Northfield, Minn.–– Carleton College has been named a top producer of U.S. Fulbright Award winners for the 2014-15 school year.

The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. Top-producing institutions are highlighted annually in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The Fulbright competition is administered at Carleton College through student fellowships advisor Mike Flynn, interim director of external fellowships and the John E. Sawyer Professor of Liberal Learning / Professor of Linguistics.  More information on the Fulbright Fellowships program at Carleton is available at https://apps.carleton.edu/fellowships/national/fulbright/.

This year’s Carleton winners included:

• Lauren Chow ’14 is currently three weeks into her grant as a Fulbright ETA (English Teaching Assistant) in Kodiang, Malaysia. She was placed at an under-resourced school in a rural area of northern Malaysia, co-teaching English classes, helping with extra-curricular activities, and generally spending time with / getting to know students both in and out of school.
• Julia Greenwald ’14 starts her Fulbright experience next week due to the reversed academic calendar in the southern hemisphere. She will be spending a year in Punta Arenas in Chilean Patagonia researching polar snow microalgae and their potential as a source for jet biofuel.
• Claire Leichter ’14 is a Fulbright ETA, teaching English classes of all university levels at La Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca in Bogotá, Colombia. She is also doing part-time genetics research at La Universidad Nacional, identifying the genes involved in self and non-self recognition in a species of polyp.
• Bri Rick ’14 is researching the evolution of the stability and movement of permafrost and rock glaciers in the Swiss Alps in the Geography Unit at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

Since its inception in 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided more than 360,000 participants—chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential — with the opportunity to exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns. Over 1,800 U.S. students, artists and young professionals in more than 100 different fields of study are offered Fulbright Program grants to study, teach English, and conduct research annually. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program operates in over 140 countries throughout the world.  Lists of Fulbright recipients are available at: www.fulbrightonline.org/us.   

The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation made by the United States Congress to the Department of State. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations in foreign countries and in the United States also provide direct and indirect support.  For more information about the Fulbright Program, visit http://eca.state.gov/fulbright.