Graduate students Hagar Abdo and Monica Gastelumendi were each awarded a $10,000 Philanthropic Educational Organization International Peace Scholarship.

Abdo is pursuing her master's degree in women's studies and is researching postpartum depression in indigent communities. She plans to return to Egypt to continue her work in this area.

Gastelumendi is pursuing a master's degree in jazz studies and plans to return to Peru to train music teachers and to provide better music education for children.