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  The International Law Firm of Fulbright & Jaworski
Fulbright is a full-service international law firm serving the needs of businesses, governments, non-profit organizations and individual clients around the world.
Fulbright appellate partnerĀ  Jonathan S. Franklin was recently featured in theĀ  Washington Legal Foundation Media Briefings, speaking on The 2006 U.S Supreme Court Term.
Fulbright has created an Alumni Relations Program that offers a dynamic forum to network with former colleagues and participate in a variety of Fulbright events.
www.fulbright.com   (278 words)

  
  Fulbright Program Alumni Win Nobel Prize
Stiglitz was a Fulbright Fellow in economics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom (1969-70).
Fulbright Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, 1950
Fulbright Fellow at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1966
www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/ps/2001/6610.htm   (627 words)

  
 Fulbright Program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Fulbright, and 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 grants are administered by several organizations, including the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Education, the Institute for International Education and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.
Fulbright alumni around the world have recognized the importance of continued involvement and action in the name of increasing mutual understanding among the people of the U.S. and the people of the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fulbright_Program   (538 words)

  
 SGVTribune.com - Fellow named Fulbright scholar
Tony Fellow, Arcadia resident and director of the Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District, was recently selected as a Fulbright scholar for 2007.
Fellow, a former San Gabriel Valley Tribune reporter and editor, is the co-author of "The Copy Editor's Handbook for Newspapers" and "News Writing in a Multimedia World," the nation's best-selling media textbook.
Fulbright scholar; he's the first professor of the college to be appointed to the Vercelli chair.
www.sgvtribune.com /news/ci_3768830   (449 words)

  
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If you were a Fulbrighter (or worked with one), please submit a story to our on-line collection of memories and Fulbright experiences.
If you are from Latin America and the Caribbean or your Fulbright was to that region, please submit a longer essay our upcoming book celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the the Fulbright Program.
The newsletter and membership is not limited to Fulbright scholars; it is open to any individual or entity that is interested in the international dimensions of social science, natural and life sciences, engineering, technology innovation, and economic development.
www.fulbrightacademy.org /page/71175   (407 words)

  
 Fulbright Commission Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The program was named after the junior senator from Arkansas, J. William Fulbright, who during his first year in the Senate had the ingenious idea of turning the vast amounts of surplus military materials in Europe into academic exchanges for European and American students and scholars.
At his memorial service, President Clinton stated: "The Fulbright Scholarship Program is a perfect example of Bill Fulbright's faith--different kinds of people learning side by side, building what he called 'a capacity for empathy, a distaste for killing other men, and an inclination for peace'".
The Swedish Fulbright program, with approximately thirty-five grants a year, is one of the smallest in Western Europe.
www.usemb.se /Fulbright/fulbrigh.html   (1010 words)

  
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During their stay, fellows are encouraged to participate in all the programmatic offerings of the institute in order to obtain a well rounded and balanced view of the range of Cypriot studies.
New fellows are given a variety of materials which are intended to familiarize them with CAARI facilities and the local area where the institute is located.
Fellows are also provided with maps of Nicosia to help them negotiate their way in the city.
www.caari.org /fellow.html   (1233 words)

  
 Amherst College Career Center: Fulbright Program
Purpose: The Fulbright Program for U.S. students is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
Fulbright Comprehensive [Full] Grants: these grants generally provide round-trip transportation; language or orientation courses (where appropriate); tuition, in some cases; book and research allowances; maintenance for the academic year based on living costs in the host country; and supplemental health and accident insurance.
Fulbright Full Grants are payable in local currency or US dollars, depending on country of assignment.
www.amherst.edu /~careers/fellow/fulbright.html   (416 words)

  
 Stanford Center for Internet and Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Fellow in Residence Elizabeth Rader graduated cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School.
She clerked for Alvin A. Schall, Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and for Leonie M. Brinkema, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Mark Cooper holds a Ph.D. from Yale University and is a former Yale University and Fulbright Fellow.
cyberlaw.stanford.edu /about/fellows/current_fellows.shtml   (1614 words)

  
 GLOBAL FULBRIGHT ALUMNI CONFERENCE OPENS NOV. 10 IN BALTIMORE
Speaking will be Fulbright alumni scientists Faith Thompson Campbell of the Nature Conservancy, Beth Middleton of the United States Geological Survey National Wetlands Research Center, and Daniel Simberloff, a University of Tennessee professor who directs the Institute for Biological Invasions.
Fulbright educational and cultural exchanges currently take place between the United States and approximately 150 other countries.
The Fulbright Association is the private, nonprofit organization of Fulbright alumni and supporters committed to fostering international awareness and understanding through advocating increased worldwide support for Fulbright exchanges, enriching the Fulbright experience, and facilitating lifelong interaction among alumni and current participants.
www.fulbright.org /press_release/110905a.htm   (509 words)

