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The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of competitive, merit-based grants

Grant (money)

Grants are funds disbursed by one party , often a Government Department, Corporation, Foundation or Trust, to a recipient, often a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or an individual. In order to receive a grant, some form of "Grant Writing" often referred to as either a proposal...

for international educational exchange

United States Cultural Exchange Programs

United States cultural exchange programs, particularly those programs with ties to theBureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State, seek to develop cultural understanding between United States citizens and citizens of other countries...

for students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists and artists, founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright

J. William Fulbright

James William Fulbright was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from 1945 to 1975.Fulbright was a Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist who supported the creation of the United Nations and the longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...

in 1946. Under the Fulbright Program, U.S. citizens are eligible to go abroad, and non-U.S. citizens are eligible to come to the United States. The first participating university in the United States was the George Washington University

George Washington University

The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...

, in Washington, DC.

The Fulbright Program is one of the most prestigious awards programs worldwide, operating in over 155 countries. Forty-three Fulbright alumni have won Nobel Prizes (including two in 2010, Peter A. Diamond and Ei-ichi Negishi

Ei-ichi Negishi

is a Japanese chemist who has spent most of his career at Purdue University, United States. He is best known for his discovery of the Negishi coupling. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for palladium catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis" jointly with Richard F. Heck and...

) and seventy-eight have won Pulitzer Prizes. More Nobel laureates are former Fulbright recipients than any other award program.

The program was established to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.

The Fulbright Program provides 8,000 grants annually to undertake graduate study, advanced research, university lecturing, and classroom teaching. As of 2010, 300,000 persons - 114,000 from the United States and 188,000 from other countries - have participated in the program since it began.

In each of 50 countries, a bi-national Fulbright Commission administers and oversees the Fulbright Program. In countries without a Fulbright Commission but that have an active program, the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy oversees the Fulbright Program.

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State fosters mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries around the world...

sponsors the Fulbright Program from an annual appropriation from the U.S. Congress. Additional direct and in-kind support comes from partner governments, foundations, corporations, and host institutions both in and outside the U.S.

History

In 1945, Senator J.William Fulbright proposed a bill to use the proceeds from selling surplus U.S. government war property to fund international exchange between the U.S. and other countries. With the crucial timing of the aftermath of the Second War and with the pressing establishment of the United Nations, the Fulbright Program was a solution in promoting peace and understanding through educational exchange. The bill devised a plan to forgo the debts foreign countries amassed during the war and in return for funding an international educational program. It was through the belief that this program would be an essential vehicle to promote peace and mutual understanding between individuals, institutions and future leaders wherever they may be.
On August 1, 1946, President Harry S Truman signed the bill into law, and Congress created the Fulbright Program in what became the largest education exchange program in history.

Since it began, the program has operated on a bi-national basis; each country active in the Fulbright Program has entered into an agreement with the U.S. government. The first countries to sign agreements were China in 1947 and Burma, the Philippines and Greece in 1948.

Program

The Fulbright Program works two ways: U.S. citizens may receive funding to go to a foreign country (U.S. Student Program, U.S. Scholar Program, and Teacher Exchange Program) and non-U.S. citizens may come to the U.S. (Foreign Student Program, Visiting Scholar Program, Teacher Exchange Program).

Candidates recommended for Fulbright grants have high academic achievement, a compelling project proposal and/or statement of purpose, demonstrated leadership potential, and flexibility and adaptability to interact successfully with the host community abroad.

Types of grant

Fulbright grants are offered in almost all academic disciplines except clinical medical research involving patient contact. Fulbright grantees' fields of study span the fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics, natural and physical sciences, and professional and applied sciences.

For students

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers fellowships for U.S. graduating seniors, graduate students, young professionals and artists to study abroad for one academic year. The Program also includes an English Teaching Assistant component.
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program enables graduate students, young professionals and artists from abroad to conduct research and study in the United States. Some scholarships are renewed after the initial year of study.
The Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program provides opportunities for young English teachers from overseas to refine their teaching skills and broaden their knowledge of American culture and society while strengthening the instruction of foreign languages at colleges and universities in the United States.
The International Fulbright Science and Technology Award, a component of the Fulbright Foreign Student Program, supports doctoral study at leading U.S. institutions in science, technology, engineering or related fields for outstanding foreign students.
The Fulbright-mtvU Fellowships award up to 4 U.S. students the opportunity to study the power of music as a cultural force abroad. Fellows conduct research for one academic year on projects of their own design about a chosen musical aspect. They share their experiences during their Fulbright year via video reports, blogs and podcasts.

