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The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of grants
Grant (money)

Grants are funds wikt:dispersed by one party , often a Government Department, Corporation, Foundation or Trust, to a wikt:recipient, often a non profit entity, educational institution or business....
 for international educational exchange for scholars, educators, graduate students and professionals, founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright
J. William Fulbright

James William Fulbright was a United States Senate representing Arkansas from 1945 to 1975.Fulbright was a Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist, supported the creation of the United Nations and opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee....
.

The Fulbright Program is one of the most prestigious awards programs worldwide, operating in 144 countries and with 51 commissions. More Fulbright alumni have won Nobel Prizes than those of any other academic program, including two in 2002.

History
Created in the aftermath of the Second World War through the efforts of Senator Fulbright, The Fulbright Program promotes peace and understanding through educational exchange.






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The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of grants
Grant (money)

Grants are funds wikt:dispersed by one party , often a Government Department, Corporation, Foundation or Trust, to a wikt:recipient, often a non profit entity, educational institution or business....
 for international educational exchange for scholars, educators, graduate students and professionals, founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright
J. William Fulbright

James William Fulbright was a United States Senate representing Arkansas from 1945 to 1975.Fulbright was a Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist, supported the creation of the United Nations and opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee....
.

The Fulbright Program is one of the most prestigious awards programs worldwide, operating in 144 countries and with 51 commissions. More Fulbright alumni have won Nobel Prizes than those of any other academic program, including two in 2002.

History


Created in the aftermath of the Second World War through the efforts of Senator Fulbright, The Fulbright Program promotes peace and understanding through educational exchange. The senator believed that this would be an essential vehicle for mutual understanding between individuals, institutions and future leaders. According to the Fulbright website, the Fulbright Program with the Philippines "is the world's oldest continuous Fulbright program. The Philippine-American Educational Foundation (PAEF) was established on March 23, 1948." But it now has limited funding, making it almost impossible for Filipino students to enroll in Ivy-league universities.

The US-UK Fulbright Commission was created by treaty on 22 September 1948, and since its inception has expanded its program to include grants for study in a wide variety of fields: MBA awards, filmmaking, sports science, performing arts, science, politics, history, literature and dance to name a few. Since 1949, approximately 12,000 UK Nationals have studied in the U.S. and 9,600 U.S. Nationals in the UK on Fulbright Educational Exchanges out of 200,000 Fulbright alumni worldwide.

In 2003, a convoy carrying American diplomats and Fulbright officials was attacked in the Gaza Strip
Gaza Strip

The Gaza Strip is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Egypt on the south-west and Israel on the south, east and north....
. Three American security contractors were killed and one diplomat wounded. Since that time, American officials were discouraged to be in Gaza.

In 2008, it was revealed that eight Palestinian Fulbright scholarship winners living in the Gaza Strip
Gaza Strip

The Gaza Strip is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Egypt on the south-west and Israel on the south, east and north....
 had been denied exit visas by Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. Because of this, the Fulbright scholarships were initially withdrawn, but as of June 2, 2008, the grants had been reinstated with direct intervention of United States Secretary of State
United States Secretary of State

The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the President's United States Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in United States presidential line of succession and United States order of precedence....
 Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice was the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President of the United States George W....
. In early August, the U.S. revoked three of the students' visas after taking a "closer and harder look."

The program

The programs were established to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.

The Fulbright Program provides funds for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools abroad. The initial reach of this program had been primarily European countries
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, but now the program operates worldwide.

Administration and funding


The program is administered by 50 binational Fulbright commissions, U.S. embassies, and cooperating organizations.

A Fulbright Commission is a foundation established abroad to co-sponsor and administer Fulbright grants locally. Unlike countries where Fulbright grants are paid by the U.S. Department of State, Commissions pay some or all of the scholarships.

Grants for recent B.A. graduates, graduate students and younger professionals are administered by the Institute of International Education. These grants are available for U.S. citizens with a bachelor's degree to study in other countries, and for citizens of other countries to do graduate study in the U.S. Grants for faculty and professionals, as well as grants for U.S. institutions wishing to host scholars from other countries, are administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Council for International Exchange of Scholars

For over 60 years, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars has helped administer the Fulbright Scholar Program, the U.S. government's flagship academic exchange effort, on behalf of the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs....
. Grants for K-12 teachers and administrators are administered by the United States Department of Agriculture. Fulbright-Hays grants, including grants for doctoral and postdoctoral research, summer seminars abroad, and group projects abroad, are sponsored by the United States Department of Education.

