Former DIS Students Awarded Fellowships

Two Grinnell graduating seniors have received prestigious post-graduate fellowships, based in part on work they completed while at DIS.

August 17, 2010

Filippos Rodger Tsakiris won a Watson Fellowship, allowing him to travel the world for a year, partially based on training/knowledge he received on a DIS trip to the island of Samsø. Winnon Brunson received a Fulbright Scholarship to return to Denmark next year to study public health, an interest sparked in part by his DIS semester.

“These two awards are testament to the academic rigor of the DIS program, and they deserve to be publicized by DIS as emblems of what students can accomplish based on the work they do in Denmark”, says David Harrison, Grinnell, David Harrison is the Director of Grinnell's Center for International Studies.