Nick Hall-Shank Wins Fulbright UK Summer Scholarship

Nick Hall-Skank, a freshman majoring in resource conservation and minoring in wildlife biology, won a Fulbright UK Scholarship to study climate change at the University of Exeter. As part of the program, Hall-Skank will spend four weeks over the summer exploring British culture in addition to the climate change curriculum. Through this all-expenses-paid program, freshman and sophomore students can study at several universities throughout the UK.

Hall-Skank also is a member of the Global Leadership Program. He is passionate about finding sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental problems and has been involved with the local ecological restoration organization Poplar Creek Prairie Stewards. Traveling to England will be his first international experience.

“My passion for protecting the natural world defines who I am,” Hall-Skank said. “I hope to aid the collaborative international effort to solve global environmental issues. If I am to be effective in this effort, exposing myself to another culture is absolutely essential. I believe that participating in such an outstanding study abroad program as the UK Summer Institute Program would help me develop into the global conservation leader that I aspire to be."