This past month I was awarded a scholarship from the Georgia Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, one of four students in the state to receive one. Three of us were from Georgia Tech and a fourth was from Southern Polytechnical State University.
Yesterday we attended the monthly meeting of the Georgia Section of the [...]
In June, back at the Fulbright Pre-departure Orientation in Washington, D.C. which I helped facilitate at, I was interviewed by Fulbright staff for a series of videos they were producing about the Fulbright experience. They told me they’d let me know when it was up, but it actually got posted over three weeks ago! Check [...]
Last Wednesday through Friday, I attended the Fulbright Pre-departure Orientation for U.S. Scholars and Students Going to South and Central Asia. Held in Washington, D.C., the orientation is the first chance new Fulbrights have to meet others going to their country, meet the staff from the U.S. Department of State and the Institute for International [...]
On Monday June 15, I participated as a panelist in a webinar for potential Fulbright applicants. This particular webinar was for applicants to South and Central Asia, and I was joined by another Fulbright alumnus, Scott Sorrell who did his Fulbright in Nepal last year, and a another Fulbright student who had just received a [...]
I received notice this past week from the National Science Foundation that I earned an Honorable Mention in this year’s Graduate Research Fellowship competition. This was the final item I was waiting to hear back on from my round of applications this year.
In order to help fund my graduate studies, I was recently awarded a Dwight D. Eisenhower Fellowship by the Federal Highway Administration. I had to quickly notify Georgia Tech so that the award could be processed. Although I did not receive the top level of funding, the version of the fellowship I received provides funds [...]