Hace un par de días terminé mi primer año como becaria Fulbright–Junta de Andalucía en la University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Ha sido un año intenso, emocionante y, por encima de todo, tremendamente enriquecedor a nivel de todo tipo de […]
As I stood on 43rd and Lexington Ave with ten Spanish high school students eating typical (and outrageously delicious!) New York style pizza, the linguistic, academic, and social impacts of the Global Classrooms Program were confirmed for me. The students […]
On 15 March, we commenced the IV Programa de Visitas with a visit to the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB). The prevalence and centrality of the CIB’s resources (ie. NMR, electron microscopes) was a noteworthy aspect of this lab. The […]
From the moment of our acceptance into Fulbright, we have continued to hear the phrase “mutual understanding.” In theory, that represents the sort of cross-cultural exchange that our program extolls. But mid-way through our Fulbright year, I began to wonder […]
400 years ago, the Roman Inquisition condemned the Copernican theory that postulated that the Earth revolved around the Sun. It was a key event that to a great extent divided Europe into two different realities, similarly to what had happened a century […]
Each year, the Fulbright Commission sponsors a mid-year seminar in conjunction with a Spanish university in order to give grantees an opportunity to reconnect, to discuss their evolving ideas, to share the progress of their individual projects, and to increase […]