Recent Graduate Honored with Pickering Fellowship

College Park, Md. -- Recent University of Maryland graduate Krystle Norman has been named a 2008 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellows. Presented to 20 students each year by the U.S. Department of State, Pickering Fellowships are awarded to exceptional students based on their leadership potential, academic achievement, and extracurricular involvement.

	University of Maryland Graduate Krystle Norman

Norman, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa in May, will receive reimbursement for tuition, fees and books, as well as living and travel stipends while she pursues a master's degree at Maryland's School of Public Policy. The award also includes annual orientations in Washington, D.C., paid domestic and abroad summer internships with the State Department, and guidance from a foreign service officer mentor. Pickering fellows fulfill a commitment to enter the U.S. Foreign Service.

Norman has received numerous awards for her academic work at Maryland. She was selected as an Arts and Humanities dean's senior scholar, a Heyward G. Hill Scholar, a class of 2008 senior marshal, Julia Davidson Academic Achievement Award recipient and a Charles Rangel Fellowship finalist. In addition, Norman served as member of the Arts and Humanities Dean's Student Advisory Board, mentor for the BSU Big/Little Mentorship Program, delegate for Maryland's chapter Model United Nations, and a resident assistant.

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