For scholars

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program sends American faculty members, scholars and professionals abroad to lecture and/or conduct research for up to a year.
The Fulbright Specialist Program sends U.S. faculty and professionals to serve as expert consultants on curriculum, faculty development, institutional planning, and related subjects at overseas academic institutions for a period of 2 to 6 weeks.
The Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program and Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program bring foreign scholars to lecture and/or conduct post-doctoral research for up to a year at U.S. colleges and universities.

For teachers

The Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program supports one-to-one exchanges of teachers from K-12 schools and a small number of post-secondary institutions.
The Distinguished Fulbright Awards in Teaching Program sends teachers abroad for a semester to pursue individual projects, conduct research, and lead master classes or seminars.

For professionals

The Hubert H. Humphrey Program brings outstanding mid-career professionals from the developing world and societies in transition to the United States for one year. Fellows participate in a non-degree program of academic study and gain professional experience.
The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program sends American scholars and professionals abroad to lecture and/or conduct research for up to a year.
The Fulbright Specialist Program sends U.S. faculty and professionals to serve as expert consultants on curriculum, faculty development, institutional planning, and related subjects at overseas academic institutions for a period of 2 to 6 weeks.
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers fellowships for U.S. graduating seniors, graduate students, young professionals and artists to study abroad for one academic year. The Program also includes an English Teaching Assistant component.
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program enables graduate students, young professionals and artists from abroad to conduct research and study in the United States. Some scholarships are renewed after the initial year of study.

Fulbright-Hays Program

A portion of the Fulbright Program is a Congressional appropriation to the United States Department of Education for the Fulbright-Hays Program. These grants are awarded to individual U.S. K-14 pre-teachers, teachers and administrators, pre-doctoral students and post-doctoral faculty, as well as to U.S. institutions and organizations. Funding supports research and training efforts overseas, which focus on non-western foreign languages and area studies.

Budgetary reductions have forced the Department of Education to cancel many Fulbright-Hays Programs for the fiscal year of 2011, pending final congressional action.

Administration

The program is coordinated by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State under policy guidelines established by the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB), with the help of 50 bi-national Fulbright commissions, U.S. embassies, and cooperating organizations in the U.S.

The U.S. Department of State

United States Department of State

The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...

is responsible for managing, coordinating and overseeing the Fulbright program. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

is the bureau in the Department of State that has primary
responsibility for the administration of the program.

The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board is a twelve-member board of educational and public leaders appointed by the President of the United States that determines general policy and direction for the Fulbright Program and approves all candidates nominated for Fulbright Scholarships.

Bi-national Fulbright commissions and foundations, most of which are funded jointly by the U.S. and partner governments, develop priorities for the program, including the numbers and categories of grants. More specifically, they plan and implement educational exchanges, recruit and nominate candidates for fellowships; designate qualified local educational institutions to host Fulbrighters; fundraise; engage alumni; support incoming U.S. Fulbrighters; and, in many countries, operate an information service for the public on educational opportunities in the United States.

In a country active in the program without a Fulbright commission, the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy administers the Fulbright Program, including recruiting and nominating candidates for grants to the U.S., overseeing U.S. Fulbrighters on their grant in the country, and engaging alumni.

Established in 1919 in the aftermath of World War I, the Institute of International Education

Institute of International Education

Institute of International Education - is a non-profit organization promoting international exchange of education and training. It was established in 1919 and is based in the USA....

was created to catalyze educational exchange. In 1946, the U.S. Department of State invited IIE to administer the graduate student component and CIES to administer the faculty component of the Fulbright Program—IIE's largest program to date.

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars

Council for International Exchange of Scholars

For over 60 years, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars has helped administer the Fulbright Scholar Program, the U.S. government's flagship academic exchange effort, on behalf of the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs...

is a division of IIE that administers the Fulbright Scholar Program.

AMIDEAST

Amideast

AMIDEAST is a U.S. non-profit organization that works to strengthen mutual understanding and cooperation between Americans and the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa...

administers Fulbright Foreign Student grants for grantees from the Middle East and North Africa (except Israel).

LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas administers the Junior Faculty Development Program, a part of the Fulbright Foreign Student Program, for grantees from Central and South America and the Caribbean.

The Academy for Educational Development administers the Fulbright Classroom Teacher Exchange Program and the Distinguished Fulbright Awards in Teaching Program.

Participating countries

Currently the Fulbright Program operates in over 155 countries worldwide. Grant, application and contact information about the Fulbright Program varies by world region and country and by whether one is a U.S. citizen interested in going abroad or a non-U.S. citizen interested in coming to the United States.

