Dolph Lundgren, Wallace Stegner, John Steinbeck, Henry Kissinger and John Lithgow were all Fulbright Scholars. University of Utah students Alison Shimko and Elizabeth Gamarra recently joined that list. Both will head to Spain to teach English beginning Fall 2017. Two other students, Tuscan Thompson and Claire Taylor, were selected as alternates.
The Fulbright Scholarship is a prestigious program that allows 1,900 US students each year to travel abroad either to perform research or to teach English. Past recipients of the award include 54 Nobel Prize winners, 92 Pulitzer Prize winners and 33 heads of state or government.
The program is sponsored by the US Department of State and allows scholars a stipend to explore the local culture when not in the classroom or lab.