Archive for 2013
Fulbright roundtable
22 Hungarian alumni, future Hungarian grantees for AY 2013/2014 and current U.S. grantees gathered for a Fulbright roundtable on January 24, 2013 in Budapest.Continue Reading | Comments Off on Fulbright roundtable
HUSSE 11
21 Fulbright alumni gave a talk at the Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE) 11th biannual Conference organized by the School of English and American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, January 24-26, 2013.Continue Reading | Comments Off on HUSSE 11
Educatio Fair 2013
13th Educatio International Education Fair, January 18-19, 2013 is the biggest education professional exhibition in Central-Europe. Nearly 30,000 visitors: students and people intending to study, educators, educational institution directors and decision-makers visited the exhibition over 2 days. Fulbright EducationUSA staff with Jason Halleck, Vice Consul, U.S. Embassy promoted U.S. higher education among 200 other exhibitors.Continue Reading | Comments Off on Educatio Fair 2013
Facebook Graph Search
Kathryn Hymes (’10 Hungarian Academy of Sciences) was a member of the team working on the new Facebook Graph Search launched on January 15, 2013. Read more in the New York Times front page article: For Search, Facebook Had to Go Beyond ‘Robospeak’.Continue Reading | Comments Off on Facebook Graph Search
Folk Dancing
The Fulbright Commission in Hungary organized a Traditional Hungarian Folk Dancing opportunity with live music and a teacher for the U.S. grantees on January 12, 2013 at the Budapest Community Center.Continue Reading | Comments Off on Folk Dancing
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
The music of the new Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn movie was composed by Róbert Gulya (’00 University of Southern California)
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U.S. Fulbright student at Csányi Foundation
On January 10, 2013 Vajra Alaya-Maitreya (’12 University of Szeged) and her friend Joe Vigorito visited the Szeged Community Center in order to meet Csányi students aged 12-16 years participating in the Foundation’s Talent Development Program. An alumna of Mills college were she studied vocal performance and musicology, Vajra put together a presentation on the history of popular music in the U.S. over the last century.
On April 10, 2013 James W. Oberly (’12 Károli Gáspár University) visited the Csányi Foundation.
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Thank You Fulbright
Thank You Fulbright is an international campaign that was done for the first time in 2012. Over a two-week period, more than 1,300 Fulbrighters (among them Reinhold Hill ’04 University of Debrecen) submitted a thank you letter addressed to 138 different ambassadors in Washington, DC.
You can join the 2013 campaign at www.thankyoufulbright.org
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