Personal Digital Stories – John Higgins – Cyprus 2011
Personal digital stories created in 2011 by Cypriot Fulbright/CASP (Cyprus-America Scholarship Program) alumni as part of activities reflecting on the Cyprus Fulbright Commission’s 50th Anniversary in 2012: “Fulbright Changes Lives.” With support from the Public Affairs Section and Bicommunal Support Program of the US Embassy, Cyprus. John Higgins – Fulbright to Cyprus 2011 Alexia […]
The big snow of 1976 – Judith A Rasson – Bosnia 1975
I spent my Fulbright year (1975-1976) at the Zemaljski Muzej (museum) in Sarajevo, Bosnia, doing research for my PhD dissertation in archaeology. Every day I took the morning coffee break with the archaeologists and support staff like the illustrators. In the early new year there was a big snowstorm and all the archaeologists (including me) […]
Golden Friendship – Barbara McCleary – Hungary 2000
With COVID-19 quarantine restrictions, we turn to Zoom to communicate with friends and family. Since 2000, we of Pecs, Hungarian Fulbright-Hays Grant, have kept in touch mainly through Facebook. This month, Sylvia of Pecs, suggested a Zoom meeting of our group so I set to organize 12 of the original 20 members to Zoom next […]
Personal and Professional Growth – Charles Edward Kiamie III – Jordan 2004
As a Fulbrighter in Jordan (2004-05), I completed critical research that enabled me to complete my doctoral dissertation in comparative politics and Arab studies. Even more, the experience yielded wonderful relationships which endured to this day. I met my wife as a Fulbrighter, and our children have come to view Jordan as a second home. […]
My Journey to the Heart of the American Dream – Chuck Chuan Ng – USA 2018
The Fulbright US-ASEAN Initiate program has expanded my thinking horizons and allowed me to step out of my personal comfort zone which allowed me to always strive for greater heights and excellence in whatsoever field that I am currently pursuing. It has solemnly been a positive stepping stone for me to think and act out […]
In Search of European Blind Salamanders in the Caves of Slovenia – Stanley K. Sessions – Slovenia 2016-2017
My story begins in 1991 when, as a freshly minted Assistant professor, I decided to follow my undergraduate mentor’s footsteps to Yugoslavia to study the European blind cave salamander (Proteus anguinus), also called the “olm.” My Yugoslavian contact, Dr. Boris Sket of the University of Ljubljana, welcomed me to visit his lab but warned that […]
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 […]
Kirovohrad: A City of Contrasts and Harsh Realities in Central Ukraine – George Oleh Kolodiy – Ukraine 1998
I came to Ukraine as a Fulbright scholar to teach, so my first interest was to find out about Ukraine’s educational system. I taught at Kirovohrad’s Volodymyr Vynnychenko National Pedagogical University. The teaching resources at the university are extremely poor. There are probably two or three overhead projectors at the university and that was essentially […]