The Program is funded by Congressional appropriations and funding provided by partner governments. The program also receives important in-kind and financial support from academic institutions, foundations, and the private sector. Fulbright grants for students, teachers, college faculty and professionals are sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State, governments in other countries, and the private sector. Fulbright-Hays grants for graduate students, teachers, and faculty are sponsored by the United States Department of Education.

Fulbright Prize

The J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding established in 1993 is awarded by the Fulbright Association
Fulbright Association

The Fulbright Association is a U.S.-based membership organization of Fulbright Program alumni and supporters committed to fostering international awareness and understanding through:...
 to recognize individuals who have made extraordinary contributions toward bringing peoples, cultures, or nations to greater understanding of others. Fulbright Prize laureates include:

  • Desmond Tutu
    Desmond Tutu

    Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of History of South Africa in the Apartheid Era....
     (2008)
  • Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton

    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the fifteenth Democrat elected to that office....
     (2005)
  • Colin Powell
    Colin Powell

    Colin Luther Powell, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Meritorious Service Decoration, is an American statesman and a former four-star General in the United States Army....
     (2004)
  • Fernando Henrique Cardoso
    Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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     (2003)
  • Sadako Ogata
    Sadako Ogata

    , born 1927, is a Japanese scholar and Administration . She served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1991 until 2001. She was appointed as the president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency on October 1, 2003 and is still serving as of 2008....
     (2002)
  • Kofi Annan
    Kofi Annan

    Kofi Atta Annan, Order of St Michael and St George is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh United Nations Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 1 January 2007....
     (2001)
  • Martti Ahtisaari
    Martti Ahtisaari

    Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari is a former President of Finland , 2008 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work....
     (2000)
  • Mary Robinson
    Mary Robinson

    Mary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the President_of_Ireland#List_of_Presidents_of_Ireland, and first female, President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002....
     (1999)
  • Patricio Aylwin Azócar (1998)
  • Václav Havel
    Václav Havel

    V?clav Havel is a Czechs playwright, writer and politician. He was the tenth and last List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia of Czechoslovakia and the first List of presidents of the Czech Republic ....
     (1997)
  • Corazon Aquino
    Corazon Aquino

    Mar?a Coraz?n Cojuangco-Aquino , widely known as Cory Aquino, was the 11th President of the Philippines, serving from 1986 to 1992. She was the first female President of the Philippines and was Asia first female President....
     (1996)
  • Franz Vranitzky
    Franz Vranitzky

    Franz Vranitzky is a former Austrian politician of the SP? party . He was Chancellor of Austria from 1986 until 1997.From 1976 to 1984, Vranitzky was director of several banks and Minister of Finance until 1986....
     (1995)
  • Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Carter

    James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize....
     (1994)
  • Nelson Mandela
    Nelson Mandela

    Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the first President of South Africa of South Africa to be elected in a universal suffrage democratic election, serving in the office from 1994?99....
     (1993)


Fulbright alumni


Fulbright alumni associations exist in 71 countries around the world. In the U.S., the Fulbright Association
Fulbright Association

The Fulbright Association is a U.S.-based membership organization of Fulbright Program alumni and supporters committed to fostering international awareness and understanding through:...
 counts over 9,000 members.

Notable alumni

The following are particularly notable:

  • Arlene Alda
    Arlene Alda

    Arlene Alda is an American photography, clarinettist and writer of children's books....
    , children’s book author and photographer
  • Nancy C. Andreasen
    Nancy C. Andreasen

    Nancy Coover Andreasen is a prominent American neuroscience and neuropsychiatry. She holds the Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa Roy J....
    , recipient of the National Medal of Science
    National Medal of Science

    The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral science and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics....
     in 2000
  • Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang
    Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang

    Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, is the Vice-Chancellor of University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and also the first female Vice-Chancellor of a state University in Ghana....
    , First female Vice Chancellor in Ghana
  • Sima Avramovic
    Sima Avramovic

    Professor Sima Avramovic of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law is one of the foremost Serbian authorities on comparative law, legal history, Roman law, and rhetoric....
    , Serbian legal academic
  • Ivar A. Bjørgen, professor in psychology, NTNU
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, known by its Norwegian language acronym NTNU , is located in Trondheim. Being the second largest of the seven university in Norway, it has the main national responsibility for higher education in technology....
  • Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel Corporation
    Intel Corporation

    Intel Corporation is the world's largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the X86 architecture series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers....
  • Frits Bolkestein
    Frits Bolkestein

