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Managing Changing Environments and Changing Economies

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 1 (2024) AuthorAnn C. Logue Corporate Social Responsibility in the Arctic: The New Frontiers of Business, Management, and Enterprise by Gisele M. Arruda and Lara Johannsdottir. Laura Johannsdottir was a Fulbright Arctic Initiative Scholar, 2018–19. As the climate warms, Arctic ice will melt. The warmer environment will destroy some transportation routes…

The Value of the Future: An Open Conversation

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 3, Number 1 (2024) AuthorGabriel Martino What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill, a Visiting Fulbright Scholar to Princeton in 2014. What We Owe the Future is a compelling and informed advocacy of “longtermism.” Developing the simple premise that future generations matter, the book explores arguments to show the importance…

A Dangerous Business, Indeed

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorKatherine Arnoldi A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley who was a Fulbright Fellow to Iceland in 1976-77. When we set off on our Fulbright adventures equipped with a proposal and itinerary, we are told that what we will encounter on the ground may change not only our plans for…

Fulbright Chronicles Interviews Femi Mimiko: Former Vice Chancellor Adekunle Ajasin University

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorJohnBosco Chika Chukwuorji & Habiba Atta AbstractProfessor Femi Mimiko has served in a variety of leadership roles in Nigeria’s higher education. His Fulbright Fellowship at the US Military Academy at West Point helped shape his career. It provided him a global network and honed his sense of the…

2009-10 Fulbright-Nehru fellowship, Children’s Garden School, Chennai, India. Courtesy, Daniel A Kelin, II

Cultural Artifacts, Youth and Drama: A Creative Approach to Building Self-Efficacy

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorDaniel A. Kelin, II AbstractDuring my 2009-2010 Fulbright-Nehru fellowship in Chennai, I conducted a drama-based program in collaboration with the Sharma Center for Heritage Education. Participating students explored the mythological iconography of Mahabalipuram to increase interest in their cultural heritage. I later conducted an analogous approach at home…

Dr. Sianes-Bautista at the Faculty Colloquium at UVA Wise (US)

Teaching Internships at the University of Extremadura (Spain) and the University of Virginia’s College at Wise (US): Experiences from a Comparative Perspective

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorAlicia Sianes-Bautista AbstractDuring my stay as a Fulbright Postdoc Scholar at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise (VA) I collaborated in teacher training internships. This paper summarizes this experience from a comparative view, contrasting the strengths and weaknesses of teaching internships between my home and host institution….

Dr. Heinz outside of the Dooradoyle Raheen Men’s Shed in Limerick City, Ireland

A Fulbright Experience in Ireland: Finding a New Medium to Tell the Stories of Irish Men’s Sheds Members

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorMelinda Heinz AbstractAs a Fulbright Scholar in Ireland, I learned about Irish Men’s Sheds and how they impacted the well-being of older men. Hearing the stories from Men’s Shed members inspired me to share their stories on a wider scale. After returning to the US, I collaborated with…

Iiris Happo and Lacey Hoppe, Early Education Center Director at MSUM Early Education Center, Minnesota

Early Childhood Care and Education in Minnesota and Finland: Similarities and Differences

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorIiris Happo Abstract I was fortunate to receive a Fulbright scholarship to share my early childhood education expertise in West Central Minnesota. The main goals were to collaborate with partners in West Central Initiative Foundation while they were developing their early care and education system and to teach…

Adina with the Kent State University professors and organizers of the Fulbright TEA program

Fulbright TEA Alumni Collaboration: Making an Impact

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorAdina Ionescu AbstractThe Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement (Fulbright TEA) Program I attended in 2022 was an opportunity for me to connect with other teachers with the same interests from Europe and Asia and to organize a project focused on creating sustainable futures. All the participants (teachers and…

Introducing the concept of “Nothing About Us Without Us” to my students in the Gulf

Nothing About Us Without Us: A Fulbright Research Scholar Paves the Road to Embrace the Disability with Dignity

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorAlexander Woodman Abstract As a Fulbright research scholar at the School of Medicine, AGU (Bahrain), I became genuinely interested in how “Nothing About Us Without Us” concept is perceived in Bahrain, one of the most inclusive countries for people with disabilities. I started a series of qualitative studies…