Our Fulbrighters

Jun 15, 2018

Audio Journey through Spain

By McCall Wells - I chose to understand and connect with the members of the new community in Madrid, Spain through audio documentary, recording a number of conversations with Spaniards.

Engineering Living Cells to Produce Useful Medicines

By Nicholas McCarty - I gave a presentation on how genetic engineering can be used to produce medicines. In 2015, Tu Youyou received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for proving that artemisinin could be used to cure malaria.

May 18, 2018

The Debate Over Memoralization

By Amanda Pridmore - At the Berlin Seminar I discussed the different forms that Holocaust Memorilaization takes within Germany, and gave an overview of the largest critiques of the modern memorial strucutre from both sides of the conversation.

Apr 23, 2018

What makes Europe and the transatlantic relationship tick?

By James Thompson - What do you get when you combine over 40 Fulbrighters, the most important political institutions in Europe, and lots of Belgian waffles?

Apr 18, 2018

Arriving as an Attorney, Leaving as an Academic

By Christopher Fischer - During the first practice of the Stanford Running Club, everyone in the group was asked to reveal their happy place in order to get to know each other a little bit. I couldn’t help but say “The Farm”.

Feb 22, 2018

Time travel to Buffalo in the 1980s

By Heike Faßbender - This past October I had the opportunity to enjoy the Indian summer in Arcadia National Park. This reminded me of the first time I have seen such a bright fall foliage.

Feb 16, 2018

Exploring Art Museum Architecture in New England

By Wiebke Kartheus - Researching architecture as a means to understand a nation’s culture is quite hard when an ocean separates you from the buildings you want to examine.

Feb 14, 2018

Mein Forschungsaufenthalt am Scripps Research Institute

Von Amin Minakar - Vier wunderbare zurückliegende Monate am TSRI in La Jolla Revue passieren zu lassen, gibt Gelegenheit, das Besondere zu würdigen.

Feb 05, 2018

Reflecting on three months in the U.S.

By Miriam Johanna Laufer - Basically, anything goes. That was the information I received when I was asked to write an article for this website three months into my stay in the U.S.