{"id":267012,"date":"2025-06-25T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=267012"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:21:47","slug":"recent-umw-grad-hits-the-right-note-with-fulbright-grant-to-study-music-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2025\/06\/25\/recent-umw-grad-hits-the-right-note-with-fulbright-grant-to-study-music-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent UMW Grad Hits the Right Note With Fulbright Grant to Study Music in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_267013\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/NewRelease_SofiaTaylor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-267013\" class=\"wp-image-267013 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/NewRelease_SofiaTaylor-300x121.jpg\" alt=\"Sofia Taylor, a 2024 UMW graduate, has won a Fulbright Award to continue her studies in Germany.\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/NewRelease_SofiaTaylor-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/NewRelease_SofiaTaylor-768x310.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/NewRelease_SofiaTaylor.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-267013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sofia Taylor, a 2024 UMW graduate, has won a Fulbright Award to continue her studies in Germany.<\/p><\/div><p>Sofia Taylor was just settling into a new role as a research assistant when she received news that would redirect her path and send her across the Atlantic.<\/p><p>Taylor &ndash; a 2024 University of Mary Washington graduate who majored in psychology, with a double-minor in music and neuroscience &ndash; had won a U.S. government-sponsored Fulbright Award to continue her research in Germany.<\/p><p>&ldquo;When I read the acceptance letter I just started crying,&rdquo; Taylor said about the notification that posted to her portal while she was on vacation with family. &ldquo;There were happy tears ready to spring out every time I told someone I got the award.&rdquo;<\/p><p>She joins decades of UMW grads who&rsquo;ve earned grants from the prestigious Fulbright Program. Among the world&rsquo;s most competitive international exchange initiatives, it aims to support cross-cultural education and boost connections around the globe. Taylor&rsquo;s grant will take her to the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, which researches music and neuropsychology. There, she&rsquo;ll continue the work she started at Mary Washington, examining the impacts of recorded versus live musical performances on positive emotions and dopamine function in young adults. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2025\/06\/11\/recent-umw-grad-hits-the-right-note-with-fulbright-grant-to-study-music-in-germany\/\">Read more.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sofia Taylor was just settling into a new role as a research assistant when she received news that would redirect her path and send her across the Atlantic.Taylor &ndash; a 2024 University of Mary Washington graduate who majored in psychology, with a double-minor in music and neuroscience &ndash; had won a U.S. government-sponsored Fulbright Award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28679,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[426],"class_list":["post-267012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whats-new-umw","tag-fulbright","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}