Jocelin Morales ’18 (Mexico)

Seventh UP Student Offered 2017 Fulbright Grant

April 14, 2017

The Fulbright program has now announced that another student has been named a finalist for the 2017 awards, bringing the total of UP students selected to seven. Ashley Martinez ’17 was offered a Study/Internship to Mexico. The other finalists for the English Teaching Assistantships (ETA) include Jessica Busek ’17 (Luxembourg), Claire Kenneally ’17 (Bulgaria), Alana Laanui ’18 (Malaysia), Jocelin Morales ’18 (Mexico), Pearl Kahle ’17 (ETA in Germany), and Hanna Nightingale ’17 (Germany. In addition, Parkes Kendrick ’17 was selected as an alternate for study in the United Kingdom.

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Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote a brain teaser in honor of the late Jim Lehrer for the Columbian on February 18, 2020. See the article using this link.

Anne Santiago, political science, presented “Teaching Research by Critical Analysis Using ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Research” at the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, Teaching Research, Writing, and Literacy Track, Albuquerque, NM, 6-9 February 2020.

Sally Hood, education, wrote “Student language use in a one-way Mandarin immersion classroom” (with J. Bucknam) in RELC Journal, 1-15, February 2020.

Andrew Guest, psychological sciences, in collaboration with Fr. Peter Siamoo, presented a paper on February 13 in Moshi Tanzania titled “Using Extracurricular Activities to Enhance Education Quality: Applying Positive Youth Development Theory in Kilimanjaro Region Secondary Schools” at the seventh annual Educational Research and Evaluation International Conference co-organized by the Society of Educational Research and Evaluation in Kenya and Mwenge Catholic University.

Bohn Lattin, communication studies, helped to adjudicate the Final Lincoln Douglas debate round for the National Christian Forensics & Communication Association Regional Qualifier on Saturday, February 15, 2020.

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