  
 Fulbright :: USEFI - United States Educational Foundation in India...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Case Western Reserve University School of Law law.case.edu is a center for scholarly research, informed and creative teaching, and service to the community and the society at large.
The Fulbright-Case Fellows would focus on one of two clinical contexts: intellectual property rights or mediation/alternative dispute resolution and will work closely with the directors and faculty of the Centers to which they are appointed.
The mediation fellow would have a joint appointment in the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict Resolution and the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center.
www.fulbright-india.org /fellowships/indians/fulbrightcaselaw.htm   (369 words)

  
 fulbright Program - IAS - International and Area Studies - UC Berkeley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Participation in the Fulbright Preacademic Program at Berkeley is exclusively reserved for Fulbright fellows that Institute of International Education (IIE) has assigned to the UC Berkeley campus.
Fellows come together from around the world to deepen their understanding of US academic culture and society.
The Fulbright Preacademic Program at UC Berkeley offers Fulbright fellows access to a premier research university nested in a uniquely cosmopolitan and multicultural US metropolis.
ias.berkeley.edu /fulbright/index.php   (361 words)

  
 Fulbrighter: From a Fulbright Fellow to a "Scientific Ambassador"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Fulbrighter: From a Fulbright Fellow to a "Scientific Ambassador"
Through the Fulbright program I was able to combine my scientific research interests with my curiosities of other cultures.
As a Fulbright Fellow, I felt honored to be a scientific ambassador.
www.imakenews.com /fulbright/e_article000280721.cfm   (708 words)

  
 Epilepsy Fdn.-An Ambitious Student Becomes Fulbright Fellow
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright Program is the United States' flagship international exchange program, offering opportunities for recent graduates, postgraduate students and developing professionals and artists to study in other countries.
While attending the University of Illinois in Chicago, he carried a heavy course load and obtained a bachelor of arts degree in economics and a bachelor of science degree in biology in four years, graduating in May 2003.
Boren was one of 1,026 Fulbright grantees for the 2003-04 year, but one of fewer than 25 biology graduates.
www.epilepsyfoundation.org /epilepsyusa/boren.cfm   (892 words)

  
 Fulbright Program Faculty || Masumi Hayashi, MFA
During January to May 2003, I was a “Senior Fulbright Research Fellow” to Southeast Asia (India and Nepal).
My Fulbright proposal project was to photograph the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain temples and other sites of ancestral worship in Nepal and India.
The Fulbright fellowship allowed me time to research major and lesser known temples, as well as the areas' local and folk temples and rituals.
www.csuohio.edu /fulbright/faculty/hayashi.htm   (1036 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr Now: Rhoads, Fulbright Fellow, to Study in Bali
Four Bryn Mawr seniors have won prestigious Fulbright awards for 2007-08 — two as research fellows and two as Fulbright English Teaching Assistants.
An anthropology major with a concentration in peace and conflict studies, Rhoads will spend her Fulbright year studying the complexities of cultural identity and land ownership in an environment where both are hotly contested and have undergone significant changes in recent years.
Land distribution and ownership in Bali, she says, is an understudied topic with profound political and economic implications.
www.brynmawr.edu /news/2007-04-12/rhoads.shtml   (878 words)

  
 Skidmore College Fulbright Page
To qualify for a Fulbright Fellowship, you must be a United States citizen at the time of application and must have a B.A. or B.S. degree before the beginning date of the grant.
Although the Fulbright program does not require a specific grade point average, experience suggests that you should have at least a 3.4 average to be competitive.
Completed Fulbright applications for 2005-06 are due in late September 2004, but your junior year is the right time to begin thinking about Fulbright possibilities, discussing them with faculty, etc. You can then write your proposal in the summer before your senior year.
www.skidmore.edu /academics/fulbright   (589 words)

  
 MU FULBRIGHT FELLOW RETURNS FROM BULGARIA
Markward was one of 800 Fulbright Scholars from the U.S. to lecture and/or conduct research abroad this year.
The Fulbright program is administered through a partnership of the U.S. Information Agency and J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Fulbright grants are available to faculty, graduate students and graduating seniors entering graduate study.
www.missouri.edu /~news/releases/decjan02/markward.html   (269 words)

  
 Columbia News ::: Doctoral Student Is First Fulbright-Hays Fellow to Study in Iran Since '79 Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Varzi's parents met while her mother was teaching chemistry at a Tehran women's college on a Fulbright teaching fellowship.
The fellowship program is intended to train future faculty members for research in less-prominent modern languages and area studies.
Varzi was the first Fulbright-Hays fellow to conduct research in Iran since the 1979 revolution.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/00/11/fulbright.html   (806 words)

  
 FULBRIGHT UKRAINE : Fulbright Nobel Prize Winners
Fulbright Scholar, to Brazil, Venezuela, Poland, Egypt and Malaysia, 1974
Fulbright Scholar, to France and Japan, 1955-56; to Europe, 1972
Fulbright Scholar, to Italy, 1955-56; to United Kingdom, 1961-62
www.fulbright.org.ua /page.php?pid=24   (157 words)

