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Student Achievements

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Announces Selection of 18 Recipients of 2025 Fulbright Awards

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ students and alumni have delivered another impressive result in this year’s awards, which will enable them to teach English, continue their studies, and pursue research projects around the world.

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• Awards
• Students
• Environmental Analysis
• History
• Psychology
• Political Studies
• Linguistics
• Critical Global Studies
• Anthropology
• Economics
• Media Studies
• Organizational Studies
• Religious Studies
• Sociology
• Study Abroad
• Fulbright Fellowship

Organization

• Office of Fellowships

Student Achievements

2025 Watson Fellow Aidan Henrikson ’25 Takes History Off the Books

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ student Aidan Henrikson ’25 has received the 2025 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to immerse himself in the study of history through media, art, scent, and more in six countries.

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• History
• Students
• Awards
• Study Abroad

Organization

• Office of Fellowships

Student Achievements

2025 Napier Award & Critical Language Scholarship Winner Natasha Yen ’25 Has South Africa and Indonesia in Her Sights

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ student Natasha Yen ’25 is helping youth leaders in South Africa and learning the Bahasa Indonesian language with support from the 2025 Napier Award and Critical Language Scholarship.

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• Awards
• Students
• Study Abroad
• Sociology
• Environmental Analysis
• Asian American Studies

Organization

• Office of Fellowships

Faculty Achievements

Seeing Concepts in Real Time: An Intercultural Immersion in Japan

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Professor Linus Yamane has facilitated the Tomodachi Inouye Scholars Program, a Japan-U.S. youth exchange program for students in his co-taught class Trans-Pacific Japan: Love & Money.

News Topics

• The Participant Fall 2025 Issue
• Faculty
• Around the Mounds
• Asian American Studies
• Economics
• Study Abroad
• Students

Research

Napier Award Winner Taeya Boi-Doku ’24 Centers Afroecology in Gardening

Taeya Boi-Doku ’24 has received a 2024 Napier Initiative Award to develop her project, Reclaiming Afroecology: Indigenous Technology and Food Sovereignty.

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• Students
• Awards
• Study Abroad

Organization

• Office of Fellowships

College Statement

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Media Statement on College Council’s Call for Israel Academic Boycott

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ President Strom C. Thacker rejected a ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Council recommendation calling for an academic boycott of all Israeli academic institutions.

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• Study Abroad

College Statement

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Media Statement on Study Abroad Program Changes

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• Study Abroad

Student Achievements

For Pratya Poosala ’24, Storytelling and Radical Listening Can Improve Healthcare

Pratya Poosala ’24 adds a self-designed major in narrative medicine to her behavioral neuroscience major to combine science and the humanities.

News Topics

• Students
• Neuroscience
• Study Abroad
• Academics
• Science

Student Achievements

After Two NSF Fellowships, Teo Cooper ’24 Seeks to Balance People and Nature

After studying plants at Harvard this summer, a student recalls the racial justice series that brought them to ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ and looks ahead to studying abroad in Southern Africa.

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• Students
• Science
• Race & Ethnicity
• Study Abroad
• Awards
• Climate & Environment

Organization

• Department of Natural Sciences

College News

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Costa Rica Summer Health Program Celebrates 25 Years

A strong combination makes this program special: the home stay, intensive Spanish, hands-on internships, and raising questions of social justice and environmental health. It’s all part of ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s mission and ICADS’ mission.

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• Education
• Study Abroad
• Health
• Science

Organization

• Study Abroad and International Programs