The Influence of Equanimity Across Artistic Media – Artemis Preeshl – India 2010 and 2011
“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.” -Jawaharlal Nehru, Independence Day Speech on August 15, 1947. I came to India to search for the essence of Indian arts on […]
Embracing the Swiss Culture – Varun Yarabarla – Switzerland 2016
I approached everything with an open mind during my Fulbright grant year abroad. By being in a new continent, everything is a new experience. Upon arrival, I did my best to first get involved with my hobbies like playing tennis and working out. I joined the LUC Tennis Team which allowed me to play competitive […]
Norma J Hervey – Moldova 2007
The US Embassy in Moldova asked each Fulbright scholar to host an hour’s English conversation each week. My Monday group usually included 10-12 people, professionals, high school students, even a few younger pupils. During one week, most of these sessions were cancelled so I was not surprised to have nearly 50 people in a very […]
Thresholds & Bridges – Norma Fay Green – Denmark 2000
“Our school is an island in the sea of time, and on this occasion the winds have blown our way.” Peter Hoeg in The History of Danish Dreams In August 2000, after a summer of graduate teaching in Chicago and just three days after a week-long intensive journalism educators conference in Phoenix, Arizona where construction […]
A Party – Ray Marik – England 1974
In fall of 1974 I am off to England with my family to spend the year as part of the Fulbright Exchange appointment to teach in a southern England comprehensive school. (I still correspond with friends met there nearly half a century ago.) On weekends we have a wonderful time visiting castles, cathedrals, and on […]
Caroline S. Conzelman – Bolivia 2004
The year I spent in Bolivia—the rural area of the Yungas and the city of La Paz—on a Fulbright Student Grant conducting ethnographic fieldwork toward a doctorate in anthropology was the most gratifying experience of my life. I was able to gain a deep holistic understanding of rural life in a place that faces many […]
The role of the Commission, Campus and Community in the Success of the Fulbright Program – Divine Tarla – USA 2016
In collaboration with Larry E. Erickson – Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University Ganga M. Hettiarachchi – Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University Lawrence C. Davis – Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University In 1979-80, the US government, in exchanges with the Cameroon government, decided to provide assistance to University Center […]
Cultural Relativism – John Michael Strawn – Germany 1973
In Berlin during the Vietnam War era, I became sensitized to subtle propaganda. I could listen to the radio news from the Armed Forces Network, the local West Berlin radio stations, to East Berlin. I would hear about the communist troops in S Vietnam, the war in Vietnam, and the capitalist troops in S. Vietnam. […]