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\"logoThirteen 人妻少妇专区 students and recent alumni are semifinalists in the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Grant Program<\/a>, the government\u2019s flagship international educational exchange program. Sponsored by the State Department, it offers opportunities to pursue advanced studies, conduct research, and teach English language and U.S. culture abroad.<\/p>\n

Final award offers will be announced on a country-by-country basis over the next three to four months.<\/p>\n

Thirty-two candidates applied to this year\u2019s competition through Fulbright review committees at the River 人妻少妇专区 and at Eastman.<\/p>\n

Rochester also has been named a \u201ctop producer\u201d of Fulbright US Student Grant winners for the 2017-18 academic year. The University had 40 applicants and 10 who accepted grants last year. Two other students were offered Fulbright grants but declined.<\/p>\n

This is the second year in a row Rochester has been designated a top producer, and the third time in the last five years.<\/p>\n

Here are the 13 semifinalists, along with their hometowns, majors, country of application, and type of grant sought:<\/p>\n

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Cherish Blackman<\/strong> \u201918<\/strong> (Rochester)<\/p>\n

East Asian studies\/Russian<\/p>\n

China: study\/research language and literature<\/p>\n

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Laura Cowie-Haskell<\/strong> \u201918<\/strong> (Marshfield, Massachusetts)<\/p>\n

Anthropology<\/p>\n

Kenya: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n

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Meg Cutting \u201918E<\/strong> (Salem-Keizer, Oregon)<\/p>\n

Organ performance<\/p>\n

France: study creative and performing arts in organ performance<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ella DeFalco \u201918 <\/strong>(Skaneateles, New York)<\/p>\n

Linguistics<\/p>\n

Belgium: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Annamarie Forestiere \u201918<\/strong> (Pulaski, New York)<\/p>\n

Business\/music<\/p>\n

United Kingdom: study\/research arts management<\/p>\n

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Oleaser Johnson \u201918<\/strong> (University Heights, Ohio)<\/p>\n

French\/linguistics<\/p>\n

South Korea: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n

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Amelia Kelly \u201918<\/strong> (Camillus, New York)<\/p>\n

Anthropology\/history<\/p>\n

Malaysia: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n

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Crystal Lee \u201918<\/strong> (Rochester)<\/p>\n

Brain and cognitive sciences\/linguistics<\/p>\n

Netherlands: study\/research psychology and cognitive science<\/p>\n

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Lauren Oey \u201918<\/strong> (Mountain Lakes, New Jersey)<\/p>\n

Brain and cognitive sciences\/linguistics\/statistics<\/p>\n

Hong Kong: study\/research linguistics and cognitive science<\/p>\n

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Reva Peer \u201918<\/strong> (Roseland, California)<\/p>\n

Molecular genetics<\/p>\n

South Korea: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n

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Joseph Plyan-Franke \u201917 (T5)<\/strong> (Syracuse, New York)<\/p>\n

Computer science\/linguistics<\/p>\n

Laos: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n

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Erin Straight \u201917<\/strong> (Wolcott, New York)<\/p>\n

International relations\/Spanish<\/p>\n

Colombia: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Alexis Wallace \u201918<\/strong> (Carthage, New York)<\/p>\n

Political science\/Russian<\/p>\n

Russia: English Teaching Assistantship<\/p>\n

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