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Science rapping alumnus an idol to NZ kids
Wednesday, 1 August 2012, 6:53 pm | Fulbright NZ
Recent American Fulbright alumnus Tom McFadden undertook an extensive tour of New Zealand primary, intermediate and secondary schools in May and June to promote the Science Idol competition, an initiative he developed as part of the 2012 New Zealand ... More >>
Fulbright engineering expertise preserves lives and money
Tuesday, 24 July 2012, 12:17 pm | Fulbright NZ
Doctoral candidate Jonathan Watkins will follow in the footsteps of his PhD supervisor and other University of Auckland graduates when he visits Iowa State University as a Fulbright grantee to research the use of self-centering precast concrete walls ... More >>
Call for applications - Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award
Wednesday, 18 July 2012, 4:19 pm | Fulbright NZ
Fulbright New Zealand and the James Wallace Arts Trust call for applications to the 2012 Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award. This award recognises the achievement and potential of an outstanding mid-career or senior New Zealand visual artist by providing ... More >>
Māori student sees traditional sports as key to development
Wednesday, 18 July 2012, 9:46 am | Fulbright NZ
A physical education graduate with a passion for ngā taonga takaro (traditional Māori sports and recreation) has been awarded this year’s Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Graduate Award, to examine the potential for improving indigenous ... More >>
Fulbright sponsors NZ speakers at major Antarctic conference
Tuesday, 10 July 2012, 9:15 am | Fulbright NZ
Fulbright New Zealand is sponsoring researchers from three different New Zealand universities to speak at next week’s fifth Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Conference in Portland, Oregon. The major international conference ... More >>
Study or Research in the United States of America
Wednesday, 4 July 2012, 2:43 pm | Fulbright NZ
Fulbright New Zealand calls for applications to its range of exchange awards for New Zealand graduate students to study or research in the United States of America during the 2013-2014 American academic year. Fulbright graduate awards are available ... More >>
Pacific Fulbright Scholar Set for a Change of Climate
Sunday, 1 July 2012, 4:09 pm | Fulbright NZ
News Release 2 July 2012 For Immediate Release Pacific Fulbright Scholar Set for a Change of Climate More >>
Call for applications - Fulbright-Cognition Scholar Award
Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 3:33 pm | Fulbright NZ
Call for applications - Fulbright-Cognition Scholar Award in Education Research Fulbright New Zealand and the Cognition Institute invite applications for the 2012 Fulbright-Cognition Scholar Award in Education Research. This award, valued at US$32,500 ... More >>
Call for applications - Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga
Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 10:31 am | Fulbright NZ
Fulbright New Zealand and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Indigenous Centre of Research Excellence, call for applications to a range of awards for New Zealand graduate students, academics, artists and professionals to undertake academic ... More >>
Fulbright New Zealand calls for applications
Thursday, 17 May 2012, 10:08 am | Fulbright NZ
Fulbright New Zealand calls for applications Fulbright New Zealand calls for applications to its range of Scholar Awards for New Zealand academics, artists and professionals to undertake academic and cultural exchanges to the United States of America. A Fulbright ... More >>
Call For Applications For Fulbright Fellowship
Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 1:22 pm | Fulbright NZ
Fulbright New Zealand and the New Zealand Harkness Fellowships Trust invite applications for the Fulbright-Harkness New Zealand Fellowship, which offers the opportunity for an emerging New Zealand leader in any field of study or vocation other than health ... More >>
Call for applications - Fulbrightt Awards
Thursday, 16 February 2012, 10:34 am | Fulbright NZ
Fulbright New Zealand invites applications for its first round of short-term NZ-US exchange awards for 2012. The following awards are available for exchanges to the United States of America by New Zealand academics, artists or professionals: Fulbright ... More >>
Fulbright welcomes American students and scholars
Monday, 13 February 2012, 6:17 pm | Fulbright NZ
Fulbright New Zealand welcomed 22 American exchange participants to New Zealand last week with an intensive week-long orientation programme designed to outline unique attributes of New Zealand which will inform their study, research and teaching at ... More >>
Mentoring required for new teachers and education leaders
Friday, 11 November 2011, 12:44 pm | Fulbright NZ
Victoria University of Wellington academic Kate Thornton will explore the role of mentoring in supporting new teachers and developing education leadership at an American non-profit organisation dedicated to the advancement of teacher and school leader ... More >>
Maori scholar on indigenous challenges to property law
Wednesday, 2 November 2011, 4:50 pm | Fulbright NZ
University of Otago law academic Jacinta Ruru (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Maniapoto) has been awarded this year’s Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Senior Scholar Award, to undertake research into indigenous challenges to Western property ... More >>
Kiwi to share experience in Pacific quality assurance
Tuesday, 20 September 2011, 3:55 pm | Fulbright NZ
Pefi Kingi, a New Zealander of Niuean heritage from Auckland, will present her decades of work on developing a quality assurance framework for Pacific cultural practices in healthcare at the second Cross-Cultural Health Care Conference in Honolulu, Hawai‘i ... More >>
Auckland artist turns trash into triumph
Friday, 9 September 2011, 2:29 pm | Fulbright NZ
An Auckland artist whose work seeks to illuminate links between consumerism and waste has been named as this year’s recipient of the Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award, and will undertake a three month residency at Headlands Center for the Arts near ... More >>
Auckland Company Wins Fulbright Award
Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 3:37 pm | Fulbright NZ
An Auckland artist whose work seeks to illuminate links between consumerism and waste has been named as this year’s recipient of the Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Award, and will undertake a three month residency at Headlands Center for the Arts near ... More >>
Visiting American policy fellows to release research reports
Friday, 19 August 2011, 9:51 am | Fulbright NZ
This year's four Ian Axford (New Zealand) Fellows in Public Policy conclude their seven month research projects this month by launching their final written policy reports at a series of public seminars in Wellington. The four American fellows have ... More >>
Call for applications - Fulbright NZ Graduate Awards
Wednesday, 6 July 2011, 9:19 am | Fulbright NZ
Fulbright New Zealand offers a range of awards for New Zealand graduate students to study or research in the United States of America. Fulbright graduate awards are available to students with a four-year tertiary qualification who show academic excellence, ... More >>