Department Of State

by Julie Ammons, Critical Language Scholarship to Russia, 2016

#StudyAbroadBecause

by Jessye Kass, Fulbright U.S. Student to Thailand, 2013–2014

Lizards in Thailand were small, harmless creatures that scrambled around my bedroom; geckos were a foot long…

by Linda Austin, Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Burma, 2015

Let me tell you the dirty secret about the Fulbright that no one wants you to

by Leona Amosah, Critical Language Scholarship to Russia, 2016

We sit in Sovok, the café all of the adolescents of Nizhny Novgorod frequent. I sit across from her, my fair…

by Cara Price, National Security Language Initiative for Youth to Moldova, 2016

“This is you,” she said, pointing to bug-eyed Professor Trelawney, the focal point of my Harry Potter…

by Ashley Karlsson, Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to Chile, 2008

I pulled my jacket a little tighter as I walked along the narrow sidewalk.