Student Directory
CABOT — Teresa Kuo of Cabot, a May graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s early childhood and special education program with a concentration in urban education, has been selected for a 2022-23 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant award to Taiwan.
She is IUP’s 19th student Fulbright recipient since 1968, and the second IUP student selected for a Fulbright in 2022. IUP faculty and administrators have received 75 Fulbright scholarships since 1951.
As a Fulbright recipient, she will be the head English teacher on the island of Penghu, Taiwan, working with elementary and middle school students. She left for her assignment Aug. 5. She will complete training there in August and begin the 10-month teaching year in September.
Kuo, daughter of Hsueh-Chen Kuo of Toronto, is a 2018 graduate of Knoch High School. In Pennsylvania, she and her two sisters have lived with the Rev. Chris Marshall and his wife, Nancy Fairman Marshall, of Cabot while she earned an associate’s degree in early childhood education from Butler County Community College.
At BC3, she was selected for a scholarship through Phi Theta Kappa honor society to continue her education. She chose IUP because of its reputation for teacher education and for its urban teaching program.
Kuo also received a two-year All-Pennsylvania Academic Team scholarship for her studies at IUP.
During her studies at IUP, she was involved in the international honor society in education Kappa Delta Pi and was a dean’s list student and provost scholar. She was involved in the Best Buddies program at IUP, which pairs students with members of the community who have intellectual and developmental disabilities.
