Fulbright Changed My Life – Eugenie Trow – Netherlands 1966
Year: 1966-67, Amsterdam, Nederlands Who I am: Playwright. Retired teacher of Theatre Arts and Math at a two-year college. Why I went: To study Intuitionistic Mathematics, found only at the University of Amsterdam. This mathematical theory advocates that we need to be suspicious about processes that repeat “forever,” since we can’t be there when it […]
Pizza Party – Raymond Hogler – Italy 2007
In 2007, I spent a semester teaching at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy. I understood at the outset that students were competent in English and I would be teaching in that language. It wasn’t quite so easy. My students generally didn’t speak any better English than I did Italian. It was a problem. […]
Fulbright and the Growth of a Professional Teachers’ Organization – Sally La Luzerne-Oi – Ukraine 1995 & 2007
My Fulbright experience in Ukraine during the 1995-1996 academic year provided many special moments and memories, but the most enduring one was helping to organize a professional organization for teachers of English. One of my tasks while teaching English classes for English majors at Vinnytsia Pedagogical Institute (now a university) was to assist faculty there […]
From 0 to 1 – Servio Palacios – Indiana, USA 2013
I am from a tiny town in Honduras; this town is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization. I am the first Ph.D. in Computer Science (CS) from this region (Copan Ruinas). Copan Ruinas is a United Nations World Heritage site renowned for the hieroglyphic staircase, stellae, and museum. The Mayans invented the Zero independently around 4 AD; therefore, it was […]
The Shakers and Tagore Dance – Leslie Friedman – India 1984
December, 1983. I arrived in India, a Fulbright Lecturer affiliated with Viswa Bharati University, West Bengal. It is Nobel Prize poet Tagore’s university. Mrs Das Gupta from Fulbright/Calcutta took me to the train to Santineketan. A gorgeous carriage met me. Dance Department Directors, men in colorful, exquisite costumes, greeted me as though I […]
The Intersections of Graphic Design and Architecture – Vincent Robbins – Honduras 2009
My Fulbright experience in Honduras at CEDAC, Centre for Design, Architecture and Construction, in 2009, was a memorable one. It is among the top 5 educational institutions of the country and I held workshops there for two weeks for local Architects and Graduate Students. Many of the participants were studying Graphic Design. A total of […]
French-styled student strikes in francophone Africa – Daphne Ntiri – Burkina Faso 2015
It was my second time experiencing a student strike just at the beginning of the semester when I was supposed to start teaching. My very first experience with student strikes was at the University of Djibouti and this strike lasted for a couple of weeks and it came to an end with the intervention of […]
Neurophysiology – Robert Rice Young – Australia 1956
I went to the ANU in Canberra to spend a year getting an introduction to Neurophysiology from Professor J.C. Eccles who went on to become Sir John Eccles, Nobel Laureate. He was using microelectrodes to study the fine details of the behavior of single nerve cells in the spinal cord of cats. I returned to […]