Related organizations

The Fulbright Association

Fulbright Association

The Fulbright Association is a U.S.-based membership organization of Fulbright Program alumni and supporters committed to fostering international awareness and understanding through:*Advocating increased worldwide support for Fulbright exchanges;...

is an organization independent of the Fulbright Program and not associated with the U.S. Department of State. The Fulbright Association was established on Feb. 27, 1977, as a private nonprofit, membership organization with over 9,000 members. The late Arthur Power Dudden was its founding president. He wanted alumni to educate members of the U.S. Congress and the public about the benefits of advancing increased mutual understanding between the people of the United States and those of other countries. In addition to the Fulbright Association in the U.S., independent Fulbright Alumni associations exist in over 75 countries around the world.

The Fulbright Academy

Fulbright Academy

-Purpose:The Fulbright Academy, also known as the Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology , is an international organization established in 2003 by alumni of the Fulbright Exchange Program and others interested in science and technology innovation.-Organisation:FAST is a virtual research...

is an organization independent of the Fulbright Program and not associated with the U.S. Department of State. A non-partisan, non-profit organization with members worldwide, the Fulbright Academy focuses on the professional advancement and collaboration needs among the 100,000+ Fulbright alumni in science, technology and related fields. The Fulbright Academy works with individual and institutional members, Fulbright alumni associations and other organizations interested in leveraging the unique knowledge and skills of Fulbright alumni.

Notable alumni

The following list is a selected group of notable Fulbright grant recipients:

Ralph Abraham
Ralph Abraham
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, American mathematician
Cephas Yao Agbemenu
Cephas Yao Agbemenu
Art Professor Cephas Yao Agbemenu, teaches at the Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. He is a sculptor and a traditional African wood carver who sees parallels between his carvings and life.-Biography:...

African Art Professor and Traditional African Wood Carver-Traveler
Debabrata Basu
Debabrata Basu
Debabrata Basu was a mathematical statistician who made fundamental contributions to the foundations of statistics. Basu invented simple examples that displayed some difficulties of likelihood-based statistics and frequentist statistics; Basu's paradoxes were especially important in the...

, the India-born mathematical-statistician, Florida State University
Raj Aggarwal
Raj Aggarwal
Raj Aggarwal is an author and contributor to the field of international business studies. Aggarwal was the Dean at the University of Akron College of Business Administration from 2006 until 2009. He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. He has been a Fulbright Research...

, American business and finance professor, former dean of University of Akron College of Business Administration
Shamshad Akhtar
Shamshad Akhtar
Dr Shamshad Akhtar was appointed by the President Pervez Musharraf as the governor of the State Bank of Pakistan for three years in December 2005. She is the 14th governor of the State Bank and the first female to assume this position...

, Pakistani banker, former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (2006–2009)
Arlene Alda
Arlene Alda
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, American author, photographer, and musician
Karim Alrawi
Karim Alrawi
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, Egyptian/ British author and playwright
Augusto Álvarez Rodrich
Augusto Álvarez Rodrich
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, Peruvian economist and journalist
Harold Amos
Harold Amos
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, American microbiologist and professor
Francis Andersen
Francis Andersen
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, Australian Hebrew and biblical studies scholar
Nancy Andreasen, American neuroscientist, recipient of the National Medal of Science in 2000
Richard Antoun, American professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, murdered by graduate student in 2009
Sima Avramovic
Sima Avramovic
Professor Sima Avramović of the University of Belgrade's Law School is one of the foremost Serbian authorities on comparative law, legal history, law and religion, Roman law, and rhetoric....

, Serbian law professor and legal author
Craig Barrett, Former Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation
Gad Barzilai
Gad Barzilai
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, Professor of International Studies, Law, and Political Science, University of Washington
Ed Bishop
Ed Bishop
Ed Bishop was an American film, television, stage and radio actor based in Britain.-Early life:Bishop served in the US Army from 8 October 1952 to 24 September 1954, working as a disc jockey with the Armed Forces Radio at St. Johns in Newfoundland...

, American Actor, Radio and Theatre Productions UFO TV Series
Melissa Block
Melissa Block
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, American radio host, co-host of All Things Considered on National Public Radio
Amar Bose
Amar Bose
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, Chairman and founder of Bose Corporation
David G. Bradley
David G. Bradley
David G. Bradley is the owner of the Atlantic Media Company, which publishes several prominent news magazines and services including The Atlantic Monthly, National Journal, The Hotline and Government Executive...

