Annual Program Report

Luso-American Educational Commission
Annual Program Report
Fiscal Year 2013:
October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2013
Grants for Academic Year 2013/2014:
August 2013 to July 2014
I. The Fulbright Program in Portugal
A.
Statement of Purpose
The Fulbright Program is planned and administered in Portugal by the Luso-American Educational Commission,
created in 1960 by an agreement signed between the Government of the United States of American and the
Government of Portugal with the purpose of promoting further mutual understanding between the peoples of the
United States of America and Portugal by a wider exchange of knowledge and professional talents through
educational activities.
The Commission’s Board of Directors is composed of four American citizens, appointed by the US Ambassador to
Portugal, and four Portuguese citizens, being one of them appointed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and three by
the Minister of Education and Science. The US Ambassador to Portugal is the Honorary Chair of the Board.
The Commission’s staff plans and administers the program's daily operations.
B.
Commission Goals
The main and overarching objective of the Commission is to contribute to a positive impact on the culture of the
Portuguese and the American society by providing merit-based educational exchange opportunities, high quality
comprehensive information, and additional innovative knowledge-sharing initiatives. The Commission aims at
maintaining its recognition as a premier organization in the advancement of Portugal-US cultural and educational
relations by both governments, and by the leading higher education institutions in Portugal.
In the course of FY2013 the Commission continued to pursue its goals by:
• Concentrating on the “core” grant programs in which the Fulbright Program lays its foundations (degree
awarding programs, mid-long duration, purely academic or with a very strong academic component, in all
fields of study);
• Implementing new and innovative programs targeted at diversified audiences;
• Broaden the reach of the Program, namely by increasing the number of grants awarded each year.
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II. Fulbright Program Grants
In the pursuit of its goals, the Commission conducted all the necessary efforts to select the brightest and most
qualified and gifted US and Portuguese Students and Scholars, from all fields of study, awarding several types of
grants, in a total of 35.
A.
US Grant Program
US Students
The Commission offered multiple grants in the Student’s category.
The Fulbright Student Research Abroad Program is designed to give graduate students, young professionals or
researchers opportunities for personal development through cultural exchange. Projects may include university
coursework, independent library or field research, or a combination, in all fields of study.
Fulbright partners with the Luso-American Foundation and Instituto Camões to award these grants.
The award supported by Instituto Camões covers specifically the fields of Linguistics, History, Contemporary History,
Communication, Language Teaching Pedagogy and Didactics, Sociology, Literature, Political Science, International
Relations and Distance Education.
The ETA (English Teaching Assistantships) Program, aspires to strengthen English language instruction and knowledge
of the US in Portugal through the presence of highly motivated native speakers of English. This program is developed
in cooperation with hosts to determine every year through competition. The agreement established with the School of
Letters of the University of Lisbon provides for the placement of one ETA at that school per academic year.
The grants offered were the following:
RESEARCH STUDENTS
NAME
FIELD
HOME INSTITUTION
HOST INSTITUTION
Centro de História de
Além-Mar, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa
Centro de História de
Além-Mar, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa
COST SHARING
STUDENTS - ENGLISH TEACHING ASSISTANTS
NAME
FIELD
HOME INSTITUTION
English Teaching
Middlebury College,
Emily Ashby
Assistantship
Middlebury, VT
HOST INSTITUTION
Universidade de Lisboa,
School of Letters
COST SHARING
Anthony Otey
Hernandez
Instituto Politécnico de
Leiria
Ana Paulina Lee
Literature
U Southern California
Gabriel Avilez
Rocha
History
NYU
English Teaching
Assistantship
Beloit College, Beloit,
WI
FLAD
I. Camões
Host
Host
The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program is funded by the US Department of Education
and supports US Graduate students who have completed coursework in foreign language and area studies programs
relating to any world area except Western Europe and US universities. They are selected for 6-12 month fellowships to
support their dissertation research activities abroad.
In FY2013 the Commission has given support to a Fulbright-Hays grantee whose project, focused in Angola, included a
2-month stay in Lisbon.
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FULBRIGHT-HAYS DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH ABROAD
NAME
FIELD
HOME INSTITUTION
Shana Melnysyn
Anthropological
History
U Michigan, Ann Arbor,
MI
HOST INSTITUTION
Arq. Histórico Ultramarino,
Arq. Histórico Militar,
Biblioteca Nacional
COST SHARING
-
US Scholars
Core US Scholar Program Under the Fulbright Core U.S. Scholar Program, the Commission awarded grants in all
disciplines, applicants being required to evidence an affiliation appropriate to the proposed activity and present
invitations from the host institution.
