(Leeker, Jessica Rush - 2024) -- Traditional Fulbright Scholarship

Overview

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• Jessica Rush Leeker has been awarded a prestigious fellowship to research the impact of oral storytelling on African descendants in STEM, focusing on how historical and cultural narratives can enhance the sense of identity, belonging, and confidence among engineering students. Leeker is the faculty director of undergraduate education and ESCEND and the Stephen M. Dunn Professor of Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship in the Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program.

receipt of

• Traditional Fulbright Scholarship 

award or honor for

• Leeker, Jessica Rush  Scholar In Residence

award conferred by

• Council for International Exchange of Scholars 

year awarded

• 2024