ANN ARBOR—Twenty-one students from the University of Michigan have been awarded Fulbright Fellowships for 2006-2007.

More than 1,300 students nationwide competed for the honor, including 76 applicants from U-M. Last year, U-M had more applicants and ranked No. 1 with 29 winners and 100 applicants.

Only Yale, Harvard and Brown universities produced more Fulbright winners this year. U-M tied with Columbia University and the University of California-Berkley, which each had 21 fellows. Fulbright fellows undertake self-designed programs in disciplines ranging from social sciences, business, communication and performing arts, to physical sciences, engineering and education.

Among U-M’s 2006-07 Fulbright Fellows, Lori Khatchadourian, a Ph.D. student in archaeology, will travel to Armenia to explore the ” political and social dynamics that local communities of the Yervan did polity constructed” during the Armenian plateau in the mid-first millennium BC. Ariel Djanikian will travel to the Canadian Yukon to further research related to her historical novel about the Klondike Gold Rush.

2005-06 U-M awardees and their destinations: