My Journey to the Heart of the American Dream – Chuck Chuan Ng – USA 2018
The Fulbright US-ASEAN Initiate program has expanded my thinking horizons and allowed me to step out of my personal comfort zone which allowed me to always strive for greater heights and excellence in whatsoever field that I am currently pursuing. It has solemnly been a positive stepping stone for me to think and act out […]
In Search of European Blind Salamanders in the Caves of Slovenia – Stanley K. Sessions – Slovenia 2016-2017
My story begins in 1991 when, as a freshly minted Assistant professor, I decided to follow my undergraduate mentor’s footsteps to Yugoslavia to study the European blind cave salamander (Proteus anguinus), also called the “olm.” My Yugoslavian contact, Dr. Boris Sket of the University of Ljubljana, welcomed me to visit his lab but warned that […]
Reminiscences of the First Months of a Fulbright Grant – Sofika Zielyk – Ukraine 2014
“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations.” I have heard this quote by Sen. William Fulbright many times in my life but only after I had spent the first part of my Fulbright grant in Ukraine did I fully understand the […]
Kirovohrad: A City of Contrasts and Harsh Realities in Central Ukraine – George Oleh Kolodiy – Ukraine 1998
I came to Ukraine as a Fulbright scholar to teach, so my first interest was to find out about Ukraine’s educational system. I taught at Kirovohrad’s Volodymyr Vynnychenko National Pedagogical University. The teaching resources at the university are extremely poor. There are probably two or three overhead projectors at the university and that was essentially […]
Collaborative Learning and Fun – Hayal Köksal – Turkey 1986
During the summer months of 1986, Fulbright held a six-week-communicative approach seminar for ELT lecturers working at various Turkish universities. Nearly a hundred participants, under the dynamic leadership of 15 professors, had wonderful days and nights at the dreamlike venue -Robert College- by the Bosphorus. The seminar leaders, Mrs. Julia Burks and Mrs. Nevin İnal, […]
Fulbright Equity: Celebrating the Founding Black Families of America – Dr. Barbara Paca – Ireland 1996
This is a story about how being a Fulbright changes your life and the world around you: for the better. Nearly thirty years later after being a postdoc Fulbrighter in the Republic of Ireland (during the period of peace negotiations), I reflect upon lessons learned such as how that time taught me important lessons about […]
An International Fulbright Family – Thora Qaddumi – India 1965
The Fulbright program has had huge impacts on my life and the lives of my husband, Maher Qaddumi, and our entire family. We live in Texas but the Fulbright program has given us all opportunities we would not otherwise gained. Both my husband and I, and two of our children, Halla and Tammer, are Fulbright […]
“Our Town” to Basingtoke – Joanne Louise Hjort – United Kingdom 1982
Upon boarding my flight to London on January 2, 1982, I realized that for the next four months, every person I was about to meet would be new. I taught Drama at Bothell High School, in a suburb of Seattle, WA and my counterpart was the Drama teacher at Bishop Challoner Secondary Modern School in […]