MANHATTAN — Six Kansas State University students have been awarded the nationally competitive Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship for international study opportunities.
The selected students are Hannah Macke, senior in agribusiness, Baileyville; Kadin Waterman, sophomore in park management and conservation, Fontana; Thomas Worstell, graduate student in architecture, Blue Springs, Missouri; and Richard Charlton, junior in wildlife and outdoor enterprise management, Tyner, North Carolina. Two other recipients declined to be identified.
The Gilman scholarship provides up to $5,000 to help U.S. undergraduate students at two-year or four-year colleges or universities participate in study abroad programs worldwide. Gilman scholarships are congressionally funded, and they were established by the International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000.