Grantee Stories

23 Apr 2021

Ramadan di Amerika, Pengalaman 1 Bulan Yang Merubah Hidup Saya

Masih terlintas di ingatan saya ketika belajar di pesantren di Jombang sekitar tahun 2002, ustad saya bercerita, “Bersyukurlah kalian hidup di Indonesia, durasi puasa kita selalu sama, di negara lain saudara-saudara kita ada yang harus berpuasa hingga 20 jam sehari”. Saya hanya tertawa saat itu, “Tidak mungkin!”, gumam saya dalam hati. Satu dekade kemudian, apa yang menurut saya tidak mungkin malah menjadi kenyataan yang saya alami sendiri.! Read More..

08 Feb 2021

Resilient Wellness: How One Vanderbilt Student Made Public Health Personal During a Pandemic

Ni Ketut Wilmayani had been in the U.S. just nine months before COVID-19 hit the country in early March. The second-year MPH student, who goes by Wilma, grew up in Bali, Indonesia, and earned her MD before travelling 10,000 miles across the Pacific to earn her public health degree at Vanderbilt University through a Fulbright scholarship. Read More..

13 Jan 2021

Living the Fulbright Experience

“Please help us change the world,” a cashier at a retailer in downtown Chicago said, gleefully, after he noticed the writing printed on my bag. When I was on a plane en route to St. Louis, Missouri, a passenger who was seated next to me, a teacher from Nebraska. Read more..

12 Jan 2021

Global UGRAD Program; Proses Seleksi dan Tips Melamar

Di tulisan kali ini, saya akan membahas mengenai beasiswa yang memberangkatkan, menyekolahkan dan menghidupi saya selama hidup di sana. Beasiswa Global UGRAD.

Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (Global UGRAD) merupakan salah satu program beasiswa yang disponsori oleh US Department of State dan dikelola oleh World Learning. Read more…