June 4, 2004

Some Berkeley Students Win Fulbright Awards After Being Disqualified

By ROBIN WILSON

Seventeen of the 30 graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley who were disqualified from the Fulbright research-grant program because their applications had arrived late will receive awards after all, the U.S. State Department said last month.

The board that oversees the Fulbright program decided in February that the students should be given a second chance to compete for the awards after the U.S. Education Department, which typically chooses the Fulbright winners,

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