January 21, 2003

BOISE STATE STUDENT RECEIVES TRAVEL AWARD

Boise State student Andrea Boisse, of Boise, has received the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. Boisse received a $5,000 award to study in Turin, Italy, for spring 2003. Boisse is studying abroad through the University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC).

There were a total of 667 applications for the 172 awards given, making this a very competitive award.

The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship (www.iie.org/gilman) is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is administered by the Institute of International Education. The program provides students with limited financial means the opportunity to participate in study abroad opportunities worldwide.

The program provides awards of up to $5,000 for U.S. citizen undergraduate students at two- and four-year institutions to pursue country-based semester or academic-yearlong study opportunities abroad. To be eligible students must be receiving a Federal Pell Grant at the time of application and cannot be studying abroad in a country currently under a U.S. Department of State Travel Warning or in Cuba.

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Corrine Henke

Studies Abroad/National Student Exchange

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Kathleen Craven

communications and marketing

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