Grantee Stories
25 Jun 2021
Berbagi Pengalaman Belajar-Mengajar di Yale University, Culture Shock dan Pentingnya Cross-Cultural Understanding
Pada hari Jumat (25/06/2021) bertempat di aula Pondok Pesantren Modern Al-Istiqamah Ngatabaru, Sigi, Prisna Aswarita Putri, penerima beasiswa Fulbright FLTA membagikan pengalamannya menjadi asisten pengajar bahasa Indonesia serta mengikuti perkuliahan di Yale University, AS pada tahun 2017 hingga 2018. Read More.
23 Apr 2021
Ramadan di Amerika, Pengalaman 1 Bulan Yang Mengubah 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..
