2023 Australian-American Fulbright Scholars

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

HONORARY CO-CHAIR (AUSTRALIA)

The Hon. Anthony Albanese Prime Minister of Australia

Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC FAA FRS (Chair)

Vice Chancellor and President

The Australian National University

Karen Sandercock

First Assistant Secretary

Department of Education, Australian Government

Christian Bennett

Chief Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Officer, Virgin Australia

Cameron Archer

United States, United Kingdom and Canada Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government

STAFF

EXECUTIVE

Dr. Kerry Bennett Executive Director

Iroshani Rathnayake Administrative Assistant FINANCE

Brendan Greenwood Finance Manager

Darianna Rubio

Assistant Accountant

PARTNERSHIPS AND COMMUNICATIONS

Tara Whitfield

Partnerships and Programs Manager

Alex Maclaurin

Communications and Marketing Manager

HONORARY CO-CHAIR (UNITED STATES)

Ambassador Caroline Kennedy

United States Ambassador to Australia

Jeff Anderson (Treasurer)

Minister–Counselor for Public Affairs

U.S. Embassy, Canberra

Larry Lopez

Director, Accelerating Commercialisation, Department of Industry, Innovation and Science

Partner, Australian Venture Consultants, Perth

Christine Elder

Consul General

U.S. Consulate, Sydney

Sara James

Broadcast Journalist and Author National Strategy Director, American Chamber of Commerce in Australia

Professor Harlene Hayne Vice-Chancellor, Curtin University

SCHOLARSHIPS PROGRAM

Meggan Fitzgerald

Program Manager

Maya Kozarsky

Communications and Program Officer

Wendy Andrews

Program Officer

Beibei Li

Program Officer

About Fulbright

THE FULBRIGHT PROGRAM

The Fulbright Program is the flagship foreign exchange scholarship program of the United States of America, aimed at increasing cultural understanding, collaboration and the exchange of ideas.

Born in the aftermath of WWII, the Program was established by Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946 with the ethos of turning ‘swords into ploughshares’, whereby credits from the sale of surplus U.S. war material were used to fund academic exchanges between host countries and the U.S.

Since its establishment, the Fulbright Program has grown to become the largest educational exchange program in the world, operating in over 160 countries.

In its seventy five-year history, more than 360,000 students, academics,and professionals have received Fulbright Scholarships to study, teach or conduct research, and to promote bilateral collaboration and cultural uderstanding.

Globally, approximately 8,000 competitive, meritbased grants are awarded annually in most academic disciplines and fields of study.

THE AUSTRALIAN-AMERICAN FULBRIGHT COMMISSION

The treaty that established the Fulbright program in Australia was signed on 26 November 1949. The initial sale of U.S. surplus war material to Australia provided $5.8M to fund the first fourteen years of the program. In 1964 a new agreement was entered into by the Australian and U.S. Governments to establish the Australian-American Educational Foundation (later to be known as the Fulbright Commission), funded by both governments.

Today, over 70 years later, the Australian-American Fulbright Commission continues to administer the Program, thanks to the funding of the Australian and U.S. Governments, and a generous group of sponsors and donors. This support has enabled steady expansion and the offering of Fulbright Scholarships to candidates at all research, academic and professional career levels.

Since its establishment, the Commission has awarded scholarships to over 5,300 Australians and Americans. Our distinguished alumni are an integral part of the Program’s rich history and enduring international network.

A Note from the Chair

“Our future is not in the stars but in our own minds and hearts. Creative leadership and liberal education, which in fact go together, are the first requirements for a hopeful future for humankind.”

- Sen. J. William Fulbright, The Price of Empire

It gives me great pleasure to congratulate the newest cohort of AustralianAmerican Fulbright Scholars. Our future prosperity as a civilisation depends on knowledge and how we use it. The more we can educate our people – not only in the advancement of knowledge, but also in the enhancement of cultural empathy, the better our futures will be. The broadening of our minds. The expansion of our hearts. It was for these purposes, the Fulbright Program was created.

Our 2023 cohort of awardees are undertaking an incredibly diverse array of projects across a gamut of academic and professional fields, from atmospheric chemistry to theatre. They hail from all over Australia and the United States -- from Perth to Pensacola; from Sydney to Syracuse -- and they will travel to an equally diverse range of host institutions to complete their Fulbright projects. I invite you to read more about them and their work in the following pages.

We thank each of our generous Fulbright sponsors, as well as the Australian and U.S. governments for facilitating these cutting-edge projects.

To you, our Scholars -- you represent the leaders of your fields, and you have now been chosen to represent the 75-year legacy of the Fulbright Program because we have seen within you the three key characteristics that are synonymous with the Fulbright mission – extraordinary academic potential, an outstanding ambassadorial nature, and an open willingness to share and engage with others. These features will serve you well in your upcoming adventures, but in the end it is up to you to make the most of the time you have been given.

