{"537241":{"#nid":"537241","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Two Ivan Allen College Students Awarded Fulbright Scholarships","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts students Anne Lashinsky and Dillon Roseen are among five Georgia Tech Fulbright grant recipients for the upcoming academic year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELashinsky and Roseen join the ranks of previous Yellow Jacket recipients; there have been 23 since 2009. The \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/us.fulbrightonline.org\/fulbright-us-student-program\u0022\u003EFulbright U.S. Student Program\u003C\/a\u003E covers tuition, living expenses, and transportation for students who live and work a host country and become engaged in its local community.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAnnie Lashinsky (Minor in German)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnne Lashinsky graduated in May with a degree in business administration and a\u0026nbsp; minor in German from the Ivan Allen School of Modern Languages. Her Fulbright work will be as an English teaching assistant in Rostock, Germany.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIn this globalized world, mastering the English language is an indispensable component of success,\u201d says Lashinsky. \u201cI\u2019ve experienced firsthand the ameliorating effects of direct cross-cultural interaction. I\u2019m excited to offer a window to the American culture, and to increase my own understanding of the German language and people.\u201d\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELashinsky praised her German professors for their teaching example. \u201cTheir fostering a culture of acceptance of mistakes for the sake of learning was absolutely critical in the language-learning classroom, and I can only hope I can transfer their techniques, methods, and effectiveness into my own language-learning classroom. I seek to be to my students what each of my German professors was for me: a memorable figure whose instruction ignites a passion for linguistic and cultural understanding.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELashinsky also credits her German studies with giving her the confidence to pursue an undergraduate exchange at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universit\u00e4t in M\u00fcnich, another experience that prepared her for the Fulbright assistantship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe says she will be using German outside of the classroom at every available opportunity, and is excited \u201cto increase my own understanding of the German language and people.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs to her future post-Fulbright, Lashinsky isn\u2019t sure what her direction will be, but hopes it will include her passions for travel and the German language.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDillon Roseen (EIA)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEconomics and International Affairs major and pre-law minor Dillon Roseen will use his grant to study at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands earning a master\u2019s degree in the law and politics of international security.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cPursing a master\u2019s degree in the Netherlands is perfect for me, since I will be right next to The Hague, nicknamed the \u2018Legal Capital of the World\u2019 and the \u2018International City of Peace and Justice,\u2019\u201d Roseen said. His Fulbright experience will be an integral component of his future career plans. Roseen hopes to eventually work for an international institution, such as the United Nations, as a human rights attorney and advocate.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoseen graduated from Georgia Tech in December 2015. He served as president of the undergraduate Student Government Association and a Georgia Tech Ambassador. He interned at the White House, and co-founded the Mental Health Student Coalition. He has published research in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EJournal of Politics and International Affairs.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAside from his research and studies, Roseen is looking forward to enjoying the bicycle culture of Amsterdam and possibly working for an international organization while he pursues his degree.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudents interested in applying for a Fulbright scholarship for the 2017 \u2013 2018 academic year should make an appointment with one of Georgia Tech\u2019s Fulbright Advisors,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.fellowships.gatech.edu\/index.php?page=contact\u0022\u003EDr. Kathryn Meehan\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.fellowships.gatech.edu\/index.php?page=contact\u0022\u003EDr. Karen Adams\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts students Anne Lashinsky and Dillon Roseen are among five Georgia Tech Fulbright grant recipients for the upcoming academic year.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts students Annie Lashinsky and Dillon Roseen are among five Georgia Tech Fulbright grant recipients for the upcoming academic year."}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2016-05-18 13:49:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:42","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-05-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"537231":{"id":"537231","type":"image","title":"Fulbrights Annie Lashinsky and Dillon Roseen","body":null,"created":"1463713200","gmt_created":"2016-05-20 03:00:00","changed":"1475895324","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:55:24","alt":"Fulbrights Annie Lashinsky and Dillon Roseen","file":{"fid":"88875","name":"anne-lashinskyanddillon_roseen700w.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/anne-lashinskyanddillon_roseen700w.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/anne-lashinskyanddillon_roseen700w.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":114733,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/anne-lashinskyanddillon_roseen700w.jpg?itok=FSgyyzi6"}}},"media_ids":["537231"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166841","name":"2016 Fulbright scholars"},{"id":"170284","name":"Annie Lashinsky"},{"id":"170285","name":"Dillon Roseen"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}