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Fulbright Scholarship

Find out how the scholarship might help you, if you are eligible, and how and when to apply.

A full tuition fee waiver for new US students enrolling on the first year of the full-time MA/MFA Creative Writing and living stipend.

• Value:   Tuition fee waiver for the first year,  £15,609 living stipend and £1,500 travel stipend. All paid in the first year.
• Study level:  Postgraduate
• MA Creative Writing
• MFA Creative Writing
• Applications:

Applications for 2025/26 open 2 April 2024. Apply via the  F ulbright Commission website.

Aim of the scholarship

The US-UK Fulbright Commission focuses on opportunities and exchanges between the USA and the UK as part of a global programme.

The Fulbright Commission seeks applicants who can engage with the UK in an atmosphere of openness, academic integrity and intellectual freedom, thereby promoting mutual understanding.

They assess more than your academic record with the best applications coming from well-rounded students who can demonstrate:

• ambassadorial skills
• intercultural sensitivity
• genuine desire to learn more about the UK and to share aspects of American culture
• extracurricular activities
• community involvement
• leadership potential
• plans to further the Fulbright mission and give back to the US upon returning

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Information on full eligibility criteria is available via the  F ulbright Commission website.

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You must apply on the F ulbright Commission website.

Applications for 2025/26 entry open on 2 April 2024.

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The Literary Writer’s Guide to Getting a Fulbright Fellowship

In Guest Contributors by Guest Contributor July 23, 2012

By Anna Clark

Two myths about the U.S. Fulbright fellowship program that I want to get out of the way:

• Literary writers: you too can get a fellowship. I know the program is best known for work in fields like public health, anthropology, economics, and the hard sciences. But the scope of the Fulbright program is more expansive than you may think.
• No, it is not impossible to decipher the Fulbright program and application procedure. But I agree with you: the various online platforms for the program are utterly bewildering.

Consider this, then, the literary writer’s primer to the Fulbright.

The Big Picture

Fulbright is an international exchange program that has been sponsored by the U.S. State Department since 1946. The Institute for International Education administers it. Fulbright operates in about 155 countries, mostly sending people in the U.S. abroad, but also bringing people from other nations into the U.S. The program boasts that 43 of its alumni have won Nobel prizes and 81 have won Pulitzer Prizes. Another 28 are MacArthur Foundation fellows. The program was created by U.S. Senator William Fulbright (D-Arkansas) for the “promotion of international good will through the exchange of students in the fields of education, culture, and science.” There are at least eleven different kinds of Fulbright grants. The one I did — a Creative Writing project in Kenya – is through the “ U.S. Student Program .” This is misleadingly named: you don’t have to be a student to apply for this grant. I got my Master of Fine Arts in January 2007, but I didn’t apply for a “student” Fulbright until the fall of 2010. Offered as ten-month fellowships, Fulbrights through the student program are actually for “U.S. graduating college seniors, graduate students, young professionals and artists.” More details on the U.S. Student Program below. But first:

Fulbright and the Writer

The Fulbright program is quite clear about being primarily an inter-cultural program. They invest in the person, rather than the project. (Though obviously, the in-country folks in particular are looking for great projects that are relevant and interesting.) Creative Writing fellowships are rare: only fifteen people worldwide have creative writing Fulbrights in the current grant cycle, though they are scattered from India to South Africa to South Korea. But I suspect if word got out, and more great writers applied, this number would increase.

What does the writer do on her Fulbright? In my case, I wanted to divide my time between my own writing — short stories grounded in Nairobi — and facilitating creative writing workshops with young people across the city. I wanted to match my own writing with time in community, having a particular attentiveness to how a literary culture emerges. I wanted to understand how stories are told in a nation that is not yet fifty years old, even as I worked as a teller of my own stories.

Things didn’t go as planned. Thank goodness that the inter-cultural philosophy of the Fulbright leaves room for adaptation. When some of the workshops I wanted to do weren’t happening, I struggled with disappointment and feelings of inadequacy. But I had flexibility to find alternative opportunities to engage with literary communities in Kenya. I ended up doing workshops with iHub , with young children , and with teenage boys in Kawangware . I mentored individual writers in one-on-one meetings at Nairobi Java House. I co-directed an event series for Kenyan and foreign journalists to talk about the intersection of gender and media. I spent time listening in a Saturday morning downtown literary club. I spoke to university students, instead of doing workshops with them. I edited for Kwani , instead of doing workshops with them. (The workshop model, it seems, isn’t quite so ingrained in the practice of creative writing in East Africa as it is in the USA.) And again, instead of workshops, I did editing and proofreading for Kenya Imagine before I left for Nairobi, while I was there, and I will continue to do so whenever they ask. Just about all of this was un-planned — not part of my original project proposal, though in the spirit of it. And that doesn’t even get to the unexpected turns in my own writing: while I did write some short fiction, I also wrote a good deal of narrative nonfiction and poetry.

It was important for me to arrive in Nairobi with a plan, but it was also necessary to be agile. Personally and professionally, navigating the uncertain ground was powerful. And given the high stakes of being a foreigner in another culture — particularly as a white American writer approaching a culture that is too often exoticized — anything less than fluidity would have cut against the Fulbright’s core purpose. If I weren’t willing to change my own habits and expectations of writing in Kenya, I would have perpetuated a kind of cultural brutality. I also would have had fewer unexpected and heart-opening opportunities for joy.

But my experience is only one.

Dana Kroos, a novelist, is in Newfoundland, Canada on her Fulbright fellowship. Nicholas Gulig, a poet, went to Bangkok, Thailand. Both heard about the Fulbright opportunity through word-of-mouth. Gulig, as a University of Iowa MFA student, dated a woman who had done a creative writing fellowship in China. Kroos had seen email postings about it as an MFA student at New Mexico State University, but she “mostly dismissed these, thinking that the type of research supported by the Fulbright was more scientific and academic, rather than creative.” She assumed she’d need to apply for a travel grant for writers that was short-term and would hardly give her the chance to understand the place. Friends of friends eventually let her know otherwise.

Newfoundland was the ideal setting for Kroos’ novel because its culture has “evolved separate from Europe and North America, but tied to and threatened by both. This alienation has created a culture that values secrecy…that will reflect the interactions of my characters.” With a focus on a family that wrestles with different beliefs they draw from shared experiences, Kroos is interested in integrating Newfoundland’s regional folklore and legends. The sea-centered landscape and geographic isolation of Newfoundland is also a driving force. As in my case, Kroos found her plans shift once she got on the ground. She initially intended to live in St. Johns for one semester, and then move to a smaller town to research a specific setting for her novel. But, she notes:

“What I realized when arriving in Newfoundland, was that a three month semester was not enough time in a place to truly dig in and get to know the community and setting. I decided to stay in St. John’s for the entire year. While St. John’s is a sizeable city, it is surrounded by small villages less than a ten or twenty minute drive away. As I learned more about Newfoundland and my novel, I decided to set the story on the outskirts of St. John’s, in a created town that would be an amalgam of several of these villages.”

Gulig grew up in the Midwest as the son of a Thai woman who had moved to Wisconsin for art school, and then married his dad. Engaging more deeply with the Thai culture that had made him different than those he grew up with was part of his inspiration for pursuing his writing in Bangkok. Like me, Gulig was interested in literary culture outside of what he’d been immersed in most of his life: “I write among…writers who are similarly a product of the western canon, which limits us in a variety of ways, makes our thinking more insular than I would like it, pushes our art in the direction of certain inherited concerns.”

Gulig’s intention was to “to create a hybrid manuscript of poems, half here, half there, as a way of addressing formally and thematically” his experience as an artist that feels both connected and separated from Thailand. But he felt cautioned by the tricky legacy of Western writers going abroad to write. Says Gulig:

“There is a long (and oftentimes lazy) tradition in our culture of making myths of external actualities, romanticizing the idea of difference, exoticizing other people, places, idealizing them, often at their expense as well as ours, which is a kind of violence we are want to see instead as being “worldly” or whatever, “culturally diverse.”

“The problem, though, was that I wanted terribly to participate in the amalgamation of cultures without doing ‘violence,’ be the stranger in a strange land, and watch, through art, what happened to me as an individual and to my work, map the subtle transformations. But it wasn’t (and) isn’t easy.”

Gulig finally found that “the project [he] set out to do proved impossible to finish.”

“I realized pretty quick that dropping in out of nowhere into the middle of a place that does not belong to you, no matter who you are, no matter your relationship to that place, doesn’t translate into being able to speak of and for that place with any authenticity or accuracy,” he adds. “I could only be an outsider, looking in, which was (and) is problematic. Most of the books ‘about’ Thailand are written by people who aren’t Thai and they bear the burden of that perspective. A poet I met and worked with in Bangkok explained to me one night how sick she was of people arriving in her country, living there for a relatively short amount of time, and then defining the place and people in terms appropriate to the observer but not the people, not the place itself. After hearing that, I felt my project incredibly ill-conceived, ethically bankrupt, and aesthetically inept. I knew I needed to alter it in a fundamental way. And so I did.”

Gulig changed the focus of his manuscript “away from Thailand as an other I was trying to understand and (instead) document through art (my position in it)…Instead of attempting to do away with ‘middle-ness,’ I decided to embrace it as an actual place, neither here nor there, but still actually existing, actually real.” His manuscript shifted towards prose-poems — half one thing, half another, simultaneously both. He also found a collaborator. “I knew I needed the project to belong to someone other than myself, to a medium other than language,” Gulig said. “And so I found an artist, an illustrator in Bangkok named Kathy MacLeod who began providing illustrations to manuscript. In this way, the book is suspended between the two of us, and between our chosen mediums as well.”

About The U.S. Student Program

This Fulbright category includes the English-teaching assistantships and the travel-only grants designed to supplement another award or individual project; travel-only grants are available only for Italy, Germany, and Hungary. To apply for this grant in Creative Writing, you propose a project for where you want to go. Generally, a set number of grants total are available each year for a particular country. In my year, there were four U.S. Student Program grants available for Kenya. Depending on how politics are unfolding, Fulbright may suspend opportunities in certain countries. For example, you will not be surprised to learn that projects are not available in Syria right now. Some unique project categories are available only as a country-specific award, such as “Slow Foods” and “Deaf Studies” in Italy, or “Irish Language” in Ireland. There are other special programs available within the U.S. Student Program structure. There are special journalism project opportunities available in Germany , Taiwan , and the United Kingdom .

