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Ambassador Cain and Marie Mønsted, Executive Director of the Danish-American Fulbright Commission (front row far right) with American Fulbrighters and their families.
American Fulbrighters Celebrate Thanksgiving
On November 21 Ambassador Cain welcomed Denmark's distinguished American Fulbright scholars and graduate students to the Embassy for a reception followed by a Thanksgiving Dinner in the Diplomat Restaurant. Also attending the event were representatives of the Danish host institutions, the staff and members of the Board of Directors of the Danish-American Fulbright Commission, staff from the Embassy's Public Affairs Office, and spouses of the guests.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational program sponsored by the United States Government. It was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late-Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas in order to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. Since then more than 279,000 people, chosen for their leadership potential, have received Fulbright grants allowing them to observe each others' political, economic and cultural institutions, to exchange ideas, and to embark on joint ventures of importance to the general welfare of the world's inhabitants.
The agreement creating the Fulbright Commission in Denmark was signed by the governments of the United States and Denmark in 1951 with several later amendments. Today the work of the Commission is to provide Fulbright grants to Danish and American graduate students and scholars. The Danish-American Fulbright Commission is an independent entity with its own Board consisting of 4 Americans and 4 Danes. Its work is carried out in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Denmark and the Government of Denmark. For more information about the Commission’s work, see: www.wemakeithappen.dk
The American Fulbrighters spending all or a portion of the 2007-08 academic year in Denmark are:
Ms. Jan Marie Andersen
Graduate Student in Astrophysics
From the College of Science at Utah State University
Hosted in Denmark by Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen
Mr. Patrick Wayne Blessinger
FUHU-Fulbright Visiting Lecturer for Denmark
From North Metro Technical College
Hosted in Denmark by EUC Nordvestsjælland in Holbæk, Selandia, and Kalundborg
Ms. Jennifer Anne Halvorson
Graduate Student in Glass Art Design
From the School of Art and Design at the University of Urbana-Champaign
Hosted in Denmark by The Institute of Glass & Ceramics at Danmarks Designskole
Mr. Chris M. Herbst
Graduate Student in Public Administration
From the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland
Hosted in Denmark by the Department of Economics, Politics and Public Administration at Aalborg University
Dr. Richard Leroy Millet
Distinguished Danish-American Chair in American Studies
From the Department of Historical Studies at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Hosted in Denmark by the Center for the Study of the Americas at Copenhagen Business School
Mr. Thomas B. Overly
Graduate Student in Geography
From the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Kansas University
Hosted in Denmark by Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen and Arktisk Station in Greenland
Mr. Joseph Song-Rin Park
Graduate Student in Anthropology
From the Department of Anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles
Hosted in Denmark by the Institute of Anthropology at the University of Aarhus
Ms. Jillian Pintye
Graduate Student in Public Health
From the School of Nursing and Health Sciences at La Salle University
Hosted in Denmark by Health Promotion Research Denmark at the University of Southern Denmark at Esbjerg
Ms. Laura Robb
Graduate Student in Environmental Studies
From the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at Yale University
Hosted in Denmark by the National Environmental Research Institute at the Danish Ministry of the Environment
Mr. Terrance Lee Slocum
Graduate Student in Archaeology
From the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madson
Hosted in Denmark by Bornholms Museum
Mr. John Michael Tilley
Graduate Student in Philosophy
From the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky
Hosted in Denmark by the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center at the University of Copenhagen
Mr. Douglas Wilson
Graduate Student in Communications
From the Computer Science Department at Stanford University
Hosted in Denmark by the Center for Computer Games Research at the University of Copenhagen
Dr. Morton Emanuel Winston
Distinguished Danish-American Fulbright Chair in Human Rights and International Studies
From the Department of Philosophy and Religion at The College of New Jersey
Hosted in Denmark by The Danish Institute of Human Rights