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AADS student Sarah Labbé awarded the first Karell Travel Grant

AADS student, Sarah Labbé, has been awarded the Karell Travel Grant.  Labbé, the first recipient of the Grant, is a second-year student in the African & African Diaspora Studies M.A. Program.  She will use the grant to travel to Madagascar in the Spring of 2010 to conduct fieldwork for her thesis, titled:  Linguistic Collision: The Choice of the Language of Instruction and its Implications for Secondary School Students' Identification Processes in Coastal Madagascar.  “It is my hope that this research will contribute to the gathering of useful knowledge for the improvement of education in Madagascar,” states Labbé.
 
The Karell Travel Grant was made possible through a generous gift from Norman and Craig Pieters of Karell's African Dream Vacations, a family-owned travel agency that specializes in travel to the African continent.  The Grant helps make Africa-bound academic travel possible for AADS M.A. students and faculty, by providing one round-trip ticket from Miami to any point in Africa per year.  “I am extremely grateful to have been awarded this grant.  Without the help of Karell Travel, I would not have been able to realize my goal of travelling abroad to conduct field research.  I consider this opportunity to be of great importance not only for completing my thesis but I also believe that it will significantly contribute to my professional development and personal growth,” says Labbé.  For more information on the Karell Travel Grant, please visit  Africana.fiu.edu.