The bulk of the U.S. Student Program, though, is you proposing your individually-designed project through the general program. Whatever project category you apply in, you need to have an affiliation; that is, some local organization or school or library or fill in the blank that says they are willing to cooperate with you to help you do your work. They are not obliged to pay you anything or provide other material support. So, I proposed coming to Nairobi to work on my fiction and to facilitate writing workshops with young people through Kenyan literary organizations (Kwani Trust and the Imagine Company), and the University of Nairobi’s Department of Literature. It is unusual to have three affiliations; most people have one, though it does strengthen your application (and, hopefully, your project) if you have additional support.

In the case of Kroos, the Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive is her affiliation, supporting her research into the folklore of the region. The archive grants her access to its resources and “the wealth of knowledgable faculty.” She also sits in on courses at Memorial University, learning from instructors and students alike. Kroos said, “the most potentially difficult factor is forming some kind of affiliation with a foreign institution where you most likely know no one and have no existing connections.” But, she added:

This is, however, how much research begins. The Folklore Department at Memorial University was immediately excited about my project and willing to become my host institution. Even so, it took awhile for them to formally approve the affiliation through the department and send the letter that I needed as proof for the Fulbright application.

Help is Available

While I haven’t been a student there since 2003, I filed my application through the University of Michigan’s International Institute . Most colleges have a similar institute that helps students and alums with their applications. This was great for me: I got feedback on my application that made it much better and I got help with organizing all the materials. I did have to go through an extra step — an in-person interview with two faculty members — and I did have to turn in my application earlier than the general Fulbright deadline. But it was absolutely worth it for the support I received in return. Kroos reports having a similar experience at New Mexico State University.

I should add that these international institutes often have Fulbright informational sessions starting about this time of year. Whether or not a college near you is your alma mater, you might think about attending the sessions it hosts. With the next round of Fulbright applications due in the early fall, plenty of these will be hosted over the next few months.

You don’t need to apply through a university though; you can also apply “at-large.” This is what Gulig did, with the editorial help of Jane, his girlfriend who had done a creative writing Fulbright in China. “I set aside about three months to work on the application, wrote endless drafts of essays, drafts of poems, all of which she read and edited and shed light on,” Gulig said.

Here’s What Applying Looks Like

For the application, which I filled out mostly online, I needed the following things: a letter from my affiliation (the folks I was doing writing workshops with), a creative sample (10 pages, in a requirement unique to the Creative Writing program), a personal statement, a project statement, and letters of recommendation. It’s not part of the official application, but because the professors that I interviewed with at the University of Michigan also filled out a one-page evaluation of me that was added to my application. I didn’t get to see this before it was submitted. If you are going to a country where you need to know a language that is not English, you will also need to have your language skills evaluated.

Here’s What Acceptance Looks Like

There are two stages to acceptance: one by a panel in the U.S. and one by a panel in the country you are going to. After turning in my application in September, I heard from the first round of cuts in February. I got the final answer in April.

You will have to attend an orientation. My region — Sub-Saharan Africa — had a pre-departure orientation, which meant we all gathered at a Marriott in Washington, D.C., for three days in late June. The people going to South and Central Asia had their orientation overlap with us, but in some regions, you have your orientation once you arrive in-country. A friend of mine who did a Fulbright in family law in New Zealand had an orientation there after she arrived in January.

Practicalities

• The Fulbright will pay for you to bring along your spouse and dependents. Availability of these funds varies from country to country.
• There is not a set Fulbright grant amount: it is calculated differently for different projects in different places, based on cost of living. You will receive it in installments, with most of the funds coming up front. The first installment cannot be deposited into your account earlier than about 4-6 weeks before you leave.
• The grant amount does not allot funds specifically for the costs of visas or vaccinations.
• The Fulbright funds are flexible. While they give you money based on certain categories (research, travel), they basically just deposit it in your account and you can spend it as it makes sense for you. You will, however, report your budget to the program in mid-year and end-of-year evaluations.
• The standard U.S. Student Fulbright grant is for 10 months, though there is room for negotiation. In some cases, you can go for a shorter length of time (I did) and in others you can apply for an extension once you are partway through your grant. I should note that as soon as I arrived in Kenya, I and the other Fulbrighters were told that grant extensions wouldn’t be available at all that year because of budget restrictions.
• The only concrete requirements after you receive the Fulbright and arrive in the foreign country are those two detailed program evaluations. You also will be obliged to stay in touch with the local U.S. embassy, including by attending a security briefing shortly after you arrive in-country.
• You can re-apply if you aren’t initially awarded a fellowship: Kroos was not accepted until the second time she submitted an application, after her novel was more deeply fleshed out.

The Final Word

From Kroos:

“I think that the great thing about the Fulbright program is that it’s flexible. It is, at its core, about understanding and forming relationships with other nations and cultures. We do this through writing in many ways. To be honest, there are few writing projects that share this common goal that would not be fitting to the Fulbright program. I could imagine not only works of fiction and poetry, but also children’s writing, travel writing, translation, adaptation, etc. etc. There seem to be endless possibilities for writers to explore their own styles and interests.”

“…it’s incredibly important to understand specifically how you work. If you need deadlines or affirmation or anything like that, the Fulbright probably is going to be a waste of your time. It’s easy, I think, to overly romanticize having all this freedom/time/security in which to work, but it’s also incredibly lonely, alienating work, which can make it difficult to actually do the work. There are going to be very few people who you can talk with about what you’re doing, which has the effect of creating certain doubts, certain strange anxieties in a lot of artists. This is something one should deal with and get over before arriving in the country. You don’t want to waste three months or more trying to figure these things out. The fellowship is simply too short.”

I will add that the Fulbright is most worthwhile for writers who are ready to unsteady themselves creatively, emotionally, and intellectually. That’s an easy sentiment to toss out there, but, I assure you, it is intense and difficult. It should be. When it’s time for you to risk it, in most cases, I believe, you know it.

This article is adapted, and expanded, from a post that originally appeared on Isak: http://www.isak.typepad.com .

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The Prestigious Fulbright Award Is for Creative Writers, Too

Katherine arnoldi | january 2020.

Do you have a novel you want to write that takes place in Sicily? Madagascar? Belarus? Tahiti? If your character walks down the streets of San Cristobal, you have to walk those streets, right? If your character has an altercation with a shop owner in Perth, you have to describe the details, right? The specific gestures, the change in the voice, the thugs who enter from the back, the meat cleaver stuck in the rafters? You will have to see how the purples and yellows swirl on the ice floes in Patagonia to write it with authenticity. The heat of India? On a train? At rush hour? Being pushed to and fro by the crowd? You have to be there. You have to smell the elephant dung in the air, burn your tongue on the molé, distinguish the subtle changes in sounds of the dialects in Dresden, watch the seasons change at 15,000 feet in Nepal, feel the handlebars vibrate on the cobblestone streets. Beijing? Tasmania? Marrakesh? You have to live it.

In April of 2007, while in a PhD program in creative writing at Binghamton University, I attended a Fulbright information session and discovered a little-known fact: the prestigious Fulbright Award is for creative areas also. It is for undergraduates, graduates, and doctoral students. For musicians, writers, actors, filmmakers, artists, and dancers. I even learned that a nonstudent can apply as an independent. Age? Not an issue.

And so began my great adventure.

The Fulbright Program is an international exchange program for students, scholars, and professionals to conduct international research, graduate study, university study, and teaching funded by an appropriation from Congress to the Department of State. Though the program began in 1946 to promote mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries, the Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961, proposed by Arkansas senator J. William Fulbright, provided the authorization. The program is dedicated to expanding positive relations between the United States and other countries with the aim of creating a true and lasting peace.

It was Kim Connel, a student in the MFA program at the University of Arkansas when I was an undergraduate, who first inspired me with the story of his Fulbright to Africa. But I was a single mother and did not know that the Fulbright not only allows family members to accompany the recipients of the awards but also increases the award slightly to accommodate them. Since then, I have learned of many single mother Fulbright Fellows, including medical student Rebecca Trotsky-Sirr, who spent her Fulbright year with her son in Venezuela, visiting rural health clinics.

With my inspiration still alive, I approached the Fulbright Program advisors at Binghamton, Susannah Gal and Elizabeth Tucker, with my idea. I had read Under the Still Standing Sun (Kindred Press, 1989), a historical novel by Canadian Dora Dueck about the Ukrainian Mennonite refugees who arrived in the inhospitable Chaco region of Paraguay in 1930, and I wanted to write a novel about the contemporary conditions of these refugees. I formulated my proposal, sought out sponsors in Paraguay, and took the necessary language tests. In April of 2008, I learned the news: I was accepted. By the end of August, after a July orientation in Washington, DC, with other bursting-with-enthusiasm Fulbright Fellows, I was in Asunción, Paraguay, and on my way to Filadelfia, the Chaco. The Fulbright grant covered my round-trip air fare, a generous monthly stipend for the ten-month period, and cash for research materials. I soon moved in with a Mennonite family.

A room of my own and a stipend. A writer’s dream.

Even more luck came my way, and I was able to spend two months in Yalve Sanga, a Nivaclé and Enlhet village about twenty miles from Filadelfia. I was able to walk the sandy roads, attend Saturday night music concerts and Sunday church, experience the 120-degree heat, teach in the schools, ride my bicycle for miles, read books not available in the United States, interview Enlhet, Nivaclé, Mennonite, and Paraguayan leaders, and write articles which I published in Canada and the United States. By May I had finished my novel, Chaco . In June I reluctantly left my new friends and home.

I will never be the same. My heart will always be in Paraguay.

“With the Fulbright I took myself more seriously as a writer,” says Gail M. Dottin, Fulbright Fellow to Panama in 2008-9. “I have a deeper understanding of my need to write. I have much more respect for my work and my process. I see more clearly what my writing career can look like and what other things it can lead to. It changed everything.” Gail M. Dottin’s project, a historical memoir, Where There Is Pride in Belonging, about her Barbadian grandfather’s work on the construction of the Panama Canal in the early 1900s and about her father’s life both on the Canal Zone and in the United States, involved interviewing family members, younger Panamanians, to get their perspective on growing up in Panama and researching the history of the canal builders. “At the national library, I dug through the issues of an old newspaper written by and for the West Indian Panamanian community in the middle of the last century,” she says.

Erika Martinez, Fulbright Fellow to the Dominican Republic for 2008-9, was able “to take the entire academic year to connect with the literary community in Santo Domingo [and] to conduct a call-for-submissions process for Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women (University of Georgia Press, 2016), and I was able to dedicate more time to my own writing.” In addition, she teamed up with Meg Petersen, a Fulbright Scholar in Santo Domingo, to teach a creative writing course.

