Matthew Semino of Winthrop, Mass., who received a bachelor's degree in policy analysis and management from Cornell this May, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar. Semino, who is one of approximately 2,000 U.S. grantees who will travel abroad during the upcoming academic year under a Fulbright Scholarship, will conduct economic research in Singapore.
The Fulbright program enables scholars to study or perform research in foreign countries, usually for a period of one academic year. Costs of travel, maintenance, tuition and health insurance are covered jointly by the U.S. government and the host country. The U.S. Information Agency administers the program with cooperation from 130 countries around the world. It was created through legislation sponsored by then-Sen. J. William Fulbright in 1946.
Cornell's participation in the Fulbright program is managed by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
Semino will leave in August to study for nine months at the National University of Singapore.
"I will examine the current financial crisis in Southeast Asia and its effect on government policy in Singapore," he said recently.
This will not be Semino's first trip to the region. For three months last summer he taught English at Shanghai Middle School under the sponsorship of the Harvard Institute for International Development's "WorldTeach" service-learning program.
After completing the Fulbright Scholarship, Semino will attend the Columbia University School of Law.
As an undergraduate at Cornell, Semino won numerous honors, including the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship in 1997. In 1996, he had a summer internship with the American Bar Association in Washington, D.C.
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