Fulbright Awards

Current Fulbright Opportunities

Current Fulbright opportunities can be found on the Global Affairs website.

2023-24  Awardees

Brent Steel

Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Healthy Planet and People, University of Victoria, Canada

Dr. Steel's project will examine the presence of plans, policies, or programs in rural local governments in the “Cascadia” region of Canada and the U.S. (British Columbia, Oregon and Washington) that promote institutional, social, ecological and economic sustainability.

Brian Sidlauskas 

Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Sciences, State University of Londrina, Brazil

Dr. Sidlauskas' project aims to solve evolutionary and taxonomic conundrums among Neotropical headstanding fishes (family Anostomidae) by fostering collaboration between researchers in the United States and Brazil that specialize on that enigmatic and diverse group. 

2022-23  Awardees

Melissa Santala

Engineering, Materials Science, Israel Institute of Technology, Isreal

Her work will help establish a collaboration with researchers in Haifa to better understand fundamental physical processes that affect the efficiency and environmental impact of platinum-containing heterogeneous catalysts which facilitate chemical reactions.

Randy L. Bell

College of Education, Vietnam National University, Hà Nội, Vietnam

His work includes science teacher education and professional development for college and K-12 faculty. He will also develop infrastructure for a teaching internship program that will place OSU students in K-12 schools in Vietnam as native English speakers and provide pedagogical support for Vietnam's recent education reforms.

John Dilles    

Geology, Curtin University, Australia

His project uses advanced geochemical techniques to study how copper, sulphur, and other metal resources cnecessary for the global transition to carbon-neutral economies form in the earth.

Gregory Rorrer    

Biochemical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences of Burgenland, Austria

His project researches emerging sustainable energy systems that use new processes to convert biomass and wastes to fuels and energy.

Bogdan Strimbu   

Forest Engineering, University Of Bucharest, Romania

His project uses terrestrial LiDAR technology and machine learning to develop accurate models for the growth and yield of the main tree species from the Romanian Carpathian Mountains.

Kelly Biedenweb

Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Sciences, Austral University of Chile, Chile

Dr. Biedenweg is developing a manual and training program to integrate human well-being objectives in marine-protected area management plans in Chile’s Patagonia.

Stephen Good 

Biological and Ecological Engineering, University of Concepcion, Chile

He is collaborating across multiple universities and institutes to study approaches to water resource research and education in dry-summer Mediterranean ecoregions in central Chile.

J​​​​​​erri Bartholomew

Microbiology, Instituto de Acuicultura, Torre de la Sal, Spain

She is using pathological and molecular methods to understand how myxozoan parasites cause intestinal disease in fish hosts.

Robert Huges      

Fisheries, Wildlife & Conservation Science, Federal University of Para, Brazil

His work examines ways to determine the health of Amazonian rivers and assess how human and natural limiting factors affect it.