, Owner of the Atlantic Media Company and founder of the Advisory Board Company and the Corporate Executive Board
Michael Bryant
Michael Bryant
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, Canadian politician, former Attorney General of Ontario
Storm Bull
Storm Bull
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, American musician, composer, and educator
Liam Byrne
Liam Byrne
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, British Labour politician
Steven Campbell
Steven Campbell (artist)
Steven Campbell was a painter from Scotland. He died in 2007.-Biography:Campbell was born in Glasgow and worked as an engineer before studying at Glasgow School of Art as a mature student, from 1978 to 1982...

, Scottish artist
Ron Castan
Ron Castan
Aaron Ronald Castan AM QC was a distinguished barrister and human rights advocate. He played a leading role in some of Australia's more important cases, such as the Gove land rights case, Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen and the Franklin Dam case...

, Australian Constitutional law barrister
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
A. D. Coleman
A. D. Coleman
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, American photography critic and author
Nathan Collett
Nathan Collett
-Overview:Collett's work focuses on those on the margins of society as well as on environmental issues. He has filmed across the world, including location footage in Somalia and South America. He works both in fictional films and on documentaries, with a specific focus on Kibera in Kenya, Africa's...

, filmmaker
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...

, American composer
Jose Dalisay, Jr.
José Dalisay, Jr.
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, Filipino writer
Ivan Davis
Ivan Davis
Ivan Roy Davis, Jr. , is an American classical pianist.-The Early Years:Davis received his Bachelor of Music in 1952 from University of North Texas College of Music, and an Artist's Diploma, as a Fulbright Scholar, from the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome...

, classical pianist
Barbara Debs
Barbara Knowles Debs
Barbara Knowles Debs is an art historian who was the president of Manhattanville College and in 1989 the interim director of the New-York Historical Society.-Biography:...

, Former president of Manhattanville College (1975–1985)
Richard Debs, American investment banker, founding president of Morgan Stanley International Inc.
Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett
Daniel Clement Dennett is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. He is currently the Co-director of...

, American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist
Niels Diffrient
Niels Diffrient
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, American industrial designer
William C. Dowling
William C. Dowling
William C. Dowling is University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, specializing in 18th-century English literature, literature of the early American Republic, and Literary Theory.-Biography:Born in Warner, New Hampshire,...

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

, contemporary classical composer
Peter Drysdale
Peter Drysdale
Peter David Drysdale AM is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Visiting Fellow in the Crawford School of Economics and Government in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. Until 2002, he was Executive Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre .Drysdale is...

, economist, his work provided the intellectual foundations for the establishment of APEC
William Durden
William Durden
William G. Durden is the President of Dickinson College. He was a Fulbright scholar and a recipient of the Klingenstein Fellowship from Teacher's College, Columbia University....

, president of Dickinson College
Taghreed El-Khodary
Taghreed El-Khodary
Taghreed El-Khodary is a Palestinian journalist who is currently a visiting scholar in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment, where her research focuses on the future of Gaza. She is also a 2010 Heinrich Boell Fellow....

, journalist
Jan Erkert
Jan Erkert
Jan Erkert is a dance-maker, teacher, author and Head of the Department of Dance at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.1-Dance Company:...

, modern dance artist
Lee Evans
Lee Evans (athlete)
Lee Edward Evans is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics....

, Olympic gold medalist
John T. Fesperman
John T. Fesperman
John T. Fesperman was an American conductor, organist and author of several books on organs....

, conductor and organist
Charles Figley
Charles Figley
Charles Figley is a university professor in the fields of psychology, family studies, social work, traumatology, and mental health. He is the Paul Henry Kurzweg, MD Distinguished Chair in Disaster Mental Health and Graduate School of Social Work Professor at Tulane University Charles Figley is a...

, president of the Green Cross academy of traumatology
Christian Filippella
Christian Filippella
Christian Filippella is a filmmaker living and working in Los Angeles, California, Rome, Italy and Belfast, Northern Ireland.Filippella began working as an independent filmmaker in Spain and Ireland...

, film director and writer
Andrea Fitting
Andrea Fitting
Andrea Fitting, Ph.D., is the first female director of Parkvale Bank, the sixth-largest bank headquartered in the Pittsburgh region and the 26th-largest public company in Pennsylvania. She is serving her fourth term in this capacity. Fitting is founder and CEO of Fitting Group, a branding agency...

, founder and CEO of Fitting Group, a challenger branding agency
Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming is an American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice.Fleming has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano repertoires. She has sung roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. She also...

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

, scholar of comparative oral tradition
Carlo Forlivesi
Carlo Forlivesi
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, composer and researcher
John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin was a United States historian and past president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and...

