Miner receives second Fulbright Scholarship

For the second time in four years, Cherie Miner ‘22 has earned a Fulbright Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Miner, a statistical programmer at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, received a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue a Master of Public Health-Health Systems Administration and Global Health Leadership at the University of Haifa, a public research university in Haifa, Israel. In 2021, the psychology major and French minor earned a Fulbright Canada-Mitacs Globalink Research Internship, which allows U.S. students to conduct advanced research in Canada. With in-person research prevented by the COVID-19 pandemic, she remotely studied somatic, holistic and leisure therapy modes through l’Université de Moncton Faculty of Health Sciences and Community Services for four months.

Established in 1946, the Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange initiative. The program, which operates in more than 160 countries, is funded through an annual appropriation made by Congress and participating governments, host institutions corporations and foundations around the world.