9 OU students receive Fulbright Grants

Nine University of Oklahoma students have been named recipients of Fulbright Grants for academic year 2017-18.

The Fulbright Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, provides students with a one-year grant for study and research projects or to teach English in more than 150 countries.

The grants are awarded on the basis of academic excellence, achievement and leadership potential,

said Bushra Asif, the Fulbright Programs Coordinator in the OU College of International Studies.

• Hannah Kristen Baird, of Overland Park, Kansas, will be an English teaching assistant in Mexico.

• Kate Bergum, of Superior, Wisconsin, will be an English teaching assistant in Macedonia.

• Joseph Brown, of Kansas City, Missouri, is conducting research in the Philippines on the conservation and ecology of the critically endangered Philippine crocodile.

• Laura Catherine Burns, of

Edmond, will be an English teaching assistant in Germany.

• Molly Catherine Hackett, of Denver, Colorado, will pursue a master’s degree in European studies at the University of Leuven in Belgium.

• Rosemary Mahaffey, of Norman, will be an English teaching assistant in Germany.

• Hailey Nicole Powell, of Durant, will be an English teaching assistant as part of the Roma Student Initiative in Hungary.

• Cody Williams, of Norman, will spend his Fulbright

year in Porto Alegre and Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, where he will conduct research on the politics and ethics surrounding accidents and litigation in the coal mining and textile industries.

• Jordan Woodward, of Tulsa, will conduct a series of digital storytelling workshops with women in New Delhi and Varanasi, India, regarding their socio-cultural, religious and domestic relationships to and interactions with the Ganges and Yamuna rivers.