Fellowship Awardees
Truman Scholarship Finalist Wants to Make Subway Accessible for All
In her application for the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship, Fordham College at Rose Hill junior Abigail Dziura was asked to submit a policy proposal that addresses a societal issue. She chose something that affects millions of people across New York City—the subway system—and focused on how to make it accessible for all. An American …
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Tech Entrepreneur and Financial Advisor Earns Schwarzman Scholarship to Study in China
Ling “Cheryl” Yang, a 2019 graduate of Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business, recently earned a Schwarzman Scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing. One of the world’s most prestigious graduate scholarships, the Schwarzman Scholarship was established in 2013 by Blackstone Group CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman. Yang was part …
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Lorna Ronald, Director of Prestigious Fellowships Office, on Applying Discernment
When Lorna Ronald, Ph.D., was considering taking the job as director of the Office of Prestigious Fellowships, she said the University’s strategic plan clinched the deal. “It’s the first anti-racist strategic plan I’ve read,” she said. “Fordham has an underlying aim to increase access and inclusion. And that is very exciting.” Ronald came to New …
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Fordham Grad Earns Soros Fellowship to Support Doctoral Study of Trauma Narratives
Nikolas Oktaba, FCLC ’15, has been awarded a prestigious 2021 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants in the United States. Chosen from a pool of 2,445 applicants, Oktaba is one of 30 fellows selected to receive up to $90,000 each to support their …
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Looking to Learn and to Teach, GSS Grad Lands in Kosovo on a Fulbright
Last month, Jane Winsett, GSS ’19, began teaching English at the University of Pristina in Kosovo on a Fulbright Scholarship. She’s already represented Fordham at a “U.S.A alumni fair” held at the university, and is preparing to go to Sofia, Bulgaria, for a Fulbright-sponsored English teaching conference. She also hopes to build on past work …
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Finding a Path to the Foreign Service
Erik Angamarca needed a backup plan. He had studied in Beijing during his junior year at Fordham and loved it—the food, the culture, the people. Passionate about travel and public service, multilingual, and long set on joining the U.S. diplomatic corps, he applied to the State Department’s Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program in …
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How Para Athletes Are Challenging the Concept of Who Can Be an Elite Athlete
Whether Turner Block is home in America or halfway across the world, for her the Paralympic Games is a can’t-miss event. “The Paralympics and the Olympics celebrate the joy found in effort,” said Block, a 2017 graduate of Fordham College at Rose Hill. A soccer player for 15 years, Block sees sports as a global …
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20 in Their 20s: Jayson Browder
An Iraq War veteran helps prepare fellow military vets for civilian leadership Soon after graduating from Fordham with a degree in Latin American studies and sociology, Iraq War veteran Jayson Browder traveled to Turkey as a Fulbright Scholar. Now he’s in Washington, D.C., heading up Veterans in Global Leadership, a nonprofit he founded in 2015 …
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Scholarships: When Global Unrest Curtails Opportunities
Each year, dozens of Fordham students go out into the world on teaching grants, research projects, and other service trips. However, 2016 saw many scholarship plans disrupted when instability in Turkey forced the U.S. Department of State to halt all sponsored trips to the area. The Fulbright Scholar Program, Boren Awards, and other programs were …
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