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Program Overview

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The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers approximately 470 teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and administrators as well as for professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others. In addition to several new program models designed to meet the changing needs of U.S. academics and professionals, Fulbright offers flexible awards including multi-country opportunities.

For full details and to apply, visit the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program website.

2022-23  Awardees

Melissa Santala

Engineering, Materials Science, Israel Institute of Technology, ISRAEL

Her work will help establish a collaboration with researchers in Haifa to better understand fundamental physical processes that affect the efficiency and environmental impact of platinum-containing heterogeneous catalysts which facilitate chemical reactions.

randy l. bell

College of Education, Vietnam National University, Hà Nội, VIETNAM

His work includes science teacher education and professional development for college and K-12 faculty. He will also develop infrastructure for a teaching internship program that will place OSU students in K-12 schools in Vietnam as native English speakers and provide pedagogical support for Vietnam's recent education reforms.

John Dilles                      

Geology, Curtin University, Australia

His project uses advanced geochemical techniques to study how copper, sulphur, and other metal resources cnecessary for the global transition to carbon-neutral economies form in the earth.

Gregory Rorrer               

Biochemical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences of Burgenland, Austria

His project researches emerging sustainable energy systems that use new processes to convert biomass and wastes to fuels and energy.

Bogdan Strimbu            

Forest Engineering, University Of Bucharest, Romania

His project uses terrestrial LiDAR technology and machine learning to develop accurate models for the growth and yield of the main tree species from the Romanian Carpathian Mountains.

Kelly Biedenweg            

Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Sciences, Austral University of Chile, Chile

Dr. Biedenweg is developing a manual and training program to integrate human well-being objectives in marine-protected area management plans in Chile’s Patagonia.

Stephen Good                

Biological and Ecological Engineering, University of Concepcion, Chile

He is collaborating across multiple universities and institutes to study approaches to water resource research and education in dry-summer Mediterranean ecoregions in central Chile.

J​​​​​​erri Bartholomew      

Microbiology, Instituto de Acuicultura, Torre de la Sal, Spain

She is using pathological and molecular methods to understand how myxozoan parasites cause intestinal disease in fish hosts.

Robert Hughes               

Fisheries, Wildlife & Conservation Science, Federal University of Para, Brazil

His work examines ways to determine the health of Amazonian rivers and assess how human and natural limiting factors affect it.

2021-22 Awardee

ray malewitz

Director of American Studies, University of Warsaw, POLAND

Ray Malewitz, professor of literature in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film, spent nine months in Poland with his family serving as the director of the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw. Ray's Fulbright overlapped with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and he and his wife, Emily Malewitz, instructor of Spanish at OSU, became active with the refugee community, teaching English and helping fundraise.