10 J’cans get Fulbright scholarships
DR Kevin Harvey, executive director of the Ministry of Health’s National HIV/STI programme, is one of 10 Jamaicans who have been awarded Fulbright scholarships to pursue graduate studies in the United States.
Harvey will attend Emory University, having been awarded a grant under the Humphrey Fellowship Programme.
Ricardo Sandcroft, a legal officer with the Child Development Agency, is another of the scholarship recipients. He will study at the University of Minnesota, also as a Humphrey fellow.
Other Fulbright scholars are:
* Claudine Anderson, lecturer in psychology and counselling at the Northern Caribbean University;
* Gaunette Maragh-Sinclair, senior lecturer with the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of Technology; and
* Haeni Young, a lecturer in education at Shortwood Teachers’ College were all awarded grants in the Fulbright/LASPAU category.
Anderson and Maragh-Sinclair will pursue studies at the Washington State University while Young will enroll at Texas Tech University.
Tanya Bedward, acting transport planner at the Ministry of Transport and Works; Gillian Jackson, performance management analyst with Jamaica National Building Society; and Pauline Milwood, hospitality manager for Mona Visitor’s Lodge, will attend Georgia Institute of Technology, Temple University and the University of Nebraska respectively.
Meanwhile, Dr Loraine Cook, a lecturer in educational psychology at the University of the West Indies, was awarded a research scholarship, which she will utilise at New York University.
Dr Nadine McCloud, a lecturer in economics at the UWI, was also awarded a research scholarship. However, she was absent from the award ceremony because she is in China pursuing another programme which she will shortly conclude. McCloud will study at Cornell University.
Qualified graduates of local universities are invited annually by the US Embassy in Kingston to apply for the Fulbright Graduate Student Programme. Successful applicants receive full funding for master’s or doctoral degree programmes in the US.
