{"id":78651,"date":"2014-05-21T10:01:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=78651"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:52:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:52:57","slug":"fulbright-recipients-2014-alexandra-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/05\/21\/fulbright-recipients-2014-alexandra-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Fulbright recipients: Alexandra Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_78728\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Hill_157-L.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78728\" class=\"size-large wp-image-78728\" alt=\"Alexandra Hill '14 is a 2014 recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Student Grant. (Sarah Crosby\/Bates College)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Hill_157-L-600x400.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Hill_157-L-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Hill_157-L-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Hill_157-L.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-78728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexandra Hill &#8217;14 is a 2014 recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. (Sarah Crosby\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Double-majoring in Spanish and sociology, Alexandra Hill &#8217;14 of Wayland, Mass., was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship for work in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The youngest member of a bicultural family, Hill from an early age developed an interest in language and a curiosity about cultures. She is excited to visit Brazil at a momentous time, with the nation to host the soccer World Cup this year and the Summer Olympics in 2016. The English Teaching Assistantship, she says, is an opportunity to use &#8220;my experiences in education to contribute to the preparations for these events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While studying abroad in Uruguay, Hill interned with a local organization in which she undertook challenging teaching assignments that taught &#8220;the importance of understanding students and their struggles and developing practical ways of overcoming these obstacles in the classroom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hill conducted a senior thesis project that researched social media as an educational and social phenomenon among Brazilian youth. She was a dean&#8217;s list student at Bates and was part of the women\u2019s rowing team that took second place in the NCAA competitions. She hopes to pursue a career incorporating translation and interpretation services.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=78676\">Return to main Fulbright story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Hill &#8217;14 is one of Bates&#8217; 10 Fulbright recipients for 2014. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11011,9946],"tags":[3709,10767,10752,227,11055],"class_list":["post-78651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-exclude-from-loops","tag-fulbright-u-s-student-program","tag-sociology","tag-south-america","tag-spanish-arts-humanities-areas-academics","tag-student-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78651"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79401,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78651\/revisions\/79401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}