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Learning from College-in-Prison Programs

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorDavid Stoloff Gellman, Mneesha, ed. Education Behind the Wall: Why and How We Teach College in Prison. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press. 230 pages. $35.00. As a Professor of Education at Eastern Connecticut State University, our state’s designated public liberal arts college, I appreciated Education Behind the Wall for its introduction…

Reel Life Consequences of Suicidality in Film

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 4 (2024) AuthorKate Brennan Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes and Consequences by Alessandra Seggi, who was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar from Italy to The New School, New York City, 1999-2000. Like all art forms, film often reflects real life. However, in Youth and Suicide in American Cinema, author Alessandra…

Australia’s Fulbright Leadership Development Program: Supporting Alumni to Generate Systems Change

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 3 (2023) AuthorIain Butterworth, Angela Heise, and Jon Adams AbstractFulbright alumni often return home with visions of leading personal, institutional, and societal change. However, they often face challenges in implementing social entrepreneurship. This paper introduces the Australian Fulbright Leadership Development Program, emphasizing the transformative learning styles that are needed to…

The United States and Scotland Have a Lot to Learn From Each Other About Access to Higher Education

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 3 (2023) AuthorCatherine Devlin AbstractMy experience teaching Scottish high school students during my Fulbright year guides my disappointment regarding the recent United States Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action. Working as a tutor for Widening Participation – a program which provides adjusted entrance requirements for underserved students – showed me…

The author (in the required work uniform) recording behavior in the pig barn at INRA in Nouzilly, France.

Pigging Out in France

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 3 (2023) AuthorElizabeth Adkins-Regan AbstractI spent a year in France with the help of a Fulbright Award. As a life scientist and animal researcher, my primary aim was to carry out a collaborative experiment with my host on a topic of mutual interest, sexual development in animals, specifically pigs. That…

Umi Saidah, observing intercultural interactions to promote intercultural competence on metaverse, Spring 2023.

Beyond Brick-and-Mortar Education: Using Metaverse for Intercultural Interactions to Promote Mutual Understanding

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 3 (2023) AuthorUmi H. Saidah AbstractFostering mutual understanding across cultures is always Fulbright’s primary mission. This article describes how metaverse can contribute to this goal through intercultural interactions between avatar-context-avatar representing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in Indonesia, a native instructor in the United States, and digital objects…

Host university international students at Parade of Nations

A Fulbright Stay at Michigan Technical University: A Life-Changing and Career-Altering Experience

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 3 (2023) AuthorAdele Dzikwi Garkida AbstractMy first trip to the United States was the result of a Fulbright Scholarship Award to Michigan Technological University in 2005-06. It was a life-transforming experience that boosted my teaching, research, leadership capacities, and social skills. The award gave me the opportunity to meet and…

ITC students learning about entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship

Developing Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Education in Cambodia

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 3 (2023) AuthorFrank Theodore Koe AbstractAs a Senior Fulbright Specialist in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, my goal was to assist the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) in developing an entrepreneurial program that would invigorate their existing STEM curriculum and programs while building an entrepreneurial ecosystem to support interest in entrepreneurial…

Polat, along with fellow Fulbright scholars, at the 2018 Fulbright Global Health Innovation Seminar held in Atlanta, Georgia.

Bridging Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare: A Fulbright Journey in Three Continents

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 3 (2023) AuthorPolat Goktas AbstractFrom the vibrant cityscape of Ankara to the corridors of Harvard Medical School, and then to Dublin’s historical allure, my Fulbright journey mapped Artificial Intelligence (AI)’s impact in healthcare across diverse landscapes. This worldwide exploration illuminated both the promise and the complex challenges that AI brings…

Building a Stronger Global Fulbright Community

Fulbright Chronicles, Volume 2, Number 3 (2023) AuthorsKevin F. F. Quigley and Bruce Svare We founded this journal believing that Fulbright experiences have a profound effect on the participants and those experiences have an enduring but often unexamined impact. We also believe that the Global Fulbright Community has untapped potential to make more progress in…