    Frederik "Frits" Bolkestein is a Netherlands politician and former European Commissioner.He was the leader of the market Liberalism People's Party for Freedom and Democracy....
    , Dutch Politician and former EU Commissioner
  • Amar Bose
    Amar Bose

    Amar Gopal Bose is the chairman and founder of Bose Corporation. An American Electrical engineering of Bengali people descent, he was listed on the 2007 Forbes 400 with a net worth of $1.8 billion....
    , MIT professor; founder of the Bose Corporation
  • Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
    Jeffrey M. Bradshaw

    Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw is a senior research scientist at IHMC. He has lead research teams at Boeing and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center....
     - Senior research scientist at The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
  • Steven Campbell
    Steven Campbell (artist)

    Steven Campbell was a Scottish artist mainly concerned with pictorial representation. He was labelled as one of the New Glasgow Boys or "Glasgow Pups" along with Peter Howson, Ken Currie and Adrian Wisniewski who studied together at the Glasgow School of Art....
    , Scottish painter
  • A. D. Coleman
    A. D. Coleman

    A. D. Coleman is a photography critic and author....
    , photograpy critic and author
  • Sven Cvek, Croatian professor and a womanizer
  • Jose Dalisay, Jr.
    José Dalisay, Jr.

    Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. is a Philippines writer. He has won numerous awards and prizes for fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction and screenplay, including 16 Palanca Awards....
    , Filipino poet, scriptwriter, novelist
  • Barbara Knowles Debs, former president of Manhattanville College
    Manhattanville College

    Manhattanville College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, located in Purchase, New York, New York, USA....
     and the New York Historical Society
  • Richard A. Debs, founding president of Morgan Stanley International
  • Niels Diffrient
    Niels Diffrient

    Niels Diffrient is an United States industrial designer. Diffrient focuses mainly on ergonomic seating, and his most recent and well known designs are the Freedom and Liberty chairs, manufactured by Humanscale....
    , award-winning industrial designer
  • John W. Downey
    John W. Downey

    John W. Downey was a contemporary classical composer, conductor, pianist and educator. His works have been performed extensively in Western and Eastern Europe, South America, Australia, Africa, the Middle East, Israel, Asia, Mexico and Canada, as well as throughout the United States....
    , contemporary classical composer
  • William Durden
    William Durden

    William G. Durden is the President of Dickinson College as of July 1, 1999. He was a Fulbright scholar and a recipient of the Klingenstein Fellowship from Teacher's College, Columbia University....
    , president of Dickinson College
    Dickinson College

    Dickinson College is a private, residential Liberal arts colleges in the United States in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Originally established as a Grammar School in 1773 , Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, five days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris , making it the first college to be founded in the newly-recognized United States....
  • Adam J. Dziki, MD/ PHD Founder of Europacolon and Professor of Gastrointestinal Oncological Surgery at the Medical University of Lodz
    Medical University of Lódz

    The Medical University of L?dz was founded on October 1 2002 as a merger of the Medical Academy of L?dz and the Military Medical Academy of L?dz ....
  • Charles Figley
    Charles Figley

    Charles Figley is a highly published university professor in the fields of psychology, family studies, social work, traumatology, and mental health....
    , president Green Cross academy of traumatology
    Traumatology

    Traumatology most often refers to physical injuries but may also indicate psychological responses such as PTSD.Traumatology , is the study of wounds and injury caused by accidents or violence to a person, and the Trauma surgery and repair of the damage....
  • Christian Filippella, film director and writer
  • Andrea Fitting
    Andrea Fitting

    Andrea Fitting, Ph.D., is the first female director of Parkvale Bank, the sixth-largest bank headquartered in the Pittsburgh region and the 26th-largest public company in Pennsylvania....
    , founder and CEO of Fitting Group, a challenger branding agency
  • John Miles Foley
    John Miles Foley

    John Miles Foley Is a scholar of comparative oral tradition, medieval and Old English Literature , Ancient Greek and Serbs Epic poetry. He is the founder of the academic journal Oral Tradition Journal and the at the University of Missouri, where he is Curators' Professor of Classical Studies and English and W....
    , scholar of comparative Oral tradition
    Oral tradition

    Oral tradition, oral culture and oral lore are messages or testimony transmitted orally from one generation to another. The messages or testimony are verbally transmitted in speech or song and may take the form, for example, of folktales, sayings, ballads, songs, or chants....
  • John Hope Franklin
    John Hope Franklin

