CU Rector Tomáš Zima receives holders of Fulbright scholarships












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            CU Rector Tomáš Zima has received American Fulbright scholars currently studying and teach

            University. At the meeting, which took place in the Carolinum on Monday 14 April, the scho
            their research interests and their experiences with Czech students.
            Personal receptions of Fulbright scholars by the Rector and Vice-Rector are a Charles Univ

            Apart from representatives of the Fulbright Commission, headed by its director, RNDr. Hana
            representatives of the University also met guest lecturer Professor Linney Wix, Assistant 
            H. Vann, Assistant Professor Jessica H. Wilson and postgraduate student B. Payson Croy.


            Linney Wix, who is based at the University of New Mexico, is spending the whole of the 201

            year at the CU Faculty of Education [ URL "http://www.pedf.cuni.cz/?lang=en"] where, apart
            she is also working on a study of art therapy.


            This semester the CU Faculty of Social Sciences [ URL "http://fsveng.fsv.cuni.cz/"] is ser
            temporary base for sociologist Barbara H. Vann from Loyola University Maryland. Courses fo
            American Studies are also organised at the same faculty and the CU Faculty of Arts [ URL "

            www.ff.cuni.cz/home/"] by Assistant Professor Jessica H. Wilson (John Brown University).

            Amongst the scholars meeting the Rector on Monday was postgraduate student B. Payson Croy 

            University, who will remain in the Czech Republic until September. During her time here sh
            on her study focusing on the social and cultural experiences of the German minority living
            Republic since the end of the Second World War.


            During the reception, the director of the Fulbright Commission, RNDr. Hana Ripková, Ph.D.,
            within the Czech Republic, the greatest number of applications for a Fulbright grant withi

            Republic was received from Charles University. Conversely, Americans wishing to utilise th
            grants to travel to the Czech Republic were most interested in Charles University. “This i
            University is the best,” smiled CU Rector, Professor Zima.

                                                                                                      
            The Fulbright Commission was created in 1991 on the basis of an agreement between the gove
            cultural exchanges based on government grant programmes and advisory and information servi


            By: iForum


            14. 4. 2014