require a similar summary statement, the workshop focused on these summary statements from the perspective of the NIH Specific Aims document.

PURPOSES OF SPECIFIC AIMS

The Specific Aims comprise the publicly available information about funded projects for a particular funding agency. As such, Specific Aims provide accountability both for the funding agency at large, as well as the particular Program Officer/Director with regards to the types of projects that have received funding following a review process. As Specific Aims are made available to the public, this document also provides information to potential future applicants to gain some sense of what sorts of projects have previously received funding from this agency and/or funding initiative.

For the Program Officer/Director, the Specific Aims provide a brief statement about the proposal that clarifies immediately if a proposal addresses requirements of a specific funding opportunity. For instance, for funding opportunities that are topic-specific, Program Officers will look to the Specific Aims to ensure proposals are on-topic. Specific Aims can also help determine if a grant proposal addresses requirements for funding opportunities that serve additional goals (research experience for undergraduates, facilitate interdisciplinary research or collaboration, build infrastructure, etc.). As well, the brief summary of proposed research in the Specific Aims can also help identify potential grant reviewers, whether for purposes of serving on a panel or study section or as an ad hoc reviewer. Finally, Program Officers are often willing to provide valuable feedback based on the Specific Aims document if they receive it well in advance of the proposal deadline, increasing the chances of a successful proposal. Therefore, information in the Specific Aims can have considerable influence on whether a grant proposal is reviewed and who might review it.

The Specific Aims also serve a function for the grant review process. To understand this, it is helpful to consider the typical process for reviewing grants by committee. Funding agencies bring together panels of scientists (known as study sections at NIH) who perform research in fields that are related to the research proposals. The individuals who serve as grant reviewers are not necessarily the same individuals who attend your conference presentations, but they are sufficiently familiar with the research field and scientific process to be able to identify a viable, and likely impactful, research proposal. All panelists do not read every proposal cover to cover. Typically, prior to the review meeting, panelists are assigned a subset of proposals to read and evaluate. For proposals that are not part of their assigned subset, panelists will have at least a sense of a grant proposal from reading the Specific Aims of the proposal. At the grant review session, panelists present a summary and review of the strengths and weaknesses for each grant proposal they were assigned. This is then followed by a discussion about the proposal that includes all of the panelists where questions about proposal details are directed to the presenting panelists. When a grant is up for review, those who were not assigned the grant rely on the presenter, the discussion, and the Specific Aims page in making decisions regarding scoring of the proposal. Thus, the Specific Aims of a grant proposal provide an important “sound bite” summary that will inform the majority of members on a grant review panel. In some cases, it may be the only part of the grant a reviewer reads. Therefore, the Specific Aims must be clearly written and compelling.

WRITING SPECIFIC AIMS

The Specific Aims document typically has a similar structure regardless of the funding agency it is written for. For the FUN 2017 Workshop, we relied heavily on two resources to present this structure and discuss its content. Guidelines for grant writers written by the NIH – Specifically the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) –provides overall guidelines and specific tips on how to draft Specific Aims ( https://www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contracts/draft-specific-aims ). The website also provides tips on the other sections of a typical NIH grant and “sample applications” that can be explored ( https://www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contracts/sample-applications ). Although the examples are specific to this particular agency, they are written in such a way that someone not in this particular field can still appreciate and understand the Aims page. This is one of the goals of any Specific Aims page: You want people who aren’t exactly in your field to understand your work and its impact.

The second resource we used was from the BioScience writers website which has a wonderful guide called “NIH Grant Applications: The Anatomy of a Specific Aims Page” ( http://www.biosciencewriters.com/NIH-Grant-Applications-The-Anatomy-of-a-Specific-Aims-Page.aspx .) This website contains a paragraph by paragraph guide on how to construct this important part of your grant. In addition to providing a guide on how to write each paragraph of the Specific Aims document, this website then provides color-coded paragraphs that include the particular subcomponents discussed in the guide. It’s an excellent resource. What follows is a summary of this guide. The Specific Aims page is broken down into four paragraphs: 1) Introductory Paragraph; 2) What, Why, How Paragraph; 3) Specific Aims List; and 4) Pay-Off Paragraph.

