Congratulations to Berea’s 11 Benjamin T. Gilman Scholarship winners!

Berea College’s Gilman Scholars this cycle include Bertrina Iransi, junior computer science major from Jefferson County, Ky.; Cora Allison, junior peace and social justice major from Washington County, Tenn.; Hannah Rapien, junior communications and Asian studies major from Blount County, Tenn.; Isabella Ray, junior communications major from Carroll County, Ky.; Kshitiz Dhungyel, sophomore business administration major from Jefferson County, Ky.; Lona Cobb, senior history and anthropological archaeology major from Bell County, Ky.; Maria Martinez, junior biology and child and family studies major from Whitfield County, Ga.; Megan McEahern, junior art history major from Roane County, Tenn.; Victoria Jackson, junior communications major from Pulaski County, Ky.; Yennifer Coca Izquierdo, junior political science major from Jefferson County, Ky.; and Zoe Medeiros, junior English major from Sumner County, Tenn.

Berea’s Gilman recipients will study abroad in Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Japan, the United Kingdom and Tanzania this fall, winter or next spring—enhancing their college degree. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 50 percent of Berea’s students engaged in an education-abroad activity before graduating.

The Congressionally funded Gilman program broadens the U.S. student population studying and interning abroad by providing scholarships to outstanding undergraduate Pell Grant recipients who, due to financial constraints, might not otherwise study abroad. Since the program’s establishment in 2001, more than 1,300 U.S. institutions have sent more than 33,000 Gilman scholars who represent the rich diversity of the United States to 145 countries around the globe.

Want to apply yourself? Check it out! You might get up to $5,000 for a term abroad.

Berea has a long tradition of winning. Here’s a list of 142 previous winners that doesn’t even include the recent awardees above.

Source: https://gilmanapplication.iie.org/ScholarDirectory.aspx