, James B. Duke professor emeritus of history at Duke University and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen
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, novelist
András Gerevich
András Gerevich
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, poet and screenwriter
Riccardo Giacconi
Riccardo Giacconi
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, physicist and 2002 Nobel Laureate
Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords
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, US Congresswoman
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
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, economist and Presidential advisor
Solomon W. Golomb
Solomon W. Golomb
Solomon Wolf Golomb is an American mathematician and engineer and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, best known to the general public and fans of mathematical games as the inventor of polyominoes, the inspiration for the computer game Tetris...

, American mathematician; inventor of polyominoes, the inspiration for the computer game Tetris.
Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser is a graphic designer, best known for the I Love New York logo, his "Bob Dylan" poster, the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and the "Brooklyn Brewery" logo. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968.-Biography:Glaser was born into a Hungarian...

, graphic designer
Betty Jane Gorin-Smith
Betty Jane Gorin-Smith
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, Kentucky historian
George J. Graham, Jr.
George J. Graham, Jr.
George J. Graham, Jr., was a political theorist who trained generations of political scientists at Vanderbilt University. He taught at Vanderbilt for more than 40 years. He served as chair of the political science department from 1988-92, and served as an associate dean in the arts and sciences...

, political theorist
John Granville
John Granville
John M. Granville was an American diplomat who worked in South Sudan. On January 1, 2008, he was assassinated in a shooting in Khartoum, Sudan at the age of 33.-Career:...

, United States Agency for International Development diplomat assassinated in Sudan
Harold J. Grimm
Harold J. Grimm
Professor Harold J. Grimm was an academic, historian and writer and an expert on the Reformation.Born in Saginaw in Michigan in 1901, Grimm gained his PhD at Ohio State University. Grimm's numerous posts as an educator included Professor of History at Capital University, the Ohio State University...

, Professor of History and an authority on the Protestant Reformation
Charles Gwathmey
Charles Gwathmey
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, architect
Zahi Hawass
Zahi Hawass
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, Secretary General, The Supreme Council of Antiquities; Egypt
Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller was a US satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His best known work is Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II...

, author
Deborah Hertz
Deborah Hertz
Deborah Hertz, , is the Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego....

, Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies at the University of California, San Diego
Christof Heyns
Christof Heyns
Christof Heyns is a Professor of Human Rights Law, Co-director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria and United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.-Education:...

, Professor of Human Rights, former Dean of the University of Pretoria Faculty of Law and United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President of Operations and Google Fellow at Google Inc.
Hao Huang
Hao Huang
Hao Huang is a concert pianist and professor of music at Scripps College as well as being a polymath published scholar in general music, popular music, ethnomusicology, anthropology, American Studies and Humanities...

, pianist and professor of music and American Studies
Edgar Hull
Edgar Hull
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, Louisiana physician
Greg Hunt
Greg Hunt
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, Australian Politician
Saeed Jaffrey
Saeed Jaffrey
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, actor and recipient of an OBE
Alex Kahn
Alex Kahn
Alex Kahn is an American visual and performance artist, best known for his creation of the large-scale puppet performance works that lead New York's Village Halloween Parade each year.-Pageant Puppetry and Processional Art:...

, pageant performance artist
Kusuma Karunaratne
Kusuma Karunaratne
Kusuma Karunaratne nee Ediriweera Jayasooriya is a Sri Lankan academic, university administrator, Professor and scholar of Sinhalese language and literature.-Personal life:...

, Sri Lankan academic, university administrator, professor and scholar of Sinhalese language and literature
Willliam Kelly
William Kelly (artist)
William Kelly is an American artist, humanist and human-rights advocate. He was born in Buffalo, New York and received his artistic training at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the National Gallery School in Melbourne, Victoria . He is also a Fulbright Fellow and former Dean of the...

American/Australian artist, humanist and human-rights advocate and former Dean (1975–1982) of the Victorian College of the Arts
Victorian College of the Arts
The Faculty of the VCA and Music is a faculty of the University of Melbourne, in Victoria . VCAM is located near the Melbourne central business district, on two campuses, one - the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music - on the Parkville campus of the University of Melbourne, and the other - the...

, Australia.

Shirley Strum Kenny
Shirley Strum Kenny
Shirley Strum Kenny is an English scholar and retired university president. Kenny was the fourth president of the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1994 until the end of the 2008-2009 academic year. She was the first woman to hold that position...

, president of Stony Brook University
H.T. Kirby-Smith, author and poet
Werner Krieglstein
Werner Krieglstein
Werner Josef Krieglstein, Ph.D. , a Fulbright Scholar and University of Chicago fellow, is an award winning and internationally recognized scholar, director and actor. Krieglstein is the founder of a neo-Nietzschean philosophical school called Transcendental Perspectivism...