Introductory Paragraph: In this paragraph you need to grab your readers’ attention so that they want to know more. It needs to be an impactful paragraph that demonstrates that your research addresses the agency’s goals (remember that a Program Officer may be skimming through a big pile to determine if the grant is appropriate for their funding agency). The Introductory Paragraph needs to provide a statement summarizing the current state of research in your area, delineating what is known, then identify a gap in the research and how filling this gap in knowledge is critical to the field. Once you have the reader hooked and convinced that this research area is important to address you can then proceed to the next paragraph which explains how your work will help to fill the critical gap in knowledge in the field.

Paragraph 2: What, Why, How Paragraph: In the first paragraph you’ve convinced the reviewer that this research area is a critical one; now in the second paragraph you need to convince the reviewer that your proposal will answer the critical need. The “What and How” requires you to state a goal for the project overall and refers to explaining how the individual studies in the proposal will address the research need and how they will fit into a longer-term goal of your work. The “How” also requires you to convince the reviewer that you/your lab/collaboration are the best people to answer this question because you have the best approach, experience, resources, etc. The “Why” refers to including a rationale for the proposal that includes a clear and concise hypothesis statement or equivalent. That’s a lot to include in a single paragraph, so writing clearly and concisely here is vital.

Specific Aims: Here is where you will explain each of the aims you will use to test your hypothesis. Typically, you should have between 2–4 aims. Each Aim however needs to include some vital information in only 2–4 sentences. The Aim needs a title. Then the Aim should tell the reader the objective of the Aim as it relates to the hypothesis. Then summarize the experimental approach (including highlighting if something is unique or unusual or especially cool). You then include the anticipated outcome of the Aim. This should be the pattern of each Aim. These should be bulleted or highlighted in some way so that they stand out from the rest of the paragraphs.

Pay-Off Paragraph: This is the final summary. Here you should highlight the outcomes of the Specific Aims and link them back to the hypothesis (if you haven’t done so in the Specific Aims List). Most importantly this is where you convince the reviewer of the contribution of your proposed research. Why, if you get the funding, it will greatly benefit the research field. Specifically, this is where you need to provide a statement of how your research will impact your field. Be persuasive and don’t be afraid to toot your own horn.

CONCLUSIONS AND FINAL TIPS

Specific Aims are an important component of any research grant and writing good ones takes practice and lots of feedback. The remainder of our workshop session was spent critiquing participant-provided and speaker-provided sets of Specific Aims using a rubric with a format suggested by the BioScience Writers guide (See Supplemental Materials ). Feedback received from participants indicated that this was an especially appreciated component of the workshop. To do this on your own, we suggest that you share your Specific Aims drafts with multiple colleagues (perhaps with the rubric provided). It is important for us as researchers to get feedback on our work and our writing; it is easy to write something when you know what you’re trying to say, but the hard part is making sure your message is clear to others. Therefore, once you’re comfortable with your set of Specific Aims, we encourage you to ask a colleague in your specific field to read them and provide feedback as well as a colleague that may be in Neuroscience but perhaps in a different subfield to read them as well. Getting this feedback will help you know if your message is getting across. Good Luck!

http://www.biosciencewriters.com/NIH-Grant-Applications-The-Anatomy-of-a-Specific-Aims-Page.aspx

http://www.biosciencewriters.com/Resources-for-Scientific-Grant-Writing.aspx

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contracts/draft-specific-aims

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contracts/sample-applications

Supplementary Information

Writing Specific Aims

Identifying specific aims.

• Identify a research gap.  Can your research move your field forward?
• Determine the significance of the problem and impact.  Is the work important—will progress make a difference to our understanding of neuroscience and/or human health?
• Is your team experienced and able to  carry out the work?

