Two Pacific Students Awarded US Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship To Study Abroad

Pacific University is pleased to announce that Passina Abe, a junior majoring in Biology, and Meriya Sanchez, a senior majoring in Integrated Media, have been awarded the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad in Fall Semester 2016.

Abe will use her scholarship to study at Kansai Gaidai University in Japan, Pacific’s longest standing exchange partner. Sanchez will study at the University of Kerala in India on a program for which she was granted special approval to participate by Pacific’s undergraduate Study Abroad Committee.

Abe and Sanchez are among just 1,150 American undergraduate students from 377 colleges and universities across the United States selected to receive the Gilman International Scholarship, which is sponsored by the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. 

Gilman scholars receive up to $5,000 to apply towards their study abroad or internship program costs. The program aims to diversify the students who study and intern abroad and the countries and regions where they go. In order to be considered for the scholarship students must be receiving a Federal Pell Grant and earning academic credit while abroad.