International affairs, French major awarded Killam Fellowship to study in Ottawa
Stephen Roberts, a University of Maine student studying international affairs and French with a focus in Canadian studies, has been awarded a Killam Fellowship for the 2015–2016 academic year.
As a Killam Fellow, Roberts will study at Carleton University in Ottawa, while UMaine hosts a Canadian student for the academic year. Diyyinah Jamora, who is pursuing a joint honors degree in political science and communication in French at the University of Ottawa, was awarded the Killam Fellowship to study at UMaine.
Roberts is a photographer, Franco-American and short-fiction writer. His family has lived in Penobscot County for about a century. A blogger for three years, he founded the Facebook page, “Portraits of UMaine.” He is writing a collection of short stories about life at UMaine and is researching the microcosm of the St. John Valley shared between the U.S. and Canada.
Jamora has worked with multiple organizations including TEDxKids@BC, the Vancouver Youth Sustainability Network, Genome BC and the Parliament of Canada. She began her journalism career when she was 15 years old as a student reporter for the CBC’s News Day in B.C. and now contributes to her university’s English student newspaper. She loves graphic design, media production and making music. She is a second-degree karate black belt and founded the uOttawa Field Hockey Club.
The Killam Fellowships program, sponsored by Fulbright Canada, allows undergraduate students from Canada and the U.S. to participate in a program of residential exchange to foster mutual understanding between the countries.
Fulbright Canada is a joint, binational, treaty-based organization supported by the Canadian and U.S. governments. It is celebrating 25 years of promoting academic excellence.
More information about Fulbright Canada is online.