Beáta G. Vértessy, Ph.D., D.Sc. current Chair of the Fulbright Board in Hungary has been awarded the prestigious L’ORÉAL-UNESCO for Women in Science Hungarian Fellowship at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Interview in ATV and Lánchíd Radio.

Lecture by William Issel, (’08 University of Pécs, László Országh Chair in American Studies) on November 20, 2012 at the American Corner Budapest.

The Fulbright EducationUSA Advising Center is pleased to present the Council of International Schools (CIS) Tour.

We warmly invite you to join us in meeting with the below listed internationally acclaimed schools, within the CIS Tour presentation series. You are welcome to invite your friends and family along to this exciting and informative afternoon.

 

Date: November 8, Thursday

Time: 3:45-5:00

Venue: 1082 Budapest, Baross u. 62., Díszterem

The tour will contain 20 American and international universities:

• Chapman University (Orange, CA)
• Foothill & De Anza College (Los Altos Hills, CA)
• Hawaii Pacific University (Honolulu, HI)
• Longwood University (Farmville, VI)
• Pace University (New York, NY)
• Pepperdine University (Malibu, CA)
• St. Edward’s University (Austin, TX)
• St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN)
• State University of New York — Plattsburgh (Plattsburgh, NY)
• University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)
• University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
• Wentworth Institute of Technology (Boston, MA)
• Whitworth University (Spokane, WA)

• Glion Institute of Higher Education (Clarens, Switzerland)
• Hult International Business School (London, UK)
• IE University (Segovia, Spain)
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology — Carl Benz School of Engineering (Karlsruhe, Germany)
• Webster University — Geneva (Bellevue, Geneva, Switzerland)
• Yale-Nus College, National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Lecture by László Borhi, (’12 Indiana University) on November 14, 2012 at the Embassy of Hungary, Washington, D.C.

Five Fulbright alumni: Miklós Sebők (’09 University of Virginia), Tibor Dessewffy (’10 University of Southern California), Tibor Mándi (’04 New York University), Anna Unger (’10 University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Péter Rada (’08 Johns Hopkins University) participated in a Conference on U.S. Elections organized by Policity and ELTE Bibó College.

Zsófia Bán (’92 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey & ’10 Harvard University) has been awarded the Déry Tibor Literary Award for her achievements.

Zoltán Balog, Minister of Human Resources and Honorary Co-Chair of the Fulbright Board in Hungary greeted the newly appointed university professors, among them four Fulbright alumni: Zoltán Balázs (’93 Columbia University), Piroska Csörgő (’08 University of Denver), András Bauer (’98 University of California, Berkeley) and András Kepes (’85 Stanford University).

University of New Mexico Today and The Albuquerque Journal interviews with Judit Kádár (’12 University of New Mexico), Hun­gar­ian Ful­bright Fel­low in Amer­i­can Stud­ies.

A signing and discussion event on her book Cultural Appropriation in Recent North American Literature will be held on December 6, 2012 at the UNM Bookstore.

Looking for a lecturer? Invite an American Fulbright lecturer to your institution with the Inter-Country Travel Grant! Approximately 250 American lecturers and researchers representing a variety of academic fields participate in the Fulbright Scholar Program in Europe. Thus, a specialist fitting your department’s teaching may be close by.

Eszter Kirs (’09 Columbia University), member of the Leadership, Hungarian Fulbright Alumni Association has been awarded the prestigious Herczegh Géza International Law Medal for her recent book entitled Democratic Transition Under the Shadow of War Crimes