Bonnie Kaplan To Receive Penn State’s
Kopp International Undergraduate Award

March 23, 2000

University Park, Pa. — Bonnie Kaplan, a recent Penn State graduate in architectural engineering, will receive the 2000 LaMarr Kopp International Achievement Award for an undergraduate student. Kaplan will be honored at an awards ceremony on Sunday, April 9, at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on Penn State’s University Park campus.

Kaplan is currently an applicant for a Fulbright grant to Morocco, where she intends to spend a year working on historic preservation, studying Arabic, and attending graduate seminars at the University of Fez. Kaplan, who hopes to specialize in Islamic architecture, has done a comparative study of architecture and social issues in Algeria and Morocco.

Before coming to Penn State, where she also studied French, Kaplan completed a summer exchange program in France and obtained four internships — each with a different French firm — during every summer of her undergraduate career.

She has studied architectural engineering for a semester at Leeds University in England and was named one of 16 student representatives of the British Tourist Authority at college campuses in the United States.

She has served the international community at Penn State by serving for a year as co-chair of SPEAK, an organization for Penn State students who teach English as a second language to international students and their families.

The award recognizes students who have contributed significantly to the advancement of the international mission of the University. It is named for the retired deputy vice president for international programs.

For more information, contact Alan Janesch at 814/865-7517 or .