Under a special agreement with the University of Lisbon, its School of Letters hosted once more a Fulbright Scholar in
the Humanities / Universidade de Lisboa.
Specialists This program supports short term visits of US specialists to Portuguese institutions of higher education.
Intercountry Program Provides Portuguese institutions of higher education with opportunities to host, for short
periods of time, U.S. faculty who are in a European country with a Fulbright grant.
The grants offered were the following:
CORE SCHOLARS PROGRAM
NAME
Maria Lorena
Cook
Political Science
Susan Hughes
Public/Global
Health
HOME INSTITUTION
Regis University,
Denver, CO
Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY
University of Illinois,
Chicago, IL
SPECIALISTS
NAME
Kathryn
Hegedus
FIELD OF STUDY
Public/Global
Health
HOME INSTITUTION
The University of
Connecticut
HOST INSTITUTION
Instituto Politécnico de
Setúbal
COST SHARING
Susan Zvacek
Education
University of Kansas
Universidade do Porto
Host
Benjamin
Kedem
Education
University of Maryland
Universidade Nova de
Lisboa
Host
John Jean
FIELD OF STUDY
Philosophy of
Science
INTERCOUNTRY SCHOLARS PROGRAM
NAME
FIELD OF STUDY
HOME INSTITUTION
HOST INSTITUTION
COST SHARING
Universidade de Lisboa
Host
Universidade de Lisboa
-
Universidade do Porto
-
HOST INSTITUTION
Host
COST SHARING
Brian Rhinehart
Theater
CUNY
Universidade do Minho
Host
John McCormick
Political Science
Indiana U., Purdue U.,
IN
Universidade de Coimbra,
School of Economics
Host
June Howard
American Studies
U Michigan, Ann Arbor
Universidade de Coimbra,
School of Letters
Host
Shannon Chance
Engineering
Education
College of William and
Mary
Universidade Técnica de
Lisboa
Host
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Summarizing, the size of the US Grant Program was the following:
B.
Grant Category
Type of Grant
#
Students
Students
Scholars
Research and ETA’s
Fulbright-Hays
Research/Lecture
TOTAL, US GRANT PROGRAM
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1
10
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Portuguese Grant Program
Portuguese Students
In Academic Year 2013/2014, the Commission administered the following grants for Portuguese Students:
Fulbright Grant for Graduate Studies This grant awards up to $25,000 per grantee, allowing Masters grantees to apply
for a renewal fund for their second year (up to $6,000/grantee) and PhD grantees to apply for a renewal fund for their
second and third years (up $6,000/year/grantee). The students are placed through IIE’s placement services.
Fulbright Grant for Research These grants are awarded to Master’s and PhD students, preferably from Portuguese
Institutions of Higher Education, to conduct research in US Universities and/or Research Centers.
Fulbright Grant for Research in Public Health, with the support of the Luso-American Foundation, Merck Sharp &
Dohme, Pingo Doce and Novartis New grant, as a result of Fulbright and its Fulbright Brainstorms 2012 partners’
commitment in the field of Public Health.
The grants offered were the following:
Ms STUDENTS
NAME
Patrícia Marcos
FIELD
Public Policy
HOME INSTITUTION
Universidade Nova de
Lisboa
HOST INSTITUTION
Oregon State University
COST SHARING
Host
RESEARCH STUDENTS
NAME
FIELD
HOME INSTITUTION
Universidade Nova de
Lisboa
HOST INSTITUTION
COST SHARING
Texas A&M University
-
Universidade de
Coimbra
University of Michigan
-
Ana Garcia
History
Andreia
Gonçalves
Medical Sciences
Diogo Martins
Biological Sciences
Universidade do Porto
United States Department
of the Interior, U.S.
Geological Survey
-
Inês Matos
Public Health
Universidade Nova de
Lisboa
Harvard School of Public
Health
FLAD, Merck
Sharp & Dohme,
Pingo Doce and
Novartis
Maria Isabel
Pinto
Chemistry
Universidade Nova de
Lisboa
University of California,
Irvine
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Portuguese Scholars
The following grant competitions for Portuguese Scholars to lecture/research in the US were open:
Fulbright Grant for Scholars and Researchers, designed to support lecturing and/or conducting research at US
universities or research centers, in all fields of study.
