来农大的学生

Shanxi
Agricultural University, Taigu, China

Jacob
Teter
graduated from Oberlin in the Fall of 2002 with majors in Biology and
German Literature. He was teaching English in Taigu at Shanxi
Agricultural University under an individual arrangement between
himself and the Foreign Affairs Office last year. Jacob was a
Fulbright assistant teacher from September 2003 to June 2004 in
Wiesbaden Germany. He was a volunteer English teacher through the
Oberlin ESL program that provides English language lessons for groups
of Latinos in Lorain County. While at Oberlin he was a member of the
Bike Co-op, the Outing Club, and played first violin in the College
Community Orchestra. He is extremely interested in the study of
Mandarin and in agricultural research and farming in Taigu. At the
end of his three years in Taigu Jacob hopes to enroll in a graduate
program in Agroecology or International Agricultural Economics. Click
to read Jacob's
narrative.

Morgan
Ramsey-Elliot
graduated with majors in Politics and East Asian Studies (Chinese)
last May. He was a Shansi in-Asia study grant recipient and spent
January 2005 in Kunming investigating relationships among
social/sustainability non-governmental organizations and government
agencies. He also completed an intensive summer language program at
the Harvard Beijing Academy. His senior honors thesis analyzed the
politics of migrant workers, laid-off state employees and pensioners
in urban China. He was a member of the Oberlin Student Cooperative
Association and has worked on the Oberlin Alumni Fund. He hopes to
have a career in international relations and feels that his
fellowship to Taigu will provide an invaluable foundation upon which
to build.

Megan
Lowery
(2004-2006), Click to read Megan's
narrative.