A Humble Exchange of Gifts – Barbara Ellen Thompson – Vietnam 2014
Mr Huang lived in a humble dwelling made of sheets of corrugated iron next door to our house in Hue, Vietnam. He had a small red plastic table and four matching chairs in front of his house. Whenever my husband, Don, and I passed his home he would insist that we sit down and join […]
Holodomor: the little known famine-genocide – Oleh Wolowyna – Ukraine 2008 and 2014
Discovering new facts about the 1932-34 Famine in Soviet Ukraine Sometimes a decision at a specific point in time triggers a significant change in one’s life course. I started my first Fulbright grant in September 2008 at the Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. I soon […]
Startup Project – Out of Scratch / AUSicily.it – Sami Basha – Italy 2014
Establishing the American University of Sicily as a Laboratory for Innovation. I have been leading an effort to establish the American University of Sicily out of scratch. What can be differently? AUSI is not a commercial enterprise. It is first and foremost, an institution of higher learning and research. As a private nonprofit university association, […]
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 […]
Discovering New Facts about the 1932-34 Famine in Soviet Ukraine – Oleh Wolowyna – Ukraine 2008 and 2014
Sometimes a decision at a specific point in time triggers a significant change in one’s life course. I started my first Fulbright grant in September 2008 at the Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. I soon realized that the Institute staff was not very interested in my […]
Reminiscences of the First Months of a Fulbright Grant – Sofika Zielyk – Ukraine 2014
“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations.” I have heard this quote by Sen. William Fulbright many times in my life but only after I had spent the first part of my Fulbright grant in Ukraine did I fully understand the […]
Engineering with Fulbright – Hassaan Idrees – USA 2014-2016
Thanks to the Fulbright grant, I was able to study my master’s in electrical power systems engineering at Arizona State University, where I studied and worked on multiple projects on renewable energy and power systems. At ASU, I was the Vice President of the Engineers Without Borders USA chapter, through which I was able to […]
Giving the Fulbright Talk – Alexa Alice Joubin – United Kingdom 2014-2015
I have shared my research findings on cultural globalization during my Fulbright year to London in the 2019 Fulbright Talk at the Fulbright National Conference. The arts can lead to positive global changes in many areas. The Fulbright Spirit of mutual understanding is enhanced by theatre. When history is held hostage by politics and when […]