IEW Profile: Mario Hernández
International Education Week (IEW) celebrates the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. The U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education are part of a joint initiative to promote programs that prepare Americans for the global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences. This IEW profile is part of a series during International Education Week from November 14 to 18, 2022.
Q: What is your name?
Mario Orospe Hernández
Q: Where are you from?
Mexico City
Q: What is your program?
Religious Studies
Q: What is your school or department?
School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
Q: Who is your faculty chair or mentor?
Dr. Gaymon Bennett
Q: As an international student can you indicate what type of funding you received from ASU’s Graduate College?
Fulbright Foreign Student Fellowship
Q: How has this Graduate College funding impacted your studies, research and experience here at ASU?
Receiving the Fulbright scholarship has given me the life-changing opportunity to continue thriving as a scholar, in a discipline that is essential to uncovering, and defining what it means to be human.
Q: When are you expected to graduate?
August 2024
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