  
 Fulbright awards
He is among 10 fellows from around the globe who will study in Japan as Fulbrights next year.
The Fulbright Program, established in 1946, is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries.
The program has provided more than 230,000 participants chosen for their leadership potential with the opportunity to observe each others' political, economic, and cultural institutions; exchange ideas; and embark on joint ventures of importance to the general welfare of the world's inhabitants.
www.cwru.edu /pubaff/univcomm/rel-archive/fulbright.htm   (837 words)

  
 Study Abroad Fulbright Program, Cal State East Bay Center for International Education
Fulbright grants are also available for course work at foreign universities and for practical training in the creative and performing arts, as well as projects in creative writing and journalism.
There is no minimum GPA requirement for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program Academic achievement is only one of the factors that contribute to the selection of Fulbright Fellows.
Fulbright Fellows come from large and small universities, liberal arts institutions, state colleges and universities, schools of music and art, and professional schools.
www.csuhayward.edu /CIE/studyabroad/fulbright.html   (2138 words)

  
 Fulbright Research
Understanding the relationships between processes occurring on the seafloor and in the overlying water has been the focus of much of my research for the past 9 years.
My Fulbright research will contribute to a large study in Norway investigating processe s controlling carbon cycling in sediments and the relationships between water and seafloor systems.
Furthermore, the proposed experiments would represent the first simultaneous examination of the response of organic addition in three benthic communities and one of the few measurements of the impact of ice algae on benthic processes.
abacus.bates.edu /~wambrose/fulbright.htm   (2117 words)

  
 Clifford Will to serve as Fulbright, Guggenheim fellow during 1996-97   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of unusually distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
The list of new fellows includes poets, novelists, playwrights, painters, sculptors, photographers, physical and biological scientists, social scientists and scholars in the humanities.
The Fulbright Fellowship is awarded to those who have achieved impressive academic accomplishments, and its purpose is to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries by means of educational and cultural exchanges.
record.wustl.edu /archive/1996/05-09-96/6959.html   (440 words)

  
 Fulbright Association: The Fulbright Alumni Community
The Fulbright Association is the membership organization of Fulbright alumni and supporters committed to fostering international awareness and understanding through
Awarded annually, the Fulbright Prize honors individuals who have made extraordinary contributions toward bringing peoples, cultures, or nations to greater understanding of others.
Join other Fulbright alumni and friends in examining important issues at the annual conference and enjoy special cultural events, lectures, and task force programs.
www.fulbrightalumni.org /olc/pub/FBA/about_us   (309 words)

  
 Rachel Ann Vigour '02: The Family Band Loses a Bassist—the World Gains a Fulbright Fellow
With a Fulbright Fellowship, a published scholarly article, and an MHC diploma in the offing, Vigour's star is clearly rising, but it didn't always seem so to the senior from Crozet, Virginia.
Vigour has considered moving from micro to macro, leaving behind—for the moment—her work with infinitesimal fossils in order to dive into the combined fields of neotectonics (the study of young tectonic events) and geomorphology (the study of the forms of the land's surface and of the processes that mold them).
MHC Fulbrighters have studied soccer clubs as a tool for overcoming poverty in Bolivia, women's economic roles in Malawi, anti-HIV medication programs in Senegal, interethnic relations in Estonia, cancer prevention in Japan, dispute resolution patterns in Ghana, literature in Pakistan, and minority rights and integration in Estonia—among many other projects and places.
www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/050302/vigour.shtml   (1199 words)

  
 UWLS News
Rachel Gold, a third year University of Washington law student, received a Fulbright full grant March 13, 2006 to study the right to clean water as a human rights issue in Argentina.
As a Fulbright Fellow, Gold will study the development and governance of the right to clean water.
Gold is the second Fulbright Fellow from the UWLS Class of 2006.
www.law.washington.edu /News/Articles/2005Archive/GoldFulbright.html   (280 words)

  
 Georgia Institute of Technology :: News Room :: Fulbright Fellow to Study E.U. Transportation Issue
Georgia Tech Fulbright Fellow and Civil Engineering Ph.D. student John Crocker found his inspiration in the transportation system problems of Atlanta.
For part of his Fulbright Fellowship, Crocker will be researching several major European Union transportation projects that cross member state lines, such as the Trans-Alpine tunnel between France and Italy.
The Fulbright Fellowship program was created in 1946 with legislation sponsored by Senator J. William Fulbright, who reasoned that nations would be less likely to go to war against each other if people could study abroad and learn about each other’s cultures.
www.gatech.edu /news-room/release.php?id=638   (512 words)

  
 Visiting Fulbright fellow conducting research on Nile (07-20-95)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
14, No. 37, Page 9 July 20, 1995 Visiting Fulbright fellow is conducting research on Nile The Nile, one of the longest rivers in the world, running 4,160 miles from its source to the sea, is the lifeline of Egypt.
Fulbright fellow and visiting scientist Magdy Farag is conducting research on the river's vast triangular delta at the Center for Remote Sensing in the College of Marine Studies.
A professor of environmental studies at the University of Alexandria, Farag said he chose to come to Delaware because he was familiar with the work of Vic Klemas, the center's director.
www.udel.edu /PR/UpDate/95/37/28.html   (380 words)

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