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Bolivar Grad Wins Fulbright Award
Steve Mahometano of Bolivar is one of eleven UT-Knoxville students who have been offered Fulbright scholarships for the 2024-25 academic year. Four students were named alternates. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is one of the most prestigious international exchange programs in the world. Established in 1946, it offers opportunities to passionate and accomplished graduating college seniors, graduate students and young professionals in partnership with more than 140 countries worldwide. The program provides awards to about 8,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists and professionals each year, giving them the opportunity to expand their perspectives through academic and professional advancement and cross-cultural dialogue. As they carry out their grant-funded work, students work with, live with and learn from the people of their assigned host country. Mahometano graduated in 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in honors neuroscience and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. He will be traveling to Taiwan to work as an English teaching assistant. “As a first-generation immigrant from Manila, Philippines, I am grateful to have benefited from language-cultural programs such as the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program before immigrating to the U.S. as a child,” said Mahometano. “I am pursuing the Taiwan ETA Program because it furthers my goal of refining my interdisciplinary and multicultural competencies and because I want to engage with neuroscience, psychology and medicine in a global context.”
Today Indianapolis’ Purdue marks monumental day with groundbreaking of urban extension
INDIANAPOLIS — Purdue University is launching its new extension in Indianapolis on July 1, with the opening of Purdue University in Indianapolis. The comprehensive urban campus is Purdue’s portion of the former Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), a 55-year collaboration between Purdue and Indiana University in the state’s capital city that has formally ended. Purdue University in Indianapolis will create an innovative, STEM-based collegiate experience by connecting future-ready Purdue students and faculty in Indianapolis to local businesses to accelerate Indiana’s STEM pipeline and tech ecosystem, fueling impact for central Indiana and the world.
Rossville state champion wrestler Noah Weaver commits to Purdue
WEST LAFAYETTE — Keeping a quiet profile and staying modest about accomplishments is the way incoming senior Rossville wrestler Noah Weaver was raised. And while Weaver maintains his unassuming posture, the captain put Hornets' wrestling on the map in 2024. Weaver took his talent to unprecedented heights, going 50-0...
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