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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of Louisville today announced that 26 students and alumni have earned prestigious scholarships for study abroad.

The list includes 12 awards, a prestigious international prize coveted by many high-achieving students.

“When I heard that we had so many winners of prominent awards—including a dozen Fulbrights—I marveled at how we are able to achieve such high honors year after year,” said UofL President Neeli Bendapudi. “We have an astounding track record as a producer of top scholars and I’m so proud of our incredible students, faculty and staff because they all work together to make this possible.”

Including this year, there have been 133 UofL Fulbright students since 2003 — more than all other Kentucky public institutions combined.

Students and alumni also earned many other competitive awards this year including the Boren, Critical Language and Rotary scholarships.

All of the Fulbrights graduated in May, unless otherwise noted, and are shown here:

• , Louisville, political science, will teach English in Taiwan
• , Lexington, biology, will conduct research in Belgium
• , Mount Sterling, political science and Latin American and Latino studies, will teach English in Spain
• , Louisville, a 2018 graduate with degrees in anthropology and Latin American and Latino studies, will teach English in Colombia
• , Louisville, chemical engineering, will conduct research in Finland
• , Louisville, who earned a master’s degree in Spanish in May and undergraduate degrees in Spanish and philosophy in 2014, will conduct research in Spain
• , Laguna Beach, California, who earned his master’s degree in Pan-African studies in May, will conduct research in Trinidad and Tobago
• , Louisville, physics, will conduct research in Germany
• , Central City, who earned a political science degree in 2018, will teach English in Malaysia
• Louisville, political science and business marketing, will teach English in India
• , Brandenburg, political science and Asian studies, will teach English in Taiwan
• , Louisville, English and Spanish, will teach English in Spain

Other prominent awards for this year are:

Rotary Global Grant Scholar

• , Louisville, a 2018 biology graduate, will conduct research in Scotland on antibiotic resistance

Critical Language Scholarship

• , Radcliff, a sophomore political science and English major, will travel to Oman to study Arabic
• , Worthington, a sophomore neuroscience and chemistry major, will study Mandarin in China
• Louisville, a May 2019 graduate, will study Japanese in Japan
• , Louisville, a senior Asian studies major, will study Indonesian in Indonesia

Boren Award

• , Villa Hills, a UofL medical student, will study the Malayalam language and conduct antibiotic research in India
• , Shelbyville, a 2019 graduate with a degree in industrial engineering, will study Portuguese in Mozambique

English Speaking Union

• , Louisville, a senior women’s, gender and sexuality studies major, will attend University of Cambridge in England to study medieval history.

Irvin F. and Alice S. Etscorn International Summer Research Award, a offered by the university’s Honors Program for summer research

• , Fort Thomas, a senior women’s, gender and sexuality studies major, will travel to Costa Rica to take part in a field study course on primate behavior and ecology

• , Nashville, Tennessee, a senior jazz studies major, will travel to Lebanon to work with Palestinian refugees
• , Louisville, a junior Spanish and international journalism major, will travel to Colombia to take part in an intensive language program
• , Versailles, a junior political science and Spanish major, will travel to Jordan to take part in an Arabic language program
• , San Antonio, Texas, a senior political science and psychology major, will travel to Norway to study international politics

Mary Churchill Humphrey Scholarship, an offered by the College of Arts and Sciences for advanced study in the United Kingdom

• , Henderson, a 2019 graduate with degrees in English, French and humanities, will pursue graduate studies at the University of Manchester in England

For more on the top scholars, contact Cindy Hess at 502-852-1105 or visit the

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EDITORS: Photos available of the scholars by contacting Cindy Hess at cindy.hess@louisville.edu