UW–Madison is pleased to announce that 16 Badgers have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards for the 2026-2027 academic year, with 15 accepting the grant. Close to 2,000 Fulbright U.S. students—recent college graduates, graduate students, …
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WISLI Alumni Show How Language Studies Open Global Doors
Wrapping up the first week of this year’s Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI), a series of five “Global Professionals” panel sessions on June 19 showed current students how their language pursuits could turn into …
UW–Madison’s Milda Aksamitauskas Chosen as a Fulbright Alumni Ambassador
UW–Madison’s Milda Aksamitauskas has been selected as one of only 12 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Alumni Ambassadors nationwide for 2026. Chosen from a competitive pool of over 200 applicants, Aksamitauskas will spend the next two years …
UW–Madison is a Top Producer of Fulbright U.S. Students and Scholars for 2024-2025
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs recognized the University of Wisconsin–Madison for being one of the colleges and universities with the highest number of students, faculty, and administrators selected for the Fulbright U.S. …
UW–Madison celebrates selection of 11 Fulbright U.S. Scholars for 2024–2025
The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have selected 11 scholars from the University of Wisconsin–Madison as Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the 2024–2025 academic year. These distinguished scholars will teach and …
Q&A with Fulbright Scholar Anitha Quintin
Anitha Quintin ’21, international studies, political science, and mathematics, has had an incredible journey as a student, a scholar, and a teacher. From her time as a student at UW–Madison to her role as an …
Brittany St. John is awarded Fulbright postdoctoral scholarship
UW–Madison graduate student Brittany St. John has been awarded a Fulbright Future Postdoctoral Scholarship by the Australian-American Fulbright Commission. St. John is a doctoral candidate in the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, focusing on …
UW–Madison’s Travers is selected as Fulbright US Scholar
UW–Madison’s Brittany Travers, an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2022-23. Travers will travel to the University of Málaga in Spain during …
Badger James Llewellyn Goes Global with Help of the Boren Fellowship
Badgers may be returning to the familiar sights of Madison, Wisconsin this fall when classes resume, but James Llewellyn – a master’s student in Southeast Asian Studies – has a very different semester planned. With …
Russian language skills lead Fulbright recipient Elizabeth Olguin to Kazakh classrooms
Russian has taken 2016 UW–Madison graduate Elizabeth Olguin everywhere from her ballet classes in the U.S. to development projects in Moldova. Thanks to a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award for 2021-2022, her next destination will …