Nine SDSU Students Receive Fulbright Awards

2016 Apr 29

Nine San Diego State University students were selected to teach and conduct research abroad in 2016-17 as part of the prestigious Fulbright Program, the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government.

Zachariah Martinez, a Santee native studying Biology will serve as an English Teaching Assistant in Bulgaria and create a health and wellness program for his students..

Eighty-five SDSU students have been offered Fulbrights since 2005.

The Fulbright Program awards about 8,000 grants annually, enabling U.S. students and scholars to teach and study abroad and visiting students and scholars to study in the United States.