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Fulbright Student Fellowship

Deadline	08/26/2013
Eligibility	Seniors and recent alumni (recent alumni can also apply at large)
Contact	Linda Dunleavy
Website	http://us.fulbrightonline.org/

Description

The Fulbright Program is the U.S. Government’s premier scholarship program, enabling students to conduct research, study, or teach in over 140 countries around the world. Congress created the Fulbright Program in 1946 with the mission of fostering mutual understanding among nations through educational and cultural exchange. There are two basic types of grants: Research Grants and Teaching Assistantships. Research Grants support individually designed projects, or university coursework in virtually all subject areas. Teaching Assistantships offer opportunities for grantees to teach English conversation and American culture in elementary, high school, or university classrooms. View the English Teaching Assistantships countries here. Applications may be made for one country and one type of award only.

Eligibility

U.S. citizens who will hold at least a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent prior to undertaking the grant are eligible. Selection is based on the quality of the proposed project, the validity and feasibility of the propsed project, the academic and /or professional preparation of the applicant, the applicant's language skills, and personal qualifications. Preference is given to candidates who have not had prior opportunity for extended study or residence abroad, but such experience does not disqualify candidates. Study abroad experience in the country is not considered extended study or residence and in no way impacts a student's candidacy.

Benefits

Fulbright Grants include

Round-trip transportation to the host country, funding to cover room, board, and incidental costs, based on the cost of living in the host country and accident & sickness health benefits.

In some countries, grants may also include:

book and research allowances, mid-term enrichment activities, full or partial tuition, language study programs, pre-departure and in-country orientations

See country descriptions on the Fulbright US student program's website.

Applying

Download our brochures, "Applying for a Fulbright Grant," "Guide to Fellowships in the U.K. and Ireland"

As part of the Fulbright process, Fulbright requires that Brown and other universities conduct a review of the applications of all enrolled student candidates. Though the process is evaluative, all candidates who apply are sent forward to Fulbright. Brown convenes a committee of faculty and deans who review all applications. The campus committee both evaluates and offers guidance to students. After the committee review and interviews, students can make changes to their applications based on the committee's suggestions.

All applicants must submit a complete application to the Dean of the College Office by August 26, 2013, Brown's Campus Deadline.

The complete application consists of the following documents

Application
Statement of Grant Purpose
Personal Statement
Letter of affiliation (for research grants)
3 Letters of Recommendation
Transcript(s)
Language Evaluation (if required)

Applicants from the class of 2014 will apply through UFunds, Brown's online application system, while applicants from the class of 2013 will submit applications via email to Linda_Sutherland@brown.edu. Please note that no Brown candidate should submit their application through the Fulbright Embark site prior to Brown's committee review.

INSTRUCTIONS for Applicants from the CLASS OF 2014

• UPLOAD your completed application from the Fulbright site. Save a PDF of the application and upload it to UFunds, Brown’s online application system. DO NOT submit the application electronically through the Fulbright Embark site at this time.

• UPLOAD a PDF of your Statement of Grant Purpose to UFunds.

• UPLOAD a PDF of your Personal Statement to UFunds.

• UPLOAD the Letter of Affiliation from the host country to UFunds. If the original letter is not in English, you must supply a translation of the letter. The Letter of Affiliation is only required of those candidates applying for a Research Fulbright; it is not required for ETA applicants.

• UPLOAD your Official Transcript(s) to UFunds. To order an official transcript through Brown, please see the instructions on the Registrar’s website. We recommend that you order your transcript three weeks in advance of the campus deadline to give sufficient time to receive and upload to our online system by the August 26 campus deadline. Transcript(s) should be sent to your primary address, or campus mail box if you are living on campus over the summer.

You will also be responsible for uploading official transcripts from other institutions you have attended (both domestically and abroad). If you have studied abroad for an entire year, then you need to supply the transcript from that school. We do not accept e-transcripts from Brown University. Please hold on to these transcripts as you will also be responsible for uploading them to Embark’s online application system by the National deadline in October.

• REGISTER your Referees on UFunds, Brown's online application system. Once you do so, the system will send a request for a letter of recommendation with login information to the person registered. The referees are then responsible for uploading their letters to UFunds, Brown's online application system by the campus deadline of August 26, 2013.

IMPORTANT: DO NOT register your referees through Fulbright's Embark online system at this time. During Brown's internal review we will inform applicants when to register their referees through Fulbright's Embark online system.

