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Oscar Barton, Jr.

Posted on September 8, 2025 (September 8, 2025) by skerr
Oscar Barton, Jr. in a pinstripe suit and bow tie standing in a modern hallway with large windows.

The Morgan State University dean and professor encourages more engineers to participate in the Fulbright Program so they can “learn their craft through a cultural lens.”

Posted in Alumni

Frank Martin Snowden, Jr.

Posted on September 8, 2025 (September 8, 2025) by Sharon Witherell
Frank Snowden, Jr., PhD in Oval Office with President George W Bush, receiving the National Humanities Medal with five others all with medals on red ribbons around their necks

HBCU Professor and American Diplomat Expressed the “Beauty and Universality of Great Literature.”

Posted in Alumni, Alumni ProfilesTagged Arts & Culture, Leadership

Tamara Worlton

Posted on August 20, 2025 (August 20, 2025) by Sharon Witherell

Research in trauma care advances America’s military readiness and global health systems.

Posted in Alumni, Alumni ProfilesTagged STEM, Veteran/Military

Austin Downey

Posted on August 12, 2025 (August 12, 2025) by Sharon Witherell
Downey holding award standing next to South Carolina Governor and two other people in front of American flags

An American engineer teamed up with Swedish researchers to develop complex robotic computing systems that find people lost at sea. He shares, “Fulbright reinforced how important it is for American researchers to exchange ideas with global partners.”

Posted in Alumni, Alumni ProfilesTagged Education, STEM, Technology

Terence Tao

Posted on June 9, 2025 (July 2, 2025) by egodshall
Terrence Tao wearing a yellow polo shirt in front of a black chalkboard.

MacArthur Genius and Fields Medal-winning mathematician says Fulbright provided an invigorating environment with inspirational faculty.

Posted in Alumni, Alumni ProfilesTagged STEM

Benjamin Nathans

Posted on May 21, 2025 (July 2, 2025) by egodshall

Dr. Nathans, PhD, is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian of Jewish and Russian History who witnessed the dissolution of the Soviet Union during his Fulbright year.

Posted in Alumni, Alumni ProfilesTagged Arts & Culture, Awards, Humanities

J. Michael Kosterlitz

Posted on April 18, 2025 (July 2, 2025) by skerr

Quantum physics pioneer and Nobel laureate Kosterlitz’s Fulbright experience “opened his eyes to what physics is all about.”  

Posted in Alumni, Alumni ProfilesTagged Awards, Science, STEM

Ellen Roche

Posted on April 7, 2025 (July 2, 2025) by skerr
Roche in a lab coat holding an anatomical heart model, seated at a desk with a computer showing medical scans.

Fulbrighter bridges industry and academia to engineer life-saving robotics.

Posted in Alumni, Alumni ProfilesTagged Engineering, Innovation, STEM

Milton Friedman

Posted on March 27, 2025 (July 2, 2025) by skerr
Head shot of Milton Friedman

As a Fulbrighter, the free market economist brought his vision to the United Kingdom.

Posted in AlumniTagged Awards, Social Sciences

Benjamin Rich

Posted on February 24, 2025 (July 3, 2025) by skerr
Benjamin Rich in military uniform smiling in an office setting.

A U.S. Army officer combines military service with Fulbright to strengthen bilateral relations in trade and security.

Posted in Alumni, Alumni ProfilesTagged Veteran/Military

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