Valpo a Leader in Fulbright Award Winners

Three Valparaiso University students have won prestigious Fulbright awards for research and teaching in China, South Korea and Germany.

The three awards tie Valpo’s highest number of Fulbright winners in one year. Three students received awards in both 2004-’05 and 2005-’06, placing VU among the leading master’s-level institutions in Fulbright winners in those years.

This year’s winners are: Carl Boschert, a Chinese and Japanese studies and history major from Jackson, Miss.; Jeremiah Dost, a history major from St. Louis; and Lorrine Hoffmann, a chemistry and secondary education major from Crystal Lake, Ill.

Boschert received a research fellowship in China, Dost won a teaching fellowship in South Korea and Hoffmann will have a teaching fellowship in Germany.

Approximately 1,200 American students were offered grants to study, teach English, and conduct research in more than 110 countries throughout the world beginning this summer through the Fulbright program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.