Recent Recipients

Audrey Petteruti

Audrey Petteruti is a junior in the Honors Program who hails from Brunswick, Maine and a Fall 2013 Gilman Scholarship recipient. In Aix-en-Provence, France, she hopes to improve her fluency in French, which she has been studying for seven years. As a biomedical sciences major, Petteruti plans to attend medical school and become a doctor.

About the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships: The Gilman Program aims to increase the number and diversity of students studying abroad, including students studying in non-traditional countries, especially those outside of Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand; students with diverse ethnic backgrounds; students from a diverse range of institutions; students engaged in non-traditional (for study abroad) fields of study, such as the sciences and engineering; and students with disabilities.

Brianna Cole

Brianna Cole, a junior political science/international affairs major from Salem, will travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to study at the University of Belgrano on a Gilman Scholarship. Her program in Argentine and Latin American Studies offers an early start option that will give her an additional month in Buenos Aires. During that first month, she will do intensive language study, preparing her to take content classes in Spanish.

About the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships: The Gilman Program aims to increase the number and diversity of students studying abroad, including students studying in non-traditional countries, especially those outside of Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand; students with diverse ethnic backgrounds; students from a diverse range of institutions; students engaged in non-traditional (for study abroad) fields of study, such as the sciences and engineering; and students with disabilities

Jennifer Baker

Jennifer Baker, a senior cognitive science major from Tempe, Ariz., is the only UNH student studying in Japan on a Fall 2013 Gilman Scholarship; she is headed to Nagoya, Japan. She has studied Japanese for two years and hopes to eventually pursue graduate studies in Japan.

About the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships: The Gilman Program aims to increase the number and diversity of students studying abroad, including students studying in non-traditional countries, especially those outside of Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand; students with diverse ethnic backgrounds; students from a diverse range of institutions; students engaged in non-traditional (for study abroad) fields of study, such as the sciences and engineering; and students with disabilities.

Kevin McAleese

University of New Hampshire sophomore Kevin McAleese of Nashua, NH is the recipient of a prestigious Critical Language Scholarship (CLS), which fully finances his study of beginning Azeri language for 8 weeks this summer in Baku, Azerbaijan at the Azerbaijan University of Languages.

Full story here: http://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2013/03/student-headed-azerbaijan-critical-l...

Launched in 2004, the Critical Language Scholarships, which are a program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, offer intensive overseas language study in thirteen languages deemed critical to U.S. national security.