Sharing America’s Election Drama with Ukraine – Adrian Karmazyn – Ukraine 2016
During the closing weeks of the 2016 US election season, I had the unique opportunity to try and explain the key moments of the campaign to an audience of Ukrainian university journalism students. During mid October, I started a one-month Fulbright Specialist lecture tour which took me to three cities in Ukraine — Kyiv, Kharkiv, […]
You Will Not Get What You Deserve, You Will Get What You Negotiate – Yasmine Abdelkarem Abdellatif – USA 2016
“You will not get what you deserve; you will get what you negotiate.” I have started my sponsored Fulbright journey with this nice piece of advice. In June 2016, I was traveling to do my Masters of Science in Nanotechnology at the University of Central Florida. It was my first time to travel on a […]
Close Encounters – Dianne Morrison-Beedy – United Kingdom 2016
A close. In Scotland you see these enclosed spaces or alleyways throughout the City of Edinburgh – Mary’s King Close, Advocate Close, World’s End Close, the list goes on and on. To be close, to come together, to unite. One word – two meanings. For me, these definitions became so intertwined as I experienced my […]
Teaching and Research in Geospatial Data in China – Sima Bagheri – China 2016
Sima Bagheri – Fulbright to China 2016
Emily Paxson – Bulgaria 2016
I had two professors of German who were both Bulgarians and I was always intrigued when they spoke about their native country. In the Fall of 2015, I returned to Miami University for my senior year. I was eager to apply for a Fulbright following a summer internship in Thailand where I was introduced to […]
Noah Perales-Estoesta – Brazil 2016
Two years after completing a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Brazil, I think back to the question my Fulbright Program Adviser asked me when I was first applying: how is Fulbright the next logical step on your personal and professional journey? Answering that question seemed like a tall order at the time, like it would […]
Holly Wheeler – India 2016
Holly Wheeler was the third Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) that Tanya, a senior at Shyama Prasad Vidyalaya secondary school in New Delhi, India, had encountered. Though she had never left Delhi in her life, her exposure to three American teachers at school instilled in Tanya a keen interest in studying abroad. In the spring […]