Two U Students Receive Fulbright Awards for 2021-2022

Two University of Utah students have received highly competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board for the 2021-2022 academic year. Additionally, one student is designated as an Alternate. Devon Cantwell is a Ph.D. student in Political Science. She received a Fulbright Research Award to conduct research in Vietnam. She will examine how cities […]

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May 4, 2021

EIGHT U STUDENTS NOMINATED AS SEMI-FINALISTS FOR FULBRIGHT AWARDS FOR 2021-22

The University of Utah is proud to announce that eight students have been nominated as Fulbright semi-finalists this year. This year’s list has six undergraduate students and two Ph.D. students, including four English Teaching Assistant semifinalists and four Research Grant semi-finalists. Countries include Vietnam, Cameroon, Germany, Turkey, Colombia, Taiwan, Mexico, and Hungary. Making it to […]

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February 10, 2021

Three U Students Receive Fulbright Awards for 2020-21

Three University of Utah students have received highly competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board for the 2019-20 academic year. Additionally, four students were designated as an Alternate. The flagship international educational exchange program is designed to build relationships between people in […]

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May 27, 2020

Three U students receive Fulbright awards for 2018-19

Three University of Utah students have been selected as finalists for the prestigious Fulbright scholarship. Zoe Diener, Kevin Priest, and Daniel Ybarra have received a highly competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board for the 2018-19 academic year. Diener (MS, public health) […]

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September 3, 2019

Four University of Utah students receive prestigious Fulbright scholarships – Fulbright Recipients 2016

Students will travel across the globe to teach English, enter a MA program, and conduct research Four University of Utah students have received highly competitive Fulbright awards for 2016. The prestigious awards will allow one undergraduate student to teach English in South Korea, one to teach English in Malaysia, another student to enter a Master’s […]

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September 3, 2019

Fulbright Specialist brings University Preservation Standards to National Library of Uzbekistan

What does it truly mean to preserve history? Not just the preservation of knowledge, but the preservation of history, the hand-written texts that are scrawled across vellum manuscripts that pre-date our own American history by centuries? This type of preservation is exactly the sort of work University of Utah Preservation Librarian Randy Silverman engages in […]

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September 3, 2019

The Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program offers “an international scholarship with an ambitious goal: to increase mutual understanding and support friendly and peaceful relations between the people of the United States and the people of other countries,” as described by the Fulbright website. Recipients of this prestigious and honorable award are also funded to travel to a foreign […]

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September 3, 2019