Fulbright Recipients
French
Andy Meci
(2019 – research)German
Dennis Wilt
(2018 – Austria)Nikea Ulrich
(2017 – Germany, research with the Institute of Space Medicine at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne)Neal Donovan
(2016 – Germany, teaching English in Schleswig-Holstein)Erin Netoskie
(2016 – Austria, research)Erin McClure
(2013 – Austria)Russian
Ashlynn Cobb
(2017 – Russia, English language instructor)Alex Bernosky
(2016)Molly Adler
(2015)Spanish
Sam Wherley
(2019 – Spain)Annaleigh Baremore
(2019 – Colombia)Anna Oldenbrook
(2018 & 2019 – Colombia)Emily Kutz
(2018 – Spain)Emily Parker
(2018 – Colombia)Mackenzie Coulter-Kern
(2015 – Mexico)Alyssa Grube
(2014 – Chile, research)
Student Outcomes
Malino DeFay '19
An Eagles Abroad Scholar in Spanish, Malino completed a POE in Spanish/Hispanic Cultures
and is pursuing a Doctor of Optometry degree at Salus University.
Sam Wherley '19
After graduating with distinction with a POE in International Politics and Spanish/Hispanic
Cultures, Sam was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Fellowship in Spain at the
Segovia campus of IE University.
Anna Oldenbrook '18
Anna was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Fellowship for two consecutive years
in Colombia (Medellín and Bucaramanga).
Emily Kutz '18
An Eagles Abroad Scholar in Spanish, Emily graduated with dual certification in Early
Childhood and K-12 Spanish Education. She was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching
Fellowship in Madrid, Spain, and currently is employed as an elementary teacher at
the American School of Madrid.
Jilenny Guzmán '18
Upon her graduation Jilenny received three tenure-track job offers in New York City
to teach Spanish in either charter or public schools. She accepted a teaching position
at her alma mater in Bronx, NY.
Roberto Toro '18
After having graduated with a POE in International Business and Russian, Roberto is
now employed as an English teacher at English First in Beijing.
Thiri Theresa Oo '18
An International Business POE with a secondary emphasis in Chinese Studies, Theresa
is currently working as a general manager at NY SEA Shipping company.
Danielle Ebeling '17
An International Studies POE with a secondary emphasis in Chinese Studies, Danielle
is now teaching Chinese at Bishop Guilfoyle School in Altoona, PA. She completed her
graduate studies in International Politics at East China Normal University in Shanghai,
China.
Elizabeth Fuhrman '17
An Eagles Abroad Scholar in Spanish and dual POE in Environmental Science and Spanish.
Elizabeth worked post-graduation as a research assistant in Florida and on Bioko Island
in Equatorial Guinea, Africa. She is enrolled in a master´s program in conservation
biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, in which she will
do field work in the Galapagos Islands to complete a master’s thesis on the population
restoration efforts of Galapagos tortoises.
Isabelle Wojciechowski '17
An International and Environmental Studies POE with a secondary emphasis in Chinese
and Economics, Isabelle is currently studying Chinese at the National Defense Language
Institute to prepare herself to be a Chinese Language Analyst in the United States
Air Force.
Katie Jeffress '17
After spending a year teaching English and doing research on sea turtles in Mexico
following graduation, Katie is now pursuing a law degree in environmental law at The
University of Texas at Austin. Following her first year of law school, Katie worked
as the only Spanish-speaking associate in a firm’s environmental practice in Austin,
and she plans to spend a semester studying in Mexico City during her third year of
law school.
Roni Laub '17
Post-graduation with a POE in International Studies and French, is now employed as
an English teacher at English First in Beijing. She is currently applying to a position
with the Peace Corps in China.
Sarah Rudnik '17
An Eagles Abroad Scholar in Spanish, Sarah spent two years teaching Spanish in a tenure-track
position at a charter school in Southern California. She ultimately decided to return
to Pennsylvania to accept another tenure-track position in Spanish in the Juniata
Valley School District in 2019.
Veronica Laub '17
Awarded a French English Language Teaching Assistantship upon graduation, Veronica
is currently completing her second year of teaching in a French middle school near
Lyon.
Cody Cooper '16
A Politics POE with a secondary emphasis in Chinese Studies and Economics, Cody is
currently serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Myanmar.
Erin Netoskie '16
Erin received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach English in Vienna, Austria.
Ezra Halstead '15
Ezra is pursuing his master’s degree at the Middlebury Institute of International
Studies at Monterey.
Alyssa Grube '14
An Eagles Abroad Scholar in Spanish at Juniata, Alyssa was awarded a Fulbright Research
Fellowship in Santiago, Chile, where she worked in a bioengineering lab to probe the
biodegradative capacity of bacteria in biofilms from streams in fracked watersheds.
She is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Department of Environmental Science & Engineering
at the University of North Carolina, where her dissertation work relates to point-of-use
water quality and antibiotic resistance on San Crístobal, one of the Galápagos Islands
of Ecuador.
Amanda Waller '14
Amanda studied French at Juniata and is currently attends Kansas City University of
Medicine and Biosciences.
Curtis Sherwood '14
Curtis is serving in the Peace Corps as an Agricultural Extension Volunteer in the
Gambia.
Joel Slaff '14
Joel is working as a translation coordinator at ICON Pharmaceuticals in Raleigh, North
Carolina.
Mackenzie Coulter-Kern '14
Awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Fellowship in Aguascalientes, Mexico following
graduation, Mackenzie has completed an M.A. and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Hispanic
Linguistics at Indiana University. Prior to starting the Ph.D. program, Mackenzie
spent the 2018-19 academic year in Seville, where she taught English at a university
and conducted research on the intersection between language and identity in elementary
students who study in bilingual programs and college students during study abroad
exchanges.
Alyssa Fazi '13
A Biochemistry POE with a secondary emphasis in Spanish, Alyssa is now enrolled in
medical school at West Virginia University.
Clay Cooper '13
An Eagles Abroad Scholar in Spanish at Juniata, Clay completed an M.D. and an M.B.A.
at Penn State University, and he is currently completing a family medicine residency
at Duke University, where he uses Spanish on a daily basis to interact with patients.
Nathan Wilson '13
Nathan is completing a Ph.D. in plant biology at North Carolina State University.
During the summer of 2019, he led a week of hands-on laboratory experiments in Spanish
at the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín in Arequipa, Peru, where his Ph.D. advisor
was coordinating a bioinformatics workshop.
Mike Thompson-Brusstar '12
After graduation from Juniata with a POE in International Politics, Mike was a Fulbright
English Teaching Assistant in Taiwan for the 2012-2013 academic year. He returned
to the United States to pursue a master's degree in Chinese Studies at the University
of Michigan, where he was a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow. After
graduation, Mike worked for the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the
University of Michigan as a program associate before being admitted to the department
of Political Science as a Ph.D. student, where he now studies the development of the
PRC legal system.