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Student A c H i e v e M e N t T c n J S T u d e n T S a R e a c h i e V e R S . T h e e d u c a T i o n a l e x p e R i e n c e T h e c o l l e g e d e l i V e R S a l l o W S T h e M T o e x c e l . not only are our students prepared to succeed, they are relentlessly pursuing their next opportunity. In the most recent Career Center survey of 2012 graduates, 97 percent of students who responded to the survey were either employed or in graduate school within 12 months of graduation. tCnJ graduates have found jobs at lockheed Martin, Integra life Sciences, JpMorgan Chase, and Ralph lauren, or have entered competitive graduate programs at prestigious institutions like the university of pennsylvania, Brown university, Virginia tech, Carnegie Mellon university, and temple university School of law. S c h o l a R S h i p S a n d F e l l o W S h i p S fulbright Awards Krishna parekh '14 is spending the year in Finland studying the threespine stickleback, a fish that is the darling of evolutionary biologists for its ability to adapt to different environments. She joins three other 2014 grads, who have also earned Fulbrights. Shea de Brito, Matt Knoth, and erika Schultes, a graduate of the college's five-year MA in english track, are in Brazil, Austria, and Romania, respectively, on Fulbright teaching Assistantships. goldwater scholarships Biology majors Syndi Barish and Andrew Goldfarb were named Goldwater Scholars, the country's most prestigious undergraduate award for students in mathematics, science, and engineering. Classmates Dylan McClung and Daniel Chawla, also biology majors, were awarded honorable mentions. universities are allowed to nominate only four students, and all four tCnJ nominees won honors in the competition. Boren scholarships two undergraduate students, Michael Schiumo and Martín Crosby-Arreaza, received Boren Scholarships that are allowing them to spend the 2014–15 academic year studying abroad in Kazakhstan and tajikistan, respectively. e Boren Scholarship is a competitive award funded by the federal government and given to students with serious interest in areas of the world that are underrepresented in study abroad. Pickering fellowship Bryan Furman '13 spent last year in tajikistan on a Fulbright. now, he is pursuing his master's degree in Russian and eurasian studies at Georgetown university with help from a $40,000 fellowship that will prepare him academically and professionally to enter the u.S. Department of State Foreign Service. 10

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