Doctoral Researcher receives Prestigious Fulbright Award to the US

Arlene Holmes-Henderson, a Doctoral researcher from The University of Glasgow has received a Scottish Studies Scholar Fulbright Award to enable her to lecture and research at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on one of the most prestigious and selective scholarship programmes operating world-wide. Created by treaty in 1948, the US-UK Fulbright Commission is the only bi-lateral, transatlantic scholarship programme, offering awards for study or research in any field, at any accredited US or UK university. The Commission is part of the Fulbright programme conceived by Senator J. William Fulbright in the aftermath of World War II to promote leadership, learning and empathy between nations through educational exchange. Award recipients will be the future leaders for tomorrow and support the "special relationship" between the US and UK. Aged just 17, Arlene Holmes-Henderson matriculated at St. Hilda's College, Oxford to read Classics. At 21, she began post-graduate research at Harvard University as the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York scholar. She returned to Trinity College, Cambridge where she completed the Post-Graduate Certificate of Education (Latin, Classical Greek, Ancient History and Classical Civilisation).