Gilman Alumni Amongst 2022 U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program Winners

The Benjamin A. Gilman Worldwide Scholarship Program is proud to announce that 51 Gilman Alumni have been chosen for the 2022 U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program.   

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program expands views via educational {and professional} development and cross-cultural dialogue. Fulbright creates connections in a posh and altering world. In partnership with greater than 140 international locations worldwide, the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program affords unparalleled alternatives in all educational disciplines to passionate and achieved graduating school seniors, graduate college students, and younger professionals from all backgrounds. Program contributors pursue graduate research, conduct analysis, or educate English overseas. Under are the chosen Gilman alumni and their kind of Fulbright award. 

Many Gilman Students level to their Gilman Scholarship expertise as a pivotal level of their lives, considerably impacting their educational and profession targets. Gilman Alumna and 2022 Fulbright recipient Forough Askarirad shared, “Finding out overseas as a Gilman Scholar allowed me to reside, be taught, and discover a rustic and tradition that’s totally different from my very own. This expertise allowed me to develop assured in my independence as a working skilled overseas. I felt inspired and ready since I had already accomplished it with The Gilman Program.”

Gilman Alumna and 2022 Fulbright recipient Ilya Wang advised us, “Being awarded the Gilman Scholarship gave me the arrogance to not solely reside and be taught exterior of my consolation zone in numerous international locations, but in addition to proceed to comply with my curiosity and ambition. These experiences confirmed me the essential–that all of us have lovely tales to share, and that we will all be taught quite a bit just by listening. The Gilman gave me the arrogance to use for a Fulbright in order that I can share my story and create a mission based mostly on listening to the tales of others.” 

Gilman Alumnus and 2022 Fulbright recipient Andrew Ngo has an identical view, “The Gilman Scholarship reassured me that for 1st-generation school college students, finding out overseas generally is a risk, which additional inspired me to use for the Fulbright Program. The monetary help and realization for international research had been integral to my need to attach and construct understanding with folks not solely globally, but in addition throughout the various communities inside the U.S. Moreover, my advisor and recommenders offered me help and recommendation in protecting my writing as goal and purposeful as doable.” 

Throughout their grants, Fulbrighters will meet, work, reside with and be taught from the folks of the host nation, sharing every day experiences. This system facilitates cultural alternate via direct interplay on a person foundation within the classroom, subject, residence, and in routine duties, permitting the grantee to realize an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the best way they do issues, and the best way they suppose. By way of engagement in the neighborhood, people will work together with their hosts on a one-to-one foundation in an environment of openness, educational integrity, and mental freedom, thereby selling mutual understanding. 

“As a Fulbrighter, I sit up for totally immersing myself in Argentine tradition. By making an attempt their wealthy delicacies, broadening my view on schooling, my data of Latin America and the affect of indigenous languages on Argentine Spanish. I additionally hope to affix in on a sport of fútbol as a result of I need to expertise Argentina’s ardour for the game. All of my experiences overseas will permit me to show my college students as soon as again in the USA in regards to the language and in addition immerse them within the tradition,” shared Gilman Alumna and 2022 Fulbright recipient Yoko Chavez.  

“Whereas I sit up for coming into the world of archival analysis, what most excites me is the chance to get to know, work with, and be taught from the folks I can be surrounded by, whether or not that be the scholars and professors at my affiliate college, or the farmers and locals of the area that I research. With a full yr offered by Fulbright to immerse myself, I consider that these experiences will form my mission as a lot as any assortment of papers,” Gilman Alumnus and 2022 Fulbright recipient Joshua Linkous.

“My Fulbright expertise can be a bit totally different to what I’m used to, as I can be educating in addition to studying. I sit up for having the ability to discover Thailand, I sit up for studying extra in regards to the nation’s customs and historical past. I sit up for assembly my college students and fellow workers and fascinating them within the many various actions I’ve dreamed of. I sit up for being open minded and doing my finest to absorb a brand new and fantastic expertise,” shared Gilman Alumna and 2022 Fulbright recipient Aisha Odusanya. 

Be taught extra in regards to the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program and apply at us.fulbrightonline.org.