EMILIE WARREN (ETA Venezuela)

Emilie Warren is from Roswell, GA and graduated in May with a major in biochemistry and a minor in Spanish. She will be an English Teaching Assistant in Venezuela for 10 months from October to July.

She participated in a Georgia Tech study abroad program in Cádiz, Spain and plans to attend medical school in the future. While in Venezuela she be a teaching assistant in English at the Venezuelan Binational Center, and her community participation will focus on Misión Barrio Adentro, an operation dedicated to bringing the universal health care system of the Venezuelan government to those in the population with little access. 

MATTHEW HOFFMAN (Australia)

Matt Hoffman is a Mechanical Engineering major from  McKinney, TX who has received a Fulbright award for research at the University of New South Wales in Australia where he will work on an innovative hybrid solar concentrator for roof-mounted applications. He will focus on a technology that combines the benefits of photovoltaic and concentrating solar thermal components in a form that can be adopted building by building. Hoffman has also received an NDSEG Fellowship that he will use to attend Stanford University for doctoral work following the Fulbright year. He is a triathlon competitor and qualified for the Ironman World Championship in 2009. While at Tech, he has been the Alternative Breaks Coordinator for Trailblazers and participated in the Co-op Program.

NANCY GALEWSKI (Bolivia/Peru) 

Nancy Galewski is from Wauwatosa, WI and has a master’s degree in Public Policy and City and Regional Planning from Georgia Tech and a BA in International Development and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. She is a Research Associate at the Enterprise Innovation Institute. She has a Fulbright grant that will provide three months of research in Bolivia and seven months in Peru. She will work on developing community participation in urban service provision in a community in each country. She will work in Cochabamba, Bolivia and Arequipa, Peru because both cities face similar difficulties with waste, water, and energy management, and both cities have dealt with anti-privatization demonstrations of basic urban services.

COLBY MANGELS (Switzerland)

Colby Mangels is from Valdosta, GA and is majoring in International Affairs and Modern Languages. He spent a year abroad in the former East Germany as a high school student, and as a college student held an internship in Leipzig through the US State Department and another internship with a member of the German Bundestag. He will be doing research to examine the model of Swiss non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance.  He plans to document how Swiss NGOs have affected policy and judicial outcomes and to provide a roadmap for developing countries to use. Money laundering and the financing of terrorism are problems in developing countries, and Mangels hopes to provide a documented approach for such countries to use. He will be working with the Basel Institute on Governance and with Transparency International Switzerland to create a model that shows how governmental, business, and civic-activist groups can work effectively to create needed policies.

HOLLY TINKEY (Netherlands)

Holly Tinkey is from Lawrenceville, GA and is majoring in Physics. She will be doing research at the University of Leiden with the Magnetic and Superconducting Materials group that specializes in growing thin magnetic films capable of enhancing the range of superconductivity. Tinkey will use specialized training in thin film development she received both at Georgia Tech and during a summer internship at the University of Illinois. The research is important in the new field of quantum electronics because it directly pertains to the manipulation and longevity of quantum states. Current silicon electronics is reaching its limits, and scientists are looking for nano-devices in which single electron currents can be maneuvered to engineer ultra fast transistors capable of gigahertz speeds. Tinkey is a musician and plans to participate in musical  activities while in the Netherlands.