3 Fulbright Winners in 2006

<p>Ohio University students win Fulbright Award to Germany
ATHENS, Ohio (April 21, 2006) -- Three Ohio University students have won Fulbright awards to Germany: Eileen Kelbach, Meghan Schuck and Genevieve Waller. Both Kelbach, a senior German major, and Schuck, a senior German, political science and magazine journalism major, will spend next year teaching English in German schools. Waller, a master's student in art history and photography will spend the 2006-07 year in Berlin studying the history and theory of the photogram (a camera-less photograph) process.</p>

<p>"Having three Ohio University students selected for Fulbright awards to Germany is unprecedented, and this is the fourth year in a row in which at least one Ohio University student has been offered an award to that country," says Beth Clodfelter, Ohio University's Fulbright Program Adviser. "Their success is a tribute to Ohio University's German professors, as well as to faculty members in the variety of academic programs that they represent."</p>

<p>Eileen Kelbach will graduate in June with a minor in linguistics and a certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). In addition to teaching English to German high school students, she will collect materials for a project on teaching foreign languages through music. Kelbach studied abroad in Germany as a high school student and again as an Ohio University student. She is a member of Delta Phi Alpha German Honor Society and Golden Key National Honor Society, and she served as an English conversation partner in the Ohio Program of Intensive English. After returning to the United States, Kelbach plans to pursue a graduate degree for foreign language education and to teach German at the high school level, and eventually at the university level.</p>

<p>"It is an honor to receive the Fulbright German teaching assistantship," says Kelbach. "I see it as a great opportunity to work for global understanding and gain more world experience. Teaching English in Germany will be invaluable to me as both a student and as a future teacher of German."</p>

<p>Schuck, who will graduate in June with a TEFL certificate in addition to her triple major, studied abroad in Salzburg, Austria, as an Ohio University student and participated in a European tour during high school. At Ohio University she is a member of Delta Phi Alpha German Honor Society, has taught German as a volunteer at the Athens Community Center and has served as an English conversation partner for the Ohio Program of Intensive English. Schuck also hosted a German music radio show on WOUB and wrote for The Post and Southeast Ohio Magazine.</p>

<p>"I want to study German in graduate school and teach it later, so I'm thrilled because this teaching assistantship is exactly what I need and was hoping for," says Schuck. "I'm so grateful that I have such helpful professors, especially in the German department, who have encouraged me since freshman year."</p>

<p>She hopes to put her journalism skills to use in her German classroom by helping students produce a school newspaper in English. While in Germany she will also study post-unification labor politics through the lens of movies and other popular media.</p>

<p>"I seldom meet a student with Meghan's enthusiasm for learning, eagerness to explore new avenues of thought and devotion to perfecting her language skills," says B</p>