Fulbright Reality Czech

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 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...

Soňa Hříbalová je materiálová  technoložka. V Ústavu skla a keramiky na Fakultě chemické technologie Vysoké školy chemicko-technologické v Praze se věnuje modelování rozptylu světla v transparentní keramice a bezolovnaté piezoelektrické keramice. V roce 2022/2023 vycestovala společně s manželem do USA s cílem prozkoumat mechanismy degradace bezolovnatých materiálů pro výrobu piezoelektrické keramiky, která se využívá třeba k výrobě ultrazvuků ve zdravotnictví, parkovacích senzorů v automobilovém průmyslu nebo v inkoustových tiskárnách. Vzhledem k tomu, že dlouhodobě působila v Akademickém senátu a ve studentské iniciativě pro podporu doktorandů, získala Fulbright-Masarykovo stipendium pro špičkové vědce a vědkyně, kteří jsou navíc aktivní v občanském nebo veřejném životě. Přestože osmiměsíční pobyt na Pennsylvania State University byl velmi náročný a v začátku poměrně stresující kvůli nepříznivě se vyvíjejícím výsledkům výzkumného měření, dodnes jí Spojené státy spolehlivě vykouzlí...