Friday, February 04, 2000

The global market-place offers UNCW graduates new and exhilarating opportunities, and daunting, unprecedented challenges.

"The Young and Restless," an unusual panel discussion sponsored by the UNCW Office of International Programs, with the assistance of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, show-cases four recent graduates and one current undergraduate, all of whom embrace international careers. The public will be able to interact freely and in depth with these young experts, four of whom are from UNCW, and one from the University of California at Berkeley, at 7.00 pm, Wednesday February 16, in the UNCW Warwick Center Ballroom

Wilmington native Robert V. Fulk graduated from UNCW's Cameron School with a degree in International Business, and a minor in Spanish, in 1999. He now works for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Madrid, handling investment portfolios.

Craig Dosher, a returned Peace Corps volunteer who served two years in the West Indies, is now a graduate student in UNCW's Department of History. Craig plans to return to the West Indies to teach.

Usha Dewasthali, who has degrees in French and Business from UNCW, is a Systems and Procedures Analyst for Federal Mogul in Pennsylvania. Usha travels regularly to Europe on business.

Susan T. West, who earned her Masters of Public Health at Berkeley, is Senior Director for Health and Environment Programs at the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation in Washington DC. Susan, who is fluent in German and Spanish, has a BA in International Studies from Earlham College. She has lived extensively in both Germany and Costa Rica.

Sommer Bennett, who is completing her BS in Business Administration, with a minor in French, at UNCW, has just returned from a semester at the CESEM business school in Marseille, France. She is currently interning with Merrill Lynch.