If you visit our Newsletter archive, you will see that our programming began in February 2003. Since then, the Fulbright Academy has worked with local partners to organize about 100 smaller forums, dinners, luncheons and meetings in cities around the world. It was on June 1, 2005, that the Fulbright Academy began formal operations with a full-time executive director, and this allowed us to expand operations and test new models for collaboration and networking. The work has been supported by individual donations of $10 to $25,000, institutional memberships ($500), plus numerous grants, contracts, and in-kind contributions from government agencies and foundations in the USA and around the world. In the past six years, the Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology has raised or leveraged over $1.1 million to promote Fulbright alumni working in science fields, to build networks within the global community of 305,000 alumni, and to host a series of programs for alumni and the public. By leveraging the unique skills and knowledge of the alumni, our programs create opportunities for collaboration and serve as a catalyst for progress. Nearly all of our programming is initiated by and led by individual Fulbrighters. With their assistance, the Fulbright Academy has organized or co-hosted programs featuring alumni as speakers in countries such as ... - Ecuador - 2008 International Undergrad Research Symposium
- Panama - 2007 Annual Conference
- Barbados - 2010 Summer Institute
- Jamaica - 2011 Summer Institute
- Germany - 2006 Annual Conference
- Germany - 2011 Annual Conference
- Hungary - 2009 Delegation to the World Science Forum
- Macedonia - 2009 Annual Conference
- Morocco - 2007 Workshop on Digital Archives and Virtual Science Libraries
- Qatar - 2008 Workshop on Nursing Education in the Middle East
- Singapore - 2008 Conference on the Future of Cities
- United States-Boston - 2008 Annual Conference
- United States-Madison, NJ - 2010 Symposium on Corporate Sustainability
- United States-San Francisco - 2010 Annual Conference
We have worked with Fulbrighters to identify distinguished alumni to speak at their conferences and meetings. Some of these are listed below: - El Salvador - 2008 & 2009 Innovation Conferences
- United States-Boston - 2008 Annual Conf of the American Psychological Assn (report)
- United States-Miami - 2008 International Coral Reef Symposium
- United States-Washington - 2009 Meeting of the American Chemical Society
- United States-Washington - 2011 Meeting of the American Bar Association
Alumni and others have asked the Academy to assist them on projects that benefit the broader community - A series of panel presentations at international conferences on bioethics in 2006-07
- An ongoing series of programs relating to Global Health
- An ongoing series of programs relating to Entrepreneurship
- An ongoing series of programs relating to Sustainability - corporate and societal
- An ongoing series of programs relating to On-line access to scientific literature and other information
- An ongoing series of programs relating to Science diplomacy and strengthening professional ties internationally, especially with the Muslim world.
- The first-edition Directory of Fulbright Alumni from the Decade 2000-2010. (available for purchase)
In carrying out our work, we have been an early advocate for use of in advanced internet technologies. - Our LinkedIn Group currently has more than 940,000 groups, and we joined early; we are group #1,570.
- Facebook has dozens of Fulbright alumni groups, and our group is one of the larger ones, with about 2,300 members.
- Google Checkout is our preferred credit card processing firm; as a Google partner, we do not pay any processing fees, and we also get free advertising.
- Videoconferencing was tested in 2009, and we hope to launch a global program in 2011.
- Podcasts, Blogging, Twitter and some of the other communication technologies are still on the back burner.
- Lastly, this website was designed in 2005, and a redesign is in progress.
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