The Commission organized a guided tour to the Jewish Quarter of Budapest for U.S. Fulbright grantees on November 8, 2013. The group took a walking tour along Király street and Gozsdu Courtyard, visited the Great Synagogue in Dohány street and the Kazinczy street Orthodox Synagogue. Then had lunch in Carmel Kosher Restaurant. The day concluded with a guided tour of the Holocaust Memorial Center.

The number of Hungarians studying in the U.S. increased last year by 5% to 690 students according to the annual Open Doors report of the Institute of International Education. The number of international students enrolled in U.S. higher education increased by 7% to 819,644 students in 2012/13 academic year. There are now 40 percent more international students studying at U.S. colleges and universities than a decade ago, and the rate of increase has risen steadily for the past three years.

In the 2011/12 academic year, 283,332 American students studied abroad (Hungary: 682) for academic credit, an increase of 3 percent. The United Kingdom remains the leading destination for American students, followed by Italy, Spain, France and China. Study abroad by American students has more than tripled over the past two decades, from only about 71,000 students in 1991/92.

Graduate Application Guide by Jamie Hoversen, Fulbright ETA
Date: November 12, 2013 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Fulbright EducationUSA Advising Center, 1082 Budapest, Baross u. 62. Room 111

Ms. Jamie Hoversen, Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) will give an informational seminar on the graduate application process to US higher education institutions. She will focus specifically on masters and PhD studies.

Ms. Abby Degge will be presenting on her own experiences as a University of Pennsylvania master’s degree graduate. The Graduate Application Guide will be followed by a presentation on the Fulbright Scholarship.

Attendance is free but pre-registration is kindly requested through educationusa@fulbright.web2.vhost.hu, or 462-8050.

Click here to register for this free virtual college fair event with over 100 U.S. colleges & universities 11:00am-1:00am CET November 13, 2013

Tünde Krasznai (’13 University of California-Los Angeles, Herb Alpert School of Music) met with President János Áder at the Hungarian National Day Ceremony, Woodside Priory, Portola Valley, CA following her piano performance on October 27, 2013.

Margaret McMullan (’10 University of Pécs) wrote the introduction of Charles Farkas’s memoir Vanished by the Danube – Peace, War, Revolution and Flight to the West, SUNY Press.

Following a 2-week visit by two Dráva Valley High School students in April, 2012 to Roosevelt High School, Seattle, WA, David Grosskopf (’10 Dráva Valley High School, Barcs) applied for a Fulbright Teacher Exchange mini-grant and returned to Barcs for a reciprocal visit.

3 Fulbright alumni: György Könczei (’04 City University of New York), Rita Hoffmann & Mária Flamich (’11 University of California, Berkeley) will give a talk at the 1st Hungarian Disability Studies Conference at the Eötvös Loránd University in the framework of the 10th Festival of Hungarian Science, sponsored by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. This year the central theme is “Science in Our Daily Lives.”

A detective novel set in Szeged: A Life Less Damnable by Jack (Jon) Roberts (’02 Institute of English & American Studies, University of Szeged) is out now. Published in various formats by AMERICANA – E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary.