Fulbright and the Sciences

The Fulbright Scholar Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State and is principally funded by taxpayer contributions. It is binational in nature and includes both American and foreign scholars.

The Fulbright Scholar Program serves all academic disciplines as well as numerous professional fields and the arts. This CIES poster session, however, will focus on Fulbright and the hard and natural sciences. Particularly in recent years, the number of grants in these fields have expanded signifcantly to include both research and teaching opportunities. Earlier this year, for instance, President Obama and President Rousseff of Brazil signed an agreement to expand the Fulbright Program for STEM fields in Brazil significantly. The presentation will guide attendees in identifying appropriate opportunities through the Fulbright Scholar Program and will make suggestions as to how to be successful in a proposal. The Fulbright Scholar Program offers academics and administrators of American universities multiple opportunities to internationalize not only their campuses but also their points of view in terms of their areas of specialization. The program not only sends scholars abroad but also brings scholars to the United States and should be considered a strategic opportunity both for individuals and for campuses. The poster session will also cover non-Core Fulbright Scholar opportunities for scientists and university administrators, including the Specialist Program, NEXUS Regional Scholar Program, International Education Administrators Program (IEA), and the Fulbright German Studies Seminar.