{"id":61103,"date":"2013-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-junior-wins-prestigious-fulbright-to-study-for-summer-in-england\/"},"modified":"2013-05-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T00:00:00","slug":"uri-junior-wins-prestigious-fulbright-to-study-for-summer-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/uri-junior-wins-prestigious-fulbright-to-study-for-summer-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 junior wins prestigious Fulbright to study for summer in England"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tPawtucket resident hopes to become teacher<\/p>\n

KINGSTON, RI \u2013 May 14, 2013 \u2013 In a few weeks, Alyssa Mason will board a plane and fly to England to spend a month at a university polishing her writing skills. Oh, and she might eat some shepherd\u2019s pie, too.<\/p>\n


\nThe trip is a dream come true for the 21-year-old 溏心vlog免费B站 junior, who just won a prestigious Fulbright award to study at the Nottingham Trent University Summer Institute.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI still can\u2019t believe it\u2019s real,\u201d says Mason. \u201cBeing part of a culture that\u2019s different from my own is really exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nMason is 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s first-ever participant in the Fulbright UK Summer Institute, which offers academic and cultural summer programs to students with at least two years remaining of undergraduate study.<\/p>\n


\n\tThat honor should come as no surprise. Mason\u2019s life is full of \u201cfirsts.\u201d She is the first in her family to attend a four-year college, and she\u2019ll be the first to study overseas. If all goes as planned with her studies, she\u2019ll be the first in her family to work as a teacher.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI like to challenge myself,\u201d she says. \u201cI have goals I want to achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tGrowing up in Pawtucket Mason knew early on that she wanted to better her life. She excelled at Blackstone Academy Charter School, but didn\u2019t know how she would pay for college.<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Talent Development Program set her on her way. The program provides financial and academic support to 溏心vlog免费B站 students from economically stressed backgrounds. Mason was admitted into the program in 2010, the year she enrolled at 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n


\n\tHer hard work has paid off. She\u2019s a member of the Honors Program and has a grade-point average of 3.83. For her honors project, she and another student, Maggie Vidal, created a blog, Little Green Blog, about how to protect Mother Earth. Mason wrote many of the posts.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt was a great experience,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was a true independent study. It was so gratifying.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tIn between her studies, she found time to work at two jobs. As student director of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Mentor-Tutor Internship Program, she hooks students up with at-risk children and teens in Rhode Island schools. She also works as a manager at Rhody Market in Hope Commons. And one day a month she volunteers at the Breakthrough Collaborative Saturday Program at Providence\u2019s Wheeler School, providing academic help to middle school students around the state.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThat volunteer job has given me a lot of hands-on experience,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s really important if you\u2019re going to be a teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tIn Nottingham, she\u2019ll join other college students from throughout the world. Besides taking writing classes, she\u2019ll learn about the city\u2019s history, volunteer in the community, and participate in a slew of social events. Her adventure begins June 26.<\/p>\n


\n\tNext year, in the spring of 2014, Mason hopes to return to England, this time at the University of East Anglia in Norwich through a program offered by 溏心vlog免费B站. Mason is taking a fifth academic year at 溏心vlog免费B站 and plans to graduate in 2015, with a bachelor\u2019s degree in English and secondary education. Her minor is writing and rhetoric.<\/p>\n


\nAfter 溏心vlog免费B站, she plans to get her master\u2019s degree in education or education administration. Some day, she would like to serve on the Rhode Island Board of Education. With her drive, she probably will. \u201cIf I set my mind on something,\u201d she says, \u201cI do it.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nApplicants for the summer Fulbright were selected for their leadership qualities and initiative, academic ability and character, as well as their interest in the United Kingdom and its culture. <\/p>\n


\nThe application process included a lengthy written application and a 20-minute phone interview with the executive director of the UK Fulbright Commission and an external reviewer. <\/p>\n


\nMason is the third 溏心vlog免费B站 student to win a Fulbright this spring. Eily Cournoyer, of Portsmouth, won a Fulbright scholarship to study cancer at the graduate level in England. Daniel Belbey, of Narragansett, was awarded a Fulbright to study in Germany.<\/p>\n


\n\tPictured above: Alyssa Mason, 21, of Pawtucket, a 溏心vlog免费B站 junior who won a Fulbright award to study this summer in England.<\/p>\n


\n\tPhoto by Michael Salerno Photography<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pawtucket resident hopes to become teacher KINGSTON, RI \u2013 May 14, 2013 \u2013 In a few weeks, Alyssa Mason will board a plane and fly to England to spend a month at a university polishing her writing skills. Oh, and she might eat some shepherd\u2019s pie, too. The trip is a dream come true […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}