Benjamin Gedan, Fulbright to Uruguay alum, will continue to bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action throughout the Americas at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
International HBCU Xchange, founded by Ashleigh Brown-Grier, Fulbrighter to Malaysia and to South Africa, was recognized as an “Organization Committed to Service” by BeyGOOD on the 2023 National Day of Service.
Tsione Wolde-Michael is the youngest and first Black individual named as Executive Director of the PCAH. Prior to her appointment, she was a 2015 U.S. Fulbright Public Policy Fellow in Ethiopia and the founding Director of the Smithsonian’s Center for Restorative Justice.
Acclaimed playwright and Fulbright alum to Germany, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, discusses the process for adapting Octavia E. Butler’s classic Black sci-fi novel.
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).
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.