Emily Claire Bruce, Ph.D. student in History, received a Fulbright Grant to Germany. She declined the Fulbright and accepted the DAAD.

Nicholas Anthony Fisichelli, Ph.D. student in Natural Resources Science & Management, received a Fulbright Grant to Germany.  He will research the impact of climate change on forests, specifically whether temperate hardwood forests of maple and oak are expanding at the expense of the boreal conifer forests as the climate warms.  Fisichelli graduated with a B.S. in Resource Ecology & Management from the University of Michigan in 1997.

Kristin Elizabeth Garland, ’11, M.A. in Kinesiology, is the 2011-12 winner of the University of Minnesota Graduate School’s Fulbright Scholarship Exchange Program with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway.   Working directly with the Olympiatoppen, an organization responsible for training elite Norwegian athletes, she will assess the differences between college-based (sports-studies programs) and club-based (performance focused) training programs on the performance and life of athletes.  Garland graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College with a B.A. in Communication Studies in 2006.