SUNY Geneseo
Annie Renaud Wins Fulbright Award
Geneseo, NY (05/30/2019) — Glastonbury, CT, native and Glastonbury High School graduate Annie Renaud has won a 2019-20 U.S Student Fulbright award for Russia. Renaud graduated in May from SUNY Geneseo with a degree in communication and minors in both Central and Eastern European studies and the college honors program. She will work as an English Teaching Assistant at a Russian university or post-secondary institution and hopes to serve as a journalist in the region.
At Geneseo, Renaud earned membership in the national honor society Phi Beta Kappa and the Edgar Fellows Program, and she served as editor-in-chief of The Lamron college newspaper. In addition to numerous academic scholarships, she won a highly competitive US State Department Critical Language Scholarship for study in Russian in 2017.
SUNY Geneseo was recently named a Top Producer of U.S. Student Fulbright awards, the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced in its annual article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs. During their grants, Fulbrighters meet, work, live with, and learn from the people of the host country, sharing daily experiences. The program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others' viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things, and the way they think.
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Fulbright winner Annie Renaud (right) and her mentor, associate professor of German Cynthia Klima. (SUNY Geneseo/Keith Walters)
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