Sabrina is 1 of 935 students to have benefited from $3 million in scholarships granted since FEA’s inception in 2010.
News – Global Ed
Mary Katherine became the 2022-2023 recipient of GCU’s Sister Mary Catharine Sullivan Award for Global Education.
Soccer goalkeepers are agile, speedy and organized. Gianluca Cersosimo has these qualities as both a high-achieving finance major and as a goalkeeper for the Georgian Court University men’s soccer team.
The competitive national Gilman Scholarship Program gives high-achieving college students of limited financial means the opportunity to study abroad. Receiving a Gilman grant was only one challenge Hannah Koutishian ’22, a nursing major, would meet to fulfill her international study goals—but she persevered.
Eight Georgian Court nursing students went to Ghana in January hoping to make a difference in people’s lives. And they did, using their training to provide malaria testing/treatment, wound care, and blood pressure checks to more than 850 Ghanaians, as well as attending to two births. The people being served made a difference in the students’ lives, too.
Hanna Thrainsdottir ’22, a Georgian Court University women’s basketball forward, will receive a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship for the 2022–2023 academic year.
Brianna Barbarise’s upcoming two-week study abroad experience is a story of firsts. The first in her family to attend a four-year college, the Georgian Court senior, a double major in education and psychology, will travel internationally for the first time to Ecuador in January. Brianna’s trip is possible because of a Georgian Court award, the Sister Mary Catharine Sullivan Award for Global Education.
Global diversity is a big deal in Lakewood, New Jersey, home to Georgian Court University and thousands of families connected by their Mexican-American or Orthodox Jewish heritage.
Landry Cheta, a biology major from England, talks about being an international student at Georgian Court University.
The winner of the Georgian Court University Global Education Photo Contest, highlighting students’ global experiences, was announced November 19 during a Global Exhibit/Reception and Study Abroad Student Panel in GCU’s Sister Mary Joseph Cunningham Library.
