Class of 2024: Engineering Student Lineth Perez Saw a Land of Opportunity in the U.S. - and Seized the Opportunity at VCU
May 29, 2024
May 29, 2024
RICHMOND, Virginia, May 29 -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news:
By Leila Ugincius
Americans might not blink at the thought of a woman engineer, but for Lineth Perez, it's a big deal. And for a woman in her native Colombia to receive a scholarship to even study engineering? That's virtually unheard of.
But Perez wanted to study engineering since 10th grade. Her father and mother worked in the petroleum industry, as an industrial eng . . .
By Leila Ugincius
Americans might not blink at the thought of a woman engineer, but for Lineth Perez, it's a big deal. And for a woman in her native Colombia to receive a scholarship to even study engineering? That's virtually unheard of.
But Perez wanted to study engineering since 10th grade. Her father and mother worked in the petroleum industry, as an industrial eng . . .