DURHAM, N.C. – Duke football junior long snapper Bronson Bruneau will make his first trip to Vietnam this summer as part of the  inaugural class of the Rubenstein-Bing Student-Athlete Civic Engagement (ACE) Program. The program provides one-time funding for student-athletes to engage in a three-week international service project.

Bruneau caught up with Blue Devil Network's Ryan Craig to discuss his trip overseas, in which he will join rowing's Tara Christensen and Grace Williams, tennis' Rebecca Smaller and volleyball's Alyse Whitaker in Vietnam to teach academics, sports and life skills to middle school children in a summer-camp setting.

In February 2014, Duke's Board of Trustee's, chaired by Duke alumnus David Rubenstein, traveled to Palo Alto, Calif., and met with officials from Stanford to determine opportunities for collaboration between the two institutions. The challenging schedules of student-athletes, which make participating in off-campus activities such as study abroad programs difficult, was identified as an issue the two universities could work together on in order to develop a solution, leading to the genesis of ACE. The ACE program was officially announced in Spring 2015.

For additional information on each of the 40 student-athletes participating in the ACE Program, visit www.ace.duke.edu.

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