Katrina Vandenberg, a 1999–2000 Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands now teaching at the MFA program at Hamline University in Minneapolis, worked on a book of poems tentatively called “Vermeer's Women.” She wrote poems that resulted in the book, Atlas: Poems (Milkweed Editions, 2004), in a tea shop in a cathedral in Utrecht. The book’s centerpiece is a section called “The Red Fields of Lisse (A Love Story).” “It weaves together the history of the tulip with the death of my former partner who had hemophilia and was infected with HIV through the blood supply,” she says, “It was all the walking through flower markets, and biking and taking trains past tulip fields, that did it.”

Poet and novelist Jillian Weise ( The Amputee’s Guide to Sex , Soft Skull, 2007; The Colony , Soft Skull, 2010; Book of Goodbyes , BOA Editions, 2013), now a tenure-track assistant professor of English at Clemson University, was a 2008–2009 Fulbright Fellow to Argentina. “The Fulbright supports wild ideas. My wild idea was to live at the end of the world and follow Darwin’s ghost around for a novel I was writing. I didn't use the word ‘ghost’ on the application, but that was the idea. Because of the Fulbright, I met Darwin in places like the Darwin Bar, the Beagle Channel, and San Martin Street. I finished a novel in which Darwin is a central character. Once someone supports your wild idea, it starts feeling real and wildly possible,” she says. Jillian Weise also completed a novel while on fellowship, called The Colony (Soft Skull, 2010). She wrote in cafes and pubs as well as at a defunct maximum-security prison (now the Museo Maritimo) and on a boat while touring the Beagle Channel. Her advice for Fulbright applicants? “As cheesy as it may sound, the Creative Writing Fulbright will change you in ways that you cannot imagine. Apply for some place that’s always seemed a little out of reach, a little impossible. Some place of mythos and intrigue,” she says.

M. Thomas Gammarino was a 2000–2001 Fulbright Fellow to Japan, an experience that spawned the idea for a novel, Big in Japan (Chin Music Press, 2009). “The idea grew largely out of a class I took while I was studying at Doshisha University in Kyoto during my Fulbright year. The class was entitled ‘Japan in the American Imagination,’ taught by a Professor Jonathan Veitch.” He wrote mainly at home and in cafes. He carried around a notebook, aimlessly wandering, talking to people, visiting temples and museums, traveling around the country, giving out tea and blankets to the homeless, and riding a BMX bike with some local kids at Kyoto Station.

When I was a temporary lecturer at Concord University in West Virginia, I organized the art department to send art supplies and form a sister relationship with the art club I started in Yalve Sanga, Paraguay, with the hope of fulfilling a part of the purpose of the Fulbright to promote mutual understanding.

I will also be hosting a panel on the Creative Writing Fulbright at the March 2020 convention of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs in San Antonio, where a group of Fulbright creative writing fellows will be present to answer your questions and encourage you in your own great expectations of travel, research, and writing abroad. There you can meet University of Houston Assistant Professor Daniel Peña (Garcia Robles Fulbright Scholar to Mexico, 2014–15), who says that he could not have written his novel Bang (Arts Publico, 2018), based on real events, without the Fulbright. “I knew if I was going to write about the drug war in Mexico, it was not enough to read the statistics and reportage alone. It was essential to go there, to give that information and those stories context and texture. It was very important for me to explore the characters in my novel with as much depth and dignity as possible—to get them right,” Peña says.

“My Fulbright year was my first experience of true creative and intellectual freedom. I was allowed—encouraged—to follow my project wherever it led, however it changed. I knew my work and my project better afterward; I knew myself better afterward, too,” says Fulbright Fellow Elisa Gonzalez (Poland, 2016–18) who will also be on the panel. Panelist Eireene Nealand, who spent her Fulbright year in Bulgaria (2014–15), says, “I’m happy to be able to say that I literally built a frame for the documentary book I created as part of my Fulbright research grant. True to the Fulbright philosophy of emphasizing human connection over production, The Nest (Nova Kultura Foundation, 2016) gathered itself up slowly, over sketchbooks, cups of tea, and the chance discovery of a festival I quickly fell in love with.” You will also be able to meet Serena Chopra, Fulbright Fellow to Bangalore, India, from 2016–17.

If you are a student, look for announcements about Fulbright information sessions on your campus. You can visit the websites associated with the State Departmen t or the Institute of International Education for more information. If you are not a student, find information on these websites about applying “at large.”

Gail M. Dottin advises you to “have a clear idea about what you want to write about and try to communicate that well in your application. Sounds kind of obvious but it’s one of the most important things you can do, to think about what it is you want to get from the place you’re going to and how you’re going to get it. Then if you get the Fulbright, just be open. Throw the plan away because much of you what you wrote in your proposal and you envisioned will not happen. But what will happen, if you’re open and flexible, will be even richer.”

Best of luck to you!

Katherine Arnoldi ’s graphic novel The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom was named one of the top ten books of the year by Entertainment Weekly . Her collection of short stories, All Things Are Labor , won the Juniper Prize. She has received the Henfield TransAtlantic Fiction Award, the DeJur Award, two New York Foundation of the Arts Awards (Fiction and Drawing), American Library Awards, the Newhouse and Link Awards, and a nomination for the Will Eisner Award. She was a Fulbright Fellow to Paraguay 2008–9.

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Fulbright Scholar to Study Rituals Surrounding Ancient Saints and Spirits

Chico State is thrilled to announce that Heather Altfeld (MFA, Creative Writing, ’04), a lecturer in the Honors Program and the Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities, has been awarded a Fulbright US Scholar Program Award for the 2024–25 academic year from the US Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. 

Altfeld, an award-winning writer, poet, and essayist, will spend 10 months in Morocco studying the folklore, beliefs, and rituals surrounding ancient saints and spirits in various locations around the country. These enduring spiritual practices remain central to the nation’s spiritual and social fabric, even as the population has changed and Morocco has become more globalized through technology.

“I’m intrigued by the ways that Islam and Judaism in Morocco have developed unique, atypical practices that honor some of the same ‘saints,’ a practice considered quite unorthodox in both faiths,” said Altfeld. “The indigenous Amazigh population has retained vestiges of ritual and belief that likely predate the arrival of both Islam and Judaism in the region.”

Altfeld plans to write a collection of literary essays about the ways science, religion, Islam, and Judaism converge, diverge, and evolve in contemporary Morocco. Having traveled there several times, she feels a sense of connection to the country.

“I fell in love with Morocco initially, watching how people treated children there,” Altfeld said. “I found it to be so different from the US and it made me really want to keep going back.”

Things have changed since Altfeld applied for the Fulbright scholarship in early 2023. The conflict between Israel and Palestine presents unknown elements, particularly among Jews who lived in Morocco before the 1960s and have only recently returned as relations between Morocco and Israel have normalized.   

“Any preconceived notions I might have had six or eight months ago are no longer valid,” Altfeld said. “I’m just going to be open to the experience, to people who are willing to speak to me and share with me, and I’m really hoping to participate in some of the annual pilgrimages to places that are considered holy by both faiths.”

An artist who draws deeply from her own experiences to illuminate connections between language and creation, Altfeld’s creative routine is driven by empathy and inspiration, resulting in work that is moving, insightful, and unmistakable.

Altfeld holds bachelor’s degrees in anthropology and writing from Columbia University, and a master’s degree in creative writing with an emphasis in poetry from Chico State. She has earned numerous awards for her writing, including inclusion in The Best American Essays 2019 for her essay, “Obituary for Dead Languages.” Her 2021 collection of poetry, Post-Mortem , earned the 2019 Orison Poetry Prize.

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the US government and is designed to forge lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries, counter misunderstandings, and help people and nations work together toward common goals. Since its establishment in 1946, the Fulbright Program has enabled more than 390,000 dedicated and accomplished students, scholars, artists, teachers, and professionals of all backgrounds to study, teach, and conduct research, exchange ideas, and find solutions to shared international concerns. 

 For more information about the Fulbright Program, visit eca.state.gov/fulbright .

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17 students, alumni receive Fulbright awards to travel abroad in 2024-25

Seventeen University of Iowa students and alumni were chosen from more than 10,000 Fulbright Award applicants nationwide to serve as representatives of the U.S. Department of State in 14 countries during the 2024-25 academic year. The students will teach English abroad, serve in local community organizations, enroll in graduate studies at cutting-edge universities, and conduct research and creative arts projects. 

“The success of this year’s Fulbright awardees trumpets Iowa’s success as an institution at the forefront of global education,” says Russ Ganim, associate provost and dean of International Programs, which oversees the university’s Fulbright programs. “Our Fulbright cohort boasts tremendous accomplishments in both teaching and research while speaking to Iowa’s resolute commitment to putting our candidates in the best possible position to achieve their dreams across the global landscape.” 

This year’s Fulbright awardees come from a diverse cohort of high-achieving students, spanning fields from indigenous librarianship to biostatistics and jewelry making. Of the awardees, 25% are first-generation students, and many of them have prepared for their Fulbright experience by studying languages such as Korean, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, and French at Iowa. 

“Their big dreams and hard work for the past year have served them well,” says Karen Wachsmuth, Fulbright program advisor. “We are extremely proud of them and know they will superbly represent our university and country abroad as citizen ambassadors.” The UI is consistently recognized as a leading producer of Fulbright scholars nationwide. Over the past eight years, the UI has supported more than 100 awardees, providing applicants with guidance from faculty and staff mentors with expertise in various world regions and countries.

“Throughout the year, the Fulbright mentors have the great pleasure of seeing our Iowa applicants prepare to spend a year outside the United States, and, when the finalists return after their year abroad, we have the great pleasure of hearing their new perspectives on the wider world,” says Kathleen Newman, UI Fulbright faculty mentor and associate professor in Spanish and Portuguese. 

“Mentoring is key to success in a Fulbright application, and International Programs has established partnerships with faculty mentors from across campus to ensure that applicants receive ample constructive feedback on their writing,” says Tabitha Peter, winner of a Fulbright Study Research Grant to Colombia for 2024—25. 

The Fulbright Program’s aim is to foster mutual understanding between the United States and other nations by offering participants the chance to engage in study, teaching, research, and collaborative efforts to address global challenges and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.

