International education and travel related links, photos, quotes and pieces of interest.
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People Who Studied Abroad #621:
Barton Gellman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
From:
United States
Studied:
He earned a master’s degree in politics from University College, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) as a Rhodes Scholar.
Source: Washington Post
People Who Studied Abroad #575:
Sari Horwitz, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist
From:
United States
Studied:
She has a master’s degree in politics, philosophy and economics from the University of Oxford (United Kingdom).
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People Who Studied Abroad #572:
Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
From:
Australia
Studied:
She won the Greg Shackleton Memorial Scholarship, which allowed her to complete a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University (United States) in 1983. She was also awarded a fellowship at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2006.
People Who Studied Abroad #498:
Charles Krauthammer, political commentator and columnist
From:
Born in the United States, raised in Canada
Studied:
He received his BA degree in political science and economics from McGill University (Canada) in 1970. He received a Commonwealth Scholarship to study politics at Balliol College, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) then enrolled at Harvard Medical School (United States), where he received his MD in 1975.
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![People Who Studied Abroad #411:John Updike, author
From:
United States
Studied:
After graduating from Harvard in 1954, he attended the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom).
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People Who Studied Abroad #411:
John Updike, author
From:
United States
Studied:
After graduating from Harvard in 1954, he attended the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom).
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People Who Studied Abroad #384:
Carol Shields, author and Pulitzer Prize winner
From:
United States
Studied:
In her junior year of college (1955-56), she received a United Nations scholarship, which helped her to study at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom). While studying abroad, she traveled to Scotland and met her future husband, who was an engineering student from Canada. They married in 1957 and moved to Canada, where she attended the University of Ottawa and received her MA in 1975.
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People Who Studied Abroad #382:
Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
From:
United States
Studied:
After graduating from Harvard, he received a Rhodes scholarship and studied law at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. After Oxford, he studied Arabic in Egypt for the 1983-84 academic year.
![People Who Studied Abroad #354:Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate of the United States
From:
United States
Studied:
After graduating from Yale, he earned a B. Litt. as a Rhodes Scholar at New College, University of Oxford in 1930. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Italy.
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People Who Studied Abroad #354:
Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate of the United States
From:
United States
Studied:
After graduating from Yale, he earned a B. Litt. as a Rhodes Scholar at New College, University of Oxford in 1930. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Italy.
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People Who Studied Abroad #342:
George Will, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and commentator
From:
United States
Studied:
He studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Magdalen College, University of Oxford (United Kingdom) between his B.A. at Trinity College (United States) and his master’s degree and PhD at Princeton University (United States).
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People Who Studied Abroad #279:
Anthony Shadid, journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
From:
United States
Studied:
He received a fellowship to study Arabic at American University in Cairo in 1991-92, which was instrumental in his career as a foreign correspondent based in the Middle East.
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People Who Studied Abroad #33:
Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
From:
United States
Studied:
Attended St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship, earning an M.Phil. in Middle Eastern Studies.
People Who Studied Abroad #30:
Rita Dove, Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner
From:
United States
Studied:
She studied at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship after graduating from Miami University.
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People Who Studied Abroad #14:
Roger Ebert, film critic
From:
United States
Studied:
Received a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study English Literature at the University of Cape Town (South Africa).
You can see the influence of Ebert’s experience in Cape Town on his reviews of South African-themed films like District 9 and Invictus.
