{"id":589,"date":"2010-05-24T15:25:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T22:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=589"},"modified":"2010-05-24T15:25:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T22:25:31","slug":"rakhi-voria-11-named-a-rotary-ambassadorial-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2010\/05\/24\/rakhi-voria-11-named-a-rotary-ambassadorial-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Two CC Students Named Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado College students Rachel San Luis \u201910 and Rakhi Voria \u201911 have been named Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars. San Luis graduated <em>cum laude<\/em> as an English\/film studies\u00a0major and\u00a0Spanish minor; Voria is an international political economy major and journalism minor.<\/p>\n<p>The Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, awarded by The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, provides a $26,000 grant for a year of study in any university in the world outside the United States. San Luis will spend a year at the Denver School of Science and Technology as a\u00a0Colorado College Public Interest Fellow before using the Rotary scholarship to study filmmaking abroad. She hopes to study in Prague, Madrid, Barcelona, Vancouver, or Auckland, N.Z. Voria\u00a0plans to use the grant to pursue a degree in international development at Oxford, Cambridge, or the London School of Economics after she graduates.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship program is to further international understanding and relations among people of different countries and geographical areas. The program sponsors academic year\u00a0scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for qualified professionals pursuing vocational studies. Upon returning home, scholars share with Rotarians and others the experiences that led to a greater understanding of their host country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado College students Rachel San Luis \u201910 and Rakhi Voria \u201911 have been named Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars. San Luis graduated cum laude as an English\/film studies\u00a0major and\u00a0Spanish minor; Voria is an international political economy major and journalism minor. The Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, awarded by The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, provides a $26,000 grant for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2010\/05\/24\/rakhi-voria-11-named-a-rotary-ambassadorial-scholar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two CC Students Named Rotary Ambassadorial Scholars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[356,358,393],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kudos","tag-rachel-san-luis","tag-rakhi-voria","tag-scholarships","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}