It’s having to be a entire list of UNM Fulbright recipients.
The most current honors from the Fulbright U.S. Pupil System go to UNM senior Charlotte Gates and UNM master’s college student Lauren-Martin Alasandagutti. Each amazing Lobos will be traveling around the world by the largest U.S. trade plan to train English abroad and endorse cultural exchange.
Charlotte Gates

Gates is saying hallo to a long term as a Fulbright English Educating Assistant in Germany, adhering to her graduation this spring with a Bachelor’s in English and German and a minor in Honors Interdisciplinary Arts. Her really like for language-finding out and Germany have absent hand in hand during her time at UNM.
Coming into faculty, she experienced already been learning the language since her freshman calendar year of higher school. Gates is at the moment President of the UNM German Club and not too long ago returned from studying overseas at Heidelberg Universität, where by she says she was capable to recognize to start with-hand the wealth of knowledge and option that cultural exchanges allow for. She also is a member of the prestigious, academic society Phi Beta Kappa.
As a result of her operate as a Fulbright English Training Assistant, Gates hopes to not only even more her very own know-how about the world’s cultural diversity, but also to spread her appreciate of languages to some others. She also aims to make use of this amazing prospect to educate others about the wonderfully advanced tradition of New Mexico.
“I am over and above grateful for the outstanding mentors and staff members on campus who have aided me all over this process, as well as for their ongoing assistance and encouragement,” Gates claimed.
She would specially like to thank Honors School Director for Center for Tutorial Excellence & Management Development Kiyoko Simmons, Honors Higher education Lecturer Maria Szasz, Associate Professor of German Katrin Schröter, Director of Resourceful Crafting Greg Martin, and SUB Administrative Assistant Katherine Myers. These educators share her enthusiasm for getting the award.
“Charlotte has a depth of self-recognition that the very best writers have, and for someone so sort and warm, she’s also unflinching in her writing. I’m thrilled for Charlotte, and also not astonished,” Martin mentioned.
“Charlotte Gates is a person of the most impressive learners I have had the pleasure to perform with in far more than twenty several years at UNM,” Schröter said. “Her educational excellence and extracurricular engagement are exemplary and make her an best ambassador the two for UNM and the Usa overseas.”
“Charlotte Gates has excelled in each and every course she has taken at UNM, and her enthusiasm and energetic technique to discovering constantly conjures up absolutely everyone who performs with her. She will make an outstanding Fulbright English Educating Assistant in Germany,” Szasz said. “The UNM Honors College college, personnel and students are so very pleased of what Charlotte has attained, and we wish her all the finest with her Fulbright!”
Laura-Martin Alasandagutti

Alasandagutti is saying bonjour to Cameroon, as a Fulbright English Instructing Assistant. The UNM Languages, Cultures, and Literatures master’s student is growing her language know-how, concentrating on French and Francophone reports. She is no stranger to major students, getting currently taught French after arriving at UNM in 2021, and finding out the language for 11 decades.
“She was deeply appreciated by her students and fellow graduate learners alike. She is a committed trainer who cares about every single college student she functions with,” Professor of French Pim Higginson reported. “It is for that reason no shock at all–but we are of class immensely proud—that Laura-Martin has gained this prestigious posture as a Fulbright Educating Assistant in Cameroon. She will be an excellent ambassador for UNM and will, I am absolutely sure, lead enormously to all the pupils she encounters. I cannot think of a individual much better ready for this encounter.”
“Laura-Martin has a enthusiasm for language teaching and knowledge as a language instructor instructor and mentor that will serve her effectively in this place,” French Professor Stephen Bishop stated. “She is fired up on this opportunity and will represent the College of New Mexico and the United States very well in the course of her time as an ETA in Cameroon.”
Alasandagutti would like to thank Bishop and Higginson, as very well as Professor of French Pamela Cheek, Joshua Wade, Casey Harlan, Dr. Sara Wellman and Dr. Daniel O’Sullivan.
“I am incredibly grateful to them. I hope I can bolster the education I have been given as a University of Mississippi alumnus and a UNM university student as a result of my impending ordeals in Cameroon,” Alasandagutti reported. “While training English, I hope to make improvements to my instructing capabilities, specially for pupils of different backgrounds with distinct life goals.”
Gates and Alasandagutti are now aspect of just 1,900 grants awardees, across more than 140 nations around the world around the globe. They also incorporate to UNM’s solid popularity as a Fulbright HIS Chief, demonstrated by the strong Fulbright community from both equally college students and college. Just so considerably in 2023, UNM has been a section of welcoming going to Fulbright scholars, hosting Fulbright exchange students, and celebrating added fellows and award recipients.
UNM college who are interested in Fulbright opportunities can call Dr. William Stanley, the liaison for the Fulbright Scholar Method. College students and latest graduates intrigued in the Fulbright U.S. Pupil System can access out to Simmons.
