Holy Cross Student Earns Prestigious Fulbright Award

WORCESTER, Mass. – Victoria Rodrigue, a senior at the College of the Holy Cross, has received a Fulbright grant to work and study in Austria.

A music major with a German minor from Bolton, Conn., Rodrigue will research and study musicology at the University of Vienna as well as teach part time at a local high school.

Rodrigue has also been accepted to the Ph.D. program in musicology at the University of Michigan, which she will attend in the fall of 2008. Last year, Rodrigue spent the summer in Germany studying the country’s language and music culture after receiving a scholarship from the DAAD, the German Government’s Academic Exchange Service.

At Holy Cross, Rodrigue is a principal flutist in the Holy Cross Chamber Orchestra and helped found the executive board for the Orchestra in 2004. She is on the Student Advisory Committee for the music department, and a member of Alpha Sigma Nu, German Club, and Purple Key Society. She is also a student worker in the music department office. She has been a Dana Scholar for the last three academic years, an honor given to students of outstanding academic ability, strong character and leadership.

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.