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Eva King: From Train Rides to Car Rides– Driving Cross-Country to Czech in on Old Friends

Eva King is a 2022-2023 Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Alumna who taught at Purkyňovo Gymnázium in Strážnice, Czech Republic. Prior to teaching in the Czech Republic, Eva was a 4th grade public school teacher in Maryland, and upon her return to Maryland she began teaching 3rd grade. Eva King is currently still teaching 3rd grade near Washington D.C. and keeps up with one of her former mentor teachers, Dáša Lovecká, by doing a Pen Pal program. The Pen Pal program is with Eva’s American 3rd graders and Dáša’s Czech students who are in primary school in Hroznová Lhota, where Dáša works now. Eva also keeps up with her primary mentor teacher, Katrin Holubíková Jongepierová, by messaging and video calling, especially to see Katrin’s first baby, Jonáš. While Eva is also in contact with some of her former students, some of the people she keeps up with most are her lifelong friends and fellow 2022-2023 ETA alumni. Photo on the left: Eva at her mentor teacher, Katrin’s, wedding ceremon...
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Tomáš Jamník: Je libo koncert u vás doma?

Tomáš Jamník je violoncellista a propagátor netradičních koncertních formátů. V roce 2006 zvítězil na mezinárodní soutěži Pražské Jaro, byl finalistou Pierre Fourniere Award 2011 v Londýně. Jako sólista hostoval u významných orchestrů, mimo jiné Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Philharmonia Orchestra London, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra a České filharmonie. Hudebni kritici v jeho hře vyzdvihují důkladnou znalost přednášené skladby, práci s detaily a vřelou hudební komunikaci s publikem. Od roku 2015 vede Akademii komorní hudby, věnuje se vzdělávání mladých hudebníků a založil platformu Vážný zájem s cílem přiblížit vážnou hudbu širšímu publiku prostřednictvím domácích koncertů. V akademickém roce 2022/2023 působil na New York University jako stipendista Fulbright-Masarykova programu. Během šestiměsíčního pobytu zkoumal užívání unikátní výukové metody Otakara Ševčíka na různých hudebních fakultách v USA. Dnes můžete Tomáše Jamníka kromě špičkových koncertních síní potkat také v pra...

David Burch: My Six-Year Fulbright Experience

David Burch is a teacher,  Cambridge English Exam instructor, and advisor for the Financial & Investment Club at Bishop’s Gymnázium Hradec Králové. In August 2018, David came to the Czech Republic to teach English as a Fulbright grantee. Given his passion for Slavic languages and music, he was placed at the Furniture and Musical Instruments Design High School in Hradec Králové. At that time, he had no idea that a couple of years later, this Fulbright host town would become his home. At the start of his teaching career, David remembers: “I found myself creating lessons on subjects they could all relate to: rock bands and woodworking tools. I grew as a teacher, while my students taught me the ins and outs of how to make a guitar, a cabinet, or a 3D model.” Throughout his Fulbright experience, David fell in love with teaching, the Czech Republic, and a Czech woman, who has been the main reason for David to make the Czech Republic his new home. For all new Fulbrighters who are...

Kristina Hakenová: Mozek a střeva aneb jak střevní bakterie ovlivňují stárnutí, paměť a duševní zdraví

Kristina Hakenová je neurovědkyně. Aktuálně působí v Národním ústavu duševního zdraví, ve skupině Dr. Valeše, která se zabývá experimentální psychofarmakologií. Na 3. lékařské fakultě Univerzity Karlovy navíc studuje doktorský program Neurovědy. V akademickém roce 2022/2023 strávila šest měsíců na věhlasné Harvard University jako stipendistka Fulbright-Masarykova programu. Ve svém výzkumném projektu analyzovala, jaký vliv mají střevní bakterie na kondici našeho mozku, odborněji řečeno: vliv střevního mikrobiomu na stárnutí mozkových buněk. Dnes se primárně věnuje schizofrenii, tedy nemoci, se kterou se pojí řada mýtů. Kristina zdůrazňuje: „Důležité je pochopit, že lidé s touto nemocí nejsou ,nebezpeční blázni‘, jak je někdy mylně vnímá společnost – s včasnou diagnostikou a vhodnou léčbou mohou vést plnohodnotný život.“  Rozhovor s Kristinou Hakenovou vznikl ve spolupráci s Ladislavem Loukotou ze stránky Vědátor a je čtyřicátým prvním dílem seriálu příběhů k 30. výročí Fulbrightovy...

Jasmine Su: On Music – A Friend and Secret Weapon

Jasmine Su is a 2023/2024 Fulbright ETA Alumna with a BS in Biomedical Engineering, plans to attend medical school, and a life-long passion for music. Due to Jasmine’s wide breadth of interests, she was placed at Otokar Březina Gymnázium and High School, a school where students prepare to study a variety of different fields at university. Her school is in Telč, a town of 5000 with a gorgeous historic center, protected and recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Before her program, Jasmine took a month-long intensive Czech language course, which significantly improved her everyday interactions by providing her with basic Czech language skills. However, as an English Teaching Assistant in a small town, Jasmine discovered that there is another language that even more reliably bridges people from various cultures: Music. Jasmine was introduced to Czech music in her youth orchestra through Bedřich Smetana’s Má vlast, a symphonic cycle titled “My Fatherland.” She continued to expand ...

Tadeáš Celý: Why Politics Divides Us? No Better Place For Research Than America

Tadeáš Celý is a PhD candidate in political science at Masaryk University. He specializes in political behavior. From September 2023 to May 2024, he spent nine months at the Polarization Research Lab at Dartmouth College, where he compared political polarization and disagreement in European and American contexts as a Fulbright Student grantee. Reflecting on his recent stay abroad, he says: "I learned a great deal about various computational methods, such as using large language models for research, which I had never used before. Additionally, I gained a deeper understanding of efficiency." Experiments With Belief Structures Conducting research within a great team at a top university is a unique opportunity. It provides all  the necessary resources—not just financial, but also intellectual—to develop a research thesis that  truly matters. I began with a project on ideologies and how having an ideological worldview affects  interpersonal relationships. This topic was n...