Uppsala's Deputy Vice-Chancellor Kerstin Sahlin and SACC-NY President Renée Lundholm with the 2012 Uppsala University Scholarship grantee Carole Ginman.

Uppsala student Carole Ginman was awarded the first Swedish American Chamber of Commerce in New York - Uppsala University Scholarship during a ceremony at the SACC-NY Lucia Trade Award Gala Dinner in The Carlyle Hotel in New York City on December 5. Uppsala's Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Kerstin Sahlin presented the award to Ms. Ginman, who will spend the next year on an internship with SACC-NY. Ms. Ginman, who has an MSc in business, media and communication sciences from Uppsala University, will join the chamber in its daily work, as well as supporting AFUU and Uppsala University alumni activities in the US.

AFUU Treasurer Marianne Andersson, SACC-NY UU Scholar Carole Ginman and AFUU board member Ambassador Lyndon L. Olson Jr.

During the Lucia Trade Award ceremony, SACC-NY also presented its annual award to Ambassador Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. in recognition of his longstanding support of free trade as CEO of Bristol-Meyers Squibb Company and thereafter as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden. The 2012 recipients of the chamber’s two other scholarships, The Bertil Edlund Scholarship and The Haakan B. Guldkula Foundation Scholarship, are also Uppsala alumni.

We congratulate all 2012 scholarship grantees and wish them an exciting year in New York City.