Holy Cross Student Earns Prestigious Fulbright Award

WORCESTER, Mass. – Denise Riordan, a senior at the College of the Holy Cross, has received a Fulbright grant to work and study in Spain.

A Spanish major with a concentration in Latin American and Latino Studies from Rutland, Vt., Riordan will be teaching English in Spain.

Riordan has also been accepted to the master’s program in Spanish at Middlebury College. She will begin the program this summer, and resume her studies in The C.V. Starr Middlebury College School in Spain, Sede Prim, after completing her Fulbright.

At Holy Cross, Riordan is a member of Sigma Delta Pi (National Spanish Honor Society), a tutor at the Spanish Writer’s Workshop, and a 7th grade Spanish teacher at the Nativity School.

Each year about 1,000 college students are awarded grants through the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship program in international educational exchange. Fulbright grants are made to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching in elementary and secondary schools. Since the program’s inception in 1946, more than 250,000 participants — chosen for their leadership potential — have had the opportunity to observe each other’s political, economic and cultural institutions.