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.
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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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Fulbright Alumnus Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Sir John B. Gurdon, Fulbright Visiting Scholar alumnus from the UK, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent. His work allows stem cells to be created in a laboratory from adult cells of the same organism, rather than using embryos.
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Fulbright Teacher Exchange Alumna Chosen as 2013 Iowa Teacher of the Year
"I believe being a Fulbright teacher was one of the many pieces that made me the teacher I am today, and has given me the opportunity to be Iowa Teacher of the Year for 2013," said Tania Johnson, Fulbright Teacher Exchange alumna and 2013 Iowa Teacher of the Year.
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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.
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.
