It's another Fulbright for SAU.
The ninth Fulbright Scholar in the past 12 years at St. Ambrose, Robyn Kincaide '16, used to call Greenfield, Iowa, (pop. 2,000) home. Now, Kincaide reserves that title for South Korea, where she is spending the year teaching English to high school students.
The May graduate (summa cum laude, with a degree in international studies and political science) spent five months preparing her application for the highly competitive national grant program, assisted by St. Ambrose Fulbright Adviser Barbara Pitz, PhD.
A busy student by anyone's standards, Kincaide worked in Student Affairs her entire four years at SAU, was a peer mentor in her junior year, and did one-on-one and small-group tutoring. And all of this, she did while pursuing a double major. A semester studying abroad whetted Kincaide's appetite for more travel and international exploration.
It was her adviser, Duk Kim, PhD, a native of South Korea, who interested Kincaide in pursuing a Fulbright specifically in South Korea. Kim's mother lives five minutes from the university where Kincaide received her Fulbright orientation.
"I'll be shoved out of my comfort zone," admitted Kincaide during a pre-departure interview. But her smile revealed a strong sense of adventure and excitement about her year in "the outside world."
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