A student and two professors from Calvin College will travel the world next school year as Fulbright Scholars.  The three received the awards from the U.S. State Department.
The scholars are:

- Calvin senior Eric Bratt, who will graduate in May.  Bratt will travel to the Chinese region of Manchuria to study and research the last speakers of the Manchu language.

- Janel Curry, now a two-time Fulbright winner, is the dean for research and scholarship at Calvin.  The geographer will travel to Hong Kong next spring to help shift universities there from three-year to four-year undergraduate programs.  In a statement, Curry said “a cheer went up in our household when I got the news.”   

Janel Curry

- David Hoekema, a professor of philsophy, will make his fifth visit to Africa to teach and research political philosophy in Kenya.  Hoeksema said in a statement that the trip “will enable me to lend assistance to Daystar University, a key partner of Calvin’s, in the task of preparing Christian leaders for a global church.”

David Hoekema

The Center for International Exchange of Scholars, which administers the Fulbright program, describes it as the nation’s “flagship academic exchange effort.”