FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RELEASE NO. 29-08

CADETS EARN FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIPS – April 24, 2008

WEST POINT, N.Y. – Senior cadets Nate Bastian and Khalil Tawil were named Fulbright scholars for the 2008-2009 academic year this month.

They are the seventh and eighth cadets to earn a Fulbright since the academy began competing during the 2004-2005 academic year.

Bastian, 21, of Danville, Pa., will pursue a master’s degree at the Universiteit Maastricht in Maastricht, Holland beginning Sept. 2, 2008.

The Engineering Management major with a concentration in Electrical Engineering will pursue a master’s in Econometrics and Operations Research with a specialization in Operations Research. Bastian will serve in the Medical Service Corps after post-graduate schooling. After completing his Basic Officer Leadership Courses, Bastian plans to attend flight school at Fort Rucker, Ala., to be an Aeromedical Evacuation Pilot.

Tawil, 21, of Gilbert, Ariz., will work toward a master’s degree in Economics in International Development next year at a university in the Middle East.

The Economics major, and future Infantry officer, studied abroad in the Middle East his junior year and participated in Operation Crossroads Africa last summer where he helped build a school in The Gambia in West Africa.

The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by then Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State.

Currently, the Fulbright Program operates in over 155 countries worldwide.