Finding “Hygge” While on a Fulbright – Dianne Morrison Beedy – Norway 2018-19
I set off on my Fulbright Specialist adventure heading to Oslo, Norway. While working on various nursing curriculum strategies, conducting leadership workshops, and giving talks on evidence-based practice, I started noticing something else. There was the essence of “hygge” all around me. As a newcomer to Norway, I wondered, could I gain some of this […]
The Fulbright Spirit – Mark William Drews – Norway 1993
Almost 30 years ago, I was presented with the opportunity to help create Norway’s first graduate music production and recording program. Having provided initial ideas for the new program, I thought it might be possible to travel to Norway as a researcher to work with the project on site in Stavanger. After investigating options for […]
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 […]
A library in Provence and an Intellectual Adventure – Richard Rubenstein – France 1976
I arrived in Aix-en-Provence, France, in September 1976 with my wife and two children to begin a one-year appointment as a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of Provence. I had arranged to rent a house owned by Michel Vovelle, a famous historian at the university who later became a chaired professor at the University […]
“Azcárraga” – an American “Pasodoble fallero” for Spain – Richard Scott Cohen D.M. – Spain 1993
Azcárraga, Pasodoble Fallero is a Spanish-style “pasodoble” march composed in 1994 by American musician, Richard Scott Cohen, during his Fulbright research scholarship residency in the Valencia region of Spain, from 1993-1995. The research focused on Valencia’s rich and historic community band movement, unequaled anywhere else in the world. The resulting dissertation helped Cohen complete his […]
A Fulbright Scholar in Ireland – Richard Peach – Ireland 2007
As editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, I first collaborated with the faculty in the Department of Clinical Speech and Language Studies at Trinity College Dublin while recruiting a manuscript for publication. The partnership turned out to be such a good fit that the faculty there enthusiastically agreed to host me for a […]
My Inauspicious Fulbright Lecture Debut – Dan Fellner – Latvia 2001-2002
It was the first day of the semester at the University of Latvia in Riga when I arrived promptly for my opening lecture in a class called “Public Relations Principles.” I had been rehearsing my introductory comments for days and was pleased to see that a large group of students were in the room as […]
To Fulbright Polska with Love – Eilleen MacAvery Kane – Poland 2018
A video that captures my experience of my Fulbright, and the curriculum project that resulted. Eilleen MacAvery Kane – Fulbright to Poland 2018