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Barbara K. Laskin
June 19, 2003
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WISCONSIN NATIVE AWARDED THOMAS R. PICKERING UNDERGRADUATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS FELLOWSHIP

St. Paul, MN - Tricia B. Gonwa, a 2001 Elkhorn, Wis., Area High School graduate and current international studies major at Macalester College, has been awarded the Thomas R. Pickering Undergraduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Gonwa is the daughter of Dr. William and Elizabeth Gonwa of Elkhorn, Wis.

The fellowship program is funded by the United States Department of State and administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The program seeks to recruit talented and outstanding students from all ethnic, racial and social backgrounds who are involved in academic programs relevant to international affairs, political and economic analysis, administration, management, and science policy. In addition, these students have expressed an interest in pursuing a Foreign Service career in the U.S. Department of State and are dedicated to representing America's interests abroad.

The fellowship will pay for Gonwa's junior and senior years at Macalester and one year at an Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs-sanctioned graduate school. She is one of twenty students chosen from around the country this year to participate in the program.
Gonwa is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and Slovak and has already gone to school in Slovakia and Panama. She feels Macalester's values of academic excellence, internationalism, diversity, and a commitment to service parallel those of the Pickering Program.
Macalester College, founded in 1874, is a national liberal arts college with a full-time enrollment of 1,795 students. Macalester is nationally recognized for its long-standing commitment to academic excellence, internationalism, diversity, and service to society.