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The applications for the 2014-15 David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are now available. Boren Fellowship Awards provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add important international and language components to their educations. Boren Fellowship recipients …
The Egyptian Fulbright Commission has requested that applicants submit the following as part of their applications in Arabic: Applicants must include an abstract of their projects in Arabic (and its English version) as part of their Fulbright application package. When preparing the abstract offline, it should be appended after the Statement of Grant Purpose essay, …
Eleven University of Wisconsin–Madison students have received 2013-14 fellowships from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the country’s flagship program for international exchange. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides recipients with funding for a full academic year of study, research or assistant teaching abroad. This program is sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational …
Just three weeks after Anthony Irwin arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, the Thai Army staged a coup to overthrow the elected government under Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Irwin recalls seeing soldiers and tanks beginning to crowd the streets. He had just graduated from State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz and decided to take …
Four University of Wisconsin–Madison undergraduates are receiving David L. Boren Scholarships to fund their study abroad during the 2013-14 academic year. Also, three UW–Madison graduate students are receiving 2013-14 Boren Fellowships to support their dissertation research and language study overseas. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are sponsored by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), a federal …
The 2013 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program (DDRA) competition has been posted in the Federal Register. The CAMPUS DEADLINE for submission of a complete application is 12:00 PM (noon) on Friday, May 24, 2013. Applications must be submitted using the G5 application system. The national deadline listed is Monday, June 3, but this is …
Galen Gibson-Cornell, a graduating MFA student who specializes in printmaking and lithography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will travel to Budapest, Hungary on a Fulbright scholarship for a project titled “Urban Portrait of Budapest,” which continues his focus on posters tagged to walls. “Budapest was just this fascinating city for me. I had known about …
“Writing Your Way to the Fulbright” Are you a graduating senior or graduate student and thinking about applying for a student Fulbright scholarship next fall? During this workshop, you’ll learn about the requirements for the two essays, analyze successful samples from past applicants, and have a chance to ask questions about the essays. When: Friday, …
This is a program through CIES Fulbright Scholar program The United States-Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF), the Fulbright commission for Israel, offers 8 fellowships to American post-doctoral researchers in support of work to be carried out at Israeli universities during the course of the 2014-15 and 2015-16 academic years. The US Post-Doctoral Fellowship is open to …
The Brazil Initiative of the Division of International Studies and the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program sponsors the Joaquim Nabuco Award, given annually to the two best essays on Brazil (any field) by a University of Wisconsin- Madison student. Thanks to the generosity of Ms. Vivi Nabuco of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the …