University of Dayton senior Kiersten Remster wins Fulbright honor

2017 Apr 26

University of Dayton senior Kiersten Remster of Amherst, OH, won a scholarship as part of a Fulbright program and is headed abroad as an English teaching assistant.

Kiersten Remster, an art history major and German minor from Amherst, Ohio, won the prestigious Austrian Federal Ministry of Education Teaching Assistant Award, which is administered by Fulbright Austria.

Remster will spend 10 months in Hollabrunn, Austria, teaching English and American culture at a private Catholic high school. Remester studied abroad in Salzburg, Austria, in fall 2015 and spent summer 2016 at the University of Oxford in England conducting research.

"I found Austrian culture and the history of the region to be incredibly interesting during my first study abroad experience there," Remster said. "I hope to gain a better cultural understanding of ties between the U.S. and Austria from this new generation of students I will be teaching."