“As a future maritime conflict scholar, this opportunity to do research on Arctic international relations in Norway will significantly enhance my dissertation research, allow me to gain international connections, and learn more about the geopolitical challenges countries face in the fast-changing Arctic Circle,” says Chase LaSpisa, winner of a Fulbright Study/Research Grant to Norway for 2024—25. “I plan to use this experience to set myself up for a career that will allow my research to reach foreign policymakers and advocate for peaceful and sustainable interactions in our oceans.”

For 2024-25 Fulbright awardee  Margo Christensen, a Fulbright means not only a chance to expand her knowledge of the world but to inspire future students. 

“ As an aspiring social studies teacher, having firsthand cultural exchange will be vital to my teaching style,” says Christensen. “Having this experience will allow me to more adequately teach my future students about foreign countries, traditions, and lifestyles. I hope to inspire students to be curious about the world around them and encourage them to explore beyond the United States’ borders.”

Apart from the mentorship of faculty and advisors, Fulbright finalists also credit their experiences at Iowa and abroad for igniting their interest in global exploration

William Jones, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was the recipient of a  Richard J. Tyner Scholarship to Germany in 2022, a scholarship he says played a large role in his decision to pursue a Fulbright. 

“Being able to participate in a program like Academic Year in Freiburg (AYF) for my senior year helped solidify my interest and inspired me to make the formal commitment to apply,” says Jones. “Before my Academic Year in Freiburg experience, I had not been out of the United States. Through that time, I learned a lot about myself and my ability to live in a foreign country.  Suddenly, my world was no longer just the distance between Lincoln, Nebraska, and Davenport, Iowa, but instead spanned across oceans."

The Fulbright program is administered at Iowa through International Programs under the guidance of Karen Wachsmuth. Students interested in applying for the 2025-26 Fulbright program should  make an appointment to learn more about the application process. The Campus Deadline for University of Iowa students applying for the 2025-26 awards is Aug. 29.

“Start your application process as early as possible,” advises Miah Clark, winner of a Fulbright Study/Research grant in interdisciplinary studies to New Zealand for 2024-25.“And be confident in connecting with professionals at the University of Iowa who will be willing to help you throughout this process.” 

Meet this year’s recipients:  

Claire Breger-Belsky

Claire Breger-Belsky, of West Newbury, Massachusetts, received an MFA in literary translation in 2023. With the Fulbright Study/Research grant in translation to Argentina, Breger-Belsky will conduct research and translate plays and poetry of women writing in Yiddish in Argentina.

Margo Christensen

Margo Christensen, of Ogden, Iowa, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and social studies education in 2023. With a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Thailand, she will teach English and create a sports club for members of the community. 

Miah Clark, of Overland Park, Kansas, will receive a master’s degree in library and information science in May. With the Fulbright Study/Research grant in interdisciplinary studies to New Zealand, Clark will pursue a master's degree in Indigenous studies with a Pacific Islands focus at the Victoria University of Wellington. 

Spencer Cooper-Ohm

Spencer Cooper-Ohm, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and English and creative writing in 2024. With a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Kosovo, he will teach English and start a debate club. 

Wyatt Hellman

Wyatt Hellman, of Fort Madison, Iowa, will receive a Bachelor of Science degree in international relations and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Asian languages and literatures in May. With a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Taiwan, he will teach English and organize a community board gaming club. 

Jennifer Jiman

Jennifer Jiman, of Des Plaines, Illinois, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology in 2023. With a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Award to South Korea, she will teach English and start a book club for elementary school children.

William Jones

William Jones, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, received a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 2023. With a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Germany, he will teach English and start a film club.

Tess Knickerbocker

Tess Knickerbocker, of Arlington, Iowa, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and journalism and mass communication in 2021. With a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Spain, she will teach English and create a journalism club. 

Chase LaSpisa

Chase LaSpisa, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is a PhD candidate in political science. With a Fulbright Study/Research Grant to Norway, he will conduct research on Arctic international relations in Norway.

Maria Osman

Maria Osman, of Iowa City, Iowa, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in international studies in 2022. With a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Indonesia, she will teach English and create a community art, literature, and film club.

Fabian Ouellet-Pinto

Fabian Ouellet-Pinto, of Iowa City, Iowa, will receive a Master of Arts in Teaching English education in May. With a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Taiwan, he will teach English and facilitate creative writing workshops. 

Peyton Pangburn  

Peyton Pangburn, of Northwood, Iowa, will receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations in May. With a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Moldova, she will teach English and study de facto states, autonomy arrangements, and host country-western dances.

Tabitha Peter

Tabitha Peter, of Hendersonville, Tennessee, is a PhD candidate in biostatistics. With a Fulbright Study/Research Grant to Colombia, she will connect genetic data analysis with family-centered health care for cleft lip/palate patients.

Jurnie Rosius

Jurnie Rosius, of Marion, Iowa, will receive a Bachelor of Science degree in health and human physiology in May. With a Fulbright Study/Research Grant in medical sciences to Germany, she will study the development of radiation retinopathy in mouse models of cancer.  

Clayton Salley

Clayton Salley, of Austin, Texas, is a Master of Fine Arts candidate in studio art, jewelry, and metal arts. With a Fulbright Study/Research Grant to Taiwan, he will undertake training in advanced metalsmithing processes. 

Ciara Tapanes

Ciara Tapanes, of Northampton, Massachusetts, will receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in linguistics with a teaching English as a second language emphasis in May. She was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Mexico.

Ian Zwaschka

Ian Zwaschka, of Des Moines, Iowa, received Bachelor of Arts degrees in cinema, and English and creative writing in 2021. With a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to the Czech Republic, he will teach English and engage with the local community through an improvisational comedy project. 

In addition, six semifinalists were named as alternates for 2024—25: 

• Phillip Cooper-Ohm, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, will graduate in May with Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and creative writing, and economics.
• Katherine Esquivel, of Hialeah, Florida, graduated in August 2023 with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology.
• Sophia Gluba, of Davenport, Iowa, will graduate in May with Bachelor of Arts degrees in international relations and history.
• Daniel Hettrick, of Bettendorf, Iowa, graduated in December 2022 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in history and archaeology.
• Dylan Morgan, of Des Moines, Iowa, graduated in May 2023 with Bachelor of Arts degrees in political science and international relations.
• Andrew Steiner, of Huntington, Pennsylvania, graduated in May 2022 with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing.

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Ui grad spencer cooper-ohm awarded fulbright to kosovo.

Spencer Cooper-Ohm, who received a BA in economics and English & creative writing from the University of Iowa in May 2024, is the winner of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Kosovo for 2024-25.  

Hometown: Council Bluffs, Iowa   Degree: BA in economics and English & creative writing  

Could you give us a brief synopsis of what you'll be doing with your Fulbright?   I will be an English Teaching Assistant (ETA) at a yet-to-be-determined university in Kosovo. In addition to my teaching duties, I will immerse myself in the culture of Kosovo and start a debate club that serves as English practice and as a means of cultural exchange. I plan to continue my research on drug policy while in the country, examining Kosovo’s use of harm-reduction programs and their impact on reducing opioid-related deaths.  

How do you envision this will influence your life/future career?   Upon returning to the U.S., I plan to obtain a law degree and work in the legislative field, analyzing and proposing laws that impact public health. Serving as an ETA in Kosovo will equip me with the essential global perspective required for creative policy analysis. I also aim to make connections with faculty members at Kosovar universities for research collaborations in the future.  

What advice do you have for future students interested in applying for a Fulbright?   Revise until you think your essays are perfect, and then revise some more! My first draft essays looked nothing like the ones I eventually submitted, and they certainly wouldn’t have won any fellowships. Any successful Fulbright application will go through countless revisions (with assistance from advisors that really know their stuff) so be prepared to be flexible with what you want your application to look like.  

Were there experiences at Iowa that inspired you to pursue a Fulbright ?   My time in the UI Department of English taught me the importance of literature and prompted me to apply for a Fulbright to further my understanding of it. Additionally, competing with the University of Iowa mock trial team helped me hone my argumentative writing skills and encouraged me to find ways to expand my cultural horizons before entering law school.  

Are there individuals you'd like to thank for their investment in this process?   I would like to thank Jeff DeSimone, Patrick Habecker, Sayre Satterwhite, and Camille Socarras for their invaluable mentorship and encouragement to apply for a wide range of fellowships. I’d also like to thank Ari Natarina , Jonathan Wilcox, Karen Wachsmuth, and all the University of Iowa Fulbright advising team for their assistance in making countless revisions to my essays. Finally, I’d like to thank Kendal Arthur and Nitesh Mathur for their recommendations. My application would not have been successful without the help of any one of these individuals.    

EXPLORE THE MANY FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES OPEN TO UI STUDENTS AND ALUMNI  

International Programs  (IP) at the University of Iowa (UI) is committed to enriching the global experience of UI students, faculty, staff, and the general public by leading efforts to promote internationally oriented teaching, research, creative work, and community engagement.  IP provides support for international students and scholars, administers scholarships and assistance for students who study, intern, or do research abroad, and provides funding opportunities and grant-writing assistance for faculty engaged in international research. IP shares their stories through various media, and by hosting multiple public engagement activities each year.

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International Programs at the University of Iowa supports the right of all individuals to live freely and to live in peace. We condemn all acts of violence based on race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, and perceived national or cultural origin. In affirming its commitment to human dignity, International Programs strongly upholds the values expressed in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights .  

From Proposal to Publication: CNY Humanities Corridor Nurtures Faculty Scholarship

At the heart of academia, humanities faculty conduct vital work, exploring the depths of human experience, history and culture. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), an independent federal agency established in 1965, stands as a key supporter of these efforts. In April alone, the NEH  announced $26.2 million in grants for 238 humanities projects across the country .

As a leading funder of humanities programs, including several recent grants to faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, the NEH plays a pivotal role in bolstering the work of humanities scholars, educators and students. Through grants to cultural institutions, scholars and educational initiatives, NEH promotes research, preserves cultural heritage and fosters lifelong learning.

NEH Makes an Inaugural Visit to CNY Humanities Corridor

Claudia Kinkela, senior program officer in the division of research for the NEH, discussed the NEH grant evaluation process during her presentation at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center.

The arrival of Claudia Kinkela , senior program officer in the division of research for the NEH, marked a milestone for humanities scholars across Central New York. Sponsored by the CNY Humanities Corridor , the March 1 event at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center saw 137 registrants, demonstrating a need and eagerness to hear Kinkela’s insight and guidance on crafting competitive applications for agency funding. Her presentation provided attendees with invaluable knowledge about the NEH evaluation process.

