New Graduate Hugh Turner Receives Fulbright Award
Hugh Turner, MTS '09, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student scholarship to Turkey in Cultural and Intellectual History, the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently. Turner is one of over 1,500 U.S. citizens who will travel abroad for the 2009-10 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since its establishment in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program has provided approximately 294,000 people—111,000 Americans who have studied, taught, or researched abroad and 183,000 students, scholars, and teachers from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States—with the opportunity to observe each others' political, economic, educational, and cultural institutions, to exchange ideas, and to embark on joint ventures of importance to the general welfare of the world's inhabitants. The program operates in over 155 countries worldwide.
Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. Among the thousands of prominent Fulbright alumni are: Ruth Simmons, President, Brown University; Craig Barrett, chairman of the board, Intel Corporation; Renee Fleming, soprano; Gish Jen, writer; Daniel Libeskind, architect; Aneesh Raman, CNN Middle East correspondent.
Fulbright recipients are among over 40,000 individuals participating in U.S. Department of State exchange programs each year. For more than 60 years, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has funded and supported programs that seek to promote mutual understanding and respect between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is administered by the Institute of International Education.
Visit the Fulbright Program's website for more information, or contact James Lawrence, Office of Academic Exchange Programs, at 202.453.8531.
