News
Katelyn Emerson '15 Receives Fulbright Grant
May 7, 2015
Rosalind Black
Katelyn Emerson ’15 has received a Fulbright grant to study organ and harpsichord in Toulouse, France, also known as “the paradise of organs,” this coming year.
![Katelyn Emerson ’15 posing next to an organ loft](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/rs42535_katelynemerson150402_mg_9709_0.jpg?itok=EbYpy1IZ)
Rebecca Selin '14 Receives Fulbright Grant to Indonesia
May 7, 2015
Lisa Gulasy
Alumna Rebecca Selin will travel to Indonesia to help teach English to high school students.
![Rebecca Selin](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/rebecca-selin-fulbright-indoensia-preview-2_0.jpg?itok=nuMcCR-F)
Alyssa Phelps '15 Receives Fulbright in Mexico
May 4, 2015
Amanda Nagy
Phelps will bring her Spanish language skills and experience in Latin American Studies to Mexico as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant.
![Alyssa Phelps '15](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/alyssa_phelps_teaser_0.jpg?itok=v2nug3tZ)
Helen Kramer '17 Named Mount Vernon Leadership Fellow
May 4, 2015
Lisa Gulasy
Kramer will spend five-and-a-half weeks in Washington, D.C., researching the intersection of peacebuilding and systems thinking.
![Helen Kramer](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/helen-kramer-mount-vernon-preview_0.jpg?itok=9izOyUQb)
Sarah Gord '15 Receives Fulbright in Norway
May 4, 2015
Rosalind Black
Sarah Gord ’15, a history major with an English minor and an education concentration, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Bergen, Norway.
![Sarah Gord '15](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/rs42556_sarahgold150401_mg_9386_0.jpg?itok=OK2Fh74t)
Taiyo Scanlon-Kimura '15 Receives Fulbright Research Grant
April 29, 2015
Lisa Gulasy
Taiyo Scanlon-Kimura ’15 will study regional food systems as drivers of local economies in Japan.
![Taiyo Scanlon-Kimura standing by a window](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/taiyo_jmanna.jpeg?itok=JjYO7fAo)
Emily Wilkerson '15 Receives Fulbright Grant
April 28, 2015
Lisa Gulasy
Emily Wilkerson ’15, a comparative literature and German double-major, starts her teaching assistantship at a school in Lower Saxony in September.
![Photo of Emily Wilkerson](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/emily_wilkerson-jmanna.jpg?itok=EXbaeB6m)
Inspired by Social Change
April 27, 2015
Amanda Nagy
Politics major Machmud Makhmudov receives prestigious Truman Scholarship for graduate studies in public service.
![Truman scholar Machmud Makhmudov](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/machmud_0_0.jpg?itok=nQf9Ro2g)
Embracing the Journey
April 13, 2015
Amanda Nagy
Recent graduates embark on a year of independent study outside the United States as winners of the prestigious Watson Fellowship.
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Saksham Khosla '15 Receives a Carnegie Junior Fellowship
April 10, 2015
Rosalind Black
Politics and creative writing double-major and economics minor Saksham Khosla ’15 has been awarded a Carnegie Junior Fellowship in the South Asian Program.
![Carnegie Junior Fellowship recipient Saksham Khosla](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/sakshamkhosla_by_jennifer_manna__0.jpg?itok=O_O1xUva)