• REGISTER your Language Evaluator on Fulbright’s Embark online application system and Embark will generate an email to that individual. He or she will upload the language evaluation form to the Embark site by Brown’s campus deadline of August 26. For the internal deadline, we will retrieve the evaluation from the Embark site.The Language Evaluation Form is required for countries where English is not the official language

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INSTRUCTIONS for Applicants from the CLASS OF 2013

Applicants who will graduate in 2013 and chose to apply through Brown will need to submit their materials via email directly to Linda Sutherland as UFunds will not accommodate candidates who have graduated. Do not submit your application through the Fulbright Embark site at this time.

• SEND via email your completed application to Linda_Sutherland@brown.edu. You can save a PDF of the application to send as an email attachment. Do NOT submit the application electronically through the Fulbright Embark site at this time.

• SEND via email the Statement of Grant Purpose (can be in WORD)

• SEND via email the Personal Statement (can be in WORD)

• SEND via email the Letter of Affiliation from your host country. If the original letter is not in English, you must supply a translation of the letter. The Letter of Affiliation is only required of those candidates applying for a Research Fulbright; it is not required for ETA applicants.

• REQUEST three letters of recommendation. Provide your referees with the Brown Request for a reference form, which you can access on the Fellowships@brown.edu website by mid-June. (The same person can write a letter of recommendation and the language evaluation but will need to use 2 different email addresses.)

Ask recommenders to send their letters of recommendation electronically to Linda_Sutherland@brown.edu by the August 26 campus deadline.

• SEND hard copies of your official Brown University Transcript and, if applicable, transcripts from other institutions you have attended (both domestically and abroad), to Linda Sutherland. If you have studied abroad for an entire year, then you need to supply the transcript from that school.

Please note that when you order transcripts for the Fulbright, you need to have them addressed to: Linda Sutherland, Dean of the College Office, Campus Box 1828. The transcript will be sent directly to Linda in our office. We do not accept e-transcripts from Brown University.

• REGISTER your Language Evaluator on Fulbright’s Embark online application system and Embark will generate an email to that individual. He or she will upload the language evaluation form to the Embark site by Brown’s campus deadline of August 26. For the internal deadline, we will retrieve the evaluation from the Embark site. The Language Evaluation Form is required for many countries where English is not the official language.

