Student Stories

Thomas Pepe is currently on a Fulbright Grant to Columbia. He works in the English Department at The National Training Center (SENA), a public institution with a variety of vocational programs including technology and business administration and management. It is a free educational and vocational program with 127 campuses, open to Colombian citizens, and now offered to Venezuelans as well.

Pepe shares that he enjoys teaching at SENA and that his days are full of a lot of laughter.

“I think one

Day in the Life of a Fulbrighter, Rocio Araujo

Rocio Araujo, a 2020 Fulbright Student and UW alumna, graduated with a double major in International Studies and Education, Communities, and Organizations. She began her Fulbright experience as a English Teaching Assistant January in 2021 and has since renewed for a second year.

During Araujo’s first year in South Korea, she was one of the only foreign teachers placed at an elementary school in Sanaemyeon (사내면), South Korea. She lived with a host

University of Washington alumna, Katie Chua, Class of 2020, has been selected as a 2022 Yenching Academy Scholar within the Yenching Academy of Peking University in China. Chua earned degrees in English: Language & Literature and Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing. She shared her own experiences of applying to the program and what she is planning to study in a recent Q&A interview.

The Yenching Academy of Peking University aims to build bridges between China and the rest

University of Washington alumnus Gabriel Kornas, Class of 2019, has been selected as a 2022 Rangel Fellow within the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship program. Kornas earned his B.A in International studies and minored in Law, Societies, and Justice in the interdisciplinary honors program.

He was an intern at the State Department when he first heard about the Rangel Fellowship.

“I was interested in this fellowship because it is a pathway into the Foreign Service.” Kor

For the 2022-2023 program year, there were 26 UW students selected as semi-finalists by the national selection committee for the Fulbright U.S. student program.

Of the 26 UW applicants selected this January, there were 20 undergraduate and 6 graduate students. Last September, our semi-finalists applied for grants to teach, study, and/or conduct research in their preferred countries of choice, which include South Korea, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Chile, Japan, Mexico, Spain, etc.

The 20 under