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Delaney Ruston Independent grantee to India, 2012-2013 The convergence of both professional and personal experiences led me to make films on community mental health workers in India as a Fulbright-Nehru Grantee . It was not that long ago that the thought of mental health care in a global context was a topic very foreign to me. This was true in spite of the fact that I am a doctor with experience

Adria L. Baker, Ed.D. Associate Vice Provost for International Education Rice University What a difference a two-week IEA makes! It was just two months ago that I arrived in Seoul, S. Korea, where I met up with my fellow international education colleagues from around the USA. We were anxious to see everything we could, since we had been well-prepared with many articles and pre-reading orientation

Loretta L.C. Brady, Ph.D., APA-CP Associate Professor, Saint Anselm College Cyprus 2012/2013 I was a 21 year old first generation minority McNair fellow when my mentor told me about her Fulbright to the Netherlands, and I learned that one could travel, do research, and build career-long international connections, all while being paid! I set my sights on securing one, someday, and tucked the idea

As a Fulbright Scholar , Dr. Marie Nazon conducted a qualitative study with the goal of developing an understanding and awareness of women’s experiences with empowerment in self-help groups in Senegal. The study examined how women in self-help groups associate empowerment with changes in women’s social, economical, and psychological conditions after their involvement. Dr. Nazon’s host institution

Kavery Kaul India, 2012-2013 Five months in India! The possibility of a long-term experience abroad inspired me to apply for a Fulbright . This motivation was also predicated on the discovery that a Fulbright Scholar could be a filmmaker, like me, and is not limited to just researchers and professors. Creative expression, documentary exploration, non-academic field research – these fields are

Adam Gamzon University of Massachusetts, Amherst Israel, 2012-2013 My family's Fulbright experience has been fantastic, and everything that we hoped would happen has happened. When I applied to Fulbright, I was just finishing my Ph.D. and we knew that the natural next stage in my academic career would be to get a non-tenure track/ postdoctoral position for about two or three years. Knowing that

Dr. Ashley Steel Ecological Statistician USDA Forest Service Austria, 2008 Our Fulbright experience started on a very busy day - such a busy day that I very nearly missed the opportunity altogether. There was a guest seminar speaker visiting my office, a professor from Vienna, Austria. After lunch and his speech, he asked if I had time to meet later and I almost said “no.” I remember my hesitation

Afzal A. Siddiqui, PhD Grover E. Murray Distinguished Professor Texas Tech School of Medicine India Through a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant, I went back to my alma mater, Aligarh University, after over 30 years to spend six months teaching and researching. This turned out to be the most productive and rewarding experience of my life. So much has changed in the years I have been away from

Steve Oluic, Lakeland Community College As a Dean at Lakeland Community College, in Kirtland, Ohio, I was extremely pleased to participate in the Campus Representative workshop presented by CIES (and sponsored by the U.S. Department of State ) in San Francisco on April 19 th . It was well attended by a wide range of Community College faculty, staff and administrators. The workshop cleared up one

Philip Krummich, Fulbright Campus Representative , Morehead State University Professor Gang Zhou, a Fulbright Scholar from Dalian University of Technology in China who is spending the year at Bergen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey, visited Morehead State University in Kentucky on April 22, 2013. Professor Zhou gave a talk entitled “Confucianism : Philosophy or Religion?” to an audience of