Fulbright Fellowships

Michael Galperin ’16 (Warminster, Pa.) and Camila Moscoso ’16 (Falls Church, Va.) will teach English to children in South Korea and Venezuela through Fulbright Fellowships.

The U.S. Fulbright Student Program provides funds for study/research projects or for English teaching assistant programs.

The trip is a homecoming of sorts for Moscoso, a double major in biology and international affairs and Posse Scholar. Her mother is from Venezuela, and she took frequent visits there as a child to see her grandparents. She hasn’t been back since her extended family emigrated to the U.S. years ago.

Galperin is looking to do more than teach English in South Korea. His mother worked as a gastroenterologist in the Soviet Union before she and her husband emigrated to the U.S. “So that’s always interested me,” he says. “But also cardiology.”

A biology and French double major, Galperin is hoping to go to medical school and work as a doctor in a French-speaking country such as Madagascar or Morocco.