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In the News: UOG Alumna Gera Datuin
In the News: UOG Alumna Gera Datuin
In the News: UOG Alumna Gera Datuin
11/13/2018
UOG Alumna in the News
In this Nov. 11, 2018, article, The Guam Daily Post highlights University of Guam Alumna Gera Datuin, the first Guam resident in nearly a decade to receive a Fulbright award. She returned to Guam over the summer following a year in the United Kingdom studying the effect of pesticides on queen bee populations at various farms.
Returning Fulbright scholar hopes she won't be Guam's last
As graduation day neared, Gera Datuin, then an anthropology major at the University of Guam, set her sights on a postgraduate degree in conservation despite having no background in biological science. But after months of crafting the perfect application essay prior to her UOG graduation, Datuin didn't get the response she was hoping for.
"I didn't get any bites at all to do a master's (degree) off island, so when I graduated I got a job," she said.
Datuin, whose interest in conservation stemmed from working as an AmeriCorps volunteer with the Department of Agriculture in 2010, said part of the problem was the fact that she was applying for a biology-related degree with no biology ...