Lawrence Today magazine, Summer 2006
Ben Hane, ’06, has been named a 2006-07
Fulbright Scholar by the J.
William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. The fellowship will provide him
a ten-month
opportunity to teach English at the high school and vocational school level
somewhere in Germany beginning this September.
“Being a teaching assistant abroad will be great experience,” says
Hane, who majored in both German and history. “I will have an opportunity
to live in Germany for close to a year, improving my language skills all the
time
and getting to know the culture even more.”
While Hane knows he will be heading to Germany, the exact location and school
are still to be determined. He indicated a preference to teach in the state
of Saxony in the former East Germany or somewhere in Hesse or Lower Saxony,
but the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. State Department,
which oversees the Fulbright program, can assign him to a school anywhere in
the country.
Hane spent the 2004 Fall Term on the Institute for the International Education
of Students study-abroad program in Freiburg, Germany. In addition, he was
one of seven students who spent this year’s Spring Break recess in Berlin,
as part of the German department’s course Berlin: Experiencing a Great
City.
Since its founding in 1946, the Fulbright Program has become the U.S. government’s
premier scholarship program and has accorded more than 265,000 American students,
artists, and other professionals opportunities for study, research, and international
competence in more than 150 countries. Fulbright alumni have become heads of
state, judges, ambassadors, CEOs, university presidents, professors, and teachers.
Thirty-five Fulbright recipients have gone on to
earn Nobel Prizes.