Acclaimed playwright and Fulbright alum to Germany, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, discusses the process for adapting Octavia E. Butler’s classic Black sci-fi novel.
For 75 years, the Fulbright Program has provided life-changing opportunities for over 400,000 people from all backgrounds—recent graduates, teachers, scientists and researchers, artists, scholars, and more—to learn from each other, advance ideas, and build understanding across borders.
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Rishi Sunak, 2005 Fulbrighter from the UK, has been appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Martha Gonzalez, 2007 Fulbright U.S. Student to Mexico, and Monica
Fulbright Alum Anton Zeilinger was a named a joint recipient of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1976–77, Anton Zeilinger studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Fulbright Student from Austria. He taught at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and MIT before becoming president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
Maria Ressa, a Filipino-American author, Fulbrighter, longtime CNN investigative journalist, and co-founder of the digital media company Rappler, received a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her work to support a free press.
Alejandro del Carmen of Tarleton State University, a Fulbright Specialist to the Police Academy of the Czech Republic, will serve on the committee with federal judges, practitioners and law students to advance DEIA in the legal community.
Maranda McBride, Ph.D., director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Mobility at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award for the 2022-23 academic year.
This year, Tuskegee University was named a Fulbright Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Institutional Leader for the first time in its history.