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Monday, May 3rd, 2021 (Left: Ariana Pedigo, photo by Gaelle Jego. Right: Reuben Tang, photo by university photography) Two WKU students have been awarded Fulbright US Student Grants for the 2021-22 academic year by the US Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ariana Pedigo and Reuben Tang are among a smaller than usual cohort of graduating seniors and recent graduates nationwide selected from a larger than usual pool of app...

Washington, DC (STL.News) Secretary Blinken is attending the G7 Foreign and Development Ministers’ Meeting in London, United Kingdom, May 3-5, 2021.  During his visit he will also meet with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to discuss shared U.S.-UK priorities related to leading global issues and reaffirm the strong alliance between our countries. The United States and United Kingdom: A Historical Alliance The United States has no closer Ally than the United Ki...

By Cole Hatcher Meaghan Teitelman ’18 DELAWARE, Ohio – Ohio Wesleyan University graduate Meaghan Teitelman, Class of 2018, has earned a highly competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program fellowship to spend eight months teaching English in Lyon, France. As an OWU student, Teitelman was a French and Sociology and Anthropology double major and a Spanish minor. She currently teaches French at the Laurel School, a private, independent day school for girls in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Teitelman will...

Date Time United States and United Kingdom: Reaffirming Our Alliance “A key way we will deliver for the American people is by reaffirming and revitalizing our alliances and partnerships around the world.” – Secretary Antony J. Blinken, March 24, 2021 Secretary Blinken is attending the G7 Foreign and Development Ministers’ Meeting in London, United Kingdom, May 3-5, 2021. During his visit he will also meet with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to discuss s...

Ms. Oyuntugs (Oyut) Bayaraa, a 2016-2017 Fulbright Foreign Student and Founder of the Firefly House NGO On her path to become a knowledgeable rehabilitation counselor, Oyut had to understand that rehabilitation should not make the disease or disability the focus, but instead rehabilitation needed to be person-centered. “I used to believe that I could only work with people with vision impairment basing on my own experiences, however through Fulbright I gained knowledge and tools for disab...

[Photo/Xinhua] Zhai Zheng, an associate professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), came to the United States about 16 years ago through the Fulbright Program to teach Chinese language and culture at a university in Montana. He visited more than 20 states in the US over a months time before returning to China.  "This experience was filled with so many pleasant memories that when I returned to China, I created and offered a course on American culture and society where I shared m...

[Photo/Xinhua] Zhai Zheng, an associate professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), came to the United States about 16 years ago through the Fulbright Program to teach Chinese language and culture at a university in Montana. He visited more than 20 states in the US over a months time before returning to China.  "This experience was filled with so many pleasant memories that when I returned to China, I created and offered a course on American culture and society where I shared m...

The City Sentinel April 27, 2021 Front Page By Staff Report Staff Report  Oklahoma City – Each year, thousands of military families are transferred to Oklahoma’s four military bases. State Sen. Frank Simpson, with Oklahoma City Rep. Max Wolfley, authored...

Temi Akinola Akinola of Charlottesville, a 2020 global security and justice and French language and literature graduate, is an English teaching assistant in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. “I am particularly interested in education and its formation on peace-building and human rights,” she said. “I will be teaching English at an all-girls high school, completing tutoring college prep programs through the U.S Embassy and working with the National Council for Human Rights in [Ivory Coast].” She was...

Ministry looks to recruit 70 English teachers from US By Rachel Lin and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer The Ministry of Education is to recruit 70 US teachers through the Foundation for Scholarly Exchanges in August to help with English-language education at elementary and junior high schools, it said yesterday. The foundation — also known as Fulbright Taiwan — has since 2008 recruited Fulbright Program scholars as assistant English teachers in Taiwanese schools, K-12 Ed...