{"id":66842,"date":"2019-04-18T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=66842"},"modified":"2023-08-30T21:08:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T01:08:02","slug":"jennifer-eliezer-wheelock18-wins-fulbright-award-will-teach-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2019\/jennifer-eliezer-wheelock18-wins-fulbright-award-will-teach-in-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum Receives Fulbright Student Program Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin news-block-editorial-leadin has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Alumni news<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlum Receives Fulbright Student Program Award \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">Jennifer Eliezer (Wheelock&#8217;18) will teach post-secondary students in rural Costa Rica<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar js-block-editorial-metabar news-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">April 18, 2019<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul data-credit-type=\"By\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/authors\/grace-hagerty\/\">Grace Hagerty<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img src=\"\/wheelock\/files\/2019\/04\/Jennifer-Eliezer-2-518x636-244x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43287\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer&nbsp;Eliezer (COM\u201814 , Wheelock\u201818) is a recipient of a&nbsp;Fulbright U.S. Student Program&nbsp;award. She will be putting her master&#8217;s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) to use as an English teaching assistant. Eliezer will be teaching post-secondary students in rural Costa Rica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Through genuine mentorship and support from BU Wheelock faculty I gained the same confidence I have spent my career so far instilling in my own students,&#8221; says Eliezer. &#8220;I was able to harness my strengths and recognize the value I can bring to a program like Fulbright.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faculty member Kate Frankel was Eliezer&#8217;s graduate advisor at BU Wheelock. &#8220;The Fulbright award is a wonderful opportunity for others to have the opportunity to know and learn alongside Jennifer, just as many of us at BU have done over the past several years. I look forward to following her adventures\u2014both in Costa Rica as a Fulbright recipient and beyond,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am very glad that Fulbright recognized Jennifer for the special person that she is, and the amazing educator she will be,&#8221; says Yasuko Kanno, chair of the Language &amp; Literacy Education Department. &#8220;Jennifer Eliezer has so much to offer to this world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer&nbsp;Eliezer (COM\u201814 , Wheelock\u201818) is a recipient of a&nbsp;Fulbright U.S. Student Program&nbsp;award. She will be putting her master&#8217;s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) to use as an English teaching assistant. 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