Results are Tagged with "Europe and Eurasia"
Empowering Women and Girls: WNBA Basketball Envoys in Ukraine
The State Department and NBA worked together to send former WNBA players Tamika Raymond and Nykesha Sales to Ukraine as Sports Envoys from January 28 to February 2, 2013.
Photographing the Color of Hay
Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Romania, Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin shares some of the photos she took in Romania of the changes she witnessed between urban dwellers and those from the rural areas.
Reading Connects Communities in the U.S. and Macedonia
Images from Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA), Jennifer Birdsall, during her time in Macedonia.
Russian Volleyball Players Visit the U.S.
The first sports visitor program brought Russian volleyball players and coaches to Southern California for a beach volleyball.
Ice Skating Success Story with Sports Envoy Evan Lysacek
Olympic gold medalist figure skater Evan Lysacek traveled to Sweden and Belarus as a Sports Envoy.
Milton Glaser Fulbright Student to Italy, 1952
Milton Glaser is the artist most famous for creating the "I ♥ NY" symbol. He went to Bologna, Italy in 1952 on a Fulbright to "learn how to draw". In this video, Mr. Glaser discusses Fulbright - "the most profound experience of your life" - and his career.
Jonathan Franzen - Fulbright Student to Germany, 1981
American writer and novelist Jonathan Franzen - who received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Germany in 1981 for a project in creative writing - discusses his Fulbright experience and its impact on his career. Mr. Franzen is interviewed by recently-returned Fulbright Alumnus Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, whose Fulbright U.S. Student award to Germany in 2009 was also for a project in creative writing.