Bloomington Resident and University of Vermont Student, Kathleen Hartin, Wins Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship

BURLINGTON, VT (06/15/2010)(readMedia)-- Kathleen Hartin, a member of the University of Vermont Class of 2012, was awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship to study in Tanzania for the fall 2010 semester. Hartin is an Honors College student and an environmental studies major in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Hartin is one of six UVM students to receive Gilman Scholarships this year. UVM students received a total of $36,000 in study abroad scholarship money from the Gilman awards.

The Gilman was established by the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000; it provides awards that allow American undergraduate students who receive federal Pell Grant funding at a two-year or four-year college or university to participate in study abroad programs worldwide. The Gilman program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the Institute of International Education.

Chartered in 1791, UVM was the first college or university in the United States that did not give preference to a religious sect in its charter and the first to allow women to join Phi Beta Kappa. A small, comprehensive university, it blends the academic heritage of a private university with service missions in the land grant tradition.

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