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Fulbright Scholars on their way to the U.S.
25 promising students awarded scholarships
June 20, 2008
Twenty-five South African students will depart to the United States over the next two months to take up graduate studies with fully-funded scholarships to leading American universities through the Fulbright Program.
Under a new Fulbright program, five of these students will be pursuing Masters in the field of Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL).
The Fulbright program, started in South Africa in 1953, is the U.S. government’s most prestigious academic exchange program and funds scholarships to South Africans for up to two years of study in the United States to pursue either a Masters or PhD. The program also brings approximately 12 American students to South Africa every year to pursue research projects. Since the program’s inception, more than 1,500 South African and Americans have participated in the South African Fulbright program.
The Fulbright Scholarship program was established in 1946 by the U.S. Congress to "enable the government of the United States to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries." This is the largest U.S. international exchange program.
The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. In 2007 approximately six thousand grants, at a cost of more than $262 million, were awarded to U.S. students, teachers, and scholars to study, teach, lecture, and conduct research in more than 155 countries, and to their foreign counterparts to engage in similar activities in the United States.
"Fostering leadership, learning and empathy between cultures was and remains the purpose of the international scholarship program." – Senator J. William Fulbright
List of Students
STUDENT | PROVINCE | INSTITUTION | FIELD OF STUDY |
Lutzeyer, Sanja | Western Cape | North Carolina State University | Masters in Environmental Economics |
Madlala, David | KwaZulu-Natal | New York University | Masters in Political Science |
Sikuza, Judy |
Western Cape | Columbia University | Masters in Organizational Psychology |
Segalo, Puleng | Gauteng (Pretoria) | City University of New York, | PhD. in Psychology |
Beauchamp, Nombulelo | Gauteng (Mamelodi) | Georgetown Law School | LLM |
Mahomed, Faraaz | Gauteng (Fordsburg) | Monterey Institute of International Studies | Masters in International Policy Studies |
Dano, Babalwa | KwaZulu-Natal | State University of New York, Stony Brooks | PhD. in Social Work |
Magadla, Siphokazi | Eastern Cape | Ohio University | Masters in International Development Studies |
Magolego, Boitumelo | Gauteng (Pretoria) | California Institute of Technology | Masters in Electrical Engineering |
Moleme, Balungile | KwaZulu-Natal | University of Pittsburgh | Masters in Library and Information Science |
Van Niekerk, David | Western Cape | Indiana University | Visiting Researcher, Department of Physics |
Velleman, Lithembe | Gauteng (Johannesburg) | University of Pittsburgh | LLM |
Zoia, Fabio | Kwa-Zulu/Natal | Indiana University | MA/PH.D in African History |
Cheetham, Louise | Gauteng (Pretoria) | Louisiana State University | MA in Landscape Architecture |
Pienaar, Jacques | Northwest | Purdue University | Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Samie, Nadia | Western Cape | Southern Illinois University at Carbondale | Master’s in Mass Communication and Media Arts |
Foster, George | Western Cape | University of North Texas | Masters in Music specializing in Tuba Performance |
Eloise Marais | Eastern Cape | Harvard University | Ph.D in Atmospheric Chemistry |
McCoy, John | KwaZulu-Natal | Massachussetts Institute of Technology | Ph.D in Cognitive Science |
Paxton, Craig | Gauteng (Pretoria) | Harvard University | Masters in Educational Leadership |