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Fulbright Student Program
The U.S. Student Program is designed to give recent
B.S./B.A. graduates, master's and doctoral candidates,
and young professionals and artists opportunities for
personal development and international experience. Most
grantees plan their own programs. Projects may include
university coursework, independent library or field
research, classes in a music conservatory or art school,
special projects in the social or life sciences, or a
combination. Along with opportunities for intellectual,
professional, and artistic growth, the Fulbright Program
offers invaluable opportunities to meet and work with
people of the host country, sharing daily life as well as
professional and creative insights. The program promotes
cross-cultural interaction and mutual understanding on a
person-to-person basis in an atmosphere of openness,
academic integrity, and intellectual freedom. The best
way to appreciate others' viewpoints, their beliefs, the
way they think, and the way they do things, is to
interact with them directly on an individual basis-work
with them, live with them, teach with them, learn with
them, and learn from them.
Recent projects
in Ecuador conducted by U.S. Students have involved
collective indigenous rights, coursework at different
universities, research on AIDS, on the effects of
migration on children, and urban anthropology. Other
projects have been directed towards ecotourism, research
on the Amazonian indigenous groups, grass-roots women's
organizations, rural and urban health care, a pocket
guide of insects of the Amazonian, musicology and fine
arts.
The Fulbright
Commission in Ecuador has worked with over 250 U.S.
students since the program began in 1956.
For complete
information on the Fulbright Student Program and
information for grants in Ecuador please access: http://www.iie.org/fulbright/us/#overview.
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