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 […]
Australian Fulbright and the Environmental Genome – Michael Overcash – Australia 1966
My Australian Fulbright experience came as a fresh BSc graduate in Chemical Engineering and took me to the creative Chemical Engineering Department of the University of New South Wales and Professor Joe Norman. Entering the research world, the Fulbright experience taught me to work at the outer reaches of engineering knowledge, because this is where […]
Digging for Camelot – Mike Morrissey – United Kingdom 1966
Hearing that Professor Leslie Alcock, University of Glasgow, was about to begin his search for the site of Camelot near Glastonbury, Somerset, I determined that it was something that the lads and I might like to experience. We phoned Alcock and asked if we might visit. He indicated that they were just starting the digs, […]
John A. Lindburg – Venezuela 1966
Almost a century ago, in 1925, a young J. William Fulbright traveled from Arkansas outside the U.S. for the first time to study on a Rhodes Scholarship. His overseas experience was transformational. Both his heart and mind were opened to foreign cultures, people, values, and ideas, and he also gained valuable new perspectives on the […]