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Bucharest, September 30, 2011
Volume I, Issue 9
Alumni News
From Alumni
Table of Contents
Alumni News  Romanian Fulbright Alumna in Romanian Radio
Show
 State Alumni’s Research Center
 Educational Project by Fulbright Alumnae
 "Dance With Us: Motion Across Cultures" Photo Con-
test  New Articles by Adela Mihai, Romanian Fulbright
Alumna
 Welcoming the U.S. Fulbright Grantees to Romania
► U.S. Alumni and Grantees
for 2011-2012 Academic Year
 U.S. Fulbright Hays Alumnus in the Romanian
 Workshops on Research Management and Interna-
Media
tionalization of Campuses
 News from U.S. Fulbright Alumna Elyssa Ford
From Alumni
► Romanian Alumni and Grantees Alumni Information
 New Volume on Social Media by Fulbright Alumnus
Alexandru Bradut Ulmanu
Alumni Links
 Alumna Intern at Voice of America
http://www.facebook.com/
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2. Bucharest, September 30, 2011
Volume I, Issue 9
Alumni News
State Alumni’s Research Center
State Alumni offers you access to over $33 billion in funding opportunities and to more than 20,000
full text periodicals and academic journals such as The Economist, International Migration Review, Yale
Law Journal, and The Historian. Visit the State Alumni "Research Center" to access EBSCOHost, Gale
PowerSearch, and ProQuest eLibary, and COS Funding Opportunities databases. Read more
"Dance With Us: Motion Across Cultures" Photo Contest
From September 13 until October 25, 2011, you are invited to submit an original
photo to the ExchangesConnect Photo Contest, “Dance with Us: Motion across
Cultures.” ExchangesConnect is an international online community managed by
the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the U.S. Department of State
that brings together over 32,000 members for people-to-people dialogue about
U.S. Department of State-sponsored exchange and cultural programs. People all
over the world, ages 14 and older, are invited to share personal perspectives on
dance in their culture by submitting a photo and a short description to Ex-
changesConnect at http://connect.state.gov. Submissions will be judged on origi-
nality, creativity, effectiveness and photo quality.
Welcoming the U.S. Fulbright Grantees to Romania for 2011-2012 Academic Year
We are pleased to announce the new U.S. Fulbright grantees for the 2011-2012 academic year are
arriving these days. A total of 8 senior scholars and 8 juniors will teach and undertake research in uni-
versities located in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Bacau, Iasi, Sibiu, Braşov, Constanta, Petrosani, Suceava
and Timişoara. Following the tradition of the program, the American grantees will participate in an Ori-
entation Conference, intended to help the new grantees adapt easier to their new Romanian environ-
ment. We will be back with details and pictures in our next issue.
Workshops on Research Management and Internationalization of Campuses
The Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission has joined the endeavors of
the Romanian higher education sector to promote a number of policies
expected to have a significant short and long term impact on the entire
university system by organizing a series of workshops dedicated to the
Management of student services, Research management and the Man-
agement of the internationalization of campuses.
The most recent two events took place as follows:
- September 8-9, 2011, the Workshop on Research Management. The
event was hosted by Politehnica University in Bucharest was conducted
by Dr. Andrei Ruckenstein, Vice Presi-
dent and Associate Provost for Research at Boston University.
- September 23-24, 2011, the Workshop on Management of the Inter-
nationalization of Campuses took place at the National School of Politi-
cal Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest and was conducted
by Dr. Patti McGill Peterson - Presidential Advisor for Global Initiatives,
American Council on Education and Dr. Barbara A. Hill - Senior Associ-
ate for Internationalization, American Council on Education.
We would like to specially thank all the alumni who helped us
in organized the events.
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3. Bucharest, September 30, 2011
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From Alumni
► Romanian Alumni and Grantees
New Volume on Social Media by Fulbright Alumnus Alexandru Bradut Ulmanu
Cartea fetelor. Revolutia Facebook in spatiul social/The Book of Faces. Facebook
Revolution in the Social Space was written by Alexandru Bradut Ulmanu and published
by Humanitas - one of the most prestigious publishing houses in Romania. The vol-
ume addresses a very modern topic - social media - showing how social networking
services such as Facebook and Twitter affect global politics, reshape journalism and
change our everyday life. To find an answer to all these issues the author spent many
hours with tens of people, asking for their opinions and trying to understand their
point of view, for each and every case. So far, The Book of Faces has generated many
positive reactions among the Romanian readers; it was also received with much en-
thusiasm at Bookfest, the largest national book fair. Alexandru Bradut Ulmanu is a
Fulbright alumnus in Journalism at USC Annenberg School for Communication & Jour-
nalism.
