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New York – Here I Come!

Well, not quite yet; I shall have to wait until the end of August to get on a plane and fly over the Atlantic. I am going to spend four months as a Fulbright Schuman scholar at the City University of New York. I can’t wait. In fact, I am all the more excited about […]

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Executive Directors USA Tour Begins with EUSA Conference

Fulbright Schuman Executive Director Erica Lutes set off for the United States on Wednesday, May 8 for a one-month educational tour that includes the EUSA and NAFSA conferences, as well as stops at universities in the Northeast region. At the European Union Studies Association conference (http://www.eustudies.org/conference.php?cid=8), Ms. Lutes presented a paper on “Advancing Diplomacy via […]

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Fulbright-Schumann Scholar Gives Lecture at Cornell Law School on the Transnationalisation of Counter-terrorism Law

Dr Cian Murphy, a Fulbright-Schumann Scholar at NYU School of Law, spoke recently at Cornell Law School on his work on the transnationalisation of counter-terrorism law. Dr Murphy’s lecture, ‘Control Beyond the State: Towards an Understanding of Transnational Counter-Terrorism Law’, brought the audience through an exploration of six different aspects of legal transnationalisation. In his […]

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Learning about Europe in the capital of leading EU economy: Berlin Seminar 2013

I was hoping to see spring buds when I arrived to German capital in the end of March for Berlin 2013 Seminar. Over 500 people – current Fulbrighters from all over the Europe, their families, program alumni, and those Fulbrighteres who were getting ready to begin their journey to the US – gathered for a […]

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My EU Seminar Experience

Dearest Fulbrighters, As I packed my bags for the Fulbright EU Seminar in late February, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect – what could five days in Brussels show me that six months of research on the European Union hadn’t already? Well, I was delightfully surprised. Over the course of these five (very full) […]

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EU Studies Fair

Now in its 14th year, the EU Studies Fair is a unique event focusing on higher education in the fields of EU studies, international relations, business, and law. It includes practical seminars and on a typical year brings 700-800 visitors and showcases around 40 world-class institutions. This year, the EU Studies Fair was held at […]

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Learning About Refugee Resettlement in the US First-Hand

I have chosen Arizona as a location of my Fulbright research to discover how Americans manage refugee resettlement. However it was also important for me to observe the dynamics between different “classes” of migrants – those wanted due to their right status and those undeserved = undocumented. Before arriving in Arizona I did my research […]

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New Opinion Piece by Fulbright-Schuman grantee on Science Infrastructure in Africa

Donors must work with African countries to provide crucial science infrastructure, argues S&T policy scholar Nicholas Michael Bashour. Fulbright -Schuman grantee Nicholas Bashour has written a new opinion piece: “Scant funding for research facilities is hurting Africa” in SciDev, a publication about science & technology in global development. You can read it here: http://www.scidev.net/en/science-and-innovation-policy/opinions/scant-funding-for-research-facilities-is-hurting-africa-1.html

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Magdalena Luminska: From Poland to D.C.

To state that my Fulbright-Schuman experience in the US has so far been “intensive” is a serious understatement. I have been in Washington focusing on my PhD research at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies – Johns Hopkins University since the end of March 2012 and it is hard for me […]

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A Comparative Perspective on Fulbright-Schuman Partnerships: Selecting a U.S. Host Institution

As a molecular geneticist, affiliated with the Department of Pharmacology in Oxford (UK) and later with the pharmaceutical biotechnology industry in San Francisco (CA, USA), I have been involved in research projects investigating how the human body responds to pharmaceuticals and other exogenous chemicals of everyday life (called “xenobiotics”). This knowledge is particularly relevant when […]