Amanda Wahlmeier receives scholarship to study in Ireland

Assistant Professor of History John Richards announced at the March 2 Baker University Faculty Senate meeting that senior Amanda Wahlmeier was awarded a scholarship from Rotary International to study at University College Dublin.

Wahlmeier applied for the scholarship through the rotary club in her hometown, Concordia.

“It’s a scholarship geared toward domestic students studying abroad, or foreign students either coming to study at Fort Hays or Kansas Wesleyan,” Wahlmeier said. “They told me about the scholarship when they found out that I was applying for schools in Ireland.”

She will be doing graduate work studying early Irish history.

“It’s a start toward full tuition,” she said. “Tuition is like €6,000 and this (scholarship) is $4,500 (about €3,300).”

Wahlmeier studied abroad in Ireland last semester and will leave for graduate school in Dublin in late August.