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Students Win International Awards-LeBlanc-Hadley, Garchow, and Gregg
Three of our students have recently won significant international study awards.
Jamie LeBlanc-Hadley, a senior in Global and International Studies and Chinese, received a Boren Scholarship from the US National Security Education Program. She received the award, worth $11,300, to attend Beijing Language and Culture University. She will be working on her senior thesis project for WMU's Lee Honor College. The project focuses on Chinese economic policy, primarily in Tibet. LeBlanc-Hadley was one of 150 scholarship recipients from a pool of 697 applications from across the country.
Janelle Garchow, a junior in economics and Japanese, has received the Keio University Exchange Scholarship. Garchow will spend 11 months studying Japanese at Keio, a private, co-educational university that is the oldest institution of higher education in Japan and with which WMU has been an exchange partner since 1961. The award is valued at approximately $20,000. Garchow says that studying in Japan will challenge her to solidify and expand the language skills she has learned to date in high school and in the Department of Foreign Languages. "Since Keio is in Tokyo, Japan's capital, it's the ideal place to learn about Japan's sustainability initiatives for my (WMU) Lee Honor's College thesis," Garchow wrote in her application essay. "Also, Keio's economics program is quite strong, and the university's prestige will greatly aid my future graduate school applications for a dual Master of Business Administration/Master of Science program in sustainable business."
David Gregg, a senior in psychology and German, has received the Freie Universität Berlin Scholarship, an award worth $20,000. Gregg will spend 10 months studying German at the Freie Universität Berlin, a large, urban university of 42,500 students that was established in 1948 and with which WMU has been an exchange partner since 1963. In his scholarship application, Gregg said that he hopes to conduct psychology research while in Germany, in addition to his academic work. "I have a strong interest in world issues and take every opportunity to meet people from other countries," Gregg said. "There is a certain energy and curiosity found in visiting different countries that I love. If I were to find an opportunity to research psychology while in Germany, it would be an outstanding addition to my professional credentials."
