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Daris Hale, Fulbright Ambassador Senior Lecturer, School of Music at Texas State University September 2010 – August 2011 Fulbright Scholar to Tanzania The drums beat wildly as I danced toward center stage and then fiercely jiggled my grass-skirted derriere for a packed arena of screaming Tanzanians. I’m a Fulbright Scholar and a bassoonist. Normally, my adorable fans are bow-tied intelligentsia

Dom Caristi, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Professor, Department of Telecommunications at Ball State University February – June 2009 Fulbright Scholar to Greece In 2009, I was privileged to spend a semester as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. It was a fabulous experience for both my wife and me. The key to the success of my Fulbright was Department

Eileen Ariza, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Professor/ESOL Coordinator at Florida Atlantic University January-May 2009 Fulbright Scholar to Mexico Finally, it seemed that the planets were perfectly aligned as I submitted my Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program application and applied for my sabbatical in hopes that it would be granted and I would be accepted to do a Fulbright. In thinking about my

Sheryl Ehrman, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Keystone Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Maryland-College Park August 2006 - February 2007 , Fulbright U.S. Scholar to India My Fulbright Scholar story began in October 2001 and continues to this day. My graduate school officemate, Chandra Venkataraman, now professor at the Indian Institute of

Liz Bergey, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Associate Professor of Biology at University of Oklahoma October 2007 - April 2008, Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Thailand Being a Fulbrighter has definitely been the highpoint of my academic career – It brought on the challenges and stimulation of teaching and doing research with new colleagues in a new environment, with the bonus of my children getting to

Matt Vonk, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls March - July 2010, Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Nicaragua I arrived in Managua, Nicaragua in March of 2010. It was the middle of the dry season and everything was dusty, dirty, and parched. I had been to Nicaragua in 2006, so I should have known better, but for some reason the image of

Charles Sasaki, Fulbright Alumni Ambassador Dean of Arts & Sciences at University of Hawaii - Kapi'olani Community College November 2012, Community Colleges Administrator Seminar to Russia March 2008, International Education Administrator Seminar to Germany As a minority scholar and a relatively young administrator working at a community college, I had never thought that a Fulbright was within the

Gary Kebbel, Professor at University of Nebraska - Lincoln June 2014 Specialist to the African Union located in Ethiopia Former Specialist Grantee in 2008 to Pretoria, South Africa Gary Kebbel’s first Specialist grant changed the course of his life. As he lectured to a group of South African students, one of them would not look up from his phone. Finally, Professor Kebbel inquired, “what are you

Geoffrey Hiller, Independent Scholar - Photographer Fulbright Specialist to National College of Arts, Lahore and National College of Arts, Rawalpindi (Pakistan) My Fulbright Specialist grant gave me the opportunity to lead documentary photography workshops at the National College of Arts in Rawalpindi and Lahore, Pakistan. In addition, I gave a talk and presentation at the U.S. Embassy in

I am one of the proud recipients of the Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Scholar Program for the year 2013-14 from India, which has provided me an opportunity to work at the Department of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego for a period of eight months. After coming to the U.S., I found out that Fulbright chapters are very active in different parts of the country and they arrange