Two Ohio University graduate students will have the opportunity to work on research projects abroad next year.
Megan Westervelt and Don Sim both received Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards. They received advice from OU's Office of Nationally Competitve Awards during the application process, according to a university news release.
Westervelt will do her research about efforts to preserve the environment in areas experiencing oil development at the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador.
Sim, who is also Korean, will travel to South Korea to research health literacy and physician-patient communications.
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program gives grants to students "for individually designed study/research projects," according to the program's website.
While abroad, Fulbright scholars work and live with members from their host countries and stay abroad from up to one academic year, according to the program's website.
Westervelt will be teaching photography classes to Ecuadorians while in the country; Sim, will be volunteering at an orphanage near where he is staying.
The university does not disclose the amount of the Fulbright grants because their amounts differ based on the cost of living in the country of study, said Stephanie Filson, director of external communications at OU.
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