CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Global Education and Training hosted a welcome reception celebrating a new cohort of Fulbright Fellows on Feb. 6 inside the Siebel Center for Design.
This new cohort, made up of 15 students from around the world who have been accepted into the Fulbright program, will spend a semester on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) campus taking English language courses through GET's Intensive English Institute.
During the Spring and Summer semesters, each scholar will be working toward improving their score on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). They will also be applying to different universities across the U.S. to advance their studies and research.
This year's cohort includes:
- Ingrid Morinigo Villan of Paraguay
- Alejandro Fuentes Beltran of Mexico
- Lub Lorry Lamysere of Haiti
- Veronica Vargas of Paraguay
- Marisol Calambas Soscue of Colombia
- Cecilia Meneses Ponce of Mexico
- Ariel Montero of Chile
- Scarlett Rebelled of Chile
- Miriam Centella of Panama
- Vakaba Toure of the Ivory Coast
- Mahamat Doungous of Chad
- Nancy Samuel, of South Sudan
- Bayardo Garcia Miranda of Nicaragua
- Olivio Guterres of Timor-Leste
- Victor Romero Castro of Peru
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Analicia Haynes is the storyteller and social media specialist for Global Communication. She can be reached at ahayn2@illinois.edu.
