Seniors Emily Spangler and Natalie Whitney each have received a prestigious Rotary scholarship to fund a graduate program anywhere outside the United States and Canada they wish to study.

The two-year program includes four conferences in Indianapolis and Chicago through 2021, as well as the means to establish a Lilly Faculty Fellows Program on campus beginning in Fall 2020.

ODK’s National Awards Committee received 37 applicants for the five awards this year. This is the first time ODK has selected a leader of the year in athletics from Roanoke College.

Michelle De La Cruz ’20 is a criminal justice major with a concentration in legal studies. She will be studying at Vesalius College in Brussels.

Two recent Roanoke graduates were accepted into the Japan Exchange and Teaching program, an initiative sponsored by the Japanese government which is similar to the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships.

Henold, John R. Turbyfill Professor of History, will spend the 2020 spring semester teaching in Hungary as a Fulbright scholar.

Linnea Stewart has been awarded a Fulbright to study and conduct research on bird populations on organic and non-organic farms in India.

Study abroad opportunities facilitated by Roanoke set afire Umland's passion for travel and led him to apply for a Fulbright.

This year six seniors are semi-finalists for the prestigious and highly competitive Fulbright student scholarships that facilitate study, research, and English teaching assistantships (ETA) around the globe.

Vanessa Pearson ’21, the 11^th Roanoke College student selected as a Gilman Scholar, will spend the Spring 2019 semester in Australia at James Cook University taking psychology, education and Australian history classes.