Filip Michalsky participates in Bates College Junior Year Abroad program

2013 Dec 18

Filip Michalsky, the child of Dr. David Michalsky and Dr. Dana Michalska of Prague, the Czech Republic, and a 2011 graduate of Gymnasium Budejovicka, is participating in the 2013-14 Bates College Junior Year Abroad program.

Michalsky, who is majoring in mathematics and chemistry at Bates, is studying in Munich, Germany, through Wayne State University.

About 60 percent of Bates students study abroad, and Bates offers access to study-abroad programs in more than 80 countries. Through academically rigorous and culturally enriching study-abroad experiences, Bates students engage the transformative power of our differences and develop a commitment to responsible stewardship of the wider world.

Located in Lewiston, Maine, Bates is internationally recognized as a leading college of the liberal arts, attracting 2,000 students from across the U.S. and around the world. Since 1855, Bates has been dedicated to educating the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community. With a commitment to affordability, Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender, race, religion or national origin. Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action, Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world.