Marcelle Haddix , associate provost for strategic initiatives, gave welcome remarks and noted the significance of the event, stating, “This was such an important opportunity for all in the humanities and beyond. We will continue to elevate the importance of the work being done across our corridor community.”

As part of the visit, Kinkela engaged in one-on-one afternoon consultations for individuals with existing projects under development.

“Having the opportunity to engage with Claudia Kinkela one-on-one was incredibly valuable,” says Roger Hallas , associate professor of English. “Her personalized feedback has not only helped me refine our NEH proposal but also provided me with a deeper understanding of the overall landscape of public funding for the humanities.”

Hailing from 22 regional institutions, the gathering included registrants not only from institutions of higher education, but also representatives from local nonprofit organizations including the Cayuga Museum of History and Art , the Erie Canal Museum and New York Folklore . All 11 corridor institutions were in attendance, signaling a unified interest and commitment to advancing the humanities together. Academic institutions within the corridor include Syracuse University, Cornell University, the University of Rochester, Colgate University, Hamilton College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Skidmore College, St. Lawrence University, Union College, Le Moyne College, and the Rochester Institute of Technology. The Syracuse University Office of Research provided additional support for the event.

Instrumental in securing this important senior NEH officer site visit was Sarah Workman , associate director for research development in the humanities at Syracuse University. Together with her corridor colleagues, including Aimee Germain, program manager for the CNY Humanities Corridor and Vivian May, professor and director of the Syracuse University Humanities Center, Workman led the development of the event’s robust programming and brought the event to fruition.

“We were delighted to host Claudia Kinkela, who so generously shared many important insights during her visit. The breadth of regional engagement was impressive and represents a thriving scholarly community across the consortium. The NEH site visit will continue to have a positive impact for humanists in the Corridor and beyond,” remarked Vivian May . “The work of the HF4: Corridor Futures & Initiatives Working Group, comprised of the three directors plus Aimee and Sarah, is part of the infrastructure behind these research support offerings designed to enhance research community and deepen scholarly engagement across the region. ”

A Full Day of Programming, Tips and Guidance for Successful Proposals

The morning commenced with an informal meet-and-greet over breakfast, setting a collaborative tone for the day ahead. Kinkela led workshop sessions offering a comprehensive overview of NEH programs, special initiatives and grant opportunities tailored to faculty.

A highlight of the event was a mock peer review panel moderated by Kinkela, which clarified proposal evaluation criteria. Panelists included Romita Ray , associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in art history at Syracuse University; Cherilyn Lacy , professor of history and assistant dean of faculty at Hartwick College; and Celeste Day Moore , associate professor of history at Hamilton College, all previous NEH fellowship recipients.

Attendees also received an NEH information sheet with practical tips for successful grant submissions. They advised attendees to: carefully review the entire application guidelines and rubrics before beginning the application; tailor each application to the appropriate audience; outline methods, sources, work plan, and timeline; anticipate readers’ questions and preemptively address them.

“The National Endowment for the Humanities fosters excellence and reinforces the foundational aspects the humanities scholarship and education,” says Duncan Brown , Syracuse University’s vice president for research. “We are immensely grateful to the NEH for their support of the corridor and Claudia Kinkela’s visit.”

NEH Grant Recipients at SU

Mariaelena Huambachano was recently awarded a highly competitive 2024 NEH Summer Stipend—the first awarded to an A&S faculty member since 2017—for her project Seeding Hope: Indigenous Women’s Roles in Transforming Food Systems . Huambachano, an assistant professor, will conduct ethnographic research for a book exploring how the food knowledge of Indigenous women of Peru and the U.S. thrive within the industrial food system.

Johannes Himmelreich, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School, received funding (2024) from the NEH grant program, Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities, for his project, Good Decisions: Data Science as a Moral Practice to examine the relationship between technology and society through a humanities lens.

Chris DeCorse, Distinguished Professor and chair of anthropology in the Maxwell School, received an Archeological and Ethnographic Field Research grant for his project, Outpost of Empire: Kormantine, the slave trade, and England’s first outpost in Africa , to support archeological research of Kormantine Fort (1631-1665), located in modern-day Ghana.

Other A&S | Maxwell humanities faculty recipients of grants from NEH include: Romita Ray , associate professor of art and music histories (2021). She received a prestigious collaborative research grant to Convene Leading Scholars for an International Research Workshop and Symposium on the historic architecture, collections and gardens of the iconic Victoria Memorial Hall in Calcutta; and Yüksel Sezgin (2019), associate professor of political science in the Maxwell School, who received a fellowship to study democratization of Islamic laws .

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 The CNY Humanities Corridor also convened a lively roundtable discussion attended by more than 100 people and featuring guests from MIT Press, University of California Press, University of Michigan Press and Syracuse University in December. View the recording of this timely topic here.

Multifaceted Support: Providing Time to Write…

The NEH visit complemented another CNY Humanities Corridor event last fall, which was designed to facilitate writing for humanities faculty.

This annual retreat, in its third year, provides faculty with the time and space they need to focus on their writing and offers important opportunities to connect with scholars from across the corridor. The retreat takes place at Minnowbrook Conference Center on Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, providing scholars a respite from the rigors of teaching and time away from their regular academic routines. Each year, attendees make meaningful progress on their projects thanks to the supportive community, nourishing meals and invigorating intellectual exchanges flourishing in this beautiful, natural setting.

This year, writing coaches offered the cohort of 35 an array of optional workshops, group writing sessions and one-on-one consultations for writers to check in on specific projects and issues, including how to make their writing process more sustainable and fulfilling.

“Time is what faculty have been asking for, and time is what faculty need in order to progress in their research,” shared Aimee Germain , program manager for the CNY Humanities Corridor, in a descriptive blogpost . “A few days at Minnowbrook can help people settle into their writing and feel a sense of camaraderie with colleagues across the region. This is especially valuable in midst of a busy fall semester.”

The cohort for the October 2024 retreat is full, but applications for 2025 will open this fall.

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The 2025-26 Competition is now open. Applications must be submitted by the national deadline of October 8, 2024 at 5pm ET.

Current U.S. Student

United States citizens who are currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate degree programs are eligible to apply.If you are currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at a U.S. college or university, you will apply through that institution, even if you are not currently a resident there. Find the Fulbright Program Adviser on your campus.

U.S. Citizen but not a Student

If you are a U.S. citizen, will hold a bachelor’s degree by the award start date, and do not have a Ph.D. degree, then you are eligible to apply. Non-enrolled applicants should have relatively limited professional experience in the fields (typically 7 years or less) in which they are applying. Candidates with more experience should consider applying for the Fulbright Scholar Program .

The Getting Started page will provide information on eligibility and next steps.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program welcomes applications in the creative and performing arts. Arts candidates for the U.S. Student Program should have relatively limited professional experience in the fields (typically 7 years or less) in which they are applying. Artists with more experience should consider applying for the Fulbright Scholar Program .

Creative & Performing Arts projects fall under the Study/Research grant category and are available in all countries where Study/Research grants are offered.

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If you are a U.S. citizen and a professor or administrator at a U.S. institution and are interested in applying for a Fulbright Scholar Award, you will need to apply through fulbrightscholars.org .

To support your students in applying for a U.S. Student Program award, please connect with the Fulbright Program Adviser at your institution.

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If you are a non-U.S. citizen interested in applying for a Fulbright Award to the United States, you will need to apply through the Fulbright Commission or U.S. Embassy in your home country. Find out more information on the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program or Fulbright Foreign Student Program .

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2025-2026 Competition Deadline: Tuesday October 8, 2024 at 5 pm Eastern Time

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You will apply either through a U.S. institution or At-Large.

• If you are currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at a U.S. college or university, you are strongly encouraged to apply through that institution, even if you are not currently a resident there.
• If you are not currently enrolled, you may apply through your most recent U.S.-based institution that has a Fulbright Program Adviser (FPA), provided that the institution is willing and able to accommodate alumni applications. All other candidates will apply as At-Large applicants.

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• The Fulbright Program Adviser (FPA) will set a campus application deadline for the institution’s students, which is typically 4-6 weeks earlier than the final October deadline. Please confirm the campus deadline with the FPA.
• All candidates applying through a U.S. institution must complete the Fulbright application through the Fulbright online application system by the campus deadline; all supporting materials as outlined in the Application Components section, must also be included by the campus deadline date. You will mark your application ‘Ready for Campus Review’ once it is complete and it will lock your application for the duration of the campus review.
• Once your application has been completed and marked ready for institutional review, the Fulbright Program Adviser will schedule a campus interview for you.
• Following the interview and before the national deadline in October, you may have the opportunity to revise your application based on feedback provided by the Fulbright Program Adviser and the campus review committee. Your FPA will unlock your application after the campus review is complete. You are responsible for submitting your own application before the National Deadline; your Fulbright Program Adviser cannot do this on your behalf.
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• Places grantees in educational centers overseas to supplement local English language instruction and to provide a fluent speaker presence in the classrooms. Please proceed to the English Teaching Assistant Award section to see the countries offering a grant.
• The Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowships in Public Health are offered through a partnership between the Fulbright Program and the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. The program is designed for candidates who are currently enrolled in medical school or in a graduate-level program and who are interested in global health. The basic requirements and process for applying for the Fulbright-Fogarty Program are the same as for any Fulbright U.S. Student Study/Research Grant.

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Twenty-seven graduating seniors, recent yale college alums win fulbrights.

Twenty-seven graduating seniors from Yale’s Class of 2024 or recent Yale College alumni were offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

In partnership with more than 140 countries worldwide, the program enables graduating college seniors, graduate students, or young professionals to pursue graduate study, research, or teach English abroad. During their grants, Fulbrighters meet, work, live with, and learn from the people of their host country.

Recipients are selected based on academic and professional achievement, as well as their record of service and leadership potential in their respective fields. 

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is administered at Yale College through the Office of Fellowship Programs in the Center for International and Professional Experience. Yale has long been a top producer of U.S. student Fulbright awardees, with more than 80 Yale students or alumni winning the prestigious honor in the past four years alone.

Information about this year’s Fulbright recipients follows:

Julia wang , fulbright spain and american space valencia teaching assistantship.

Julia Wang ’24, who is from southern California, majored in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology on the pre-medicine track at Yale College, with an intensive certificate in education studies. On campus, she was involved with Splash at Yale, Camp Kesem, and the Yale Symphony Orchestra.

