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What
Do Fulbrighters Do?
Since its inaugural in the late 1940s, the Fulbright
Program has been an integral part of U.S. foreign
relations. Indeed, face-to-face exchanges have proven
to be the single most effective means of engaging
foreign publics while broadening dialogue between
U.S. citizens and institutions and their counterparts
abroad. In doing so, the Fulbright Program creates
a context to provide a better understanding of U.S.
views and values, promotes more effective binational
cooperation and nurtures open-minded, thoughtful leaders,
both in the U.S. and abroad, who can work together
to address common concerns.
Whether the challenge is transforming conflict into
dialogue, conducting medical research to end a modern-day
plague, halting the trafficking of persons, or designing
an efficient energy grid, today’s issues call
for new voices, new ideas and new leaders. Even in
a networked world of the Internet and satellite television,
there is no substitute for personal interaction—what
journalist Edward R. Murrow called "the last
three feet of communication." It is individuals,
after all, not data streams, who must ultimately build
the connections that in turn create lasting international
partnerships.
Fulbright
Program Opportunities in the U.S. for Bangladeshis
Grants are available for Bangladeshi students to pursue
Master's and Ph.D. degrees in the U.S. Post-doctoral
research opportunities are also offered to a small
number of Bangladeshi scholars. Bangladeshis at all
levels of society are eager for intellectual and educational
contact with the United States. With relatively few
Americans traveling to Bangladesh and fewer Bangladeshis
able to travel to the United States without outside
financial support, Fulbright academic exchanges are
one of the few means available for Bangladeshis and
Americans to interact. Each year, close to 25 Bangladeshi
scholars and students are awarded Fulbright grants
under various programs to study, conduct research
and lecture in the United States. Economic development,
business administration and other social science disciplines
remain popular areas of research among both students
and scholars.
With more than 15 well-qualified candidates for every
grant in the Bangladesh student and scholar competition,
Fulbright grants in Bangladesh are highly competitive.
The Fulbright Program in Bangladesh has been administered
by the Public Affairs Office at the American Embassy
in Dhaka, U.S. Department of State since the 1950's
and is considered the most prestigious amongst all
the fellowships offered by various countries to Bangladeshis.
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