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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.

Amy J. Schmitz, John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, has been awarded a 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Specialist award to strengthen the research, education and international collaboration in the field of digital conflict resolution.

Brieanne Beaujolais, lecturer in the College of Social Work, has been awarded a 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program research award to Moldova to teach courses on “Gender Equity and Gender-Based Violence” at Moldova State University in Chișinău, Moldova. Beaujolais will also conduct a research project on technology-facilitated sexual violence and its use in sex trafficking.

Jesús J. Lara, professor of City and Regional Planning in the Knowlton School, has been awarded a 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program research award to Germany for his project “A Place to Call Home: A study of the relationship between social change and the built environment, and the role of immigrant populations in the process of sustainable urban design, informality and placemaking.”

Margaret Kwoka, Lawrence Herman Professor in Law in the Moritz College of Law, has been awarded a 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program research award to Mexico to study the “Independent Oversight of Transparency Laws in México.”

Enrico Bonello, professor in the Department of Plant Pathology in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, has been awarded a 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program research award to Sweden to study the “Development of advanced phenotyping tools for the management of lethal, invasive alien tree pathogens (IATPs) in Sweden.”

Bruce Scates, a professor in the School of History at The Australian National University, is visiting Ohio State as a Fulbright Scholar in April. Scates earned the Fulbright 70th Anniversary Scholar Award, in Honor of Norman Harper, for his project “The Making of America's Great War Centary.”