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Nov. 22, 2006
Contact: Joe Serwach, (734) 647-1844, jserwach@umich.edu
               Lesly Sauceda (734) 936-6510, lburgamy@umich.edu

U-M among top four for in student Fulbright Awards for 2006-2007

ANN ARBOR, Mich. --- Twenty-one students from the University of Michigan have been awarded Fulbright Fellowships for 2006-2007.

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.  

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 each had 21 fellows. Fulbright fellows undertake self-designed programs in disciplines ranging from social sciences, business, communication and performing arts, to physical sciences, engineering and education.

Among U-M’s 2006-07 Fulbright Fellows, Lori Khatchadourian, a Ph.D. 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 BC. Ariel Djanikian will travel to the Canadian Yukon to further research related to her historical novel about the Klondike Gold Rush.
2005-06 U-M awardees and their destinations:

• Senesi Blake, India.
• Robert  Campbell IV, Ireland.
• Lyric  Chen,  China.
• Allison  Davis.
• Christina Davis, India.
• Ariel Djanikian, Canada.
• David  Epstein, Israel.
• Rachel  Frey, Spain.
• Charles Guzak, Syria.
• Joshua  Irizarry, Japan.
• Laura  Kennedy, Russia.
• Lori  Khatchadourian, Armena.
• 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.
• Christian Williams, Namibia.

The U.S. Congress created the Fulbright Program in 1946, immediately after World War II, to foster mutual understanding among nations through educational and cultural exchanges. Senator J. William Fulbright, 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.
Fore more on the Fulbright program, visit: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html
The Fulbright competition is administered at the University of Michigan through the U-M International Institute. U-M students and alumni interested in applying for a Fulbright award should contact the campus Fulbright program adviser, Amy Kehoe at (734) 763-3297 or akehoe@umich.edu, for information.
For more on the U-M International Institute, visit:
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/

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