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Dr. Sandra Carballo with Kirk Fontenot, BPCC Assistant Professor (Liberal Arts) Bossier Parish Community College is proud to announce it has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence by the Worldwide Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program. BPCC is the first community college in Louisiana and one of only a handful of community colleges nationwide to be awarded this prestigious honor. BPCC was matched with Dr. Sandra Carballo, Chair of the Department of Humanities at Corozal Junior College in...

May 11, 2021 The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced that Randy Boyle, Weber State University professor of management information systems (MIS) and Willard Eccles Fellow, has received a Fulbright U.S. Teaching Scholar Award to Poland.  Fluent in Polish, Boyle will teach at the University of Warsaw. Because the pandemic stalled last year’s Fulbright awards, 2021 was an exceptionally competitive year with more than 100 Fulbright Scholar applicants to ...

Growing up in Peru, Gissella Bejarano first heard of Binghamton University when the Fulbright Program accepted her into its prestigious ranks and offered to help fund her master’s degree in computer science. Bejarano sent an application to Binghamton based on its graduate school ranking and a recommendation from her Fulbright advisor, and when the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science accepted her, she traded anticuchos for spiedies and a near-equatorial climate for upst...

Davidson Honors College 16 April 2021 Noah Grabe, a UM senior from Portland and Taylor Gregory, a UM senior from Lolo, have both received a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to serve as English teaching assistants next year in Madrid. The two met freshman year in UM’s Davidson Honors College and developed a friendship as undergraduates. MISSOULA –  Noah Grabe and Taylor Gregory met on the second floor of Knowles Hall at the...

Reply Professor Laura Ricciardi (Courtesy of Purchase College, SUNY) William Byram (Courtesy of Purchase College, SUNY) The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have announced that Professor Laura Ricciardi, senior Caleb Dowden, and recent alumnus William Byram 20 of Purchase College have received Fulbright U.S. Program awards. Professor Laura Ricciardi, who is an Assistant Professor of Arts Management, has received a Fulbright Scholar award to spend the 2021-202...

Cotacachi is working from within the system to protect the lands of indigenous peoples.  Robert ONeill — To protect the environment that indigenous peoples like his depend on so completely, David Cotacachi MC/MPA 2021 has long had to bridge two worlds—that of the native inhabitants of the land and that of the economic interests seeking to develop its resources.  Cotacachi is a member of the Kichwa-Otavalo people and grew up in Peguche, a rural community in the highlands of Ecuador. For as...

Three UCM Students Named Semifinalists for Fulbright Award By Jeff Murphy, May 5, 2021 WARRENSBURG, MO – Demonstrating  the University of Central Missouri’s commitment to providing opportunities for individuals to gain a worldly perspective, three students have been named semi...

Associate professor of sociology will travel in spring 2022

By Ellen Fike, Cowboy State Daily A University of Wyoming professor has been awarded a prestigious scholarship to conduct research related to changes caused by shifts away from fossil fuels. School of Energy Resources Professor Tara Righetti has won a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research at the Center for Legal Research and Perspectives in Law at the University of Lille College of Law in France. During her 11-month sabbatical from UW, she will collaborate with researchers in Lille to formu...

WNKY 40 News May 3, 2021 BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Two Western Kentucky University students have been awarded Fulbright US Student Grants for the 2021-22 academic year by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ariana Pedigo, of Russellville, and Reuben Tang, of Glasgow, are among a smaller than usual cohort of graduating seniors and recent graduates nationwide selected from a larger than usual pool of applicants. Grantees ...