, a German-American University of Chicago fellow, philosopher, author, and actor
S.M. Krishna, Former chief minister of Karnataka, India, and the current Foreign Minister of India
Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is a Moroccan American novelist and essayist.Lalami was born and raised in Rabat, Morocco, where she earned her B.A. in English from Université Mohammed V. In 1991, she received a British Council fellowship to study in England, and she went on to complete a M.A. in Linguistics at...

, author and essayist
Karen LaMonte
Karen LaMonte
Karen LaMonte is an American artist known for her life-size sculptures in ceramic, bronze and cast glass as well as her large scale monotype prints.-Background:...

, artist with works in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum is a museum in Washington, D.C. with an extensive collection of American art.Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum has a broad variety of American art that covers all regions and art movements found in the United States...

, the De Young Museum, and others.
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.Lambsdorff is a...

, Diplomat and Member of the European Parliament
Ben Lerner
Ben Lerner
Benjamin S. Lerner is an American poet, novelist, and critic. He was awarded the Hayden Carruth prize for his cycle of fifty-two sonnets, . In 2004, Library Journal named it one of the year's twelve best books of poetry...

, poet
Jack Levine
Jack Levine
Jack Levine was an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives.-Biography:...

, American painter and printmaker
Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind, is an American architect, artist, and set designer of Polish-Jewish descent. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect...

, Polish-born American architect
William S.W. Lim
William S.W. Lim
William S.W. Lim, born in Hong Kong in 1932, is an architect. He graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and continued his graduate studies at Harvard University. Lim was a Fulbright Fellow in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Harvard University....

, Hong Kong architect and author
John Lithgow
John Lithgow
John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor, musician, and author. Presently, he is involved with a wide range of media projects, including stage, television, film, and radio...

, actor
Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and...

, composer of experimental music
Dolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren is a Swedish actor, director, and martial artist. He belongs to a generation of film actors who epitomise the movie action hero stereotype including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme.A graduate in chemical...

, actor and director
Reinhard H Luthin, historian and author
Robie Macauley
Robie Macauley
Robie Mayhew Macauley was an editor, novelist and critic whose literary career spanned over 50 years.-Early life:...

, novelist, editor and literary critic
G. S. Maddala
G. S. Maddala
Gangadharrao Soundalyarao "G. S." Maddala was an Indian-American economist and mathematician, best known for his work in the field of econometrics....

, econometrician
Germain Marc'hadour
Germain Marc'hadour
Germain Marc'hadour was a professor of English at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest , an internationally recognized authority on the life and work of Thomas More and founder of the journal Moreana.-Life and career:...

, French literary historian
Walter E. Massey
Walter E. Massey
Walter Eugene Massey is an educator, physicist, and business executive. He is the current President of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the former Chairman of Bank of America, replacing Ken Lewis on April 29, 2009...

, physicist, former president of Morehouse College and Chairman (2009) of Bank of America.
Martin V. Melosi
Martin V. Melosi
Martin Victor Melosi is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor and the director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. His research specialty is environmental and urban history...

, environmental and urban historian, University of Houston
University of Houston
The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...
John Mendelsohn
John Mendelsohn
John Ned Mendelsohn is an American writer, journalist, musician and graphic designer, best known for his rock criticism in Rolling Stone. Critic Barney Hoskyns has called him "one of the funniest writers in English"....

, president of the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
John Atta Mills, president of Ghana
Anna Moffo
Anna Moffo
Anna Moffo was an Italian-American opera singer and one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation...

, operatic soprano
Jürgen Mulert
Jürgen Mulert
Jürgen Mulert was an economist, Fulbright Scholar, and Acting Director General of the German-American Fulbright Program.The "Mulert Memorial Award on Mutual Understanding" is granted annually in his honor....

, economist, founder of the German Fulbright Alumni Association
Loretta Napoleoni
Loretta Napoleoni
Loretta Napoleoni is an Italian economist, author, journalist and political analyst. She is an expert on the financing of terrorism and is well known internationally for having calculated the size of the terror economy.-Life and career:...

, economist, author, journalist and political analyst
Robert Neffson
Robert Neffson
Robert Neffson is an American painter currently known for his street scenes of various cities around the world, as well as his early still lifes and figure paintings.-Life:...

, artist
Donna Nelson
Donna Nelson
Dr. Donna J. Nelson is a professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma. Nelson performs research into and teaches organic chemistry and has also conducted research into ethnic and gender diversity among highly-ranked science departments of research universities.-Education:Nelson was born in...

, chemistry professor and scientific workforce scholar
Marcus Nispel
Marcus Nispel
Marcus Nispel is a German–American feature film director and producer, and formerly a director of television commercials and music videos. Many of his films have been remakes, all of which have met with a negative critical reception....

