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Thanks to the Fulbright opportunity, I could make some partnerships…
I was excited to read that “the State University of New York at Binghamton is ranked as one of the top schools in the state of New York in 2015”. I was more thrilled to learn that the Fernand Braudel...
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June 1, 2016: A Taste of Belgium – A Networking Reception at NAFSA
The Fulbright Commission invites its higher educational contacts to the “A Taste of Belgium – a Higher Education in Belgium” networking reception at NAFSA 2016. This event will take place on June 1,...
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Living in the Desert. Review of nine months at the University of Arizona
May 31, 2016. Today is my last day as a Fulbright Fellow. I spent 9 months in Tucson, AZ, performing research on the application of Social Network Analysis in archaeology, under the supervision of...
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“We Shall Not Cease From Exploration…”
As my year at Yale Law School as a Fulbright student has come to an end, I want to reflect on what has been, for me personally, one of the most valuable lessons I have learned this year. Although I...
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Annual Fulbright Panel Discussion & Reception for Departing Grantees
On Wednesday, June 15, recently selected Fulbright Belgium, Luxembourg and Schuman grantees took part in a pre-departure ceremony and other programs in preparation for their 2016-2017 scholarship...
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Teaching Dutch in the land of 10,000 lakes
Just over a year ago today, I learned that I would be spending an academic year as a Dutch teaching assistant at the University of Minnesota. Before I traded my old home on the river Dender for my new...
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People, versus the internet, when resettling to the USA: 1-0
In 1992, I was fortunate enough to spend one year in California, working as a post-doctoral researcher in the IBM Almaden Research Center. That was in the pre-internet age when dinosaurs still roamed...
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Opening of the 2017-2018 Fulbright Belgium, Luxembourg, and Schuman...
September 15, 2016 The Commission for Educational Exchange between Belgium, Luxembourg, and the U.S. is pleased to announce that the Fulbright award competition for Belgium, Luxembourg, and Schuman...
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To New Horizons
It has been a month since I started my adventure. Indeed, it was exactly one month ago that I took the plane to fly to the Gateway Orientation week in Chicago. Over the course of one week I got to...
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A Cigarette with an Ordinary Trump Supporter
Picture by Mark Taylor/flickr It was one of my first days in the United States (US) when I met Rob* smoking outside of a bar in the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia. Over my years of traveling, I found...
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), a private tour
MoMa is the place to be for art lovers in New York. On Fridays, admission is free and people are queuing up to enjoy MoMa’s vast collection. If you feel up to the task, you can join the throng and...
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My Summer Institute in the U.S.
Since I was 15 years old I have been a fan of American culture. I can now say that I have scratched off my bucket list one of my biggest wishes. Coming to the U.S. has allowed me to experience...
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Symposium on the American Presidential Elections
Without a doubt, the upcoming 2016 Presidential Election is a worldwide topic of sensation, scandal and intrigue. What one student compared to as being another American “reality TV show”, the Clinton...
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Student Organizations
From all the American chick flicks I’ve seen, I created the impression that every American college student is engaged in some sort of student organization. So when preparing to go to the USA, I had the...
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Number of Belgian Students in the U.S. Up Over 9 Percent
The number of international students at U.S. colleges and universities surpassed one million for the first time during the 2015-16 academic year—an increase of seven percent from the previous year,...
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A Mosaic of American Voters
As a reporter on a Fulbright in the US I had the chance to cover the US elections while taking classes at the School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri. I went to the presidential debate in St Louis,...
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Reflecting on Thanksgiving – the archetypal American holiday
Thanksgiving weekend is only just over, and already New York City’s organised chaos is being lit up by Christmas lights and dreamy decorations. Americans are in their usual rush to celebrate their...
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First Semester
The first semester is already over. Time flies when you are on a new adventure. The good thing about California is that the sun is still shining and temperatures are very nice. During this first...
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Best Practices at NAFSA 24 April 2017 | 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Join internationally-minded colleagues from institutions of higher education across Belgium at this special pre-NAFSA event hosted by the...
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Teaching and Tango in the Twin Cities
I have been teaching Dutch at the University of Minnesota as a Fulbright Foreign Language Assistant (FLTA) and to be honest: if this experience was any more perfect, it could only be in a dream. My...
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