Four CUNY schools have been named among the nation’s top producers of Fulbright award winners for this academic year, according to the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S Department of State, which oversees the country’s flagship international scholarship exchange program. The winners included nine CUNY students and five faculty members.
- Hunter College counted six student Fulbright recipients.
- Baruch College had three students and two faculty Fulbright winners, putting the college among only three institutions to earn the distinction of being a dual Fulbright top producer.
- With one faculty Fulbright recipient, the CUNY School of Law was one of just 10 schools listed among Special-Focus four-year institutions for Fulbright U.S. Scholar awards.
- Queens College was named on the Scholars list for top-producing institutions, with two faculty Fulbright winners.
“With their world-class faculty and talented students, each of these schools showcases CUNY’s historical mission of providing access to topnotch academic programs for New Yorkers of all backgrounds, and we are proud of these four schools and the distinguished honors they, their faculty and students have received,” said CUNY Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez. “We also thank the Fulbright Program’s administrators, the U.S. Department of State and the Institute of International Education, for continuing to work toward the goal of furthering mutual understanding and peaceful relations between the people of the United States and those from other countries, which is more important today than ever.”
“CUNY schools have long been active participants in the Fulbright Program, and the diverse backgrounds of the students and scholars who receive Fulbright awards reflect the diversity of the populations they serve,” said Lee Satterfield, assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs. “CUNY Fulbright students and scholars, and those from schools across the United States, have an immeasurable impact on the world around them, at home on their campuses and communities and on those they meet abroad. We congratulate CUNY for being a Top Producer of these global changemakers.”
This year’s winners included Cloé Mueller, a 2022 Hunter College graduate with a B.A. in environmental studies and B.A./M.A. in economics who is researching the concentration of calcium carbonate in the Rhône River delta and its effect on alkalinity in the Mediterranean Sea, an indicator of global warming. She is currently studying at La Sorbonne in Paris and conducting research at a marine station in Roscoff, in the Brittany region.
Another recipient, Juan Garcia, graduated with a Bachelor’s of Business Administration degree in marketing from Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business in 2021 and won a Fulbright award in photography. He is completing a documentary photo project on members of indigenous communities from the Amazon rainforest who choose to move to urban areas and adopt the lifestyles of those regions. To gain a better understanding, he is now taking social anthropology classes at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas in Brazil.
CUNY has been a strong producer of Fulbright Fellows and Fulbright Scholars throughout the history of the program, which dates to 1946. In 2021, seven CUNY colleges — City College, Hunter, John Jay, LaGuardia, Lehman, Queens and the CUNY Graduate Center — were recognized by Fulbright as Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Leaders, the most of any university system in the nation. As part of the State Department’s commitment to building diversity within the Fulbright program, the designation was created to recognize the strong partnerships between Fulbright and selected HSIs, and to encourage other HSIs to engage with the program.
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