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DARK SECRETS: Fulbright | Vintage Vibes

Border Cops Detained Me for Hours Without Explanation. They Won't Tell Me Why.

CBP claims dictatorial powers over Americans coming home. A big part of that is hiding information.

Reason

AI chatbots struggle to function beyond English: ‘They know a lot … but they miss the culture’

LLMs are like “a Fulbright scholar who is interested in Asia,” said Microsoft’s Kalika Bali. “It’s an outsider’s gaze into the culture of a country.”

Fortune

Mass resignations at prestigious scholarship board over Trump admin ‘interference’

All but one of the 12 board members has quit

The Independent UK

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Fulbright board members quit due to Trump administration’s political meddling

Resignations follow scholarship cancellations and probe into Harvard’s work with blacklisted Chinese officials

The Guardian - US

Are Scottish universities at risk from Trump’s attack on DEI?

Donald Trump’s administration is cracking down on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives both at a federal government level and in…

The National (Scotland)

Scholars stranded in America and abroad amid funding freeze of state department programs

The State Department has frozen funding indefinitely for thousands of scholars participating in long-established cross-cultural programs connecting the U.S. to other parts of the world

The Independent UK

Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’

US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety

The Guardian - US

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Research nation(s): Fulbright fellows consider the power of science communication

Maria Balinska is one of the founders of The Conversation in the United States and served as our editor there for four years. Now, she is the Executive Director of the US-UK Fulbright Commission, based in London, and overseeing the body’s work that takes post-graduates in the US and the…

The Conversation

Psychologist Weighs In On “Boy Moms” After Mother-In-Law’s “Icky” Pre-Wedding Post Goes Viral

"I just find it so sad that so many boy moms see their relationship with their sons like this." The post Psychologist Weighs In On “Boy Moms” After Mother-In-Law’s “Icky” Pre-Wedding Post Goes Viral first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Political reporter wins Fulbright scholarship

Canberra Times political reporter chosen for prestigious scholarship.

The Canberra Times

He’s raising millions in aid for Gaza. But still he couldn’t save his family

Hani Almadhouni works in the US to support the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency. The bad news keeps coming from home in Gaza

The Guardian - US

Alice Garner loves going off on tangents

She's a 'precarious' academic who still does some acting on the side.

The Canberra Times

A sculptor of wind explains how to make fiber dance far above city streets

Janet Echelman says she never set out to be a sculptor of wind. But if you have ever explored Porto, Portugal, walked the streets of Gwanggyo, South Korea, or passed through West Hollywood, you might have seen her massive iridescent sculptures of fiber floating above cities and the millions of…

The Conversation

Plagues, poisons and magical thinking – how COVID lab leak hysteria could be straight from the Middle Ages

The COVID “lab leak” story clearly isn’t going away soon. The theory that the pandemic began with an accidental release of the virus from a lab in Wuhan recurs like clockwork – most recently in a report from Senate Republicans in the US this week.

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Zulu monarchy: how royal women have asserted their agency and power throughout history

The passing away of South Africa’s Zulu king Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu in March 2021 refocused attention on the role of royal women in Zulu leadership. After the official mourning period, and to the surprise of many observers, the late king’s will appointed his senior wife Queen Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu to hold…

The Guardian - UK

‘Colour is in my blood!’: the vivid life of artist Sheila Hicks

She was taught by Josef Albers, bought rugs for Stanley Kubrick, and lives where Dr Guillotin experimented with his equipment. Yet, at 87, there’s only one person the great textile artist wants to impress

The Times of India

Punjab: Professor Rajesh Kochhar passes away

CHANDIGARH: Dr Rajesh Kochhar has passed away after a brief illness on Wednesday. Professor Kochhar had been a Jawaharlal fellow, a Fulbright visiting lecturer, a visiting scholar at University of Cambridge department of history and philosophy of science; and honorary professor of history of science and technology at National Institute…

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: I taught Ukrainian children as a Fulbright Scholar. Now I imagine the terrors they face

The crisp morning last October I had been anticipating for months finally arrived. After a two-day orientation organized by Fulbright Ukraine, I flew to Dnipro and arrived at my new apartment in the city center. I felt mild culture shock as I walked the streets, encountered the Cyrillic alphabet on…

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