Fulbright Program - the flagship international exchange scholarship program between the U.S. and 155 countries, supported by the U.S. Congress and partner governments worldwide.
President Barack Obama has offered his congratulations to the Fulbright Program in Indonesia for reaching their 60th anniversary.
Senator Fulbright envisioned an educational and cultural exchange program that would connect people - that vision became the Fulbright Program. To learn more about the program, watch our new documentary video.
The Fulbright NEXUS Competition for 2012-2013 is now open. NEXUS scholars from across the U.S. and Western Hemisphere engage in collaborative thinking, analysis, problem-solving and multi-disciplinary research.
You now have a new way to stay up-to-date with the Fulbright Program - the Fulbright Program Google+ Page! +1 our new page today.
Fulbright Photographer to Romania Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin: "Going somewhere to witness and experience an older way of life called to me."
Congratulations to Nomsa Mazwai, a South African Fulbright student and musician, on winning a South African Music Award for Best Adult Alternative African Music!
News and Highlights
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U.S. - Indonesia Higher Education Partnership in its Third Year
The U.S. Indonesia Higher Education Partnership is now in its third year, with both countries committed to significantly increase the number of students and scholars studying and researching in one another's country, and to strengthen educational quality through increased collaboration and partnership.
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Announcing the 2012 Fulbright-mtvU Fellows!
Announcing the 2012 Fulbright-mtvU Fellows! Congratulations to Albulena Shabani, Jeffrey Roy, Katherine Cloutier, and Sebastian Modak! They will travel to Kosovo, India, Barbados and Botswana, respectively, to conduct individual research projects focusing on music as a force of cultural change. The application cycle for 2013 Fulbright-mtvU is now open.
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The 2013-2014 Fulbright U.S. Student Competition is Now Open!
The 2013-2014 Fulbright U.S. Student Competition is now open! We will be accepting U.S. student applications through October 17th, 2012.
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Fulbright Alumni Awarded Pulitzer Prizes
Two Fulbright alumni have been awarded 2012 Pulitzer Prizes. Fulbright alumni Stephen Greenblatt won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and John Lewis Gaddis won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Congratulations!
Fulbright Videos
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Jonathan Franzen - Fulbright Student to Germany, 1981 from Fulbright Program on Vimeo.
American writer and novelist Jonathan Franzen - who received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Germany in 1981 for a project in creative writing - discusses his Fulbright experience and its impact on his career. Mr. Franzen is interviewed by recently-returned Fulbright Alumnus Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose Fulbright U.S. Student award to Germany in 2009 was also for a project in creative writing.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels, including the critically acclaimed The Corrections (2001), which earned a National Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist. His most recent novel, Freedom, was published in August 2010. Franzen has also earned recognition for his work in The New Yorker magazine and for “Perchance to Dream,” an essay published in Harper’s magazine in 1996, in which he critically examines the place of the novel in contemporary American society.
