Carl Malmberg Fellow for 2012-2013 Announced

The 2012-2013 Carl Malmberg Memorial Scholarship in African Studies has been awarded to Ms. Lindiwe Seotsanyana from Lesotho. A social worker by training with extensive experience in the HIV-AIDS area, Ms. Seotsanyana has worked with non-governmental organizations and received extensive training in Japan. She will be in residence as a Malmberg Fellow during the fall 2012 term. Her Fellowship will include an internship at the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and an array of educational opportunities on Pitt’s Oakland campus. Every two years, the Carl Malmberg Fellowship Program brings an accomplished professional from Lesotho to the University of Pittsburgh at an early point in her or his career for an academic term of practical professional experiences and related study. The Fellow is selected from young professionals whose record of accomplishment in the early stages of their career indicates strong potential for outstanding achievement and a capacity to contribute to the development of Lesotho. By providing future leaders an experience combining knowledge of U.S. culture and society with current approaches in the fields in which they work, the program provides a basis for lasting ties between practitioners in the U.S. and their professional counterparts in Lesotho. The Fellowship is in memory of Carl Paul Malmberg, who served in the Peace Corps as a teacher of mathematics and science in Lesotho, South Africa, and later as a research technician in a U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory.