Rutland Resident, University of Vermont Student William Liew Wins Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship

BURLINGTON, VT (06/15/2010)(readMedia)-- William Liew, a member of the University of Vermont Class of 2012, was awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship to study abroad at Kansai Gaidai University in Japan during the 2010-2011 academic year. Liew is an Honors College student and an Asian Studies major in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Liew 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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