SEVEN Jamaicans have this year been awarded postgraduate scholarships by the United States Embassy in Jamaica under the Fulbright Awards programme.

They are: Felicia Grey, Denique Ferguson, Javian Malcolm, Wayne Thorpe, Prudence Serju, Melaine Williams, and Dr Grace Turner.

Grey, Ferguson, Malcolm and Thorpe were awarded under the Fulbright Foreign Student Graduate Programme. Grey will pursue a PhD in International Relations at Old Dominion University; Ferguson will undertake a masters in Human Computer Interaction Design at Indiana University; Malcolm will do a masters in Medical Physics at Duke University, and Thorpe will likewise read for a Master’s degree at Loyola University.

Serju and Williams were awarded under the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship programme, and will have the opportunity to take university courses, but they won’t lead to academic certification.

Meanwhile, Dr Turner, an adjunct lecturer at Northern Caribbean University, will lecture at Northern Marianas College in Saipan for the 2013/2014 academic year as per the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence programme.

The awards were made last month at the embassy’s annual Pre-Departure/Orientation and Re-Entry Seminar which was hosted at the US Embassy on Hope Road in Kingston.

US institutions of higher education host Fulbright lecturers from abroad for one or both semesters in an academic year.

The Fulbright programme grants full funding for master’s and doctoral degree programmes.