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Olga Shabalina, Associate Professor of Marketing at South Ural State University 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Mount St. Mary’s University from Russia My Fulbright story started in 2009 when, together with Professor Sandra Sjoberg from Mount St. Mary’s University, we launched a virtual joint class “International Marketing”. The class was a great success, helping to develop a long

Aparajita Maitra, Assistant Dean of Student and Alumni Affairs at Florida International University 2015 Fulbright International Education Administrators Seminar Participant The Fulbright International Education Administrators (IEA) program provides mid and upper level higher education administrators the opportunity to experience the higher education system in selected countries around the world

Ari Sherris, Assistant Professor of Education at Texas A&M University- Kingsville 2015-2016 Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Ghana I am a language ecologist. As a Fulbright U.S. Scholar, I lived among the Safaliba in a remote rural area of Ghana to document Safaliba literacy activism for one year. I also visited the University of Education, Winneba, my host institution, to deliver Fulbright seminars

Iva Bojic, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Zagreb, Croatia 2014-2015 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Coming from snowy Boston, it was a real pleasure to visit tropical Puerto Rico for a few days and give three lectures at different Universities: Universidad Del Turabo in Gurabo, Universidad Del Este in Carolina, and Universidad Metropolitana

David J. Smith, President of the Forage Center for Peacebuilding and Humanitarian Education 2003-2004 Fulbright Scholar to Estonia I have come to believe that, like the fermenting of a fine wine, a Fulbright opportunity, to be fully appreciated, needs to be considered years after the experience. There is much enthusiasm when one comes back from their time overseas about how one might make a

Aaron Basko, Assistant Vice President of Education, Salisbury University 2015 Fulbright International Education Administrators (IEA) Seminar Participant to Japan Here I am, standing at ground zero of one of the most tragic losses of human life of the 20 th century – Peace Park in Hiroshima, site of the first atomic bomb drop. Unlike the typical American visitor, my guides are young college

Chris Carr, J.D., Professor of Business Law and Public Policy, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Fulbright Specialist to Tunisia (2011), Pakistan (2015) and Mongolia (2016) Fulbright awards are transformational gifts. As an academic, you experience the joy of teaching students. You research challenging questions in your field, publish the findings, and hope someone will read

Diana Payne, Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences, Connecticut Sea Grant/University of Connecticut 2015 Fulbright Specialist to Denmark The ocean. A seemingly vast salty highway covering more than 70% of the surface of our planet. There is only one global ocean. There are numerous ocean basins, but from a water perspective, it’s all connected. That’s how I became interested in making

Jonathan Stuart, Faculty of Workforce Education, Hennepin Technical College 2015-2016 Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Guatemala My wife and I have wanted to return abroad since we met while teaching in Korea. Over the years, we looked into multiple avenues to give our three kids the opportunity of being in a new culture and foreign country. It all came together for us due to Fulbright and my chance to