3 Georgia State grads get Fulbright scholarships

Three Georgia State University graduates have won prestigious Fulbright scholarships to do research abroad.

It’s the second straight year that the Atlanta campus has had three graduating students receive the awards handed out by the U.S. Department of State. The students are 34-year-old Tyler Owens, 22-year-old Yasmin Rahmani and 23-year-old Sydney Lanier.

Owens plans to direct Shakespearean theater in the United Kingdom, Rahmani will conduct medical research in Spain and Lanier will study language and literature at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Each year the Fulbright program gives 1,500 U.S. students and scholars money to travel overseas to do research, study or teach. Another 3,000 foreign students also receive Fulbrights annually.