Alumna Intern at Voice of America
More news about Cristiana Grigore, our Fulbright Alumna: during this sum-
mer she was an intern at Voice of America - a very inspiring experience – as
she considers. As a follow up, Cristiana promised to send us the articles
about studying and living in the United States she was assigned to write for
VOA’s Student Union Blog. Cristiana is completing her graduate studies in
International Education Policy and Management at Vanderbilt University. To
read her VOA testimonial visit: http://whatsupvoa.wordpress.com/highlights-
from-voa-interns/.
Also a first article about American Culture is available online at:
http://blogs.voanews.com/student-union/2011/09/26/the-dream-and-the-
reality-of-american-culture/#more-4215
Romanian Fulbright Alumna in Romanian Radio Show
Cosana Nicolae Eram, Fulbright grantee in 1999-2000 and presently a lec-
turer at Stanford University was invited in a radio show entitled Romani in
Lume (Romanians around the world).
The radio show registration is available online by following the link below.
http://www.romania-actualitati.ro/romani_in_lume_cosana_nicolae_eram-
33434#add_comm
http://www.facebook.com/
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Educational Project by Fulbright Alumnae
Fulbright alumnae Rodica Eliza Gheorghe, Gina Gusilov and Andreea Savu are
implementing a project in Romania entitled YoungDiplo. The project is the
first educational initiative of its kind, dedicated exclusively to International Re-
lations undergrads. They intend to organize a series of international confer-
ences, a summer school with tutors from Harvard, Oxford, Columbia, George-
town, LSE, facilitate internships in Romania for students, and then publish
their research in specialized magazines. Read more at http://
www.mygrasp.org/highlights/vote-for-education/
New Articles by Adela Mihai, Romanian Fulbright Alumna
Adela Mihai, professor and Fulbright Senior grantee in 2008-2009 in the field of Mathe-
matics published two scientific articles in collaboration with professors from Michigan
State University, the host University of her Fulbright scholarship. For more details about
the articles, please follow the links below:
- Israel Journal of Mathematics, in collaboration with Prof. David Blair
http://www.springerlink.com/content/a3n18u8t25487285/
- Kyushu Journal of Mathematics, in collaboration with Prof. Bang-Yen Chen
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/kyushujm/64/1/_contents
► U.S. Alumni and Grantees
U.S. Fulbright Hays Alumnus in the Romanian Media
Another article on tuberculoses disease in Romania appeared in the media following Jonathan Stillo’s
workshop at the U.S. Embassy in Romania. U.S. Fulbright Hays alumnus Jonathan Stillo is a medical an-
thropologist who focused his research on raising awareness on tuberculosis disease.
For more details, please follow the link below.
http://www.adevarul.ro/life/sanatate/medicina_clasica/
Tuberculoza_nu_este_o_boala_a_saraciei_0_551345187.html
News from U.S. Fulbright Alumna Elyssa Ford
As a U.S. Fulbright grantee to Romania in 2009-2010, Elyssa was teaching English as a
foreign language & advising at Babes Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. Following her
Fulbright grant, Elyssa just started a tenure-track position as an assistant professor of
history at Northwest Missouri State University. She is teaching classes in U.S. history,
women's history, and public history. Here are some of Elyssa’s comments about the new
position: “I am a historian in a combined department of History, Humanities, Philoso-
phy, and Political Science, and I am directing the minor in Public History. It is going to
be a very busy year since I teach four classes a semester, and I also am getting used to
teaching larger survey classes of 60 people each. Everyone in my department, at the
university, and in the community have been very friendly, welcoming, and helpful. This
semester I am teaching the U.S. survey and public history. In the spring I will be
teaching the U.S. survey, women's history, and U.S. since 1945. I am looking forward to using some of
my experiences in Romania when I talk about the Cold War and communism in my U.S. since 1945
class.” We wish the best of luck to Elyssa and congratulations for the new position!
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