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Fulbright / Instituto Camões Grant for Scholars and Researchers, with the same design as above but covering the
fields of Linguistics, Communication, Language Teaching Pedagogy and Didactics, History, Contemporary History,
Sociology, Literature, Political Science, International Relations, Distance Education, Fine Arts, Performing Arts.
The grants offered were the following:
SCHOLARS
NAME
Ana Rita Duarte
FIELD
Chemical
Engineering
HOME INSTITUTION
Catarina Franco
Biological Sciences
Elsa Lechner
Anthropology
Joana Mendes
Law
HOST INSTITUTION
COST SHARING
Universidade do Minho
MIT
-
ITQB, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa
Center for Social
Studies, Universidade
de Coimbra
University of
Amsterdam
California Institute of
Technology
-
Brown University
I. Camões
Yale University
-
Fulbright-Schuman Program Administered by the Commission for Educational Exchange between the United States
and Belgium, it is jointly financed by the U.S. State Department and the Directorate-General for Education and Culture
of the European Commission. The program funds graduate and post-graduate study, research, and lecture proposals in
the field of US-EU relations, EU policy, or EU institutions for interested American and EU citizens.
This year there was a Portuguese scholar among the selected grantees of the Fulbright-Schuman Program:
FULBRIGHT-SCHUMAN PROGRAM
NAME
FIELD
Ana Isabel
Afonso
HOME INSTITUTION
Universidade Nova de
Lisboa
Anthropology
HOST INSTITUTION
COST SHARING
University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
-
In summary, the size of the Portuguese program in FY2013 was the following:
Category
Students:
Grants
Type of Activity
#
Fulbright
Fulbright
Graduate Studies
Std. Res. Abroad
1
5
Total, Portuguese Student Program
6
Fulbright
Lecturing/Research
Fulbright / Instituto Camões
Lecturing/Research
Fulbright-Schuman
Lecturing/Research
Total, Portuguese Scholar Program
TOTAL, PORTUGUESE GRANT PROGRAM
3
1
1
5
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Scholars:
III. Special Programs
The Fulbright Commission administers a number of grants that are funded by the Department of State but are not
considered as being part of the Fulbright Program. The Commission has nominated and/or selected Portuguese
participants for the following short-term special programs:
Educational Seminars - A partnership with the Luso-American Foundation which allowed for the participation of two
Portuguese School educators in this ECA programs implemented by the American Councils for International Education.
This year the program also includes the visit of one US School Administrator to the schools of the Portuguese
participants.
Study of the US Institutes for Scholars These Institutes are intensive post-graduate level academic programs with
integrated study tours whose purpose is to provide foreign university faculty and other scholars the opportunity to
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deepen their understanding of American Society, culture and institutions. The ultimate goal is to strengthen curricula
and to improve the quality of teaching about the United States in academic institutions abroad.
Summer Institute for European Student Leaders This is a five-week program for undergraduate students held in a US
university that focuses on study of the US, concepts of leadership from American perspectives, and civic engagement
through academic coursework and participatory activities. Specially targeted to underrepresented populations, the
program poses new and interesting challenges to the outreach efforts of the Commission, in search for diversity.
The grants awarded were the following:
EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS
NAME
FIELD
Maria Manuela
School
Teixeira
Administration
Eduardo Luís
School
Administration
John Glahn
School
Administration
HOME INSTITUTION
Escola Secundária de
Manuel da Fonseca
Escola Secundária
Padre António Martins
de Oliveira
Mountain View High
School, Orem, Utah
STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES INSTITUTES
NAME
FIELD
HOME INSTITUTION
Ana Isabel
Xavier
National Security
Ana Raquel Vaz
Pinto
U.S. Foreign Policy
José do Vale
U.S. Culture and
Society
Universidade do Minho
Unniversidade Católica
Portuguesa
Universidade Nova de
Lisboa
HOST INSTITUTION
Mountain View High
School, Orem, Utah
Mountain View High
School, Orem, Utah
Esc. Sec. de Manuel da
Fonseca
Esc. Sec. Padre Antº
Martins de Oliveira
COST SHARING
FLAD
FLAD
-
HOST INSTITUTION
Institute for Training &
Development, Amherst,
MA
Bard College, Annandale
on Hudson, NY
New York University, New
York, NY
COST SHARING
HOST INSTITUTION
Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN
Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN
Kansas University,
Manhattan, KS
COST SHARING
-
SUMMER INSTITUTES FOR EUROPEAN STUDENT LEADERS
NAME
Mariana
Miranda
Rúben Rebelo
Sérgio Pereira
FIELD
Social
Entrepreneurship
Social
Entrepreneurship
Environmental
Stewardship
HOME INSTITUTION
Universidade do Porto
Universidade do Porto
Universidade do Porto
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IV. Grant Supporting Activities
Orientation Activities for Grantees
Orientation and pre-departure meetings were organized by the Commission for the Portuguese Grantees.