    John Hope Franklin is a United States historian and past president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association....
    , James B. Duke professor emeritus of history at Duke University
    Duke University

    Duke University is a private university research university located in Durham, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodism and Religious Society of Friends in the present-day town of Trinity, North Carolina in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892....
     and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
    Presidential Medal of Freedom

    The Presidential Medal of Freedom is a decoration bestowed by the President of the United States and is, along with theequivalent Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of United States Congress, the highest Civilian decorations of the United States in the United States....
  • Jonathan Franzen
    Jonathan Franzen

    Jonathan Franzen is an award-winning United States novelist and essayist....
    , novelist
  • Jean-Pierre Garnier, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline
    GlaxoSmithKline

    GlaxoSmithKline plc is a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical industry, biological, and healthcare company. GSK is the world's second largest pharmaceutical company and a research-based company with a wide portfolio of pharmaceutical products covering anti-infectives, central nervous system, respiratory, gastro-intestinal/metabolic,...
  • Milton Glaser
    Milton Glaser

    Milton Glaser is a graphic designer, best known for the I Love New York logo, his "Bob Dylan" poster, the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and the "Brooklyn Brewery" logo....
    , graphic designer
  • George J. Graham, Jr.
    George J. Graham, Jr.

    George J. Graham, Jr., was a political theorist who trained generations of political scientists at Vanderbilt University. He taught at Vanderbilt for more than 40 years....
    , political theorist
  • John M. Granville
    John Granville

    John M. Granville was an United States diplomat who worked in South Sudan. On January 1, 2008, he was assassinated in a shooting in Khartoum, Sudan at the age of 33....
    , United States Agency for International Development
    United States Agency for International Development

    The United States Agency for International Development is the Federal government of the United States organization responsible for most non-military aid foreign aid....
     diplomat assassinated in Sudan
    Sudan

    Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....
  • Rita E. Hauser, president of the Hauser Foundation
  • Joseph Heller
    Joseph Heller

    Joseph Heller was an American satirical novelist, short story writer and playwright. He wrote the influential novel Catch-22 about American servicemen during World War II....
    , author
  • Deborah Hertz
    Deborah Hertz

    File:Deborahhertz.jpgDeborah Hertz, , is the Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego....
    , Herman Wouk
    Herman Wouk

    Herman Wouk is a bestselling United States author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance....
     Chair in Modern Jewish Studies at the University of California, San Diego
    University of California, San Diego

    The University of California, San Diego is a public research university in San Diego, California, California. The school's campus contains 694 buildings and is located in the La Jolla, San Diego, California community....
  • Urs Hölzle, senior vice president of operations at Google
    Google

    Google Inc. is an United States public company, earning revenue from AdWords related to its Google search, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Apps, Orkut, and YouTube services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the Google Search Appliance....
  • Alex Kahn
    Alex Kahn

    Alex Kahn is an American visual and performance artist, best known for his creation of the large-scale puppet performance works that lead New York's Village Halloween Parade each year....
    , pageant performance artist
  • Shirley Strum Kenny
    Shirley Strum Kenny

    Shirley Strum Kenny is the current President of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the first woman to hold that position. She previously served as the president of Queens College, New York from 1985 to 1994....
    , president of Stony Brook University
  • H.T. Kirby-Smith, author and poet
  • Harry Klagsbrun, Senior partner of EQT
  • Werner Krieglstein
    Werner Krieglstein

    Werner Josef Krieglstein, Ph.D. , a Fulbright Program and University of Chicago fellow, is an award winning and internationally recognized scholar, director and actor....
    , a German-American University of Chicago
    University of Chicago

    The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
     fellow, philosopher, author, and actor
  • S.M. Krishna, visionary and former chief minister of Karnataka
    Karnataka

    Karnataka is a States and territories of India in the southern part of India. It was Unification of Karnataka on November 1, 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act....
    , India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
  • Laila Lalami
    Laila Lalami

    Laila Lalami is a Moroccan American author and essayist.Lalami was born and raised in Rabat, Morocco, where she earned her B.A. in English from Mohammed V University....
    , author and essayist
  • Ben Lerner
    Ben Lerner

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    , poet
  • John Lithgow
    John Lithgow

    John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor perhaps best-known for his starring role as Dr. Dick Solomon in the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun....
    , actor
  • Alvin Lucier
    Alvin Lucier

    Alvin Lucier is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma....
    , composer of experimental music
  • Dr. Shamshad Akhtar
    Shamshad Akhtar

