Annamária Sas, U.S. Program Officer participated in the Teacher Exchange Program Orientation in Washington, DC and met with Tom Healy, Chairman of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and Embassy of Hungary diplomats.

Besides meeting with current U.S. and Hungarian grantees, she also visited 3 Fulbright alumni: Ryan Smith (’12 ELTE Apáczai Csere János High School and Teacher Training Center, Budapest); Chris Jones (’11 Budapest University of Technology and Economics), currently Rice University Fellow at the Executive Office of the President, Office of Science & Technology Policy and Eric Lopez (’08 Central European University, Budapest) and his fiancée.

New book by Lynn Hooker (’95 & ’11 Hungarian Academy of Sciences): meticulously researched and elegantly written, Redefining Hungarian Music from Liszt to Bartók is essential reading not only for musicologists.

Timothy Jull (’12 Hungarian Academy of Sciences) researches on the glaciers of the Carpathian mountains was featured in Magyar Nemzet, the 2nd largest Hungarian daily. Pictured with Mihály Molnár (’07 University of Arizona) who visited the laboratory led by Professor Jull in Tucson as a Fulbright researcher and felt it natural that they should continue close collaboration. The British-born scientist was one of the winners of the Invitation 13 competition conducted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and thus could continue his work at HAS‘s Institute for Nuclear Research (ATOMKI) in Debrecen.

8 Fulbright alumni gave a talk at the American Hungarian Educators Association (AHEA) 38th Annual Conference at Rutgers University, May 2-5, 2013:

• Paul Hanebrink (’97 Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
• Erika Sólyom (’03 DDRA Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
• Marguerite Allen (’08 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
• Louise Vasvari (’94 & ’09 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

• Ágnes Fülemile (’92 Metropolitan Museum of Arts, NY & ’98 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
• Ilona Kovács (’94 Kent State University & ’01 Library of the American Hungarian Foundation)
• Nóra Deák (’07 Library of the American Hungarian Foundation)
• Lilla Szabó (’11 Library of the American Hungarian Foundation)

Annamária Sas, U.S. Program Officer and Director Emeritus Huba Brückner participated in the Walk of Life Day of Csányi Talent Development Program – with Erika Csányi, the founder’s wife and President of the Advisory Board. 5 U.S. Fulbright alumni volunteered at community centers all around the country in AY 2012-2013.

Artemisz Polonyi (’12 William Paterson University) performed at a fundraiser for the flood victims in Hungary in the New York Hungarian House.

During the 3rd season of the Meet the Scientist Program 9 high schools (5 in Budapest and 4 in the countryside) were visited by former Fulbright scholars and current U.S. grantees. Lectures were followed by spectacular experiments presented by the Palace of Miracles.

Kornélia Litkei, Senior Adviser, Fulbright EducationUSA Advising Center participated in the annual EFOTT University and College Students Festival in Zánka, Lake Balaton. This is the largest student summer festival in Hungary organized since 1976.

This year Hungary will be the guest country at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington D.C., June 26-30 and July 3-7, 2013. The Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival program curated by Ágnes Fülemile (’92 UC Berkeley; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY & ’98 Rutgers University) director, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York will feature on the National Mall more than 100 participating performers from Hungary.