Purdue student to participate in U.S.-Singapore exchange program

Purdue student Rachel King recently visited with Singapore Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, in Washington D.C., as part of the U.S.-Singapore Summer Exchange Scholarship Program. (Submitted photo) Download image

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University student is one of 10 selected nationally to participate in the U.S.-Singapore Summer Exchange Scholarship Program.  

Rachel King, a junior majoring in anthropology at Purdue, will spend the summer attending Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.  At NTU, King will take one course from the Success in the Globalized Marketplace track (Cultural Intelligence – How to be an Explorer of the World) and another from the Creative Design and Media track (drawing).  Prior to her departure for Singapore, King and the other nine scholarship recipients from the United States traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with Singapore Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan.

The U.S.-Singapore Summer Exchange Scholarship Program commemorates the 50^th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Singapore and the United States that began in 1966.  Its objective is to promote greater interaction and mutual understanding between the next generation of Singaporeans and Americans, by allowing recipients to attend a university summer exchange program in each other’s countries.  Applicants for the scholarship had to be a full-time undergraduate student at an eligible university.  The students were judged on academic performance, community involvement, essay response and résumé.

King is a member of the Purdue Honors College, has a presidential scholarship, previously studied in Spain for six weeks in high school through the Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages. She has tutored Hispanic students in English through a Purdue program at Harrison High School, while she also has tutored an Afghan student in English for a Purdue class last year. 

Source: Rachel King, king314@purdue.edu