Thirty From Dartmouth Offered Fulbright Awards

Dartmouth students are planning on continuing their outreach to the world—30 students and alumni were offered Fulbright awards, and some students have also been accepted in other programs for scholarship or teaching overseas.

"Students and alumni want to broaden their horizons and engage with other countries and cultures, and this unprecedentedly large cohort of Fulbright participants is prime evidence of how Dartmouth helps prepare them to do so," says Christie Harner, assistant dean of faculty for fellowship advising. Harner said the number of Fulbrights was a record for Dartmouth.

The Fulbright program was created shortly after World War II to foster mutual understanding among countries, and since then more than 400,000 Fulbright participants from the United States and 160 other countries have taken part in the program.

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This year's ENVS Alumni Fulbright cohort from Dartmouth includes:

Jessica (Jesse) Ferraioli '23 has a Fulbright open study/research award and will pursue a master's of science degree in water and sustainable development at IHE Delft in the Netherlands. Currently a research associate at the Environmental Law Institute, Ferraioli was an environmental studies and philosophy double major, a presidential scholar, a Stamps Scholar, and recipient of the Downey Family Prize in Environmental Studies 

"At IHE Delft, I look forward to learning to interpret modeling paradigms to assess the robustness of data informing groundwater management, exploring international environmental assessment processes, and deepening my understanding of water conflict and cooperation," Ferraioli says.

Parker Rabinowitz '25 received a Fulbright to pursue a graduate degree in polar law at the University of Akureyri in Iceland, but has declined. An environmental studies major with a minor in government, Rabinowitz has been a Dickey Center Arctic Innovation Scholar; a Great Issue Scholar; the Dartmouth Club Water Polo Administration chair, and an intern at the State Department and Treasury department.

Emma Ratchford '25 will be a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Mozambique. A double major in government and environmental studies with a minor in music, Ratchford was a WISP intern, a Boren Scholarship recipient; a Great Issues Scholar and War and Peace Fellow, and winner of the Sperry Writing Prize.

"When asked why I want to undertake an English teaching assistantship in Mozambique, it is above all because I hope that I can affect at least one student in the way educators have had an impact on me," Ratchford says. "Spending nine months as an ETA in Mozambique would allow me to facilitate cross-cultural communication between myself, students, and other teachers."