    Dr Shamshad Akhtar was appointed by the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf as the governor of the State Bank of Pakistan for three years in December 2005....
    , Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan
    State Bank of Pakistan

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  • Dolph Lundgren
    Dolph Lundgren

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    , actor
  • Reinhard H Luthin, historian and author
  • Walter F. MacConaway, biographer of explorer James Michael Prescott
  • John Mendelsohn
    John Mendelsohn

    John Mendelsohn, United States drummer and rock critic of Rolling Stone magazine. He joined the band Halfnelson in 1969 until 1971, when he and fellow band member Surly Ralph Oswald quit and formed the band Christopher Milk, and later on he formed The Pitt....
    , president of the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
  • Anna Moffo
    Anna Moffo

    Anna Moffo was an Italian-American opera singing and one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation. She possessed a warm and radiant voice of considerable range and agility, and was an affecting singing-actress of great physical beauty....
    , operatic soprano
  • Loretta Napoleoni
    Loretta Napoleoni

    Loretta Napoleoni is an Italy economist, author, journalist and political analyst. She is an expert on the financing of terrorism and is well known internationally for having calculated the size of the terror economy....
    , economist, author, journalist and political analyst
  • Robert Neffson
    Robert Neffson

    Robert Neffson is an United States Painting currently known for his street scenes of various cities around the world, as well as his early still lifes and figure paintings....
    , artist
  • Dr. Donna J. Nelson
    Donna Nelson

    Donna Nelson is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma. Nelson performs research into and teaches organic chemistry and has also conducted research into ethnic and gender diversity among highly-ranked science departments of research universities....
    , chemistry professor and scientific workforce scholar
  • Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg
    Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg

    Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg is a Venezuelan-born business woman and the current president and Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Investment Group , which designs and implements investment strategies for individual and institutional investors....
    , president and CEO of Strategic Investment Group
  • Carlos Ott
    Carlos Ott

    Carlos Ott is a Uruguayan architect who resides in Canada....
    , uruguayan architect
  • Tarik O'Regan
    Tarik O'Regan

    Tarik Hamilton O'Regan is a British composer, partly of North Africa extraction, currently living in New York City and Cambridge....
    , composer
  • Thomas R. Pickering
    Thomas R. Pickering

    Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering , is a retired Ambassadors from the United States. He served as United States Ambassadors to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992....
    , former under secretary of state for political affairs
  • Sylvia Plath
    Sylvia Plath

    Sylvia Plath was an United States poet, novelist and short story writer.Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas....
    , poet
  • S. Pushpavanam, distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
  • Michael Pyatok
    Michael Pyatok

    Michael Pyatok is an Oakland, California-based architect widely known for his expertise in the development and design of low-income and affordable housing....
    , architect, Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington
    University of Washington

    University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States. Also known as Washington and locally as UW or the U, it is the largest university in the northwestern United States and the oldest public university on the west coast....
     in Seattle
  • Dr. David Reagan
    David Reagan

    Dr. David R. Reagan is a Christian Bible scholar who heads Lamb and Lion Ministries. David Reagan is also host of a weekly show on DayStar .Dr....
    , former director of Pepperdine University
    Pepperdine University

    Pepperdine University is a private university of higher learning affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The university's location overlooks the Pacific Ocean and is adjacent to the city limits of Malibu, California in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, California, United States....
    's Center for International Business, currently an evangelist
    Evangelist

    Evangelist can refer to:Religion:*one of the Four Evangelists, the authors of the canonical Christian Gospels in the New Testament;*a Christian who explains his or her beliefs to a non-Christian and thereby participates in Evangelism;...
     and founder of Lamb and Lion Ministries
  • Stephan Reimertz
    Stephan Reimertz

    Stephan Reimertz is an art historian and novelist. He lives in Paris....
    , writer and art historian
  • Michael A. Rice
    Michael A. Rice

    Michael A. Rice, is a professor of fisheries and aquaculture at the University of Rhode Island and politician from South Kingstown, Rhode Island....
    , professor of Fisheries and Aquaculture, University of Rhode Island
    University of Rhode Island

    The University of Rhode Island, commonly abbreviated as URI, is the principal public research university in the State of Rhode Island, with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, and three other campuses located throughout the state, including Providence's Feinstein Campus, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett,...
     and state representative Rhode Island House of Representatives
    Rhode Island House of Representatives

    The Rhode Island House of Representatives is the lower house of the Rhode Island General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Rhode Island....
    .
  • Stefan Sagmeister
    Stefan Sagmeister

