The Honour Roll Each semester students come to Australia for an amazing study abroad experience which includes immersing oneself in Aus-tralian Culture, travelling around Australia and neighbouring countries, putting your-self outside your comfort zone and really broadening your horizons in all aspects of your life. One thing many students say about their experiences while studying abroad is that they find it hard to balance studies and everything else a completely new environment has to offer. Many stu-dents perform very well during their study abroad experience so we would like to congratulate all students on a great se-mester whether it be that you have grown academically, personally or overcome challenges. In particular we’d like to extend a HUGE congratulations to the students who have made the Honour Roll attaining an average of 75 or greater.

Honour Roll Congratulations:

Australian National University Eki Ramadhan: Wesleyan University

Griffith University Lorenzo Maldonado: Roger Williams Uni

James Cook University Rosa Bartoletti: Susquehanna University Maureen Bennet: Emory University Zoe Davis: Connecticut College Torrie Garner: Susquehanna University Lauren Langer: Wesleyan University

University Technology, Sydney Mark Folan: Providence College Yaraslau Loban: George Washington Uni

University of Queensland Hannah Green: Gettysburg College Piper Hays: Vanderbilt University Melanie Hazlett: Gettysburg College Sarah Thorson: Vanderbilt University Bettina Wunderlich: John Hopkins Uni

University of Melbourne Veronica Beman: University of Redlands Lida Benson: University of Vermont Ryan Burke: Lafayette College Arielle Cottingham: Trinity University Rachel Jacobs: Emory University Nicholas Murphy: Colby College Andrea Rastelli: Lafayette College Amanda Roosa: Wesleyan University Patricia Wong: Rice University Kelsey Zeikel: Colorado College

University of New South Wales Sasha Cukier: Emory University Bridgette Dufton: Colby College Erica Godley: Wake Forest University Matthew Hammond: Arizona State Uni Gabriella Lo Conte: Columbia University Adelaide Minerva: Emory University Caitlin Rubin: Wake Forest University Emily Sacher: Columbia University Helen Williford: Wake Forest University Sabrina Zarco: Emory University

University of Sydney: Alan Baldwin: Hamilton College Mary Cardon: Boston College Faye Essa: Williams College Katherine Fester: Bucknell University Pilar Guerra: Columbia University Julie Hoffman: Columbia University Brian Kowalski: Bucknell University David Miller: Wesleyan University Mary Poole: Wake Forest University Jeremy Price: Vanderbilt University Cathryn Ryan: Colby College Michelle Shen: Vanderbilt University Tyler Stacey: Fordham University Celibe Sze: John Hopkins University

Semester 2, 2014

Student Achievements

Newsletter IFSA-Butler

Australia

Recognises Stu-

dent Achieve-

ments

The Institute for Study Abroad - Butler Universi-ty Australia encourages students to get involved, accomplish goals and fully embrace their expe-rience abroad. The pro-gram recognises all sorts of student achievements by highlighting them through social media and student of the month nominations. Throughout the semester, student achievements can be found on: The IFSA-Butler Aus-

tralia Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Institute-for-Study-broad-Butler-University-Austral-ia/291799270846541

The IFSA-Butler Australia Blog http://australia.ifsa-butler.org/blog/

This semesters

issue:

Honour Roll

Student of

the Semester

Photo

competition

winners.

Instagram

#ifsa_Oz

Winner

Issue 6

Congratulations to all our winners!

Each semester, we look to acknowledge our student achievements and experiences through our Student of the Semester competition. We highlight our winners and have included all nominations for this competition in this semesters issue.

Category: Academic Achiever

Eki Ramadhan

Wesleyan

University

Host University:

Australian

National University

Eki really enjoyed his time studying at ANU ‘the bush capitol of Australia’ in his words! While at ANU Eki completed an Internship with The Em-bassy of The Republic of Indonesia, he says this by far was the highlight of his study abroad expe-rience.

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Category: Terrific Traveller

Ryan Burke

Lafayette

College

Host Uni:

University of

Melbourne

Ryan faced his fears and dived deep into the ocean at The Great Barrier Reef. He discovered an amazing underwater world and knew that he had made the right decision in coming to Aus-tralia!

Category: Valiant Volunteer

Karen Hays

Roger William

University

Host University:

Griffith Uni

Karen volunteered for the Mercedes Benz Fash-ion Festival in Brisbane while studying at the University of QLD. Karen became involved in all aspects of preparing for the show and says this experience was unlike any she had ever done and has given her an appreciation of fashion and the arts.

Category: Spectacular Sports Star

Jeremy Price

Vanderbilt

University

Host Uni:

University of

Sydney Jeremy enjoyed various sporting activities dur-ing his time in Sydney but ‘Martial Arts Tricking’ is something Jeremy has a passion for. It com-bines elements of martial arts, gymnastics and break dancing. His team performed at an Arts show and dominated in competitions they en-tered in Australia—well done Jeremy!

Category: Open Observer

Arielle Cottingham

Trinity University

Host University:

University of

Melbourne

Arielle described Melbourne as a city which is like steroids for an artists growth! Arielle completed her first poetry slam while in Melbourne and achieved 3rd place—a great feat for a first timer. She says she is definitely coming back!

Student of the Semester

As there were so many entries in this se-mesters Student of the Semester competi-tion, we also introduced a runner-up cate-gory. The runners up for each category were:

Open Observer

Amanda Roosa—Wesleyan

University

Host University: University of

Melbourne

Spectacular Sports Star

Reyna Pacheco Rios— Columbia

University

Host University: University of

Melbourne

Terrific Traveller

Keron McCalla—Franklin & Marshal

College

Host University: Flinders University

There were many other wonderful nominations for Student of the Semester, they were:

Spectacular Sports Star: Rachel Newman—Hamilton College, Craig Wilson—Providence Col-lege, Tara Prato Morrison—University of Redlands.

Terrific Traveller: Rachel Newman—Hamilton Col-lege, Rachel Jacobs– Emory University, Grace Bab-cock—Wake Forest University, Alyson Albertson & Sarah Friedlander—Philadelphia University and Trin-ity University

Academic Achiever: Maureen Bennet—Emory Uni-versity, Sofia Patterson & Zach Jones—University of Redlands

Open Observer: Amy Elder—Roger Williams Uni-versity

Valiant Volunteer

Patricia Wong—Rice University

Host University: University of

Melbourne

Page 3 Congratulations to all our Student of the Semester

runner-up and nominees

Academic Achiever

Piper Hays—Vanderbilt

University

Host University:

University of Queensland

Each Semester we run a wonderful Photo Competition where students submit favourite

photo’s from their semester abroad. We have 3 categories with the winners being

featured below.

Local Colour Winner: Local Colour 2nd Place

Natalie Abrams—Colgate University Kaitlyn Anderson—Harvey Mudd College

Host University: University of Sydney Host University: University of Adelaide

Landscape Winner Landscape 2nd Place

Cathryn Ryan - Colby College AnnaClosser—University of South Carolina at

Host University: University of Sydney Columbia. Host University: Griffith University

Tongue in Cheek 2nd Place

Niki Kingston—Butler University

Host University: University of Sydney

Tongue in Cheek Winner

Tessa Bellone. Wesleyan University

Host University: University of Queensland

#ifsa_oz winner Ryan Burke. Lafayette College

Host University:

University of Melbourne