Award Recipients
Spotlight on Rotary:
College is Top Producer of Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars
Special thanks goes to the Charleston area Rotary clubs for their selection of and support of our candidates.
Past Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship Recipients:
- Jamilla Harper '08 - Kenya
- Keri Hunigan '10 -Columbia
- Betsy Sutherland ' 10 - South Africa
- Caroline Burns '10 - Uganda
- Nicholas Boatwright '11 - Senegal
- Joseph Saei '10 - Morocco
- Kristen Thompson '09 - South Africa
- Rachel Ward '08 - Chile
- Chelsea Blalock '07 - Peru
- Andrew Smeltzer '07 - Scotland
- Claire Jarvis '06 - Chile
- Sarah Permenter Hays '03 - Mexico
- Stephanie Wheeler '03 - South Africa
Spotlight on Additional Award Recipients:
Congratulations to Sara Sprehn '11 who received a Fulbright Full Grant to pursue a master’s degree in public health and nutrition at the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas in Mexico! Read more.
Congratulations to Melissa Huber '11 who won the Lionel Pearson Fellowship and the Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship. These awards will fund her graduate study in Classics at the University of Reading in England. Upon completion, she will begin her doctoral studies at Duke University as a Jame B. Duke Fellow.
Award History:
Over the years, many College of Charleston students have successfully applied for numerous nationally competitive awards, scholarships, fellowships, and internships. Since 2005, 116 College of Charleston students have been accepted into the Peace Corps to volunteer overseas. More than 24 students were accepted to teach in schools through Teach for America. 3 students received prestigious and highly competitive Fulbright Full Grants. 10 students studied abroad with the financial support of the Benjamin R. Gilman Scholarship. For more details on the students who won these and many other awards, follow the links below.
- 2005-2010
- 2011-present
