William Welsh was selected as an alternate for the Fulbright US Student Grant.  He graduated from the South Carolina Honors College this spring with a major in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.  He is the recipient of the Dean's Scholarship and is a Palmetto Fellow.  He was awarded the Passport Travel Grant in 2012 for summer study in South Korea, the Global Scholars grant for study in Turkey in 2014, was an alternate in the Boren Scholarship competition in 2014 for study in Turkey,
and was awarded the Critical Language Scholarship in 2015 to study Persian in Tajikistan.  He ultimately plans to be a medical researcher.  His Fulbright proposal was for a year of research in Finland in the field of gene therapy.