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• VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAM
• VISITING GRADUATE STUDENT PROGRAM
• FULBRIGHT FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
• FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING ASSISTANT PROGRAM
• RUSSIAN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS PROGRAM

Find more information about each program in the relevant sections.

Julia Phillips is a Fulbright Graduate Student Fellow, who is working on her Creative Writing project at Kamchatka State University in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Fascinated and inspired by the region, Julia strives to experience everything Kamchatka has to offer. Her latest adventure took place in Beringia, where she participated in a traditional dog sled race. Read a story, written by Julia about this unforgettable experience here.

On March 8th 2012, Fulbrighters from all around the world gathered in Chicago for a Fulbright Enrichment Seminar, entitled “The Role of Diversity in Chicago City Politics”. Natalia Balyasnikova and Karina Eremetova, both participants of the Fulbright Faculty Development Program shared their impressions about the event. Read more...

Margaret Williams, English Teaching Assistant from Khabarovsk, in collaboration with her Russian colleague and Fulbright Alumnus Olga Kovbasyuk has been working with a group of students from the Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law and several colleges in the U.S., to improve the way Russian and American students relate to one another. The program, which they call The Global Learning / Partners in Dialogue, uses webinars, videoconferences and Skype to explore how the two cultures perceive and address a variety of issues. The purpose is to encourage students to discuss cultural issues with international peers and to help students develop foreign language skills. Read an article by M. Williams about the project.

47 Fulbright U.S. Students, including 33 English Teaching Assistants, gathered in Moscow on January 19-20, 2012 for the mid-year enrichment seminar to share their personal experience and professional success. The subjects of presentations varied from “TB and HIV infections in Siberia” and “Development of Agricultural Sector in Russia” to “Video-conferences and cross-cultural communication” and “The Babushka Phenomenon”. Apart from that, two guest speakers were invited to talk about their areas of expertise. Fulbright Senior Scholar Regina Smyth spoke about the upcoming presidential elections in Russia, and Rebecca Neff, who is an economics officer at the US Embassy, gave an economical overview of Russia. The two-day seminar was followed by an ETA training session, which took place on the 21st of January.

The Fulbright Program welcomed U.S. community college representatives to Russia for a two-week program of meetings and events with a focus on professional and higher education, workforce training, and international collaboration between the United States and Russia. Read more...

The Fulbright Program in Russia hosted a delegation of U.S. university presidents who spent a week in Russia learning about new and evolving opportunities for collaboration between U.S. and Russian institutions. Events included a conference in Moscow on “Cooperation between U.S. and Russian Universities,” site-visits to leading Russian universities, and additional programming in St. Petersburg and Kazan.