IU student named Gilman Scholar

Ebony Jordan, an Indiana University senior from the Bloomington campus, received a $3,500 award from the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship program to pursue studies overseas. Ebony, with majors in both Biology and Spanish, will be studying in the Dominican Republic. For the spring semester, the Gilman scholarship program received 940 applications and awarded 273 scholarships.

The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the Institute of International Education. Online applications are available for the fall 2006/academic year 2006-2007 cycle of the Gilman scholarship, and the deadline is April 4, 2006. For more information, visit the Gilman Program website at http://www.iie.org/gilman. Information about study abroad at IU is available through the Office of Overseas Study located in Franklin Hall 303 and on the web at http://www.indiana.edu/~overseas. Contact the office by phone at 812-855-9304.