Congrats to Melody Mills! a Macaulay Honors Scholar majoring in Political Science and Psychology on being awarded a 2014/15 U.S. Student Fulbright Award to Peru.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. The Program operates in over 155 countries worldwide. Melody will spend 9 months in Peru completing a research project, Educational Trajectories of Street-Living Girls of Lima: Focus on Instituto Mundo Libre, while also taking graduate courses at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP).
More information about the Fulbright Program can be found at http://us.fulbrightonline.org/ or by contacting Baruch’s Fulbright Program Advisor at [email protected].
