Visiting a Champagneski Factory in Ukraine – William W Wilen – Ukraine 2003
My Fulbright Scholar teaching experience in Ukraine was one of the most culturally informative and memorable experiences in my traveling academic life as a teacher education professor at Kent State University. I was the first Fulbrighter to serve as a senior lecturer at the Horlivka State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages located in the eastern […]
Making a Difference by Dispelling Stereotypes and Aging Poles – Greta Garniss – Poland 2011
I was a mid-career professional at the time of my award pursuing a Masters Degree at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. I used this award to extend my research relating to seniors and housing plus working on dispelling the myths of Polish seniors -all very old, all close to death, and possibly living with extended family. […]
Visiting Professor – Loreley Gomes Garcia – Brazil 2010 & 2019
In 2010, I went to Temple University as a Scholar in Residence. Then in 2019, I was a Visiting Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Chair in Brazilian Studies. Loreley Gomes Garcia – Fulbright to Brazil 2010 and 2019
Finding “Hygge” While on a Fulbright – Dianne Morrison Beedy – Norway 2018-19
I set off on my Fulbright Specialist adventure heading to Oslo, Norway. While working on various nursing curriculum strategies, conducting leadership workshops, and giving talks on evidence-based practice, I started noticing something else. There was the essence of “hygge” all around me. As a newcomer to Norway, I wondered, could I gain some of this […]
Becoming Part of my School Community – Rohan Dharan – India 2015
Rohan Dharan – Fulbright to India 2015
Teaching the History of U.S. Foreign Relations During the Invasion of Iraq – Joseph Michael Henning – Japan 2002-03
At Japan’s Tohoku University in 2002-2003, I taught courses on the history of U.S. foreign relations to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. During the break between the fall and spring semesters in March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. I initially had planned to address the 9/11 attacks and U.S. responses to them in the […]
Asha Jawa (Coming and Going) – Snehendu B. Kar – India 2015
Snehendu B. Kar – Fulbright to India 2015
Full Circle – Jaime Palter – Costa Rica 2000
I learned so much about myself, my host country, and the biggest estuary in Costa Rica during my Fulbright experience 20 years ago. Every day at Costa Rica stretched me intellectually. Today, a Fulbright student from Indonesia studies oceanography with me here in the US. The potential for science to unite us across cultures and […]