Calvin Senior Earns Lilly Fellowship

From: Matthew Kucinski <msk23@calvin.edu>
Date: Wed May 13 2009 - 11:29:05 EDT

Summary: A Calvin senior from Ireton, Iowa, has earned a prestigious scholarship towards graduate work in the humanities and arts.

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Devin Byker, a Calvin honors English major from Ireton, Iowa has earned one of 15 Lilly Graduate Fellowships for 2009.

The Lilly Fellows Program (LFP) in Humanities and the Arts awards the scholarships. The program is based at Valparaiso University's Christ College.

Honorees, who are nominated by their college, must be graduates of LFP member schools, of which there are 89 in total, and also be interested in working as teacher-scholars at church-related colleges and universities in the United States.

Fellows receive $3,000 per year for each of the three years of the program.

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