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Italian major Alex Lewton '27 wins U.S. Department of State Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship

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    From Kensington, Md., a suburb of Washington, Lewton began studying Italian in high school. “I really just fell in love with the culture and the language,” he says. 

The first member of his immediate family to study abroad, Lewton is spending the winter term in Rome, immersing himself in the Italian language and culture. 

Approximately 1,600 scholarships have been handed out to students from the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, according to a State Department news release (PDF).

The State Department program, named for the late Republican congressman from New York who chaired the House Committee on International Relations, provides up to $5,000 for federal Pell Grant recipients to study abroad. 

Lewton learned about the scholarship by browsing the Dartmouth Fellowship Advising website. "I'm super excited to have the scholarship," he says.

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