, film director
Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick was an American political philosopher, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a professor at Harvard University. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia , a right-libertarian answer to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice...

, American political philosopher
Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg
Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg
Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg is a Venezuelan-born business woman and the current president and Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Investment Group which she founded in 1987...

, president and CEO of Strategic Investment Group
Bamidele A. Ojo
Bamidele Ojo
Bamidele A. Ojo is a professor of political science and international studies and teaches African politics, terrorism and political violence, geography and world issues, human rights, international law, terrorism and globalization at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey...

, professor of political science and international studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private university founded as a junior college in 1942. It now has several campuses located in New Jersey, Canada, and the United Kingdom.-Description:...
Carlos Ott
Carlos Ott
Carlos Ott is a Uruguayan architect who resides in Canada. He became famous when he won the first prize in 1983 for the construction of the Opéra de la Bastille in Paris, which was inaugurated on July 14, 1989...

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

, First female vice chancellor of a Ghanaian university
Olara Otunnu
Olara Otunnu
Dr.Olara A. Otunnu is a Lawyer and the President of the Uganda Peoples Congressand a Presidential Aspirant for the 2011 General elections in Uganda...

, Ugandan advocate for child rights, and Uganda Presidential Candidate in 2010
Tarik O'Regan
Tarik O'Regan
Tarik O'Regan , full name Tarik Hamilton O'Regan , is a British composer, partly of Algerian extraction. His compositions number over 90 and are partially represented on 22 recordings which have been recognised with two GRAMMY nominations. He is also the recipient of two British Composer Awards...

, composer
Ron Padgett
Ron Padgett
Ron Padgett is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Bean Spasms, Padget's first collection of poems, was published in 1967 and written with Ted Berrigan...

, American poet and translator
Thomas R. Pickering
Thomas R. Pickering
Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering , is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.-Early life:...

, former US under secretary of state for political affairs
Sebastian Piñera
Sebastián Piñera
Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique is a Chilean businessman and politician. He was elected President of Chile in January 2010, taking office in March 2010.- Education :...

, current president of Chile
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...

, poet
Michael Pyatok
Michael Pyatok
Michael Pyatok is an Oakland-based architect widely known for his expertise in the development and design of low-income and affordable housing. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Helsinki, Finland where he studied the housing policies of Scandinavia...

, architect, Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle
Fazlur Rahman Khan
Fazlur Khan
Fazlur Rahman Khan was a Bangladeshi born architect and structural engineer. He is a central figure behind the "Second Chicago School" of architecture, and is regarded as the "Father of tubular design for high-rises"...

, structural engineer
Structural engineer
Structural engineers analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of users or occupants...
Aneesh Raman
Aneesh Raman
Aneesh Raman currently works at the Department of Defense.Raman was previously Speechwriter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Before joining the government, Raman was an award-winning CNN reporter and the network's first ever correspondent based in the Middle East responsible for region-wide...

, former CNN Middle East Correspondent
Som Ranchan
Som Ranchan
Som Prakash Ranchan is an Indian poet writing in English, a scholar, a literary critic, a revisionist of Indian culture, literary and secular personalities, and a novelist born in Lahore Cantt . He has often been described as a “Poet of Many Voices” with the note of mythical/mystical themes...

, Professor, author, and critic of Indian origin.
John Rawls
John Rawls
John Bordley Rawls was an American philosopher and a leading figure in moral and political philosophy. He held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University....

, Philosopher
David Reagan
David Reagan
David R. Reagan is a Christian Bible scholar who heads Lamb and Lion Ministries. David Reagan is also host of a weekly show on DayStar ....

, former director of Pepperdine University's Center for International Business, currently an evangelist and founder of Lamb and Lion Ministries
Stephan Reimertz
Stephan Reimertz
Stephan Reimertz is an art historian and novelist. He lives in Paris.- Life :Stephan Reimertz, 1962 born writer is the grandnephew of Nikolaus Groß. His grandfather was a democratic major and politician from Westphalia. His father was a mining engineer and met his mother, a Baltic German...

, writer and art historian
Michael A. Rice
Michael A. Rice
Michael Alan Rice, is an American professor of fisheries and aquaculture at the University of Rhode Island and former state representative from South Kingstown, Rhode Island...

, biologist and Rhode Island and state representative.
Oussama Romdhani
Oussama Romdhani
-Biography:Oussama Romdhani was born on December 15, 1956 in Metouia, Tunisia. He received a PhD in American Studies from Tunis University and was a Fullbright scholar at Georgetown University....