Outlining Specific Aims

Step 1:  Determine whether your research questions are exploratory (hypothesis-generating) or confirmatory (hypothesis-testing). If confirmatory, make sure the  hypotheses are focused, testable, built on a solid scientific foundation, and important.

Step 2: Draft aims to generate and/or test the hypotheses feasibly within the grant period.

• Usually a one-page limit.
• The aims should be focused and easy to assess by reviewers.
• For many mechanisms, consider avoiding interdependent aims.
• Outline experiments and outcomes.
• Determine approximate personnel, resources, and timeline.
• Identify a potential funding institute and funding mechanism.
• Consider potential study sections and expertise of reviewers .  
• Assess feasibility of your proposed work within the proposed funding mechanism.

Step 3: Revise aims as needed.

Writing the Specific Aims

Provide a narrative describing the rationale and significance of your planned research. A good way to start is with a sentence that states your project's goals. In some cases, you may want to explain why you did not take an alternative route. State your hypothesis (if relevant) and briefly describe your aims and how they build on rigorous prior and preliminary studies. If it is likely your application will be reviewed by a study section with broad expertise, summarize the status of research in your field and explain how your project fits in. In the narrative part of the Specific Aims of many applications, people also use their aims to:

State the technologies they plan to use.

Note their expertise to do a specific task or that of collaborators.

Describe past accomplishments related to the project.

Describe preliminary studies and new and highly relevant findings in the field.

Explain their area's biology.

Show how the aims relate to one another.

Use bold or italics to emphasize items they want to bring to the reviewers' attention, such as the hypothesis or rationale.

Depending on your situation, decide which items are important for you. For example, an Early-Stage Investigator may want to highlight preliminary data and qualifications to do the work.

After the narrative, enter your aims as stand-alone headers, run-on headers, or bullet points

State your plans using strong verbs like identify, define, quantify, establish, determine.

Describe each aim in one to three sentences.

Consider adding bullets under each aim to refine your objectives.

Describe expected outcomes for each aim.

Explain how you plan to interpret data from the aim’s efforts.

Describe how to address potential pitfalls with contingency plans.

Some people add a closing paragraph, emphasizing the significance of the work, their collaborators, or whatever else they want to focus reviewers' attention on.

It can be useful to have a colleague review your aims for clarity (particularly a colleague outside your field or a colleague with NIH funding or NIH study section experience).  

comments Want to contact NINDS staff? Please visit our Find Your NINDS Program Officer page to learn more about contacting Program Officers, Grants Management Specialists, Scientific Review Officers, and Health Program Specialists.

Writing High Quality Research Aims

The Specific Aims page is the cliff notes of your grant application. 

The first paragraph should explain why there is a need for your proposal and end with communicating your main objective. Be explicit, if any other disease can replace the disease that you are describing, then you are not including enough detail.

One guideline is to imagine that each Specific Aim will lead to at least one manuscript.  If you cannot imagine Aims 1 and 2 as standalone manuscripts, then there is probably not enough meat for each aim.  Consider combining them and developing a new Aim.

Be sure to highlight any unique resources that you plan to use.  For example the Utah Population Data Base (UPDB) or a novel tool that your group has developed.  In the case of an NIH grant application, any tool that your group has developed should be published.

Meeting with the SDBC/PHR collaborators will help insure that your aims are testable and feasible with your current sample size.  It is helpful to meet early in the grant writing process (ideally 2-3 months prior to submission).

The following guides may be helpful for crafting your Specific Aims page.

• Guide to key elements of specific aims: NIH Grant Applications The Anatomy of a Specific Aims

Concise tips using keywords for each element of the aim and color coded examples to highlight each key element.

 1:NIH Grant Applications The Anatomy of a Specific Aims Page. Release Date: April 09, 2015 Category: Scientific Grant Writing Author: Michelle S., Ph.D., E.L.S.

http://www.biosciencewriters.com/NIH-Grant-Applications-The-Anatomy-of-a-Specific-Aims-Page.aspx

• Peyman JA, Robinson JH, Allen KDMD,  Specific Aims – Do’s and Don’ts  

Do’s and Don’ts of writing specific Aims with eye toward reviewers.

