{"id":16515,"date":"2016-12-30T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=16515"},"modified":"2016-12-30T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T13:00:25","slug":"professor-students-receive-fulbright-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/professor-students-receive-fulbright-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor, students receive Fulbright awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_16516\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16516\" class=\" wp-image-16516\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Rick-St-Peter_024-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"184\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick St. Peter<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nTwo recent graduates and an assistant professor of theater are teaching and learning in Europe this year, thanks to the Fulbright Program.<br \/>\nRick St. PeterAssistant professor Richard St. Peter has been named a Fulbright Scholar as a visiting professor at the University of Craiova in Romania. Throughout the 2016-17 academic year he is teaching contemporary American and British theater as well as Shakespeare performance.<br \/>\nSt. Peter hopes his time in Romania will blaze a trail for students who want to study abroad. \u201cWe want to provide as many opportunities as possible for our students to go abroad during their time at Clemson,\u201d he said. \u201cIt just seems like that\u2019s becoming more and more of a priority for universities. The world is getting smaller and smaller. And there is the opportunity for our students to see that the theater is a global marketplace. Ultimately, they\u2019re going to be able to work anywhere.\u201d<br \/>\nCourtney Fink \u201916 and Jenna Kohles \u201915 are also in Europe for the 2016-17 academic year as part of the Fulbright Student Program.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_16518\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16518\" class=\"wp-image-16518\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Fulbright-Courtney-Fink_0444-300x194.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"179\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtney Fink<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nFink, of Orland Park, Illinois, graduated with a degree in history, a minor in Spanish and a degree in secondary education. She will be a teaching assistant at the Institute of Secondary Education Manuel Fraga Iribarne in Spain.\u00a0Her main job will be to prepare students for the model U.N. program.<br \/>\nKohles, of Cary, North Carolina, earned her degree in wildlife and fisheries biology. She will use her Fulbright grant to begin a master\u2019s program in biology with a focus in ecology, evolution and behavior at the University of Konstanz and Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany. Her research will explore the social lives of a common bat species, which will help predict how bat colonies can persist through emerging environmental stresses such as climate change, habitat destruction and disease.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_16519\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16519\" class=\" wp-image-16519\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FulbrightJenna2-300x202.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"186\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenna Kohles<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nIn existence since 1946, the Fulbright Program, sponsored by the U.S. government, is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent graduates and an assistant professor of theater are teaching and learning in Europe this year, thanks to the Fulbright Program. Rick St. PeterAssistant professor Richard St. Peter has been named a Fulbright Scholar as a visiting professor at the University of Craiova in Romania. 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