Maya Albold , Fulbright Mongolia English Teaching Assistantship

Maya Albold ’24, who is from St. Augustine, Florida, majored in history (politics, law, and government) and East Asian studies. At Yale, she served on the board of the Yale International Relations Association, volunteered through the Migration Alliance at Yale, and directed the East Asian Studies Student Advisory Council. Last year, she studied human rights in Nepal, Jordan, and Chile, and then interned at the Department of State in the Human Rights Bureau’s East Asia Office. She looks to apply the lessons learned during her time at Yale in Mongolia next fall as a Fulbright ETA.

Eric Linh , Fulbright Taiwan English Teaching Assistantship

Eric Linh ’23, ’24 M.P.H., who is from Philadelphia, graduated from Yale College last year with a Bachelor of Science in biomedical engineering and a language certificate in Chinese. He recently finished a Master of Public Health in health policy through the accelerated 5-year program. He will serve as an English teaching assistant in Taiwan during the upcoming academic year.

John Nguyen , Fulbright Vietnam English Teaching Assistantship

John Nguyen ’24, who is from Saint Paul, Minnesota, graduated with a B.A. in English, with a concentration in nonfiction writing. He will travel to Vietnam next year on an English Teaching Assistantship. He’s been recognized by the Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship, the National YoungArts Foundation, and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, and represented Yale in the Connecticut Poetry Circuit.

Chase Daneker , Fulbright-Garcia Robles Grant, Binational Business Program

Chase Daneker ‘24, from Bethesda, Maryland, majored in global affairs with an advanced language certificate in Spanish. At Yale, he received the Thomas C. Barry Travel Fellowship, which supported his independent research on collective memory formation following the Peruvian internal conflict from 1980 to 2000, and the O’Leary Cepeda and Leitner International Fellowships, which supported his work for CEDRO, a Peruvian NGO implementing alternative development projects in the Amazon. Next year, he will participate in the Fulbright Binational Business Program in Mexico.

Francesca Nyakora , Fulbright Brazil Research Grant

Francesca Nyakora ‘23 studied political science and African studies at Yale while also receiving certificates in French and Human Rights. She also served as the president of the inaugural Yale Model African Union, on the board of the Yale International Relations Association, and as a Kerry Fellow. She also interned at the Department of State and the United Nations Development Program. Since graduating, Nyakora has worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a junior fellow. Upon completion of her junior fellowship, she will begin her Fulbright in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ravi Balasubramanian , Fulbright France Research Grant

Ravi Nicholas Balasubramanian ’24, won a Fulbright Fellowship Independent Research/Study Award to France, where he will work at the Institut Curie in Paris, researching the biological principles and mechanisms of developmental synchrony, with the goal of understanding how cells in an organism coordinate their growth and divisions. At the same time, he will be pursuing the Integrated Masters in the Life Sciences (IMaLiS) degree at the École Normale Supérieure. At Yale, he double majored in molecular, cellular, developmental biology (MCDB), with a focus in quantitative biology; and comparative literature, in the literature and comparative cultures track, with a focus in Spanish.

John Klein , Fulbright Taiwan English Teaching Assistantship

John Klein ’24, who is originally from Fairfax, Virginia, studied history at Yale on the Empires and Colonialism track. At Yale, he was a peer mentor for the Department of History, a research assistant at the Yale Institution for Society and Policy Studies, and a member of the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps. He also competed for the Model United Nations Team at Yale (MUNTY) and was a member of the Yale International Relations Association. Next year he will travel to Taiwan as an English Teaching Assistant through the Fulbright program.

Emily Lau , Fulbright New Zealand Study Grant in Indigenous Studies

Emily Lau ’24, who is originally from Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, but has lived in Maine for several years, studied math and computer science at Yale. She was also a member of the Yale Glee Club and the women's club basketball team and has been a peer tutor for various math classes for four years. This summer she will return to Hawaiʻi to learn more about loko iʻa and food sovereignty in Pacific islands and will then travel to Aotearoa New Zealand next January on a study/research Fulbright for a Masters in Indigenous Studies.

Sean Piñón , Fulbright Switzerland Research Grant

Sean Piñón ’24, who is from Albuquerque, New Mexico, aspires to pursue both neurological research and medicine. At Yale he conducted biochemical and intravital neuroimaging experiments for a research project concerned with the development of novel cell-type specific pharmacotherapies for the potential treatment of chronic neuroinflammation in neurodegenerative disease within the Grutzendler Lab. He received a Study/Research Award to conduct a study on vascular remodeling post microstroke in a glial-vascular neurobiology lab at the University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland.

Alexander Goldberg , Fulbright Italy Research Grant

Alexander Franco Goldberg ’22, ’23 M.M., who graduated from Yale College with a B.A. in philosophy, is a violinist who “ties music to larger aesthetic and literary concerns that illuminate his performances.” Goldberg, who is interested in linking musical performances with literature, poetry, and art, is currently studying with Salvatore Accardo in Cremona at the Stauffer Center for Strings. At Yale, he also completed a masters in violin at the Yale School of Music, where he was the first and then-only student admitted to the new B.A./M.M. dual-degree program. He was also awarded the Head of College Cup for “outstanding scholarly achievement and creative promise,” and the Selden Award for “verve, idealism and constructive interest in music and the humanities.”

Melina Joseph , Fulbright Kyrgyzstan English Teaching Assistantship

Melina Joseph ’24 studied comparative literature and psychology with a certificate in translation studies. On campus, she served as a fellow with Dwight Hall, was a peer liaison with the Yale Chaplain’s Office, and co-president of Bridges ESL (English as a Second Language), a nonprofit sponsored by Dwight Hall and the Asian American Cultural Center. She served as an undergraduate fellow in European Studies as well as Latin American & Iberian Studies at the Yale MacMillan Center. She has also completed research assistantships at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School, and has served on the boards of the Yale International Relations Association and the Yale Undergraduate Legal Aid Association. 

Lisbette Acosta , Fulbright Spain English Teaching Assistantship

Lisbette Acosta ’24 studied psychology, education, and pre-medicine studies at Yale College. Originally from La Vega, Dominican Republic, and currently based in New Haven, she bridges the two locations with her research centered on improving the health outcomes of Eastern Caribbean adults. Her teaching experience ranges from local to international. On campus, Acosta served as an instructor for the Yale Young Global Scholars Solving Global Challenges Track and an Organic Chemistry Course-Based Peer Tutor for the Department of Chemistry. She was also involved with Matriculate as a head advising fellow, outreach coordinator, and curriculum creator, guiding hundreds of low-income high school students through the college application process nationally and on Yale's campus. She also served as an academic strategies peer mentor for the Yale Prison Education Initiative, tutoring incarcerated students in math, chemistry, and English.

Sai Rayala , Fulbright India Research Grant

Sai Rayala ’24, who is from Powell, Ohio, studied history at Yale and received a certificate in human rights from Yale Law School. Her research interests include South Asian environmental history, forced migration, and international human rights law. At Yale, she served as the project leader for the Lowenstein Human Rights Program's Crimes Against Humanity Project, city editor of the Yale Daily News, and online managing editor of the Yale Review of International Studies. With the Fulbright Research Grant she will spend next year in Delhi, India, studying how dams have shaped India’s developmental path in the post-independence period.

Benjamin Everett-Lane , Fulbright Taiwan English Teaching Assistantship

Ben Everett-Lane ’24 graduated from Yale with a degree in environmental studies on the Climate & Energy track with certificates in Chinese and data science. His interests center around climate change communication, particularly at the international level. He received an English Teaching Assistant Award for Taiwan.

Steven Lewis , Fulbright South Africa Research Grant

Steven Lewis ‘18, who was born and raised in New York and currently lives in Brooklyn, is an M.D.-Ph.D. student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Stony Brook University studying breast cancer epigenetics and the tumor microenvironment at Cold Spring Harbor Lab. His fellowship project will focus on analysis of genomic sequences of children with cancer and healthy controls in South Africa.

Em Tchorz , Fulbright Uzbekistan English Teaching Assistantship

Em Tchorz ’23, who studied neuroscience at Yale, was also a four-year varsity sailor and a member of the Polish Society. Since graduation she has been working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and plans to continue working in the public sector after her grant period. 

Nicholas Wade , Fulbright-Garcia Robles Grant, Binational Business Program

Nicholas Wade ’21, who is originally from outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, received his bachelor’s degree in political science and Middle Eastern studies at Yale, while also earning a certificate in the Arabic language. Previously he had travelled extensively to the Middle East via the Critical Language Scholarship. He worked at Goldman Sachs in investment banking, specifically in the infrastructure and structured finance team. He currently works in the investment office at the Andrew Mellon Foundation, focused on real estate, private equity, and public equities. 

Daniela Naumov , Fulbright Mexico English Teaching Assistantship

Daniela Naumov ‘24, who is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, majored in neuroscience on the pre-med track at Yale. The daughter of immigrants from Serbia and Macedonia, she is dedicated to supporting immigrant communities through accessible and equitable healthcare initiatives. A former co-director of patient services at the HAVEN Free Clinic and of student programming at Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS), a New Haven-based nonprofit, she works to increase access to comprehensive health services among New Haven community members.

Eli Kennard , Fulbright Algeria English Teaching Assistantship

Eli Kennard ’24 majored in computer science and psychology. In his senior thesis he explored game-based disinformation interventions. His passion for understanding how people learn has inspired him to teach community and consent courses as well as lead backpacking trips for young adults in transitional periods of their lives. A throughline in his educational journey has been the use of language to explore new places and connect with new people; At Yale he took courses in Arabic, Italian, and Swahili. He will teach English in Algeria next year.

Mariela Barrales , Fulbright Mexico English Teaching Assistantship

Mariela Barrales ’24, who is from East Los Angeles, was a double major in political science and Spanish. Her first-generation, low-income background inspired much of her work at Yale, which largely centered on higher education accessibility. She worked as a Dwight Hall Community Response Fellow and interned with The Perfect Blend, an education nonprofit in New Haven. She has also served as an admissions fellow with College Match LA, coaching high school juniors through the college application process. With the Fulbright grant, she plans to take a year to work as an English Teaching Assistant in Mexico.

Scott Hicks , Fulbright Istanbul Study Grant

Scott Hicks '18 will be in Istanbul, pursuing a master's degree from the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi University. He will be researching the recently discovered diaries of Eveline Thomson Scott, an English-American woman who was born in Istanbul and lived in the city until her passing in 1976. For the past four years, Scott has been traveling while working as an essay coach.

