francophone studies. She will spend her Fulbright year working with Guy Berchem at the Luxembourg Institute of Health, researching less-invasive biopsy techniques for patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. At Davidson, Belk Scholar Bennett has been researching the effects of electronic cigarette vapor on rat lung cells.
“I am looking forward to combining my love of French and biology while learning more about the beautiful country and people of Luxembourg,” she said.
Bennett also sings in the Davidson College Chorale, serves as volunteer coordinator for the Free Clinic of Our Towns, and studied abroad in France.
Mustafa Abid will use his Fulbright research grant to extend research he
began last summer in Jordan, analyzing how the influx of Syrian refugees impacts the quality of access to medical care for non-Syrian r
efugees. Specifically, he’ll use patient exit interviews to better understand how patients select NGO clinics and ways capacity building interventions can streamline information and patient referrals.
“Life in Amman centers on the relationships you build,” Abid said. “I can’t wait to get back and re-kindle relationships from last summer and build new ones. And, of course, I can’t wait to be reunited with my favorite cafés and the food they serve.”
Abid, a Belk Scholar, is a political science major with a minor in Arab Studies. Following his Fulbright year, he will attend Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Jessie Li received a Fulbright ETA and will travel to Taiwan to teach, continuing and 
deepening her work in education in Asia.
“My interest in education stems from my passions for teaching and for the English language,” she said. “I’ve taught through Breakthrough Collaborative and other programs in Hong Kong and China, and I’m excited to expand and deepen my teaching experience in Asia through the Fulbright in Taiwan.”
A native of State College, Pa., Li is a Belk Scholar and English major who loves writing and journalism. She wrote a novella for her English honors thesis, received the Patricia Cornwell Creative Writing Scholarship and served as founder and editor-in- chief of Her Campus Davidson, an online women’s magazine.
The Fulbright Program operates in more than 155 countries worldwide and has provided approximately 325,000 participants with the opportunity to study, teach or conduct research abroad. Approximately 8,000 grants are awarded annually.
The program was established by the U.S. Congress in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. It is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, which works with private non-profit organizations in the United States and with U.S. embassies and binational Fulbright commissions abroad to administer the program.
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