Jessica Rothman outlines funding and alumni outcomes from Uganda programs
Rothman says winter program students often self-pay with aid, while summer researchers are funded by National Science Foundation grants that have supported 22 students with funds for 16 more. She highlights alumni who pursued PhDs, fellowships, and careers in science and public service.
They also receive a general pre-departure orientation from Hunter's Office of Education Abroad.
For the Study Abroad Winter Session program, many of the students self-pay.
Some can offset these costs with applicable financial aid or scholarship funding.
The majority of the
The students who accompany me for summer research are funded by National Science Foundation grant monies from the federal government.
We have funded 22 students in this way and still have funds for 16 more.
In closing, I will highlight a few student impacts.
Kandra Cruz-Cabreros was an undergraduate human biology major who was a Sikh student and the first in her family to attend college.
After traveling to Uganda in 2019, she applied for and received a very competitive graduate fellowship.
She's now a PhD candidate in anthropology at NYU and soon to complete her studies.
Natalia Grube was an undergraduate anthropology major who came to Uganda not once, but twice.
She then completed a master's degree at Hunter in Anthropology and moved on to complete a Ph.D.
In Anthropology at Penn State University.
Now she's a genomic biologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease in Washington, D.C.
Camille Stewart was an undergraduate geography and anthropology major who also studied in Uganda twice during her undergrad degree.
She then completed a master's degree at Columbia University and is now a scientist at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.
And Alyssa Smith was a first-generation women and gender studies major who traveled to Uganda a year ago.
She wanted to learn more and received a prestigious language area fellowship to study Swahili in Tanzania.
And she just arrived back to New York City.
Now she's applying for a Fulbright fellowship to return to Uganda.
aims to study international environmental law.
These students demonstrate that the impact of study abroad doesn't end when the plane lands back at JFK.
For many, these experiences open doors to graduate education, scientific research, public service, future international work, and careers they just may have never imagined before having the opportunity to go abroad.
Thank you.