Individual and group orientation sessions were also organized for the American students and scholars arriving in
Portugal.
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Alumni Activities and Special Events
FY2013 was again a fruitful year in what concerns outreach, alumni and other special events. In collaboration with
Fulbrighters Portugal (the alumni association), the US Embassy, EducationUSA an other partner institutions, numerous
activities were organized.
In November 2012, the Commission hosted its traditional Thanksgiving Dinner, having as keynote speaker US Embassy
Deputy Chief of Mission Lucy Tamlyn. Held at Escola de Hotelaria e Turismo, in Lisbon, it proved to be, once again, an
excellent occasion to gather all the Portuguese grantees recently selected, the American grantees in Portugal, alumni,
stakeholders and friends of the Fulbright Program.
In early January 2013, the second Fulbright Annual Forum took place. Several grantees said yes to the Commission’s
challenge to speak about merit, opportunity and initiative in Portugal and in the US and profited from the chance to
connect and share experiences and ideas.
In March 2013, Fulbright has held a booth in Futurália, the largest educational fair in Portugal.
From March to September, the Fulbright Alumni Conferences provided important networking opportunities and were
used to promote the Fulbright Program. The conferences featured prominent Portuguese Fulbright Alumni (João Lobo
Antunes, António Borges, Rui Vieira Nery, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Isabel Capeloa Gil), who debated
contemporary issues and the general topic of the future of Portugal.
As one of the partner institutions responsible for the creation of Study in Portugal, a joint-venture established with the
objective of promoting Portugal as an attractive destination for US Students, Fulbright helped organized and
participated in the delegation of Portuguese universities and other institutions that represented Portugal at the NAFSA
Conference and Expo that took place in late May in Saint Louis, Missouri.
The Fulbright Information Center (FIC), a US State Department affiliated advising center part of the EducationUSA
network that strives to provide accurate, comprehensive, current, and unbiased information on education in the
United States, also continued to contribute to the promotion of the good image of Fulbright within Portuguese
academia, secondary educators and high school, undergraduate and graduate students, by promoting regular outreach
initiatives. In particular, these initiatives included the organization of workshops on essay writing, information sessions
about study programs in the US (namely at “This is America”, promoted by AmCham, and at the US Embassy youth
summer camp) and several webinars on different topics, including one about LL.M. programs in the US, with the
University of Washington in St. Louis.
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Program Report Appendices
Board of Directors
The composition of the Board, as of September 30, 2013, is as follows:
Representatives of the US Government:
Ms. Virginia L. Staab, Counselor for Public Affairs, US Embassy, Chair;
Mr. Scott Hartmann, Assistant Public Affairs Officer, US Embassy, Treasurer;
Prof. John Huffstot, Lecturer and Director of Language Studies, New University of Lisbon (Universidade Nova
de Lisboa);
Mr. Curtis Stewart, Head of Economics and Environment, International Lead & Zinc Study Group.
Representatives of the Portuguese Government:
Mrs. Ana Paula Laborinho, President, Camões Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Dr. Miguel Seabra, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Ministry of
Education and Science;
Dr. Fernando Reis, Director General for Innovation and Curricular Development, Ministry of Education and
Science;
Dr. Vítor Magriço, Director General for Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Science.
Secretariat
The Commission encompasses a staff of 4-5 full-time employees. Staff members as of September 30, 2013 are:
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Ms. Otilia Macedo Reis, Executive Director
Ms. Paula Lemos, Program Coordinator
Ms. Dora Reis Arenga, Administrative Officer
Mr. Ricardo Sequeira, Educational Adviser
Prepared by Otília Macedo Reis, Executive Director
Approved October 30, 2013
Lisbon, Portugal
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