Nine members of the graduating class (2017) and three alumni from Boston College have received prestigious Fulbright awards that support a year's post-baccalaureate study abroad. The recipients generally pursue research in various disciplines or field of studies or serve as an English teaching assistant, which allows them to teach the English language along with providing insights about American culture. A graduating senior, Liam Maguire was also awarded the prestigious Fulbright award, but he declined it and decided to serve in the Peace Corps as an English teacher in Namibia.

Among other honors, Boston College students have received Winston Churchill Scholarship, a David L. Boren National Security Education Program Award, a Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship, a Fund for Education Abroad Scholarship, a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Undergraduate Scholarship, Benjamin Gilman Scholarships, and Critical Language Scholarships.

The list of BC 2017 Fulbright scholars includes

• Maria Ireland ’15
• Mackenzie Arnold
• Natasha Bednarz
• Christopher Fell
• Alexis Fessatidis ’16
• Evelyn Garrity ’15, MA’17
• Morgan Healy
• Mabel Lee ’15
• Caz Novak
• Jamshaid Sulahry
• Ava Tessitore
• Hagop Toghramadjian

Among the other awards, Jennifer Shin (’13) has been selected for a Thomas R. Pickering Fellowship which will fund her studies of security issues in the Korean peninsula and international relations in East Asia. Shin is willing to attend Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies this fall.

The Winston Churchill Scholarship for graduate study was won by Jesse Mu. This scholarship supports the study in the UK at the University of Cambridge. Bemnet Zewdie was awarded a Fund for Education Abroad Scholarship, and he wishes to go to Ghana next spring. A DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship was won by Sabrina Black which will allow her to study at the Catholic University of Eichstatt in Germany.

Among the other recipients there were Layla Aboukhater and Tenzin Pelzom (joint winner of Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships), Daniela Benitez and Enise Koc (joint winner of U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships), Taylor Green JD (David L. Boren National Security Education Program Award), Stephen Ferguson (Lilly Graduate Fellowship), and Lidya Mesgna (Humanity in Action Fellowship).