Se Fue la Luz

Rebecca Alper (Class of 2006) knows what it's like to work, study, and engage in outreach in difficult settings, going all the way back to high school when she spent the summer in an isolated part of the Dominican Republic (DR) where electricity came off and on in a somewhat random manner. [No, “se fue la luz” is not Spanish for Clark’s Fiat Lux (Let there be light.) It translates: “there was light”.] A Geography and International Development double major, Becky went back to the DR teach English in the Spring of 2005. Her foreign field experience, fluency in Spanish, and expertise in GISc won her a Fulbright Fellowship to Spain for the 2006-07 academic year, after which Becky will return to Clark for an Accelerated MA in GISc.

With friends in the DR.

Becky was awarded a Presidential Scholarship for academic achievement to attend Clark. Her studies and outreach activities have led to her selection as a HERO Fellow (2004), election to the Gryphon Pleiades Honor Society (2005) and to the Fiat Lux Honor Society (2005), and award of the Strabo Prize in Geography (2005).