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Matthew O’Brien, Independent Scholar 2010 Core Fulbright Scholar to Colombia When I learned that I was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to go to Colombia in 2010, I was elated. It would give me the opportunity to continue work on a daunting project, which I had begun years before: trying to convey the beauty, diversity, and distinctive character of the country through Polaroid photographs

Brian Polkinghorn, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Distinguished Professor at Salisbury University 2010 Core Fulbright Scholar to Israel In the 1990s, I was part of a U.S.-based academic team that went to Israel to encourage fellow academics and university administrators to build courses and programs in the field of conflict analysis and dispute resolution. While visiting faculty at the Tamar

Anna Larsen, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador A ssociate Professor of Chemistry, Ithaca College 2010 Fulbright Core Scholar to Argentina My Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to Argentina made it possible for me to work with a group of top-notch organometallic chemistry researchers in the oldest Argentine academic institution, La Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). It also made it possible for my family and

Lesli Robertson, Senior Lecturer at the University of North Texas January 2015 Fulbright Specialist to Kuwait In January 2015, I first set foot in Kuwait to work at the Al Sadu House as a Fulbright Specialist. This was my first trip to the Middle East and my first hands-on experience with Bedouin textiles. As an artist, my practice focuses on engaging with diverse communities to develop ways to

Dr. Carol Mullen, Professor of Educational Leadership at Virginia Tech May - June 2015 Fulbright Specialist to China In July 2015, Dr. Carol A. Mullen returned to the United States from a four-week assignment in China as a Fulbright Scholar where she explored people’s perceptions of creativity and accountability in universities and schools. She describes the project she conducted with Southwest

Suhasini “Susie” Ramisetty-Mikler , Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at University of North Texas 2014-2015 Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Saudi Arabia It has been lifelong dream of mine to be a Fulbrighter. I once had a student from Saudi Arabia in my university’s master’s program in public health and having never met anyone from Saudi Arabia before, it piqued my interest in the country. Saudi

Charles Wallace, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science at Michigan Technological University 2010 Core Fulbright Scholar to Chile “Ocho coma ocho.” Eight point eight? At 4 A.M. I trusted my grasp of Spanish even less than usual. Yet that was the phrase on everyone’s tongue as we stood outside the empty apartment building. Did the Richter scale really go

Michael Goldberg, Assistant Professor, Design & Innovation, Case Western Reserve University May 2015 Fulbright Specialist Grantee to Namibia Reposted with permission via www.huffingtonpost.com As a Fulbright Specialist, I have had some amazing opportunities to connect my work as a scholar in the United States with real-world applications in entrepreneurship. In early May 2015, my Fulbright

John Stasinopoulos, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Professor, Department of English as a Second Language (ESL) at College of DuPage 2010 Core Fulbright Scholar to Russia There were a number of shocks during the first few days of my arrival in Irkutsk, Russia, like the -30°F that left me literally breathless, when I arrived as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar at Irkutsk State Linguistics University in

Kanykei Kalieva , Senior Lecturer at Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Manas University 2014-2015 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Massachusetts, Boston Outreach Lecturing Fund participant at St. Bonaventure University I t has been almost twenty-five years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, which resulted in an extensive transformation of economic, political, and social spheres of all five