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Washington and Lee University has been included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. students for the fifth consecutive year.
Each year, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announces the top producing institutions for the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program.
W&L was ranked second among the baccalaureate institutions recognized by the Fulbright Program. This year’s ranking is W&L’s highest ever among top-producing Fulbright institutions.
W&L had a record number of applicants receive Fulbright awards for the academic year 2022-2023. Fifteen individuals were offered grants, and 13 of them accepted the grant.
Erin Addison ’22 was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) to Uruguay.
Samantha Carley ’22 was awarded a Fulbright ETA to Georgia.
Katie Cones ’21 was awarded a Fulbright ETA to Bulgaria.
David Gálvez ’22 was awarded a Fulbright ETA to France.
Elizabeth Grist ’22, of Lexington, was awarded a Fulbright research grant to Melbourne, Australia, to study the stigma and barriers associated with receiving medication for opioid use disorder (OUD) under Suzanne Nielsen, a leading addiction researcher in Australia.
Maggie Hardin ’22 received a Fulbright ETA to Germany.
Graham Kingwill ’22 was awarded a Fulbright ETA to teach English at Fergana Polytechnic Institute in Fergana, Uzbekistan.
Troy Larsen ’22 was awarded a Fulbright grant to Hungary to study at the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics (BSM) and participate in a research group at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics.
Sydney Lee ’22 was awarded a Fulbright ETA to Costa Rica.
Elyssa McMaster ’22 was awarded a Fulbright research grant to Italy to complete a hybrid art history and computer science project titled “Computational approaches to Florentine manuscript paintings.”
Nick Mosher ’22 was awarded a Fulbright ETA to Kazakhstan.
Anne Riter ’22 was awarded a Fulbright to Austria for her project, “Supporting Syrian Refugee Integration into Austria.”
Mansi Tripathi ’22 received a Fulbright ETA to Colombia. - The Fulbright competition is administered at W&L by Matthew Loar, director of fellowships, with the support of the university’s Fellowships Committee.
“Working with our Fulbright applicants each year is one of my favorite parts of the job,” said Loar. “I admire and am invigorated by their energy, ambition and adventurousness. To be named a top-producing institution for a fifth consecutive year is a real testament to the work and vision of our applicants. I could not be prouder.”
The Fulbright Program was established over 75 years ago to increase mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and the people of other countries. While the primary source of funding for the Fulbright Program is an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, it benefits from additional support from foreign partner governments, non-governmental organizations, private organizations, corporate partnerships and individual donors, as well as U.S. and foreign host institutions.
