Christopher Boveroux '08, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Indonesia.
Boveroux, a music and philosophy double major at Hamilton, is a member of the Hamilton Choir and College Hill Singers, serving as elected choir librarian and choir tour manager as well as senior conductor. He was also a student leader of the Hamilton Gamelan Ensemble that specializes in playing the Javanese Gamelan. Boveroux also served as the Wellin Hall technical manager, coordinating lights and sound during student productions.
In 2006 he was awarded an Emerson Research Grant through which he conducted independent research between movement and governmental change during the Singing Revolution of Soviet Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. He was also awarded the Madeline Wild Bristol Prize Scholarship in Music, which is a scholarship for an outstanding music student at Hamilton. Boveroux also served as a research assistant during the summer of 2007.
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.
Boveroux is the son of Melissa and Ford Boveroux of Appleton, Wisc.
