Thanks to your generosity via the annual THANKSGIVING FUND DRIVE, the Fulbright Alumni Association awarded grants this year to these Belgian students for 2011-12:

• Mr. Julien Beurms, a graduate of the Mons Conservatory, is going to the New England Conservatory of Music for a diploma in piano performance;
• Ms. Laura Cools, a graduate of Sciences Po in Lille, will go to Columbia University to study human rights; Ms. Laura Cools also received the Deflandre Award
• Ms. Melissa Gotlieb, a graduate of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, is also at Columbia for a Master’s degree in law;
• Mr. Wouter Vanderheere, who  studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, went to Northwestern University for a Master’s degree in law;  and
• Mr. Olivier Verschelden, a graduate of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, will also be at Northwestern for a 12-month  Master’s program in business administration