Chapter Spotlight: Minnesota
The Minnesota Chapter of the Fulbright Association was a recipient of the 2017 Committee’s Choice Award, an achievement that highlights how uniquely this chapter fulfills the Fulbright mission through its initiatives. With events including outdoor adventures and social gatherings, the Minnesota Chapter’s programming is a shining example of how chapter activities can engage the area’s […]
Three Institutional Members Named 2018 Simon Award Recipients
Congratulations to three of the Fulbright Association’s institutional members — Texas Tech University, the University of Florida, and the University of Georgia — who have been named recipients of the 2018 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization by NAFSA. The Simon Award recognizes U.S. colleges and universities who are making significant progress toward campus […]
Tammy Hensrud – Germany 1985
Above: Hensrud performing a Kurt Weill program at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland in September 2017 “I absolutely feel international exposure and exchanges are essential for artistic growth. We as artists are asked to interpret life experiences which we may never have personally experienced,” says Tammy Hensrud, a Fulbright scholar alumna who […]
Jonathan Goodman Levitt – United Kingdom 1999
“The idea that ‘film is an empathy machine,’ while somewhat cliched, is true. It’s the closest we can come to meeting people in real life and experiencing them in-person,” says award-winning documentary filmmaker Jonathan Goodman Levitt. Levitt received a Fulbright grant in 1999, and went to the UK’s National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, […]
Iowa Chapter Launches Fulbright-in-the-Classroom Pilot
This past fall, the Iowa Chapter of the Fulbright Association became the first to launch a pilot program of the Fulbright-in-the-Classroom initiative in partnership with the Van Meter Community School District in Van Meter, Iowa. Through two organized visits to the Van Meter Community School District, visiting Fulbright grantees from Iowa State University engaged with […]
Chapter Spotlight: Brazos Valley
The Brazos Valley Chapter of the Fulbright Association sets itself apart through creative and engaging programming. Covering the area around the cities of Bryan and College Station, Texas, the Brazos Valley Chapter aims to engage with U.S. Fulbright alumni of all ages, supporters of the Fulbright vision, and visiting Fulbrighters. The events that the chapter […]
Alumni Bring International Scholarship to the Teaching of Music
Since its origins, the Fulbright Program has played a critical role in developing the global competencies of U.S. educators. International education broadens a teacher’s own horizons, giving them a deeper understanding of the world to impart to their students. Fulbrighters Hollis Thoms and Cynthia Smith are both educators and musical scholars whose experiences working and […]
Fulbrighters in the Operatic Arts Reimagine the Genre for Modern Times
Above: Scene from “Così fan tutte,” performed by DC Public Opera and directed by Jennifer Williams in 2015. Photo courtesy of DC Public Opera. It has been said that music is the world’s only true international language. It is one with the ability to communicate any singular feeling from the universally shared range of human emotion […]