Linda Sutherland, Program Coordinator for Fellowships

Brown University

Office of the Dean of the College

University Hall, Suite 213

1 Prospect Street, box 1828

Providence, RI 02912

Recipients

2013-2014: Maia Chao, '13 (Spain); Michael Goldberg, '13 (France); Andrew Kim, '13 (U.K.); Aviva Loew, '12 (Malaysia); Cindy Lung, '12 (Kosovo); Elena Maker, '12 (Colombia); Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong, '12 (Spain); Guy Tabachnick, '13 (Czech Republic); Samuel Yambrovich, '12 (Colombia); Teng Yang, '11 (Laos)
2011-2012: Areebah Ajani, ' (Tajikistan); Daniel Alexander, '12 (Spain); Norin Ansari, '12 (Bangladesh); Alysha Aziz, '12 (South Africa); Rachel Baker, '12 (Colombia); Alejandro Brambila, '12 (Chile); Gillian Brassil, '12 (Spain); Nathaniel Chu, '12 (Panama); Kaley Curtis, '12 (South Korea); Jeremy Cutting, '12 (Argentina); Galia Deitz, '12 (Israel); Sarah Denaci, '12 (Argentina); Andrea Dillon, '12 (Chile); Nicholas Donias, '12 (Brazil); Mica Fidler, '12 (South Africa); Juliana Friend, '11 (Senegal); Eric Gruebel, '12 (Turkey); Hector Hernandez, '12 (Spain); Mariel Heupler, '12 (Argentina); Janine Khraishah, '12 (France); Leland Lazarus, '12 (Panama); Harmony Lu, '12 (Taiwan); Thirii Myint, '11 (Spain); Madisen Obiedo, '12 (Mexico); Titilola Ogunsola, '12 (Dominican Republic); Guillaume Riesen, '12 (Switzerland); Maxwell Rosero, '12 (Macau); Manvir Singh, '12 (Denmark); Robert Webber, '12 (Indonesia)
2010-2011: Samantha Adelberg, '11 (Panama); Fatimah Asghar, '11 (Bosnia and Herzegovina); David Castillo, '11 (Spain); Gem Chema, '11 (Korea); Joseph Glaser-Reich, '11 (Thailand); Allison Kemmerle, '11 (Greece); Sonia Kim, '11 (Korea); Sam Koplewicz, '11 (Croatia); Emily Lamb, '11 (Chile); Pablo Larios, '11 (Germany); Dana Mirsalis, '11 (Japan); Andrew O'Shea Furnas, '11 (Germany); Alexandra Schultz, '11 (United Kingdom); Cecilia Springer, '11 (China); Chelsea Springer, '11 (Brazil)
2009-2010: Kara Apland, '09 (United Kingdom); Sarah Chodakewitz, '10 (Israel); Carolyn Chuong, '10 (Venezuela); Jessica Daniels, '09 (Taiwan); Victoria Haddad-Salah, '10 (Jordan); Masumi Hayashi-Smith, '10 (Sri Lanka); Joseph Kansao, '09 (Cameroon); Rachel Katz-Kubala, '10 (China); Panrapee Mahautmr, '10 (Korea); Emily McAteer, '07 (India); Kelly McKowen, '10 (Norway); Joy Neumeyer, '10 (Russia); Adam Pantel, '10 (Netherlands); Heilyn Paulino, '09 (France); Jenna Ridgeway, '10 (Korea); Lana Robinson-Sum, '10 (Thailand); Kyle Rosenblad, '10 (New Zealand); Gabrielle Salazar, '09 (Peru); Robert Shady, '08 (United Kingdom); Ellen Wong, '10 (Germany); Yasmine Yu, '10 (Morocco); Linda Zang, '10 (Germany)
2008-2009: Renee Ahlers, '09 (Mexico); Alisa Ballard, '09 (Russia); Zoe Brennan-Krohn, '09 (Bosnia & Herzegovina); Hannah Brennan, '09 (Peru); Caitlin Browne, '09 (Italy); Adam Cambier, '09 (South Korea); Peter Cipparone, '09 (Spain); Alison Cohen, '09 (European Union); Patrick Cook-Deegan, '08 (Thailand); Thomas Dahlberg, '09 (Brazil); Lauren Davis, '09 (Ghana); Charles Frohman, '09 (Spain); Tyler Gage, '09 (Peru); Jennifer Garcia, '08 (Brazil); Katherine Goodin, '08 (Egypt); Jonathan Hillman, '09 (Kyrgyz Republic); Rajiv Jayadevan, '09 (Indonesia); Robert Kaufman, '08 (Norway); Eva Kranjc, '09 (Slovenia); Caroline Landau, '09 (Brazil); Carrie Lutjens, '08 (India); George Mesthos, '09 (Greece); Alexander Ortiz, '09 (Syria); Cassie Owens, '09 (Brazil); Nabanita Pal, '09 (India); Erica Palmiter, '09 (Spain); Mia Psorn, '07 (Croatia); Christian Seale, '09 (Colombia); Phoebe Sloane, '08 (Jordan); Min Wu, '09 (New Zealand)
2007-2008: Dara Kwayera Bayer, '08 (Brazil); Sade Bonilla, '08 (Chile); Amy Chang, '08 (China); Victoria Chao, '08 (Taiwan); Caitlin Lee Cohen, '08 (Benin); Camia Marie Crawford, '08 (Indonesia); Mai Denawa, '08 (Japan); Hans Konrad Dietrich, '08 (Germany); Mary Beinecke Elston, '08 (Yemen); David Abraham Fedman, '08 (Japan); Tara Marie Gonsalves, '08 (Indonesia); Anna Karolina Hermann, '08 (Austria); Jacob Michael Izenberg, '08 (Malaysia); Christina Mary Koningisor, '07 (Kuwait); Daniella Miriam Kupor, '08 (Korea); Jose Enrique Macian, '08 (Germany); Samuel Elliott Novacich, '08 (Brazil); Elizabeth Hannah Giencke Stern, '08 (Russia); Nicole Ann Summers, '08 (Nicaragua); Elisabeth Nicole Zerofsky, '08 (France); Leonora Silverstein Zoninsein, '08 (Kenya)
2006-2007: Elise Jett Baran, '07 (Poland); Christopher Whitten Bernard, '07 (Latvia); Elizabeth Danielson Bird, '07 (Malawi); Benjamin W. Boas, '07 (Japan); Arianna G. Cassiday, '07 (Argentina); Lee Chu, '07 (Korea); Jennifer Elizabeth Chudy, '07 (Korea); Josue Cofresi, '07 (Taiwan); Gregory Patrick Fay, '07 (China); David Guttmann, '07 (Isreal); Jonathan David Herman, '07 (Cameroon); Emma Fennell Kaplan, '07 (China); Smitha Khorana, '07 (India); Diane Sookyoung Lee, '07 (Korea); Elena Lesley, '04 (Cambodia); Toby Xianyu Li, '07 (Korea); Jeffrey Allan Lugowe, '06 (Norway); Juliana McKittrick, '07 (Turkey); Gabriela Joyce O'Leary, '07 (Brazil); Candas Pinar, '07 (Turkey); Nicholas Van Sant, '07 (Argentina); Natalie Ann Smolenski, '07 (Egypt); Natan Tzvi Zeichner, '07 (Brazil)