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Students win Gilman scholarships to study abroad
12/12/12
Students win Gilman scholarships to study abroad
Two students from Johnson County Community College have been awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.
Tasha Odom and Alan Fowler will be using the scholarships to study abroad in China for the upcoming spring academic term. They are among more than 1,000 American undergraduate students selected for the scholarship.
Odom received a Critical Need Language Award for $8,000 and Fowler received $4,500 for his study-abroad program. Both of them, who live in Lawrence, will be studying at Nanjing University in Nanjing, China, in an intensive Chinese language program.
The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program offers study-abroad grants to U.S. citizens who are undergraduate students of limited financial means. The international study is intended to better prepare U.S. students to assume significant roles in an increasingly global economy and interdependent world.
The program was established by the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000.
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