Two graduating Davidson College students – Rachel Heidmann and Hannah Rogers-Ganter – have won Fulbright Full Grants for a year of study and research abroad. And in related news, Davidson junior Sarah Rhodes won a Goldwater Scholarship.

Ms. Heidmann, a senior German major from Brevard, will study migration and integration policies at in the Sociology Department at the University of Bamberg, Germany, in connection with the European Forum for Migration Studies there. She is finishing up a senior thesis on legal and cultural aspects of various levels of residency status for foreigners in Germany.

Ms. Rogers-Ganter, a senior political science major with a German minor, is from Hingham, Mass. She will study renewable energy policy and environmental policy at the Environmental Policy Research Centre at the Free University of Berlin. Hannah is also finishing her senior thesis, on renewable energy portfolio standards in the U.S. Ms. Rogers-Ganter has also received a DAAD/German Academic Exchange Service grant for her research and study next year in Berlin.

Ms. Rhodes, the Goldwater winner, is from Concord.

Scott Denham, a German professor who chairs Davidson’s graduate fellowships committee and serves as Fulbright Program adviser, said the two students faced tough competition for the Fulbright Full Grant. “It is a highly competitive scholarship, as the applicant pool includes not only graduating seniors, but mainly PhD candidates and other advanced graduate students,” Mr. Denham said in an e-mail announcement of the awards.