Central Foundation Girls School – Georgia Vahue – The United Kingdom 1999
My Fulbright Teacher Exchange experience began in August of 1999 with a three day intensive workshop at the American University in Washington, D.C. Selected American teachers and International Partner teachers participated. Mid-August, I arrived on my own in London and I set up my flat in East Dulwich; took a couple of test runs on […]
“Let’s Put on a Show” in Hong Kong with American Myths – Eleanor Heginbotham – Hong Kong 1998
Four “Senior Scholar” Fulbrighters arrived in Hong Kong, a year after the handover, when many potential students had left for Canada and elsewhere. Our universities (I was at the University of Hong Kong, the high rise above the bay while others were in Baptist and Chinese University) were taking steps to de-emphasize western influences and […]
My Fulbright Year of Teaching: Pushing a Career Reset Button – Sara Tipton – Slovakia 1999
During my Fulbright year, I taught 4 sections of English composition in Presov University, Slovakia with terrific colleagues and talented students. I also traveled often by train within the country to Poland, Hungary, and Czech Republic to experience that part of the world and attend workshops and conferences on teaching English. The opportunities to travel, […]
Fulbrighter on the Front lines of COVID-19
Dr. Jamie P. Morano explains COVID-19 and answers common questions. Dr. Jamie P. Morano, MD, MPH, is a Fulbright alumna Hong Kong University 1998-1999, Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the USF Morsani College of Medicine and serves as Medical Director, Disease Control, at the Florida Department of Health – Hillsborough. She completed infectious disease […]
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, […]