{"id":2059,"date":"2016-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2016\/05\/two-transylvania-seniors-earn-fulbright-eta-grants\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:55:05","slug":"two-transylvania-seniors-earn-fulbright-eta-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2016\/05\/two-transylvania-seniors-earn-fulbright-eta-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Transylvania seniors earn Fulbright ETA grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014Two graduating Transylvania University seniors will head abroad this fall after being awarded highly competitive Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grants. Samantha Easterling\u00a0from\u00a0Wilmore, Ky., will go to Macedonia, and Courtney Smith from Batavia, Ohio, will travel to the Slovak Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1997, 23 Transylvania students have been awarded Fulbright ETA grants. Through the program, the pair will serve as a resource for conversation, vocabulary and reading and\u00a0writing courses at an assigned school.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/attachments\/Easterling.jpg\" style=\"float:left\" width=\"94\" \/>Easterling, a teaching art major,\u00a0plans to facilitate a\u00a0photography project where students in Macedonia and eastern Kentucky will compare the mountain\u00a0cultures of both areas.\u00a0She was a Morrison Scholarship recipient at Transylvania and was awarded a 2015 Kenan-Jones\u00a0Summer Research Grant, which she used to conduct a photo-ethnographical study of modern-day\u00a0pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. She walked the 490-mile Camino interviewing and\u00a0photographing other walkers. She exhibited the project in the Susan Shearer Student Art Gallery last fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/attachments\/Smith.jpg\" style=\"float:left\" width=\"94\" \/>Smith studied in Poland and Ukraine and participated in a service trip to Guatemala. She was\u00a0captain of the volleyball team and earned a certification as a Teacher of English of Students of Other\u00a0Languages. A\u00a0psychology major, Smith wants to create a joint blog between her Slovakian\u00a0students and students from her Ohio high school and teach weekly volleyball clinics.\u00a0\u201cI look forward to representing Transylvania and the United States in the best light possible while\u00a0abroad, and I can\u2019t wait to see where this new adventure takes me,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI feel more than ready\u00a0to take on the real world and begin my career in international education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamantha\u2019s communication and teaching skills\u2014developed from student teaching, mentoring young\u00a0people and working with non-English speakers\u2014will make her an effective teaching assistant,\u201d said\u00a0Kathy Simon, Transylvania director of study abroad. \u201cAnd Courtney\u2019s positive spirit of intercultural\u00a0cooperation and collaboration, combined with her expertise as a volleyball player, will endear her to her\u00a0Slovak students.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEXINGTON, Ky.\u2014Two graduating Transylvania University seniors will head abroad this fall after being awarded highly competitive Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grants. Samantha Easterling\u00a0from\u00a0Wilmore, Ky., will go to Macedonia, and Courtney Smith from Batavia, Ohio, will travel to the Slovak Republic. Since 1997, 23 Transylvania students have been awarded Fulbright ETA grants. Through the program, the pair will serve as a resource for conversation, vocabulary and reading and\u00a0writing courses at an assigned school. Easterling, a teaching art major,\u00a0plans to facilitate a\u00a0photography project where students in Macedonia and eastern Kentucky will compare the mountain\u00a0cultures of both areas.\u00a0She was a Morrison Scholarship recipient at Transylvania and was awarded a 2015 Kenan-Jones\u00a0Summer Research Grant, which she used to conduct a photo-ethnographical study of modern-day\u00a0pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. She walked the 490-mile Camino interviewing and\u00a0photographing other walkers. She exhibited the project in the Susan Shearer Student Art Gallery last fall.\u00a0 Smith studied in Poland and Ukraine and participated in a service trip to Guatemala. She was\u00a0captain of the volleyball team and earned a certification as a Teacher of English of Students of Other\u00a0Languages. A\u00a0psychology major, Smith wants to create a joint blog between her Slovakian\u00a0students and students from her Ohio high school and teach weekly volleyball clinics.\u00a0\u201cI look forward to representing Transylvania and the United States in the best light possible while\u00a0abroad, and I can\u2019t wait to see where this new adventure takes me,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI feel more than<\/p>\n<p class=\"continueLink\"><a class=\"btn btn-info\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2016\/05\/two-transylvania-seniors-earn-fulbright-eta-grants\/\">Read &ldquo;Two Transylvania seniors earn Fulbright ETA grants&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"feeds":[],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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