Dwight D. Eisenhower/Conrad N. Hilton Scholarship
The Center for Global Education and the Eisenhower Institute are pleased to announce that three $2,000.00 scholarships will be awarded to Gettysburg College students who plan to study globally during the Fall 2024 semester.
The primary purpose of the Dwight D. Eisenhower/Conrad N. Hilton Scholarship is to help U.S. students study globally, thereby encouraging and assisting students who bring a strong international orientation to their studies; exhibit, through extracurricular activities, an interest and awareness of the role they can perform in bettering the world; and show through their career aspirations and corresponding curriculum choices, an appreciation of the role that international travel, global trade, and cross-cultural exchange can play in fostering international understanding and world peace.
The scholarship is for Gettysburg College juniors who are applying for global study during the Fall 2024 semester. Preferred applicants will have a GPA of 3.0 or higher, and can be from any academic discipline. Applicants are awarded on merit.
Recipients are required to submit, upon completion of their program, a blog post for the EI website, a presentation to students/faculty, or another project that can be used to promote the impact of global experiences. Your reflection or project should respond to one of these prompts:
1. How your experience relates to Gettysburg’s “enduring skills”
2. Compare and contrast something between host country and US (policies, values, urban planning, etc.)
3. Connect something you learned abroad with a class or classes you took at Gettysburg
Completed applications are due by 11:59 p.m. on Monday, March 25, 2024.
Applications should include:
- applicant’s academic transcript;
- an essay, not more than 1,000 words, that reflects on how your chosen global study experience will support your academic and professional goals, and how the program relates to the purpose of this scholarship;
- a letter of recommendation from a faculty member who has taught the candidate;
- a copy of a 10-15 page paper written by the student, preferably from a course in his or her major field of study
Transcripts and letters of recommendation can be emailed to ei@gettysburg.edu or paper copies may be sent to the EI office (campus box 2988.) Interviews are not required. However, the Grants Committee has the discretion to hold interviews if it desires to do so. If you have additional questions, please contact CGE at: cge@gettysburg.edu or call (717) 337-6866.
NOTE: Applicants who are receiving financial aid of other kinds from Gettysburg College or elsewhere should be aware that the awarding of an Eisenhower/Hilton scholarship may impact the overall financial aid package they currently receive. If you have additional questions about the scholarship, please contact the Center for Global Education at cge@gettysburg.edu or (717) 337-6866.
Spring 2024 Recipients
Georgia Kirkendall '26
Georgia is an English major with a writing concentration and Neuroscience minor. She has always been excited by the biological field, having volunteered at her local Yale New Haven Hospital before moving to the Baltimore area. Here she has been inspired by the psychological studies at Johns Hopkins and developed her love for English at Gettysburg College, becoming a member of the Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society. In Lancaster, England during the fall of 2024, Georgia’s aspiration is to strengthen her writing while simultaneously gaining perspective of how the Lancaster community approaches literature and other artistic studies. With the Hilton Scholarship, she will be able to research the cross-cultural implications of experience: comparing the U.S. nation of scientific advancement and an ever-present democratic ideal to that of a foreign nation where English writers have formed a backbone of cultural significance. Her final objective is to achieve a profession in English that acts as both a creative outlet and an example of how prominent the fusion is between the arts and the sciences internationally.
Andrew Luu '26
Andrew Luu is a rising junior double majoring in Chemistry and Mathematics. He is an international student from Vietnam and will study abroad at Lancaster University, United Kingdom during the Fall 2024 semester. After graduating from Gettysburg College, he wants to pursue a Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry where he will gain the expertise to help his homeland- the Mekong Delta- combat with the dire consequences of climate change, including salinity intrusion and land subsidence. Outside the classroom, he has worked as a Mathematics Peer Learning Associate (Math 353 and R Tutor) and General Chemistry Lab Teaching Assistant. His academic journey at Gettysburg College has been enriched by experiential learning programs from the Eisenhower Institute including Emerging Threats in National Security and Environmental Leadership. The Hilton Scholarship will allow him to explore Geophysical Science and Quantum Chemistry in England to further build his toolkit for tackling environmental degradation.
Thanh Vo '25
My name is Thanh. I’m a rising senior from Da Nang, Vietnam. I major in Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies (WGS) with Economics and French minors. I love going on walks, enjoying nature, dancing, singing, and reading. After college, I want to work for a grassroots feminist organization. Along with the invaluable knowledge and critical skills in WGS classes, I’ve been grateful to be part of amazing learning trips with the Center for Public Service, whether it is the bubbling of grassroots activism in the street arts of Puerto Rico, or the different feminist change-making platforms in Morocco, or how intersectionality plays out in an immigration shelter in Tucson, Arizona. I also learned about the courageous local histories during Freedom Summer in 1964 during the Insides Civil Rights trip with the Eisenhower Institute. All these experiences have shaped how I see the world and made me realize how much I care about social justice. My study abroad program in Cameroon this fall will be an even more immersive form of these community-based learning experiences that I love. I can’t wait to explore the discourse around “development” in the context of Global North/South dynamics, capitalism, and colonization.