Fulbright Changed My Life – Eugenie Trow – Netherlands 1966
Year: 1966-67, Amsterdam, Nederlands Who I am: Playwright. Retired teacher of Theatre Arts and Math at a two-year college. Why I went: To study Intuitionistic Mathematics, found only at the University of Amsterdam. This mathematical theory advocates that we need to be suspicious about processes that repeat “forever,” since we can’t be there when it […]
A Great Musical and Personal Adventure – Don Theodore Jaeger – Netherlands 1958
I studied the oboe on my Fulbright in Amsterdam, and had the wonderful and unexpected opportunity to play in the oboe section of the World Famous Concertgebouw Orchestra – an experience unexpected and unparalleled in my entire life as a professional oboist. And learning another language and making good friends with the many wonderful people […]
Rembrandt, Fondue, and bicycling to a beach picnic in Holland – Susan Ross Evans – Belgium & Netherlands 1976
It was the sesquicentennial summer of 1976 when I began my Fulbright adventure in Brussels. My scholarship involved immersion in the art history of Belgium and the Netherlands. In Belgium there were wonderful lectures by noted art historians and trips from Brussels to historic towns like Ghent to see the Van Eyck altar piece, Brugge […]
Living Abroad – Richard H Pells – Austria 1979 Denmark 1982 Finland 1997 Germany 2003 Indonesia 2004 The Netherlands 2005
I’ve had 6 Fulbright lectureships and chairs, possibly a record! As a historian of the U.S., I’d always wanted to live abroad and my chance to do so changed my life and career. It yielded 2 books, Not Like Us and Modernist America. For these experiences, I will always be grateful. Richard H Pells – Fulbright […]
The Power of Cultural Diplomacy – Katherine Hoffman
Katherine Hoffman – Fulbrights to Austria (2006), Germany(2014), and Netherlands(2017) Story was originally published in Portraits: The Magazine of Saint Anselm College – Fall/ Winter 2020, pp. 38-41. Visit this link to see the original publication.
Studying Coastal Engineering with the Dutch Masters – Joseph (Jack) Colonell – Netherlands 1960
When I determined that I wanted to further pursue my interest in coastal engineering, I pondered “What better place to study than the Netherlands, whose prowess in coastal engineering has enabled it to survive the fury of North Sea storms that have battered its rings of protective dikes for centuries?” In Spring 1960, I was […]
Raha Hakimdavar – The Netherlands 2013
Raha Hakimdavar, an award-winning engineer and hydrologist, knew what it meant to live in a different country long before her Fulbright to the Netherlands. Originally from Isfahan, Iran, she moved to the United States when she was ten years old. Though she could not speak English, she jumped right into a California middle school, and […]