Péter Sztáray, Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Botond Zákonyi, Director, Hungarian Institute of International Affairs contributed to the launch of Anna Péczeli‘s (’13 Federation of American Scientists) book ‘Tools of a more Peaceful World: Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation‘ on June 10, 2013. Károly Jókay, Executive Director also attended the event.

Lecture by Bettina Fabos (’12 Open Society Archives at CEU) this Friday.

11 returned Hungarian Fulbrighters of AY 2011-2012 presented on their experiences during their Fulbright grant periods.

The 3rd George Gerbner Conference on Communication, Conflict and Aggression is co-organized by Rebecca Chory (’08 Budapest College of Communication, Business and Arts) from West Virginia University and Jolán Róka (’96 Texas A&M University) vice rector. Former President of the Hungarian Fulbright alumni association László Vass (’95 American University) rector of the College is also among the presenters.

7 future Hungarian grantees for AY 2013/2014 and current U.S. grantees organized a joint hiking trip to the Buda Hills near Budapest on June 2, 2013.

Rita Csapó-Sweet (’01 MTV Hungarian Television) was honored by the four-campus University of Missouri System with the UM President’s Award for Cross-Cultural Engagement. The award recognizes her efforts to build cultural and educational exchange projects with Eastern European universities among others the University of Debrecen.

Earlier this month (May), Professor David Hill, Director of the Global Public Health Program at Quinnipiac University’s Frank. H. Netter MD School of Medicine, was hosted by Professor Dr. Judit Mészáros, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Semmelweis University of Medicine, in Budapest. Initiated by Fulbright Hungary Executive Director Károly Jókay, Dr. Hill spent two days at Semmelweis in a full range of meetings. It is hoped that the two institutions and Fulbright Hungary can establish productive forms of cooperation.

Picture: From the left, Gábor Ulakcsai, International Relations Department, Semmelweis University; Dr. István Vingender, Vice-Dean; Károly Jókay, Executive Director, Fulbright Hungary; Professor Dr. Judit Mészáros, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences; and David Hill, M.D, Professor and Director of Global Public Health, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University, CT.

2 Fulbright alumni: Pongracz Sennyey (’10 University of Szeged) and Nóra Deák (’07 Library of the American Hungarian Foundation) gave a talk at the 7th World Congress of Hungarian Librarians in Budapest, May 28-29, 2013.

STANDARDS / UTILITY / FLAUNTING IT is a Solo Exhibition of Trevor Amery‘s sculptures at the Skanzen Museum in Szentendre, Hungary. On view is a selection of works created over the past 8 months during Mr. Amery’s residence as a Fulbright Scholar in Hungary. The exhibition takes place in a traditional peasant-style home on the grounds in a tiszta szoba (lit. clean room), a special room which inspired much of Mr. Amery’s research and subsequent artwork in Hungary. Vernissage: May 22nd from 6 pm – 8 pm.

Zsolt Németh, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs; Tibor Frank, (’87 University of California) Director of the School of English and American Studies, ELTE and György Schöpflin, Member of the European Parlament contributed to the launch of Mihály Fülöp‘s (’03 George Washington University) book ‘The Unfinished Peace: The Council of Foreign Ministers and the Hungarian Peace Treaty of 1947′ distributed by Columbia University Press at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on May 3, 2013. Huba Brückner, Fulbright Director Emeritus also attended the event.