The Honors College is proud to congratulate CJ Kwan, the first FAU student to be awarded the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. The Gilman Scholarship is awarded to undergraduate students who seek to study abroad and it encourages students to study fields such as the sciences and engineering.

CJ is currently utilizing this award in Valparaíso, Chile for the Fall 2010 semester to study at The Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, with classes entirely in Spanish in Microbiology, Ecology, and Latin American and Chilean Literature (from 1970's to contemporary). CJ will also do an internship shadowing doctors at a local clinic.

Along with the intense coursework, CJ is also enjoying the Mediterranean climate and the culture of this major seaport city, which was recognized as a World Heritage site in 2003. CJ has the opportunity to travel, as seen from the photograph displaying FAU pride in the Andes mountains. As a complement to a passion in the sciences, CJ also enjoys a love of Hispanic literature, especially Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, both Chilean poets, and plans on visiting their hometowns "to share a personal, unpublished experience with them that I will not find on any bookshelf in the world."

If you are interested in studying abroad, please read more details at the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship website.

Updated 8/17/10