Student Achievements
Fulbright Scholars Four Dietrich College students and alumni received 2024 Fulbright Scholarships, an honor bestowed to extraordinary college seniors, graduate students and young professionals who focus on international relations within their field of study. The program’s overarching goal is to facilitate cultural exchange by immersing awardees in their respective host country’s culture, beliefs, classrooms and daily tasks.
Adrian Lapadat (DC 2023), a graduate of the Master of Arts in Professional Writing Program, will conduct research on emigration from Bacău county in Romania.
Matthew Turetsky (DC 2023), a Ph.D. student in the History Department, will conduct research regarding the cultural, social and economic factors surrounding the history of quinoa in Bolivia and Peru.
Devon Renfroe (DC 2021), who earned a Master of Arts in Applied Second Language Acquisition from the Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics, will conduct language learning research at Chonnam National University in South Korea.
Shaun Ranadé (DC 2014, MCS 2015, ENG 2016), a medical student, will travel to Nepal to work on a telemonitoring project for patients with gestational diabetes. He graduated from CMU with a master’s degree in biomedical engineering, and before that, he earned two bachelor’s degrees — one in biological sciences and the other in Japanese studies.
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2024 YEAR IN REVIEW
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