TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Lekisha Rachel Gunn of Montgomery, a student at The University of Alabama, has been named a 2007-2008 DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship recipient.

Gunn, a German major at UA, is one of only 54 undergraduate students from the United States and Canada to be selected by a panel of experts in higher education to receive the award.

The DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship program is aimed at students who want to spend part of their third or fourth year of college in Germany. The recipients stay anywhere from a semester to a full academic year, either to study, for internships, or senior thesis research.

As a DAAD Undergraduate Scholar, Gunn plans to study at the University of Mannheim during the 2008 spring semester.

The University of Alabama, a student-centered research university, is in the midst of a planned, steady enrollment growth with a goal of reaching 28,000 students by 2010. This growth, which is positively impacting the campus and the state's economy, is in keeping with UA's vision to be the university of choice for the best and brightest students. UA, the state's flagship university, is an academic community united in its commitment to enhancing the quality of life for all Alabamians.