Ben Kramer , Fulbright Sweden Study Grant

Ben Karmer ’24, who is originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, double majored in music and linguistics at Yale while also pursuing a joint master's degree in linguistics. His research interests lie in phonetics, laboratory phonology, and sociolinguistics. At Yale, he was a member of the Yale Phonetics Laboratory and the Yale Undergraduate Linguistics Society, and he was the winner of the Abraham Beekman Cox Prize for Music Composition. For his senior project in musical theater composition he wrote a musical about the AIDS epidemic, and previously served as musical director of the Yale Whiffenpoofs and sang with the Yale Spizzwinks, Redhot & Blue of Yale, and the Yale Glee Club.

Fiona O’Brien , Fulbright France Study Award

Fiona O’Brien ’22 graduated from Yale summa cum laude with a B.S. in environmental engineering and a certificate in French. While at Yale, she participated in the Global Health Studies program, supported several volunteer organizations, including Engineers Without Borders and Community Health Educators, and went on many long runs and bike rides in New Haven. She currently works in climate and sustainability consulting in New York. As the recipient of a Fulbright France Award, she will pursue her Master of Science and Technology in Smart Cities and Climate Policy at École Polytechnique.  

Sandhya Kumar , Fulbright India Study Grant

Sandhya Kumar ‘23 continued her studies at Yale as a Master of Public Health student in Health Policy with a concentration in Global Health at the Yale School of Public Health. Originally from Rochester, Minnesota, she is in the accelerated 5-year BA/MPH program and received her bachelor’s degree in global affairs and global health from Yale College. On campus, she volunteered with the Neighborhood Health Project in New Haven, led a summer high school program with the Yale International Relations Association, danced with the Yale Rangeela Bollywood fusion dance team, and was co-president of the South Asian Society. She will continue exploring topics in global health in Mumbai during her Fulbright year. 

Renee Deminne , Fulbright Armenia English Teaching Assistantship

Renee Deminne ’24, who is originally from Charles County, Maryland, recently completed a degree in Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies. At Yale her interests have been in film, transnational culture, and education. She has worked in the Poorvu Center as a Pedagogical Partner and with Dwight Hall as a public school intern. Previously, she received scholarships for study in Moldova, Armenia, and Poland. This fall she will begin an English Teaching Assistantship in Armenia.

William Salaverry , Fulbright Open Study/Research award in Guatemala

William Salaverry ’24, who graduated this year with a B.A. in Latin American Studies, will complete the Fulbright Open Study/Research award in Guatemala.

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The Fulbright Newcastle University Award covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme offered by the university.  

Newcastle University is a World Top 110 University and is home to a thriving international community of over 27,000 students from over 120 countries. As a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities in the UK we have a world-class reputation for research excellence in the fields of medicine; science and engineering; social sciences and the humanities. We are committed to providing our students with excellent, research-led teaching delivered by dedicated and passionate teachers. We have particular research strengths in Ageing and Health, Cities and Place, Culture and Creative Arts, One Planet, Data and Sustainable Development.  

Newcastle University is a truly civic university with a strong sense of place, social justice and sustainability (ranked in World Top 30 for Sustainability and Social Impact) and has outstanding world-class facilities to match our internationally recognised teaching and research. The University’s beautiful and historic campus is located at the heart of a vibrant city ranked in the Top 5 places in the UK to study and is the main hub for the University’s activities, as well as home to our awarding winning student support services, libraries, multi-million pound sports facilities and dedicated postgraduate accommodation.    

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Full tuition waiver

£19,027 living stipend

$1500 travel stipend

The living stipend is intended as a contribution towards general maintenance costs towards the first year in the UK.

In the UK, master's degrees are typically one-year programmes (full-time).

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University of Birmingham

Covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme.

University of Bristol

Covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme

Cardiff University

Durham University

University of East Anglia

University of Exeter

University of Glasgow

Covers the first year of any non-clinical master's degree programme.

Imperial College London

Covers any one-year engineering, science or non-clinical medical studies master’s degree.

University of Kent

King’s College London

Covers any non-clinical PhD programme.

University of Leeds

Covers the first year of any master's or higher research degree program in any discipline.

Lancaster University

Covers the first year of any master's degree programme.

University of Leicester

John Wood LAMDA

Covers the one-year classical acting master’s degree.

London School of Economics

University of Manchester

Covers the first year of any master's degree, except the MBA programme.

Northumbria University

Full cost of tuition and stipend for a one-year Master's in arts and design programmes.

University of Nottingham

Covers a one-year master's degree or the first year of a doctoral programme.

Queen Mary University of London

University of Roehampton

Covers any one-year master's degree in dance.

Royal Holloway, University of London

University of Sheffield

Offers one-year Master’s degree program or provide funding.

Royal Veterinary College

University of Southampton

University of St Andrews

Covers a postgraduate degree programme, at Masters or research level, for up to four years in any discipline.

University of Stirling

Covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme in health, wellbeing or sports science .

University of Sussex

University of Strathclyde

Covers degrees within the University of Strathclyde.

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance

Covers the first year of postgraduate programmes in music or dance.

University College London

Covers a master's or the first year of a longer PhD programme.

IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society

Covers any one-year full-time master's degree programme.

UCL School of Management

Covers the one-year MSc in Entrepreneurship.

University of Warwick

Queen’s University Belfast – Global Security and Borders

Master’s in Global Security and Borders.

University of Edinburgh

Covers a one-year taught Master's programme.

Manchester Metropolitan University

Covers one year of a master’s degree in creative writing.

University of Reading

Offers funding for a Master's or PhD in Food and Nutritional Sciences.

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Any master's or doctoral degree, or independent research.

Ulster University

Covers postgraduate degrees within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

The Fulbright University of Birmingham Scholarship Award covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme offered by the University.

The  University of Birmingham :  the global university at the heart of an ambitious city . Persuasive, persistent and bold, Birmingham encourages and empowers people to turn ingenuity into reality and make important things happen.

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The Fulbright University of Bristol Award covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme offered by the university.

The  University of Bristol  is one of the most popular and successful universities in the UK. It was ranked 62nd in the world in  the QS World University rankings 2022  and in the top 100 for 32 different subjects. In the UK, it is in the QS top 10 and  is one of the most targeted British universities for employers .

The Fulbright Cardiff University Award covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme offered by the university.

Founded in 1883, Cardiff University combines a prestigious heritage with impressive modern facilities, on one of the most beautiful campuses in the UK. As the only Russell Group university in Wales, our students benefit from our outstanding research quality and reputation, while enjoying a wide variety of courses that can be tailored to any aspirations. 

The Fulbright Durham University Award covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme offered by the university.

Durham University  is distinctive - a residential collegiate university with long traditions and modern values. 

After the Dark Ages in Europe, the 7th century saw a flowering of thought and culture in the North East of England. Bede - poet, scientist, historian and the greatest European scholar of the 7th century - is buried in Durham, as is St Cuthbert, who established 'English' Christianity from its Celtic and Roman roots.

Durham University is the inheritor of a continuous line of learning and scholarship dating from Bede and Cuthbert to the present day.

The Fulbright University of East Anglia Award covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme offered by the university.

The  University of East Anglia (UEA) is a world top 200 and UK top 30 institution with a reputation for cutting edge, global research and a long history of student satisfaction. The campus is within 320 acres of rolling parkland, three miles from the centre of Norwich, a medieval British city which is also England’s first UNESCO City of Literature.

The Fulbright University of Exeter Award covers the first year of any Master's or doctoral degree programme offered by the university.

The  University of Exeter  combines world class research with excellent student satisfaction at its campuses in Exeter and Cornwall. It is a member of the Russell Group of leading research-intensive universities.

The Fulbright University of Glasgow Award covers the first year of any non-clinical master's degree programme offered by the university.

Founded in 1451, the University of Glasgow, is a research-intensive, broad-based university located in Scotland’s largest city. It has 25,000 students, over 7,000 of whom are international. 

The Fulbright Imperial College London Award covers any one-year engineering, science or non-clinical medical studies master’s degree offered by the institution.

Imperial College London is one of the world’s 10 top universities (QS World Rankings 2022), in one of its most iconic cities – London, UK. 

With 20,000 students from over 140 countries, and a specialist community focusing solely on science, engineering, medicine and business, our degrees open doors and our discoveries change lives.

The Fulbright University of Kent Award covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme offered by the university.

The  University of Kent  is outward looking and forward-thinking, with academic staff who are leaders in their field, outstanding facilities and award-winning student support. Our interdisciplinary programmes are designed to help you sharpen your focus and take a step up in your career. In these challenging times, Kent’s an ideal place for postgraduate study. 

The Fulbright King's College London Award covers any non-clinical PhD programme offered by the university.

King’s College London  is:

• One of the top 10 UK universities in the world (QS World University Rankings, 2020) 
• The fourth oldest university in England
• Research-led and based in the heart of London.

The Fulbright University of Leeds Award covers the first year of any master's or higher research degree program in any discipline.

The  University of Leeds , established in 1904, is one of the largest Universities in the UK, with more than 38,000 students from over 170 different countries. A member of the Russell Group, Leeds is ranked in the top 100 universities in the QS World University Rankings 2022. Leeds is a university with an international outlook and we have been welcoming international students for over 100 years.

The Fulbright Lancaster University Award in STEM covers the first year of any master's degree programme offered by the Faculty of Science and Technology.

Located on a beautiful campus in the North West of England,  Lancaster University  is an internationally highly-ranked leader in the provision of inspiring teaching and research, placing great emphasis on a strong  student experience  and  employability  by giving students access to academics who are experts in their field.

The Fulbright University of Leicester Award covers the first year of any master's degree programme offered by the university.

The  University of Leicester  was founded a hundred years ago in the aftermath of the Great War. The men and women who built this new institution hoped that sacrifices made in war should be commemorated through education and research that would change the world for the better.

The Fulbright John Wood LAMDA Award covers the one-year MA Classical Acting for the Professional Theatre offered by the institution.

A world class drama school and educational charity,  LAMDA  delivers exceptional vocational training in the performing arts. Founded in 1861 as the London Academy of Music, it was the first such institution to offer acting tuition – defining LAMDA’s ongoing role as a pioneer in its field.

The Fulbright London School of Economics and Political Science Award covers the first year of any master's degree programme offered by the university.

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)  is the world’s leading dedicated social science institution. Founded in 1895, the School enjoys a global reputation for academic and research excellence.

LSE offers  over 140 taught master’s programmes  in a wide range of social science subjects; from international development and economics, human rights and gender, to finance, law and media and communications.

