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CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDERMark Quintanilla, sponsor of the Missouri Iota chapter at Hannibal-LaGrange University, has been selected to be a Research and Teaching Fulbright Fellow in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean for the 2012-2013 school term. Dr. Quintanilla will be traveling to St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the fall and Dominica in the spring. He will be assisting the local junior colleges which are part of the University of the West Indies system. The main campuses are in Cave Hill (Barbados), Mona (Jamaica), and St. Augustine (Trinidad), Dr. Quintanilla will help prepare students who transfer to the main campuses to complete their degrees, to mentor faculty completing dissertations and degrees, and to encourage the integration of national history into the curriculum. His research will be focused on completing an editing project, a letter book of an eighteenth-century Irish planter and Attorney General of St. Vincent. The second project is a monograph examining British settlement and colonization of the "Ceded Islands" of Grenada, St. Vincent, Dominica, and Tobago from 1763 – 1806. Dr. Quintanilla has taken his wife and four of his five children with him for this year abroad. Southwestern College, a founding chapter of Pi Gamma Mu, is ranked as a first-tier institution in the latest college rankings released by U.S. News and World Report. The rankings were reported in the magazine's September 18th edition of "America's Best Colleges." Southwestern College is the highest-ranked Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) school in the category of Regional University/Midwest. Other Kansas colleges with Pi Gamma Mu chapters that made the list are Baker University and Emporia State University.
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