Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Two Kutztown University students have been named as award recipients representing KU's Honors Program during this summer's Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) Honors Summer Study Abroad Program. Hosted by Bloomsburg University, junior anthropology major Kierra MacLeod and junior communication design major Morgan Nadin will visit various countries throughout Central Europe. During this year's trip, honors students from throughout the State System will be based at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and visit sites in Poland, Budapest and the Czech Republic. Students will take classes in "The European Jewish Experience: A Sociocultural Perspective," "The History of Architecture" and "Introduction to Central and Eastern Europe." The summer 2018 Honors Study Abroad Trip was to Austria and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Students are selected for the PASSHE Summer Honors Study Abroad Program through a competitive application process every spring. Each student receives a full scholarship covering the cost of tuition, room and board, travel and required field trips to the selected destination that year. To be eligible to apply, a participant must be an undergraduate student at a PASSHE university and a member in good standing of the nominating institution's Honors Program. He or she must also have completed a minimum of 30 credits of coursework at a PASSHE school and must be returning to the nominating university the following fall.

A passion for art took Rebecca Van Horn '15 halfway around the world. The Kutztown University history major, with a double minor in English literature and art history, had been studying the work of French artist Paul C?zanne, and decided to apply to a study abroad program in Aix-en-Provence, France, his hometown, for the spring 2014 semester. Two scholarships made her dream come true.

Kutztown University junior Chloe Swope has received the Danzer Fellowship to study abroad at Reutlingen University in Germany. The fellowship, which is funded through the Danzer Foundation, awards the recipient a $3,000 tuition scholarship, plus 50% of additional school costs, and 4,000 euros for room and board, books and other living expenses.