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Fulbright Passport to Academic Excellence – Usha Rani Narayana – India 1990-1

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I was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship two times in my career which is a rare distinction in India. My first Fellowship was in 1990-91 and was affiliated with Newhouse School of Communications, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. I studied TV Program Production, Radio Program Production and International Communication. I, as a student of Prof. Richard Breyer, […]

An International Fulbright Family – Thora Qaddumi – India 1965

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The Fulbright program has had huge impacts on my life and the lives of my husband, Maher Qaddumi, and our entire family. We live in Texas but the Fulbright program has given us all opportunities we would not otherwise gained. Both my husband and I, and two of our children, Halla and Tammer, are Fulbright […]

Ambiguously Brown – Ryan Booth – India 2019

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No one mistakes me for being white. Although, I am half-white on my father’s side and I carry his surname. To look at him or his forbears, you clearly see his Euro-American bloodlines. I am also the son of an Upper Skagit, Nooksack, and Hawaiian woman. It must be the Polynesian blood in my mother’s […]

It Is More Important That We Eat Together – Robert Millis – India 2012

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At the beginning of my Fulbright year, I attended a conference in Delhi of the International Association of Sound Archives (IASA). I was in India to research Indian music and the early global recording industry (78rpm records, cylinder recording, Edison, His Master’s Voice, etc are my area of expertise, interest and inspiration). I hoped to […]

Presentation at Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) – Khushboo Irshad – USA 2017

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The Fulbright grant allowed me to widen my scientific network in the United States. I did several presentations on the outcome from my research project on brain tumors and received valuable inputs from eminent scientists in the field of cancer biology. I attended the 2017 Society for Neuro Oncology Annual Meet in San Francisco, which […]