ACCIAC Scholarship Recipients for 2006

Note: Each year ACC universities are provided $5000 to support scholarships for undergraduate students studying abroad. The guidelines specify that the money should be divided among two to five students. Some of this year's student winners are described and pictured here.

Alice Brown, Panama City (FL) and Florida State University, is a Multinational Business and Economics major. During the summer 2006, she is studying international business and Chinese language and culture in Tianjin, China.

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Rachael Bryan, Orlando (FL) and Wake Forest University, will study development and health problems in Nairobi, Kenya, during Fall 2006.

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Jennifer Crowell, Durham (NC) and Virginia Tech, is a junior majoring in mechanical engineering. She will study engineering and French in Metz, France, during fall 2006.

Christina Delgado, Ijamsville (MD) and Virginia Tech, is a first-year graduate student of architecture. She will will study architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland, during fall 2006.

Mirona Dragnea, White Lake (MI) and Duke University, is pursuing a multi-disciplinary curriculum of psychology (concentration in neuroscience), French and Spanish, and management. In the summer of 2006, she is studying Spanish in Mexico.

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Adrienne Gill, Windsor (CT) and Duke University, is a rising senior biology major. Enrolled in the summer of 2006 at the Universidad San Pablo in Madrid, she is studying Spanish art, music, history, and literature.

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Erika Gooden, Tampa (FL) and the University of Miami, is a rising sophomore majoring in English and International Studies. In Ghana during the summer of 2006, she is studying the "History of Ghana."

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Stephanie Henning, Boynton Beach (FL) and the University of Miami, is a rising junior biology major with minor in Spanish and chemistry. In Chile during the summer of 2006, she is studying "Chile: Culture and Society in a New Democracy."

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Nikky Hess, Georgia Tech, is a chemical & biomolecular engineering major who has been enrolled (Spring 2006) in the Georgia Tech Pacific Program, in New Zealand and Australia. (Nikky is pictured, third from right, climbing the Ngauruhoe Volcano in New Zealand)

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Pei Hung, Fairfax (VA) and Virginia Tech, is a junior studying business management and international studies. She will study business and Chinese language in Sydney, Australia, during fall 2006, followed by a program in Beijing, China, during spring 2007.

Karen Kauffman, Boston College, is studying "German Memory and the Holocaust" in Berlin during the summer of 2006.

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Rob Kiss, Unionville (CT) and University of Miami, is a rising sophomore majoring in Economics and International Studies. In Chile during the summer of 2006, he is studying "Chile: Culture and Society in a New Democracy."

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Kate Kotan, Panama City (FL) and Florida State University, is an Art History major with a minor in Museum Studies. During Summer 2006, she will study Avant Garde Art in Paris.

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Jacinta Lachelle Green, Charleston (SC) and Duke University, is majoring in African and African American Studies with minors in Art and Art History. In Venice this summer (2006), she is studying "Venetian Art of the Renaissance" and "Policy and the Imagination - Music, Drama, Eros, and Liberty."

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Alec Lovett, Minnetonka (MN) and Wake Forest University, will pursue Chinese studies in Shanghai, China, in Fall, 2006.

Travis Mitchell, Georgia Tech, is an International Affairs major who was enrolled (spring, 2006) in the GT Sydney Semester Program, University of New South Wales. (Pictured is Travis in front of the Sydney Harbor.)

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Brett Morrell, Hagerstown (MD) and Duke University, is a rising senior economics major. In the summer of 2006, he is taking French culture and language classes at Accent Center on Rue du Faubourg in Paris.

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Erika O'Bannon, Boston College, studied in the spring of 2006 at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Josephine Ocheni, University of Maryland, studied on the Maryland in Nice program for the spring semester of 2006. She is a double major in Sociology and Family Studies.

Ruby Oluronbi, a biochemistry major at North Carolina State University, will this (2006) fall participant in a bilateral exchange with the University of San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) in Ecuador.

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Benito Perez, University of Maryland, studied "Politics of Globalization in Argentina" during the 2006 Winter Term. Benito is a Sociology major.

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Trang Phan, University of Maryland, studied "Women, Culture and Sustainable Development" in China and Vietnam, during the 2006 Winter Term. She is a Letters and Sciences student.

Travis Porter, Falls of Rough (KY) and Virginia Tech, is a rising senior studying biological sciences. During fall 2006, he will study Japanese culture and language at Kansai Gaidai University.

Brandon Quarles, Tarpon Spring (FL) and the University of Miami, is studying "Economy of China, Communicating in Putonghua, International Relations of the Asia Pacific Region" in Hong Kong during the summer of 2006.

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Emily H. Roh, Boston College, studied "Human Rights and Social Justice" during the Winter Intersession (2006) at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile.

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Bryanne Senor, North Carolina State University, is participating in a faculty-led group program in Windhoek, Namibia. She is majoring in Parks, Recreational, and Tourism Management.

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Emily Grace Smith, Culpeper (VA) and Virginia Tech, is a rising junior studying political science and sociology. She will study international politics at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa during fall 2006.

Chris Trueax, Boston College, is studying "Intensive Intermediate French" in Paris during the summer of 2006.

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