PROVIDENCE – Brown University is among the nation’s top producers of Fulbright students, the Institute of International Education reports in the Oct. 26 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Brown had 69 applicants for the current round of grants. Among them were 25 Fulbright winners – 23 graduate students and two graduate students, who are currently studying, teaching or conducting research in 18 countries around the world – giving the university a success rate of 36.2 percent.
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Only two colleges or universities had more 2007-’08 U.S. Fulbright awards, according to the IIE, which administers the Fulbright Program. Both, like Brown, were categorized as doctoral and research institutions: the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, with 119 applicants and 37 awards; and Yale University, with 109 applicants and 27 awards. Tied at sixth place among doctoral and research institutions – with 21 awards each – were Harvard, with 96 applicants, and Cornell, with 73.
No. 1 among bachelor’s institutions was Pomona College, a liberal-arts college outside Los Angeles that enrolls about 1,500 undergraduates. This year, 25 Pomona graduates who applied through the school landed Fulbrights, the IIE said, more than twice as many as at any other institution in the same classification.
Nearly 1,500 U.S. scholars are studying, teaching English, and conducting research in more than 125 countries this fall under the Fulbright Program. Nineteen percent are at the doctoral level, 17 percent are at the master’s level and 65 percent are at the bachelor’s degree level.
Rhode Island School of Design was No. 2 among specialized institutions, with two Fulbrights from 14 applicants, compared with five winners among 15 applicants from the No. 1 School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Brown University graduate students now doing research abroad on 2007-’08 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation fellowships are:
• Sudeepto Mukherji, doing research in Russia.
• Rebecca Peters, doing research in Angola.
Brown had more undergraduate Fulbright winners than any other Ivy. Those undergraduates and recent alumni studying abroad on 2007-’08 Fulbright awards are:
• Elise Jett Baran, Class of ’07, in Poland.
• Christopher Whitten Bernard , Class of ’07, in Latvia.
• Elizabeth Danielson Bird , Class of ’07, in Malawi.
• Benjamin W. Boas , Class of ’07, in Japan.
• Arianna G. Cassiday , Class of ’07, in Argentina.
• Lee Chu , Class of ’07, in Korea.
• Jennifer Elizabeth Chudy , Class of ’07, in Korea.
• Josue Cofresi , Class of ’07, in Taiwan.
• Gregory Patrick Fay , Class of ’07, in China.
• David Guttmann , Class of ’07, in Israel.
• Jonathan David Herman , Class of ’07, in Cameroon.
• Emma Fennell Kaplan , Class of ’07, in China.
• Smitha Khorana , Class of ’07, in India.
• Diane Sookyoung Lee , Class of ’07, in Korea.
• Elena Lesley , Class of ’04, in Cambodia.
• Toby Xianyu Li , Class of ’07, in Korea.
• Jeffrey Allan Lugowe , Class of ’07, in Norway.
• Juliana McKittrick , Class of ’07, in Turkey.
• Gabriela Joyce O’Leary , Class of ’07, in Brazil.
• Candas Pinar , Class of ’06, in Turkey.
• Natalie Ann Smolenski , Class of ’07, in Egypt.
• Nicholas Van Sant , Class of ’07, in Argentina.
• Natan Tzvi Zeichner , Class of ’07, in Brazil.
“The Fulbright Program offers these students opportunities to make important contributions to their respective fields and to build international bridges between Brown and scholars around the world,” said Katherine Bergeron, dean of the college. “We are proud to have so many of our wonderful undergraduates representing Brown, Fulbright and the United States through their research abroad.”
Applicants at Brown are assisted by the university’s Graduate School and the dean of the college. Those offices recently submitted 2008-’09 Fulbright applications from 59 undergraduate and 12 graduate students – the largest pool in the university’s history.
The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Financial support is provided by an annual congressional appropriation plus significant contributions by governments and host institutions in the United States and abroad. The Institute of International Education administers and coordinates the U.S. student program, including the annual scholarship competition.
The program also awards Fulbright grants to U.S. teachers and faculty for research and instruction abroad, and brings about 2,200 students and scholars per year to the United States to study, research and lecture at universities, colleges and secondary schools.
Since its inception in 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided about 290,000 participants worldwide – including nearly 42,000 U.S. students – with the opportunity to exchange ideas and observe each others’ political, economic and cultural institutions.
Information about the Fulbright Program is available at us.fulbrightonline.org. Additional information is available from the Institute of International Education at www.iie.org, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars at www.cies.org.
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