Neurophysiology – Robert Rice Young – Australia 1956
I went to the ANU in Canberra to spend a year getting an introduction to Neurophysiology from Professor J.C. Eccles who went on to become Sir John Eccles, Nobel Laureate. He was using microelectrodes to study the fine details of the behavior of single nerve cells in the spinal cord of cats. I returned to […]
A springboard for learning to travel – Edward T Ordman – Australia 1974
Shortly after my Ph. D. I engaged in some correspondence about a mathematical paper I’d read, which led to a one-semester post-doctoral research Fulbright to Australia in 1974. I was able to give lectures up and down the Eastern part of Australia, at several universities. While I’ve never seen a formal list of the “far corners […]
A Fulbright honeymoon year in Japan & onward – John Hancock – Asia 1975
In 1975, John L. Hancock (1923-2008) received a Fulbright year abroad to offer urban studies at the University of Tokyo & other Japanese schools. His lecturing extended through a Fulbright-supported summer tour of schools across Japan, throughout Asia, & onward to Australia & New Zealand. As his wife — we married within days of departing […]
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 […]
When the pandemic interrupted my Fulbright at Harvard – Paul David Harpur – Massachusetts, USA 2020
From the inception of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946, those of us who were privileged to be abroad in the first half of 2020 had the most unique of all experiences. We are the only Fulbright cohort to have lived through a global pandemic. COVID-19 cut our projects short and caused us anguish, but it […]