Recent Bates College graduate Anna Munter of Washington, DC has been awarded a Fulbright grant to support an academic year of teaching abroad.

Ms. Munter, the daughter of Cameron P. Munter and Marilyn Wyatt of Sierra Madre, California, and the granddaughter of Leonard and Helen-Jeanne Munter of Claremont, is a 2010 graduate of the International School of Prague. She majored in French at Bates and received an English Teaching Assistantship for Malaysia.

The Fulbright US Student Program sends some 1,500 citizens abroad each year to more than 155 countries. Located in Lewiston, Maine, Bates College is internationally recognized as a leading college of the liberal arts, attracting 2,000 students from across the US and around the world. Since 1855, Bates has worked to educate the “whole person” through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community.