Ann Horwitz, a candidate for graduation from Hamilton College in May, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship. She will teach English as a foreign language in Indonesia.
The purpose of the Fulbright Program is to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills. The program is designed to give recent college graduates opportunities for personal development and international experience.
It offers invaluable opportunities to meet and work with people of the host country, sharing daily life as well as professional and creative insights. The program promotes cross-cultural interaction and mutual understanding on a person-to-person basis in an atmosphere of openness, academic integrity and intellectual freedom. The primary source of funding for the Fulbright Program is an annual appropriation made by Congress to the Department of State. The U.S. Student Program awards approximately 900 grants annually and currently operates in more than 140 countries worldwide.
A world politics major at Hamilton, Horwitz is a graduate of Bethesda Chevy Chase High School. While at Hamilton, she has been active as a Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center tutor; a Levitt Scholar program participant; a trip leader for Hamilton's Urban Service Experience community service program for incoming freshmen; a Hamilton Action Volunteer Outreach Coalition elementary school tutor; recipient of the Chester Siuda Scholarship for outstanding personal and academic promise, the Maslyn Prize and the Kingsley Prize Scholarship; a member of the Hamilton College choir and Hamiltones a capella singing group. Horwitz studied abroad in Derry, Northern Ireland in 2004. She is the daughter of Lisa and Murray Horwitz of Rosemary Street in Chevy Chase, Md.
