Fulbright Reality Czech

By Maureen Heydt   The Fulbright Czech Republic program welcomed several new US Scholars for the 2017 spring semester. The Scholars are teaching at universities throughout Prague and the Czech Republic. These interviews have been condensed and edited for clarity. Professor Stanley Thompson    Professor Stanley Thompson Professor Stanley Thompson of Ohio State University is serving this semester as a US Fulbright Scholar to the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic. Professor Thompson’s discipline is economics, and in particular agricultural economics, and he is coordinating a wide array of activities at his host institution for his Fulbright stay. Below, he discusses his work this semester, how he thinks it will affect his teaching on return to OSU, and what the Fulbright mission means to him.  -------------------------------------- Fast Facts ------------ --------- ------------------- U.S. Position: Professor, Department of Ag...

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By Maureen Heydt This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. Stephen Doig Stephen Doig is a Distinguished Professor and Knight Foundation Chair at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, who has served as a Fulbright Scholar to Masaryk University in Brno this past semester. He specializes in data journalism, the use of social science methods and data analysis to help reporters more ably tell their stories. Doig has built a renowned career as a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and has spent the last 19 years as a professor at ASU. He was interested in doing a Fulbright to the Czech Republic as a way to spread his expertise in data journalism on an international level, particularly by teaching the future journalists of Europe. Here, he discusses his experiences as a professional journalist, how he found his profession and developed his specialty, his time at Masaryk and ASU, and his special connection to the Czech Repub...

V nadcházejícím akademickém roce bude na českých školách působit dvacet amerických stipendistů Fulbrightova programu. Jsou mezi nimi jak profesoři amerických univerzit, kteří budou vyučovat na českých vysokých školách či se zapojí do vědecké práce, tak vysokoškolští studenti a čerství absolventi, jejichž náplní pobyt bude buď práce na vlastních výzkumných projektech, nebo výuka angličtiny. Pobyt stipendistů v České republice bude oficiálně zahájen na setkání, které se koná v druhé polovině září v Praze, odkud se pak rozjedou na svá pracoviště po celé republice. S Američany se tak budou moci setkat studenti a členové akademických obcí na řadě škol. „Američtí profesoři míří jak na Univerzit Karlovu a Masarykovu univerzitu, a to i v rámci speciálních partnerských programů Fulbright Distinguished Chair, tak také třeba na Akademii múzických umění, Slezské univerzitě, České zemědělské univerzitě či Vysoké škole chemicko-techologické,“ vyjmenováv...