Three School of Education alumni are among eight students and graduates from Syracuse University named as 2025 recipients of awards through the Fulbright US Student Program. In addition, one SOE student has been chosen as an alternate.
The Fulbright US Student Program funds a range of awards that include English teaching assistantships and study/research grants in more than 140 countries.
SOE’s 2025 Fulbright Cohort
Sofia DaCruz ’25
Selected Studies in Education (SOE)
Citizenship and Civic Engagement (Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs)
Women’s and Gender Studies (College of Arts and Sciences)
English Teaching Assistant, Slovak Republic
Morgan Meddings ’25
Inclusive Elementary and Special Education (SOE)
English Teaching Assistant, Madagascar
Jessie Norton ’25
Spanish Education (SOE)
Spanish Language, Literature, and Culture (College of Arts and Sciences)
English Teaching Assistant, Spain
Alternate
Sacha Norton ’25
Selected Studies in Education (SOE)
English Teaching Assistant, Kenya
Fulbright Profile: Morgan Meddings ’25
Meddings was a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program and completed an award-winning thesis on how book banning of children’s literature is affecting classrooms. She also worked as a substitute teacher in the Syracuse City School District after completing her student teaching.
After spending the spring 2024 semester in Strasbourg, France, she knew wanted to teach abroad in a French-speaking country after graduation.
“I also wanted to find an experience outside of the westernized classrooms I had already been exposed to,” she says.
Meddings will be an English teaching assistant at Le Centre National d’Enseignement de la Langue Anglais (CNELA) in Antananarivo, Madagascar’s capital city, and engage with the community through additional engagement and service projects.
She is especially eager to engage with initiatives that promote literacy in Madagascar, an interest she developed while volunteering for her local library in Pittsburgh, PA.
“I am beyond excited to bring my passion for teaching abroad and cannot wait to learn from the teachers and students I will be working with in Madagascar,” Meddings says.
Originally published by SU News. By Kelly Homan Rodoski.