The Intersections of Graphic Design and Architecture – Vincent Robbins – Honduras 2009
My Fulbright experience in Honduras at CEDAC, Centre for Design, Architecture and Construction, in 2009, was a memorable one. It is among the top 5 educational institutions of the country and I held workshops there for two weeks for local Architects and Graduate Students. Many of the participants were studying Graphic Design. A total of […]
Bienvenidos/Welcome – Brenda Ellen Kirk – Uruguay 2003
I was one of the first seven Americans selected as Fulbright scholars to Uruguay. I had previously hosted three sets of teachers and principals from Uruguay who had been selected by Fulbright to live with bilingual teachers in the United States for three weeks in February while Uruguayan schools were on summer break. I was […]
A Better View of the Moon – RoseAnna Mueller – Venezuela 2002
My husband and I had taken a trip on the Rio Cauro in Venezuela. We were camped at a campsite that was owned and maintained by the local Yakuona tribe. They brought food and water to the campsite along the river, but mostly stayed out of sight. One evening I followed a path into the […]
Fieldwork in the Colombian Amazonia – Rafael O. de Sa – Colombia 2016
A Fulbright award allowed me to travel to Bogota, Colombia to pursue biodiversity research with colleagues at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the SINCHI Amazonic Institute of Scientific Research. During that period, SINCHI colleagues invited me to participate in a field expedition to an area poorly studied along the Vaupes River. The team consisted […]
First steps – Jeff Hartman – Belize 2020
We traveled to Belize in 2020 as a family of 5. Mom, dad, and big sis were able to explore independently but the two twin sisters, who were 9 months old, were still crawling on their hands and knees. This was one of the reasons mom and dad were confident enough to take three little […]
Argentina Friends – Brenda Hargrove – Argentina 2006
I was so pleased to have an exchange with an Argentinian educator so similar to me! She had certainly never been outside of her country to North Carolina! I shared as much as I could about the culture, school system, family, etc. with her while she lived with me for three weeks in October, 2006; […]
Science and Soccer – Ricardo Almeida Araujo Da Silva – Brazil 1971
Ricardo Almeida Araujo Da Silva – Fulbright to Brazil 1971
Once in a Lifetime – Su Mi Lee – Chile 2017
I attended the 2017 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program for the postsecondary faculty members/administrators that aimed to help participants learn about how recent societal reforms and social movements in Chile have been influenced by the social, economic, political, religious, and ethnic contexts of Chile. My focus was on human rights violations committed under the Pinochet regime […]