Emily Hagemeister, an NDSU anthropology graduate student, has been awarded a Fulbright English teaching assistantship in Amman, Jordan. Only six students received the assistantship that will run through the 2009-10 academic year.

The Fulbright program is intended to increase mutual cultural understanding by bringing foreign students and scholars to the United States and by sending American students to a variety of nations throughout the world. The participants are chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential.

Hagemeister is involved in a number of campus and community organizations, including Golden Key International Honour Society, where she served as vice president of outreach; the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi; Women in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (WISMET), where she served as president; the Arabic Language and Cultural Student Association; and the Giving + Learning English Language Tutoring Organization.

In 2008, Hagemeister was awarded with the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship. She spent two months in Amman, Jordan, intensively studying the Arabic language and culture. She also was named the NDSU Student Leader of the Month for December 2008 and received the Laurie J. Loveland Scholarship in 2008, which is a $5,000 award intended to promote leadership and public service interests in women from North Dakota.

Hagemeister is from Argusville, N.D., and earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from NDSU in 2005.