2: Peyman JA, Robinson JH, Allen KDMD,  Specific Aims – Do’s and Don’ts. 

https://www.rheumatology.org/Portals/0/Files/Specific%20Aims%20-%20Do's%20and%20Don'ts.pdf

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Fulbright grants awarded to 26 from Johns Hopkins

A record-breaking number of jhu affiliates received awards this spring from the fulbright u.s. student program in support of their continuing study, research, and teaching in foreign countries.

By Aleyna Rentz

Johns Hopkins has long been a top producer of Fulbright scholars, but this year's cohort is exceptional: Twenty six students and alumni were offered grants this spring, the largest number from Johns Hopkins in a single application cycle since the program's inception just after World War II.

Named for U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright, who sponsored legislation creating the prestigious scholarship, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the country's largest educational exchange program, offering opportunities for students and young professionals to meet, work, live with, and learn from the people of the host country. The program awards approximately 2,000 grants annually and operates in more than 130 countries worldwide.

More information about the Fulbright application process can be found on the the university's National Fellowship Program website .

Study/Research Grant Recipients

Winners of the Fulbright Study/Research Award design their own research or academic course of study in a specific country. The program aims to facilitate cultural exchange and promote mutual understanding by supporting study or research abroad.

This year's winners are:

Rhiannon Clarke . A PhD student in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures/Spanish, Clarke has won a research grant to Spain to conduct research at the Centro Federico García Lorca in Granada for her dissertation, which investigates how Lorca represented bodies in his work, the role of materials in his artistic process, and the importance of the materiality of his manuscripts to interpreting his work.

Teresa Deskur , who earned a bachelor's degree in horn and music education in 2022, has won a study grant to the Netherlands to earn a Master's Degree in historical performance (recorder) at the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague. (She has declined the grant.)

Gabriella Fee , who earned an MFA in poetry from the Writing Seminars in 2022, has won a research grant to Italy, where she'll spend the grant period in Naples completing a first-draft translation of Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto's second collection of poetry, Dove non siamo stati , published by BUR Rizzoli in 2020. She will also study queer Italian poetics under the guidance of Professor Roberta Morosini at the University of Naples L'Orientale.

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Learn more about applying for awards and fellowships at the university's National Fellowship Program website

Glen Gray , a PhD student in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures/German, has won a research grant to Germany, where he will study the politics and aesthetics of despotism in opera and German drama at the University of Hamburg in the Institut für Germanistik.

Bradley Harmon , a PhD student in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures/German, has won a research grant to Germany to spend the next year at the Freie Universität Berlin continuing work on his dissertation on the ecopoetics of "flesh" in 20th century German and Nordic poetry.

Mashoud Kaba , who earned a master's degree in international health in May, has won a research grant to Guinea to work with community members and local researchers to better understand social barriers to reducing female genital mutilation/cutting rates.

Arisha Khan . A 2023 graduate with a master's degree in international health, Khan has won a research grant to Iceland to study the impact of Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruptions on the respiratory health of the arctic community.

Diya Kulkarni , who earned a bachelor's degree in public health studies in May, has won a research grant to Turkey to investigate chronic health barriers for Syrian refugees residing in Turkey post-earthquake.

Renee Liu , a 2022 graduate with a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering, has won a research grant to the Netherlands to explore using tomography angiography (OCT-A) to measure the health of retinal blood vessels as a means to achieve earlier and less invasive detection of cardiovascular problems, a project based at the Cardiovascular Research Institute of Maastricht University. (She has declined the grant having also been named a Schwarzman Scholar.)

Yuncong (Toby) Mao , a 2023 graduate with a bachelor's degree in neuroscience, has won a research grant to Germany to utilize computational modeling and artificial intelligence to augment treatment strategies for cardiac diseases.