, former Tunisian Communications Minister
Michele van de Roer
Michele van de roer
Michèle Van de Roer is a contemporary French artist: a painter, designer, photographer, and engraver. She studied formally at the École d'Arts de Valence, Pratt Institute of Design in New York, and École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles...

, contemporary French artist, painter, designer, and engraver
Brian Rutenberg
Brian Rutenberg
Brian Christopher Rutenberg , is an American abstract painter.Rutenberg received his BFA from the College of Charleston in 1987 and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1989...

, American Abstract Artist
Stefan Sagmeister
Stefan Sagmeister
Stefan Sagmeister is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer. He has his own design firm—Sagmeister Inc.—in New York City. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny.-Biography:Sagmeister studied graphic design at the...

, Graphic Designer and Typographer
Theodore J. St. Antoine
Theodore J. St. Antoine
Theodore J. St. Antoine is an American lawyer and legal scholar. He has served on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School since 1965 and is currently the James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor Emeritus of Law at the school. St. Antoine served as dean of the Law School from 1971 to...

, Dean of University of Michigan School of Law and expert in labor relations and collective bargaining
Nilofar Sakhi
Nilofar Sakhi
Nilofar Sakhi is an Afghan women's rights activist. She is the co-founder and executive director of Women Activities and Social Services Association , the first women's NGO in Herat, Afghanistan...

, women's rights activist in Afghanistan
Ross Scaife
Ross Scaife
Allen Ross Scaife was a Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky.-Life:...

, Founder and co-editor of The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities and founding editor of Suda On Line
Benjamin Schwarz, literary editor and national editor, The Atlantic
Ruth J. Simmons, president of Brown University
Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.-Biography:Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained an A.B. at Vassar College, then earned an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the...

, American author
Tom Smith
Tom Smith
- Sports :* R. Thomas "Tom" Smith , American thoroughbred racehorse trainer of Seabiscuit* Tom Smith , Major League player* Tom Smith , Major League player...

, jazz musician, educator
Javier Solana
Javier Solana
Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga, KOGF is a Spanish physicist and Socialist politician. After serving in the Spanish government under Felipe González and Secretary General of NATO , he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary...

, former Secretary General of NATO and former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy
Olen Steinhauer
Olen Steinhauer
Olen Steinhauer is an American novelist who authored The Tourist, a New York Times Best Seller.- Life :Steinhauer was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and grew up in Virginia. He attended university at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania and The University of Texas, Austin...

, author
Ernesto Villalobos
Villalobos Brothers
The Villalobos Brothers are a trio of virtuoso violinists, singer-songwriters, composers, arrangers, and multi-talented instrumentalists...

, Mexican composer and award-winning violinist
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize winning economist
Terence Tao
Terence Tao
Terence Chi-Shen Tao FRS is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory...

, mathematician, recipient of the Fields Medal
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song...

, designer and director
Massimiliano Versace
Massimiliano Versace
Massimiliano Versace is a senior research scientist in the Neuromorphics Lab at Boston University in the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, where he founded and is currently the director of the Neuromorphics Lab. He is co-leading the Boston University neural modeling team working with...

, scientist and director of the Neuromorphics Lab at Boston University
Bernt Wahl
Bernt Wahl
Bernt Rainer Wahl is a mathematician, entrepreneur and author. He served as CEO Factle Corporation, CEO Datahunt, CEO Dynamic Software, and is part of the UC Berkeley Faculty. He teaches Engineering, where he serves as an Industry Fellow at the Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology...

, American mathematician, entrepreneur, author and Industry Fellow at U.C. Berkeley
Patricia Wasley
Patricia Wasley
Patricia Wasley, EdD, is the dean of the College of Education at the University of Washington since 2000. Wasley has conducted a variety of research on student voice, teacher education and whole-school reform...

, dean of the College of Education at the University of Washington and renowned education scholar
Ulrich Wickert
Ulrich Wickert
Ulrich Wickert is a German journalist. He is one of the best known broadcasters in Germany.As a result of his father's employment with NATO, Wickert grew up in Heidelberg and Paris. In the 1960s he studied law and political sciences at the University of Bonn...

, German journalist and TV presenter
Colin H Williams, Professor, School of Welsh, Cardiff University
Jonathan Shapiro ("Zapiro")
Zapiro
Jonathan Shapiro, born 1958 in Cape Town, is a South African cartoonist, famous as Zapiro, whose work appears in numerous South African publications and has been exhibited internationally on many occasions...

, South African cartoonist
Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize...

, Bangladeshi economist and founder of Grameen Bank
Grameen Bank
The Grameen Bank is a microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh that makes small loans to the impoverished without requiring collateral...

, Nobel Prize winner

J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding

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