    Stefan Sagmeister is a graphic designer and typographer currently based in New York City. He has his own design firm, Sagmeister Inc. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, the Rolling Stones, David Byrne , Aerosmith and Pat Metheny....
    , Graphic Designer and Typographer
  • Ross Scaife
    Ross Scaife

    Allen Ross Scaife was a Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky....
    , Founder and co-editor of The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities and founding editor of Suda On Line
  • Ruth J. Simmons
    Ruth J. Simmons

    Ruth J. Simmons , is the 18th president of Brown University and the first black people president of an Ivy League institution. According to a January 2007 poll by The Brown Daily Herald, Simmons enjoys a more than 80% approval rating among Brown undergraduates....
    , president of Brown University
    Brown University

    Brown University is a private university university located in , United States and is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in New England and Colonial Colleges in the United States....
  • Javier Solana
    Javier Solana

    Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga, Doctor of Philosophy is the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Secretary-General of both the Council of the European Union of the European Union and the Western European Union ....
    , former Secretary General of NATO
    Secretary General of NATO

    The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is the chair of the North Atlantic Council, the supreme decision-making organisation of the defence alliance....
     and current EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy
    High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy

    The High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy is the main co-ordinator of the Common Foreign and Security Policy within the European Union....
  • Theodore J. St. Antoine
    Theodore J. St. Antoine

    Theodore J. St. Antoine is a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School of which he was the Dean from 1971 to 1978.Theodore J....
    , Dean of University of Michigan School of Law and expert in labor relations and collective bargaining
  • Olen Steinhauer
    Olen Steinhauer

    Olen Steinhauer is an United States novelist....
    , author
  • Denis J. Sullivan, professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Northeastern University
  • Julie Taymor
    Julie Taymor

    Julie Taymor is an United States stage director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for her work....
    , designer and director
  • Robert Scott Thompson
    Robert Scott Thompson

    Robert Scott Thompson is a composer of Ambient music, instrumental and electroacoustic music. He earned the Bachelor of music degree from the University Of Oregon and Master of Arts and Ph.D....
    , Professor of Music Composition (Georgia State University); composer of avant-garde and experimental music
  • Patricia Wasley
    Patricia Wasley

    Patricia Wasley, EdD, is the dean of the University of Washington College of Education at the University of Washington since 2000. Wasley has conducted a variety of research on student voice, teacher education and school reform....
    , dean of the College of Education at the University of Washington
    University of Washington

    University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States. Also known as Washington and locally as UW or the U, it is the largest university in the northwestern United States and the oldest public university on the west coast....
     and renowned education scholar
  • Ulrich Wickert
    Ulrich Wickert

    Ulrich Wickert is a German journalist. He is one of the best known broadcasters in Germany.As a result of his father's employment with NATO, Wickert grew up in Heidelberg and Paris....
    , German journalist and TV presenter
  • Colin H Williams, Professor, School of Welsh, Cardiff University
    Cardiff University

    Cardiff University is a leading university located in the Cathays Park area of Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. It received its Royal charter in 1883 and is a member of the Russell Group of Universities ...
  • Jonathan Shapiro ("Zapiro")
    Zapiro

    Zapiro is the nom de plume of South African political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, whose work appears in numerous South African publications and has been exhibited internationally on many occasions....
    , South African cartoonist


See also

  • Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program
  • ERASMUS programme
    Erasmus programme

    The ERASMUS programme, or European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students, is a European student exchange programme established in 1987....
     (European Union
    European Union

    The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
    )
  • Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF)
  • Harkness Fellowship
    Harkness Fellowship

    The Harkness Fellowships are a programme run by the Commonwealth Fund of New York City. They were established to reciprocate the Rhodes Scholarships and enable Fellows from several countries to spend time studying in the United States....
  • ITT International Fellowship Program
    ITT International Fellowship Program

    The ITT International Fellowship Program was a program of Grant promoting international educational student exchanges, similar to the Fulbright Program, sponsored by the ITT Corporation....
  • Monbukagakusho Scholarship
    Monbukagakusho Scholarship

    Monbukagakusho Scholarship is a scholarship offered by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology .To date, some 65,000 students from approximately 160 countries and regions around the world have studied in Japan under the Japanese Government Scholarship program established in 1954....


External links

  • – A page with several links to Fulbright grants and fellowships
  • – Council for International Exchange of Scholars
  • - Website for K-12 Teacher and Administrator Exchange
  • - Collection of Essays by Fulbright Scholars regarding their experiences