2nd Polytechnic campus Fulbright scholar heading to Mexico
<p>MESA, Ariz. — Yolanda Serrano-Gehman, a graduate student in the Global Technology and Development (<acronym title="Global Technology and Development">GTD</acronym>) program at <acronym title="Arizona State University">ASU</acronym>, was awarded a Fulbright grant to study in Mexico for nine months starting in August.</p><separator></separator><p>Serrano-Gehman’s Fulbright is a "Binational Business Grant," which combines a six- course graduate certificate program with an internship in a Mexico-based company or firm dedicated to international business.</p><separator></separator><p>"I received notification on May 12, and I was very excited," said Serrano-Gehman, who was born in Nicaragua and has been living in Gilbert for the past 10 years.</p><separator></separator><p>"We are very proud of Yolanda," said GTD faculty chair Gary Grossman. "She has made excellent use of the concepts of the GTD program and applied them to 'real-world' issues. Our mission is to be not just transdisciplinary and transnational, but transformative as well. Yolanda’s success is an example of our mission in action."</p><separator></separator><p>Serrano-Gehman recently won an award from the Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy (<acronym title="Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy">SCERP</acronym>), which is a group of five U.S. and five Mexican universities serving U.S.-Mexican border residents. With funding from the <acronym title="Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy">SCERP</acronym> award, Serrano-Gehman will continue her thesis project study of the potential for clean energy production through solar energy use in the Nogales border area.</p>