Five county residents selected as Fulbright scholars

Five college students from Chester County are among the more than 1,400 American students and scholars who are studying, lecturing, and conducting research abroad this school year as part of the Fulbright Program.

These five academically talented individuals were selected from an applicant pool of more than 5,000 for this school year, said an official with the Fulbright Program. Three of them are working in Germany - Liesel Tarquini, of West Chester and The New School in New York City, is specializing in literature, while Katharine Bente, from Landenberg and Kenyon College in Ohio, and Kimberly Freeman, from Kennett Square and Denison University in Ohio, are both specializing in English as a foreign language.

Rounding out the county's Fulbright Program participants are Rosemary Moran, from West Chester and the University of Scranton, who specializes in English as a foreign language and is working in South Korea, and Michael Rock, from Unionville and Bryn Mawr College, who is in Malaysia working in economics.

   Will Hobson