Recipient’s Blog
Anna Tran: Strauss Scholarship Winner, Blog Post #1
According to the 2011 U.S. Census Bureau, over 40 million baby boomers reached the age of 65 in 2010. Within Orange County, approximately 360,000 individuals were 65 years or older in 2010, and it is predicted that Orange County’s senior population will increase by...
Archives for May 2015 Felipe Hernandez: Marshall Scholarship Winner, Blog #1
Felipe Hernandez and Rudy Santacruz, Assistant Director of SAGE Scholars, at the screening of the Road Trip Nation documentary Why Not Us? on April 14, 2015 Reflections on the Marshall Application Experience The Marshall Application process was long and arduous but...
Archives for March 2015 Eliza Collison, Fulbright, Nicaragua: International Women’s Day in Nicaragua
March 8th marked International Women’s Day which was quite publicized here. There had been a series of events going on at the Central American University or UCA (pronounced “oo-ka”) to commemorate the day. This whole past week was a jornada or conference to cover...
Christine Pham, Strauss, “My Healthy Start”
Food is subsidized for many low-socioeconomic families in the United States. However, the food provided is usually not the best quality in terms of nutrients, minerals, and vitamins. Many items are high in fat and sugar, leading to an ingestion of low-quality food...
Eliza Collison, Fulbright, Nicaragua: First Month and a Half: Research and Travels
It’s hard to believe that it has already been a month and a half. That just goes to show that time flies in another country. Research Progress In the field of research I am still in the stages of building contacts that work with Nicaraguan youth and voter...
Armaan A. Rowther, Fulbright, Jordan: Engaging Contradictions – My Fulbright Experience
Heart-warming stories, awe-inspiring photographs, cute yet meaningful trinkets… these are the souvenirs that friends and family expect me to return home with after my Fulbright fellowship year in Jordan. Their expectation, however, is mistaken on two fronts. ...
Soraya Azzawi, Fulbright, Jordan: Entry #1
Even as the sun sinks behind the buildings, life flourishes in the streets of the Hashemi district of Amman. Crowds churn as families return from Sunday mass or head off to Maghrib prayer; local eateries ready their stoves for rounds of dinner. We watch the bustle...
Felipe Hernandez, Fulbright, Colombia: So Much Work To Be Done
It’s hot. No, not just hot but it’s humid and boiling hot. It is 1:55 pm on a Monday and I just had a great big lunch for $3. Now I am walking, drenched in sweat, to Santiago Vila, a school in an underprivileged area in Ibagué, Colombia. As I walk up the steep hill...
Armaan Rowther, Fulbright, Jordan: My Father’s Name is…
“My father’s name is _____.” As I noticed this single sentence hiding beneath a conspicuous strip of white paper loosely taped to the poster, I wondered why it had been so haphazardly effaced from the list of English sentences we were to teach the children that...
Armaan Rowther, Fulbright, Jordan: To What End?
To what end? This was the question I would continually ask myself throughout the year that passed, from the day I submitted my Pre-Application at UC Irvine to the moment I was notified of my selection for the 2013-2014 Fulbright U.S. Student Program in Jordan. ...
