Scholarship and Friendships in Kenya – Jay L. Wenger – Kenya 2011
Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST) is a quality, but less familiar university in western Kenya, about a 6-hour drive from Nairobi. MMUST never hosted a Fulbright Scholar until I arrived in January 2011 for a 5-month assignment. What an honor! My assignment was to work closely with two Kenyan professors to […]
Roma Health In Hungary – Sue Gena Lurie – Hungary 2009
My Fulbright experience as a lecturer at Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary in fall, 2009, began with visits to Roma health fairs with local Susan B. Komen Foundation staff that were arranged by Komen of Fort Worth, Texas, where I taught at UNT Health Science Center. We rode in a taxi from our flat near Erze’bet Hid […]
Developing Taiwan’s National Symphony for Chiang Kai Shek Hall – Dr. Edward P. Sandor – Taiwan 1985-86
I was brought to Taipei to help form a new national (Western) symphony orchestra, to teach the most promising Chinese brass instrumentalists in preparation for the orchestra, to “coach” the existing professional brass players, and to serve on an advisory board for the new national concert venue in Taipei, Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall. Others […]
The Day I Became a Fulbrighter – Victor Hugo Cuspinera Contreras – USA 2012
After six months of starting the process of applying for the Fulbright scholarship, I was selected amongst 500 applicants to be one of the 71 candidates from Mexico to behold the Fulbright Scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies in the US. I can still remember the joy I felt, having been one of the favorite days […]
Using My Malaysia Fulbright Experience to Travel Around the World – William Wilen – Malaysia 1994
My first Fulbright Scholar teaching experience was to Malaysia and its Ministry of Education with the assignment of designing and teaching a four-day workshop to be delivered to university English language faculties in five locations around the country. Malaysia was going through a major educational change. The Ministry of Education wanted schools and teachers to […]
Fulbright Spirit in the Czech Republic – Rick Feinberg – Czech Republic 2019
I am an anthropologist whose research is primarily with Polynesians in the southwestern Pacific. Thanks to a circuitous path and a dose of serendipity, I spent spring semester of 2019 as Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Anthropology at Palacký University, Olomouc, in the Czech Republic. Over two decades ago, my son, Joe, was a freshman at […]
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, […]
My Experience in Brazil – Barbara Randolph – Brazil 2004
I feel so lucky and grateful to have been chosen to represent the U.S. Principals as an ambassador to Brazil. This opportunity was a life changer, I thought we were going to be teaching our southern neighbors how to be “Distinguished Schools,” when in fact, we learned more from them. From Sao Paulo (richest) to […]