Victoria Schacht '08, a candidate for May graduation from Hamilton, has been awarded a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Indonesia, where she will teach English.
Schacht, an English major at Hamilton, is a teaching assistant for the Hamilton English department and has been involved with Study Buddies, a Hamilton group that tutors inner-city middle school students. She also participated in an ESOL course, in which she taught English to speakers of other languages including Spanish and Persian. Schacht spent the 2006-07 school year studying abroad at England's Oxford University.
Schacht was the recipient of an Emerson Foundation Research Grant in the summer of 2007. The Emerson Grant provides students with significant opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty mentors, researching an area of mutual interest. Schacht completed a "recycled media" writing project in which she built creative writing pieces from old periodicals. In 2007, she also received the highly selective Fredrick Reese Wagner Prize Scholarship, which is awarded by the Hamilton English department and recognizes outstanding work in English literature.
Schacht is a member of Hamilton College Students Against Violence (SAV). She was the chair of Writer's Bloc, an informal circle of students interested in the creation of original poetry and prose, in 2005-06. Schacht also works as a barista at Hamilton's Café Opus. After her return from Indonesia, Schacht plans to pursue a career as a teacher and researcher in English literature.
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.
-- by Lauren Foley '08
Schacht, an English major at Hamilton, is a teaching assistant for the Hamilton English department and has been involved with Study Buddies, a Hamilton group that tutors inner-city middle school students. She also participated in an ESOL course, in which she taught English to speakers of other languages including Spanish and Persian. Schacht spent the 2006-07 school year studying abroad at England's Oxford University.
Schacht was the recipient of an Emerson Foundation Research Grant in the summer of 2007. The Emerson Grant provides students with significant opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty mentors, researching an area of mutual interest. Schacht completed a "recycled media" writing project in which she built creative writing pieces from old periodicals. In 2007, she also received the highly selective Fredrick Reese Wagner Prize Scholarship, which is awarded by the Hamilton English department and recognizes outstanding work in English literature.
Schacht is a member of Hamilton College Students Against Violence (SAV). She was the chair of Writer's Bloc, an informal circle of students interested in the creation of original poetry and prose, in 2005-06. Schacht also works as a barista at Hamilton's Café Opus. After her return from Indonesia, Schacht plans to pursue a career as a teacher and researcher in English literature.
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.
-- by Lauren Foley '08