The Fulbright University of Manchester Award covers the first year of any master's degree offered by the University, except the MBA programme.

Manchester was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and continues to play host to innovation and enterprise. Established in 1824, the origins of The University of Manchester are entwined with the history of the city and the region.

As the largest single-site university in the UK, with the biggest student community, The University of Manchester welcomes more international students than any other institution.

The Fulbright Newcastle University Award covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme offered by the university.

Newcastle University is a World Top 150 University and is home to a thriving international community of 27,750 students from over 120 countries. As a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities in the UK they have a world-class reputation for research excellence in the fields of medicine; science and engineering; social sciences and the humanities.

The Fulbright Northumbria University Award covers the full cost of tuition and stipend for a one-year Master's in arts and design programmes.

Northumbria University, ranked in the top 40 in The Guardian 2024 Best UK Universities, is a research-intensive university that unlocks potential for all, changing lives regionally, nationally and internationally.

The Fulbright University of Nottingham Award covers a one-year master's degree or the first year of a doctoral programme offered by the University of Nottingham, in any subject area.

The University of Nottingham is a pioneering university providing an exceptional, research-led education and an outstanding student experience for its 48,000 students. Built on the ethos that education can unlock potential and transform lives, they are committed to excellence in teaching and learning. 

The Fulbright Queen Mary University of London Award covers the first year of any Master's or Doctoral degree programme offered by the university.

Queen Mary University of London  is one of the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions. Split across five campuses in central and east London, it has a long heritage dating back to 1785 when the first medical school in the UK was formed at the Royal London Hospital.

The Fulbright University of Roehampton Award covers any one-year master's degree in dance offered by the institution.

A frontrunner in international dance research, the University of Roehampton’s Dance Department is the most highly rated dance department in the UK, as evidenced in REF2014, with 94% of our research judged world-leading or internationally significant. We have long been leaders in the field of dance research, through our seminars, conferences, performances, publications and engagement with organisations beyond the University

The Fulbright Royal Holloway, University of London award covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme offered by the institution.

Royal Holloway, University of London, is ranked in the top 25 universities in the UK and the top 350 universities in the world. Through world-class research that expands minds and changes lives, the dedication of our teachers and the feel of the Royal Holloway experience, theirs is a community that inspires individuals to succeed academically, socially and personally.  

The Fulbright University of Sheffield Award is available for students who wish to pursue a one-year Master’s degree program or provide funding for the first year of any master’s or doctoral research degree programme in any discipline at the University of Sheffield.

More than 2 9 ,000 students from over 1 5 0 countries, including 200 from the USA, choose to come and study at Sheffield. Our passionate and collegiate community of academics and researchers deliver world-class teaching across a wide range of disciplines in our five faculties: Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing, Medicine, Dentistry and Health, and Science.  

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The Fulbright Royal Veterinary College Award covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme offered by the university.

The  Royal Veterinary College  has a successful record of training North American students and can count several hundred American and Canadian graduates as alumni. Founded in 1791, the RVC was the first veterinary school in the UK, and the driving force behind the establishment of the nation’s veterinary profession.

The Fulbright University of Southampton Award covers the first year of any master's degree programme offered by the university.

The  University of Southampton is by any measure one of the world’s leading universities. We are consistently ranked in the Top 100 universities worldwide (QS World Rankings 2022), a global centre for excellence in research and education and a founding member of the UK’s prestigious Russell Group.

The Fulbright University of St Andrews Award covers a postgraduate degree programme, at Masters or research level, for up to four years in any discipline.

Founded in the 15th century, the  University of St Andrews  is Scotland’s first university and the third oldest in the English-speaking world. Teaching began in the community of St Andrews on the east coast of Scotland in 1410 and the University was formally constituted by the issuance of a Papal Bull in 1413.

The Fulbright University of Stirling Award covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme in health, wellbeing or sports science offered by the university.

The  University of Stirling  was founded in 1967 on the site of the historic Airthrey Estate. The campus comprises of 310 acres, a loch and the 18th-century Airthrey Castle.

Stirling is committed to promoting a thriving research culture and environment in order to enhance the quality of the student experience. The university prides itself on offering a flexible, interdisciplinary approach to learning. It gives people who traditionally would not have access to education the chance to study towards a degree.

The Fulbright University of Sussex Award covers the first year of any master's degree programme offered by the university.

The  University of Sussex  is a leading research-intensive university which broadens its students’ perspectives. Home to 17,000 students, Sussex is ranked 1st in the world for Development Studies (QS World Rankings 2017-2020) and is in the top 100 in the world for Business and Economics, Social Sciences and Psychology (Times Higher Education World Rankings 2021).  

The Fulbright University of Strathclyde Award covers degrees within the Faculty of Engineering, the Strathclyde Business School and the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.

The University of Strathclyde was established more than 200 years ago, and has a student population of 23,000 from over 100 countries. The University was the first university to be awarded the UK University of the Year award by Times Higher Education (THE) twice – in 2012 and 2019. The University has also been recognised as Scottish University of the Year 2020 by The Sunday Times Good University Guide and was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, the highest national honour awarded to the sector.

The Fulbright Trinity Laban Award covers the first year of any master’s programme within the Faculty of Dance and the Artist Diploma programme in the Faculty of Music offered by Trinity Laban.

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance  is the UK’s only conservatoire of music and contemporary dance. Trinity Laban was formed in 2005 from the merger of two of the UK’s most famous institutions: Trinity College of Music (founded 1872) and Laban (founded 1958).

The Fulbright University College London Award covers a master's or the first year of a longer PhD programme.

UCL (University College London)  is London's leading multidisciplinary university, with approximately 13,000 staff and 42,000 students from more than 150 different countries.

The Fulbright Award covers any one-year full-time master's degree programme offered by the institution.

Founded in 1902, IOE currently has more than 8,000 students and 800 staff. In December 2014 it became a faculty of University College London.

Its research addresses society's most important challenges and its teaching inspires students by providing them with first-hand experience of leading-edge research and knowledge creation.

The Fulbright UCL Entrepreneurship Award covers the one-year MSc in Entrepreneurship at the institution's School of Management.

UCL (University College London)  is London's leading multidisciplinary university, with approximately 13,000 staff and 44,000 students from 150 different countries. Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, UCL was the first university in England to welcome students of any class, religion, and the first to welcome women on equal terms with men.

The  MSc Entrepreneurship  is designed for students who intend to start and run high impact, innovative businesses. Right from the start of the programme, you will learn the skills and gain the tools to start an innovative, high impact new business.

The Fulbright University of Warwick Award covers the first year of any master's or doctoral degree programme offered by the university.

Located in the heart of England, the University of Warwick is a leading UK university, quickly establishing an international reputation for excellence.

Warwick constantly invests into student services and campus facilities. You'll benefit from excellent support from accommodation help to careers advice, free counselling and health services. You can study in The Oculus, our teaching and learning building, and enjoy a new state-of-the-art SportsHub.

The Fulbright-Queen’s University Belfast Award in Global Security and Borders (MA) will be offered to US graduate students to pursue a Master’s in Global Security and Borders.

Queen's University Belfast is a member of the Russell Group – a group of leading UK research-intensive universities – and offers world-class education and research. The ninth oldest university in the UK and considered one of the most beautiful, Queen's provides outstanding sporting and research facilities. With 24,000 students, it is a thriving and friendly campus. 

The Fulbright University of Edinburgh Award covers a one-year taught Master's programme at the University of Edinburgh.

The  University of Edinburgh  is the sixth oldest university in the United Kingdom and the oldest civic foundation in the English-speaking world. Today, the University is home to 43,380 students spread across five campuses around the city. These campuses also house some of the world’s most important collections, including art, musical instruments, natural history, geology, anatomy, rare books and manuscripts.

The Fulbright Manchester Metropolitan University Postgraduate Award covers one year of a master’s degree in creative writing at the University.

The Manchester Writing School is based at  Manchester Metropolitan University , a University at the heart of a global city, with an international reputation for its creative courses.

The Fulbright University of Reading Award in Food Security offers funding for a Master's or PhD in Food and Nutritional Sciences.

The Fulbright University of Reading Award in Food Security offers funding for the following Master’s and PhD programmes in Food and Nutritional Sciences:

• MSc Food Science
• MSc Food Technology – Quality Assurance
• MSc Nutrition and Food Science

The Fulbright All Disciplines Award covers academic work in any subject at any recognised UK university.

The All Disciplines Award is the most competitive Fulbright scholarship. If your project seems suited to our subject-specific or university-specific Awards, we recommend you apply in one of those categories. If you are applying to pursue a programme at a partner university which is eligible for one of our university-specific awards, you must apply to the partner-specific award.

The Fulbright-Ulster University Awards covers postgraduate degrees within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences focused in Humanities and Social Sciences or Creative Industries.

Ulster University is recognised internationally for its academic quality and student experience as well as for its socio-economic contribution.  We are Northern Ireland’s largest university with over 30,000 students across our three campuses located in Belfast, Coleraine and Derry~Londonderry. Our new and enhanced Belfast campus is one of the largest higher education capital builds in Europe.

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Coordinates of elektrostal in degrees and decimal minutes, utm coordinates of elektrostal, geographic coordinate systems.

WGS 84 coordinate reference system is the latest revision of the World Geodetic System, which is used in mapping and navigation, including GPS satellite navigation system (the Global Positioning System).

Geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) define a position on the Earth’s surface. Coordinates are angular units. The canonical form of latitude and longitude representation uses degrees (°), minutes (′), and seconds (″). GPS systems widely use coordinates in degrees and decimal minutes, or in decimal degrees.

Latitude varies from −90° to 90°. The latitude of the Equator is 0°; the latitude of the South Pole is −90°; the latitude of the North Pole is 90°. Positive latitude values correspond to the geographic locations north of the Equator (abbrev. N). Negative latitude values correspond to the geographic locations south of the Equator (abbrev. S).

Longitude is counted from the prime meridian ( IERS Reference Meridian for WGS 84) and varies from −180° to 180°. Positive longitude values correspond to the geographic locations east of the prime meridian (abbrev. E). Negative longitude values correspond to the geographic locations west of the prime meridian (abbrev. W).

UTM or Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system divides the Earth’s surface into 60 longitudinal zones. The coordinates of a location within each zone are defined as a planar coordinate pair related to the intersection of the equator and the zone’s central meridian, and measured in meters.

Elevation above sea level is a measure of a geographic location’s height. We are using the global digital elevation model GTOPO30 .

Elektrostal , Moscow Oblast, Russia