Ikshu Pandey . A 2024 graduate with a bachelor's degree in materials science and engineering and neuroscience, Pandey has won a research grant to spend the next year at the University of Bern in Switzerland to study the role of the choroid plexus in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's.

Alex Pinsk , a 2023 graduate with a master's degree in health, behavior, and society, has won a research grant to South Africa, where she will assess frequency, methods, and extent of current tuberculosis-multimorbidity screening practices and service provisions offered to tuberculosis patients in townships in Klerksdorp, North West Province.

Sondra Rahmeh , a medical student, has won a study grant to pursue a master's in global health at National Taiwan University.

Wesley Sampias . A PhD student in the Department of History, Sampias has won a research grant to Japan to spend a year in Tokyo working on his dissertation on animals and economies of death in early 20th-century Japanese cities.

Emily Sperring , a 2024 graduate with a bachelor's degree in environmental engineering, has won a research grant to Germany to work with Gunnar Luderer at the Potsdam Institute Climate Impact Research, where she'll use life cycle assessment and integrated assessment models to characterize impacts of decarbonization.

Eleni Theodoropoulos , a PhD student in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature, has won a Fulbright/IKY PhD Research Award to Greece, where she'll work with scholars at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Panteion University in Athens on a project combining research into the Greek author Melpo Axioti's role in global modernism with translation of Axioti's Cadmo (1972) for the first time into English.

Samhita Vasu . A 2024 graduate with a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering, Vasu has won a research grant to India to develop an at-home creatinine sensor for increasing access to early screening for chronic kidney disease, working with mentors at Mehta's Children's Hospital in Chennai.

Maxwell White , an MD/PhD student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has won a research grant to Spain to work at the Institute of Molecular Biology of Barcelona to characterize novel coagulases produced by two common and frequently multidrug resistant hospital-acquired bloodstream infections.

Carson Yu , who earned a bachelor's degree in behavioral biology in 2023, has won a research grant to South Korea to work with Hun Lee at ASAN Medical Center in Seoul on the study of hydrogels, a versatile class of biomaterial which can be customized to mimic the properties of natural body tissue.

Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships in Public Health

The Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships in Public Health are offered through a partnership between the Fulbright Program and the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Recipients of the award conduct research in public health and clinical research in resource-limited settings.

Shea Littlepage , a PhD student in the Department of International Health, will spend a year in Ethiopia researching the country's relatively successful COVID-19 response via two public health agencies to understand how they achieved many COVID-19 goals with limited resources and within the complex global health governance structure.

Ashwin Reddy . A medical student, aspiring otolaryngologist, and global health researcher, Reddy will study hearing loss in a marginalized brick kiln worker population in Bhaktapur, Nepal next year.

English Teaching Assistantship Recipients

The English Teaching Assistantship Awards program places Fulbright winners in classrooms around the world to provide assistance to the local English teachers and to serve as cultural ambassadors for the United States.

Sophia Berkey , who earned a bachelor's degree in English, French, and Writing Seminars in May, has won a Fulbright/Athens College-HAEF English Teaching Assistant Award to spend next year teaching English, leading activities, and advising students at Athens College in the Greek capital.

Sarah Kondo , who earned a master's degree in education studies in May and is a full-time teacher of high school ESOL, was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Spain to work with Spanish speakers in a university setting. (She has declined the grant.)

Suzy Schlosberg , who earned a bachelor's degree in international studies in May, has been selected to be a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Bulgaria, where she will work with secondary school students to complement their English learning with leadership training activities and extracurriculars, such as Bulgarian-English speech and debate tournaments.

Zarina Tavares , who earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry with a minor in East Asian studies in May, has been selected to be a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Taiwan. Beyond formal teaching duties, she proposed to encourage her students to sharpen their English through afterschool photography and writing activities. (She has declined the grant.)

Claire Zou . A 2020 graduate in international studies and sociology, Zou has been selected to be a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Taiwan. Outside of the classroom, she hopes to get involved in urban gardening and other activities that promote cultural exchange through food cultivation.

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