Calvin Students Win Prestigious Scholarships

December 22, 2005 == MEDIA ADVISORY

Two Calvin College students have received scholarships from the Benjamin A.
Gilman International Scholarship Program to spend a semester studying
development in Honduras.

Amy VanNocker a junior from Petoskey who is majoring in both international
relations and international development, received $4,500 from the Gilman
program. Junior Lauren Vander Plas, a social work major from Cadillac,
received $3,000.

Both students will use the money to participate in Calvin's Development
Studies Semester in Honduras in the spring of 2006.

"Fewer than 300 scholarships were awarded, and Calvin students won two of
them," notes Ellen Monsma, the college's director of off-campus programs.

The Gilman scholarship program offers U.S. undergraduate students the
opportunity to study abroad. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of
State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the
Institute of International Education.

Calvin's Development Studies Semester in Honduras program is a life-changing
experience for the students who undertake it, says Roland Hoksbergen, director
of international development studies at Calvin.

For the full story see

http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2005_06/gillman.htm

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Received on Thu Dec 22 10:01:53 2005