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Scott Hardy, extension educator, Ohio Sea Grant College Program in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sea Grant, was awarded a 2023-2024 Fulbright U.S.

A record number of graduate students from The Ohio State University have been awarded prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program fellowships for 2023-2024. Six students are recipients of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards: Ellen Danford, Environmental Sciences Graduate Program, Karis Neufeld and Justin Salgado, College of Arts and Sciences, Haley Dunlop and Selina Vickery, College of Medicine, and Nancy Pellegrino, Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Matthew Saltzman, School of Earth Sciences professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a 2023-2024 Fulbright U.S.

Michael Betz, associate professor, Department of Human Sciences in the College of Education and Human Ecology, has been awarded a 2023-2024 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Norway to study “COVID-19’s impact on fertility in Norway and the United States.”

Gönül Z. Kaletunç, professor in Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering in the College of Food Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and director, Faculty Professional Development Program in the College of Engineering, was awarded a 2023-2024 Fulbright U.S. Specialist grant to the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia to share her expertise on "Advanced technologies in encapsulation of bioactive compounds: Research and academic approach."

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers teaching and research awards to United States citizens in more than 135 countries. The Fulbright Scholar competition for academic year 2024-25 is open. Opportunities are available for university faculty and administrators.

In addition to new program models to meet the changing needs of U.S. academics and professionals, Fulbright offers more opportunities for flexible, multi-country grants.

The Ohio State University is among only nine doctoral institutions in the country to be named a top producer for both Fulbright U.S. scholar and U.S. student programs, according to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. This is the second consecutive year that Ohio State has been ranked in both categories.

Ohio State is tied for 4th nationally with seven Fulbright scholar awards and is tied for 18th with 12 Fulbright student awards for the 2022-23 academic year.

Wojciech Lewandowski, a visiting Fulbright Slavic Award recipient from Poland’s University of Warsaw, has joined the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures for spring semester 2023.

Craig Shapiro, a doctoral student with the Department of Anthropology, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Open Study/Research Award by the U.S. Department of Education. Applicants for this award design their own projects for a country and often work alongside faculty at international institutions of higher education. The award is available in 140 countries around the world.

The Ohio State University is pleased to announce that 10 undergraduates and two doctoral candidates received prestigious U.S. Student Fulbright Awards for the 2022-2023 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.