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Congratulations to some of our outstanding undergraduates, who have been awarded prestigious outside fellowships for study and work in Germany!
   
 

Max Kade Foundation Scholarships for Fall Semester and Year-Long Study in Berlin, Germany have been awarded to Elizabeth Eden and Trecor Ciccarino.

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Victoria Buchholz has been awarded a fellowship to participate in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX), a year-long, federally-funded program for study and work in Germany. Conceived and supported by members of the United States Congress and the German Parliament (Bundestag), the CBYX program is financially supported by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State under the authority of the Fulbright-Hays Act. Victoria was selected as one of 75 participants (among more than 600 applicants!) for this unique fellowship program. Since 1984, over 1,650 Americans have been awarded this opportunity to gain cultural, theoretical, and practical work experience in Germany.

While in Germany on CBYX, Victoria will attend a two-month intensive high-level German language course to perfect her German, study at a German university or professional school for four months, and complete a five-month internship with a German company. She will also have the opportunity to learn about everyday German life from a variety of perspectives. Victoria’s success was secured by her solid academic background that demonstrates both the breadth of her academic endeavors and the strength of her interest in German language and culture. She has been studying German since she was a freshman at Rutgers, and by now she has achieved a very impressive level of fluency. She has passed both levels of the German Language Diploma (Sprachdiplom). Victoria has had 4.0 GPA in all German courses she attended at Rutgers. She was inducted into Phi Sigma Iota, the Foreign Language National Honor Society. Victoria has received the Outstanding Student of German Award from our Department 5 times!

   
 

Alex McKenna, Tim Hauser, and Spencer Klein have each been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship for next year. They explain below what their plans are for their time in Germany:

(l to r: Tim Hauser, Alex McKenna, Spencer Klein)

   
  Tim Hauser: "Language is an odd thing that appeals to both technical and artistic people, and I'm desperately split between the two. This May I will graduate with a degree in IT and a minor in German. As a person who is extremely invested in issues involving technology, I find that Germany provides a very stark juxtaposition with America in regards to issues of a digital nature. This opportunity provides me an incredible chance to gain insight on digital issues. I also hope that I am able to share my passion for language and culture with the students that I will be assisting. I hope to not just teach them the English language as a system of rules and grammar, but to also understand it as a heritage of culture--living, breathing, dynamic culture."
   
  Alex McKenna: "Having transferred from Penn State for the Spring 2011 semester, I will be graduating this year with majors in English and German Language and Literature and a minor in Chinese. I could not be more grateful for the supportive and personal nature of the Rutgers German Department. I had not even heard of the Fulbright Teaching Assistantship until one of my German teachers encouraged me to apply for it, and now I've been accepted! With such open-ended majors in terms of career choices, I'll be looking forward to using this next year to figure out whether to enroll in graduate programs in linguistics or to look for a job in corporate security and consulting."
   
  Spencer Klein: "While in Germany, I will assist teachers in conducting English classes. Although I do not know the age of the students I will be teaching, past Fulbright grantees have informed me that most grantees are placed with middle of high school-aged students. In my Grant proposal, I expressed my desire to conduct further research into multicultural integration in Germany. Multiculturalism has been, in recent years, a heated topic in German political discourse. In particular, a great deal of commotion was stirred up following Chancellor Angela Merkel's claim that Multiculturalism in Germany was dead. It is my hope to foster a discussion on German multiculturalism in my classes as well as encourage comparisons between immigration patterns and Germany and their counterparts in the Untied States."
   
   
   
   
   

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