DFLL Student Grace Benton selected as Clinton Scholar
Student Achievement
CAS News
November 13, 2009
We are delighted with the news that Grace Benton, International Studies major and Honors Program student, has been selected as UAB's first Clinton Scholar for a semester's study at the American University in Dubai. Only 10 US students are selected nationally to be named Clinton scholars. Grace will be taking an Arabic language course, a Middle East Political Science course, and a course in Islamic Studies. We wish her the best!
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