Treasure every moment, seize every opportunity, and never turn down an invitation to an event, be it sport, cultural, or intellectual – especially if it is outside your normal interests and experiences. This is where the true cultural “lab work” occurs in both countries. Make friends that will last a life time.

I’ll leave you with some words of wisdom from the late, great Stephen Hawking:

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.”

Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC FAA FRS Chair, Australian-American Fulbright Commission Board of Directors

PROFESSOR DANIEL P. ALDRICH

Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy (Democratic Resilience)

Funded by Flinders University and Carnegie Mellon University Australia (CMUA)

Home: Northeastern University

Host: Flinders University

Field: Media and Democracy

An award-winning author, Daniel has published five books, more than eighty peer-reviewed articles, and written op-eds for The New York Times, CNN and Asahi Shinbun, along with appearing on popular media outlets such as CNBC, MSNBC, NPR and the Huffington Post. He has spent more than five years carrying out fieldwork in Africa, Asia and the Middle East and his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Program and the Abe Foundation.

Daniel will use his Fulbright Distinguished Chair Scholarship to study how geographic and virtual social networks filter the information that we receive and how we act on that information.

PROFESSOR ROBIN ELIZABETH BELL

Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Science, Technology and Innovation

Funded by CSIRO

Home: Columbia University

Host: CSIRO

Field: Climate Change

Robin, a Lamont Research Professor at Columbia University, studies how Antarctic ice is changing, and works with coastal communities developing scientifically informed responses to changing sea levels. She has led seven major Antarctic expeditions discovering an active volcano, large lakes and backwards-flowing rivers in a hidden mountain range beneath the ice.

Through her Fulbright Distinguished Chair Scholarship at CSIRO, Robin will advance an international plan to study ice sheet change and investigate improved support for coastal communities undergoing rapid environmental change. A champion of women in science, she will use evidence-based approaches to advance the diversity of the academic and research workforces.

U.S. Distinguished Chairs

My Fulbright aims to show how our social ties channel the types of media that we consume and then whether we move to act on that information in ways that can build a more resilient democracy. ..or undermine it."

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR ROBERT CAMLEY

Fulbright Distinguished Chair

Funded by The University of Newcastle

Home: University of Colorado

Host: The University of Newcastle

Field: Physics and Biophysics

PROFESSOR ANDREW N. CLELAND

Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Advanced (Defence) Science and Technology

Funded by the Defence Science and Technology Group

Home: University of Chicago

Host: University of New South Wales

Field: Quantum Physics

PROFESSOR D. VAUGHAN GRIFFITHS

Fulbright Distinguished Chair

Funded by The University of Newcastle

Home: Colorado School of Mines

Host: The University of Newcastle

Field: Civil Engineering

Bob is the Director of the BioFrontiers Center and a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS). An awardwinning teacher and researcher, his investigations have ranged from topics such as developing a theory for the Nobel Prize-winning Giant Magnetoresistance effect (with Jozef Barnas) to helping create a fastswitching liquid crystal filter for studying biological processes in live cells.

For his Fulbright Distinguished Chair award, Bob will be at The University of Newcastle working with Dr. Karen Livesey on approaches to killing cancerous tumors using magnetic nanoparticles. In his spare time he is a keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for the UCCS Physics Rock and Roll band.

Andrew pursues the experimental development of superconducting "qubits", the leading candidates for building a quantum computer, and key elements for quantum sensing. In addition to focusing on the development of quantum circuits with the highest coherence and longest-lived entangled states, he has pursued the development of quantum acoustics, manipulating sound waves in the quantum limit. Having demonstrated the first operation of a mechanical system in its quantum ground state, Andrew will use his time as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair to pursue the integration of superconducting qubits with other solid-state qubit families, linked by phonons, the quanta of sound.

Vaughan is a Professor at the Colorado School of Mines and a Civil Engineer, whose interests lie in application of finite element and risk assessment methodologies in geotechnical engineering. He has co-authored three books that have gone into multiple and foreign language editions, and his numerous research papers include some of the most highly cited in the geotechnical engineering research literature.

Vaughan's Fulbright Distinguished Chair at The University of Newcastle will include research with Professor Anna Giacomini and colleagues on risk assessment of offshore wind turbine foundations and rock instability on coastal paths exacerbated by climate change.

PROFESSOR MICHAEL BREADMORE

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of Tasmania

Host: Stanford University

Field: Analytical Chemistry

PROFESSOR ALICIA DENNIS

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The University of Melbourne

Host: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Field: Medical Sciences

Michael obtained his PhD in Analytical Chemistry in 2001 from the University of Tasmania (UTAS), and was awarded his DSc in 2017. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers, supported over the past 18 years at UTAS with over $22M of research funding. He has held three Australian Research Council fellowships, and received numerous prizes and recognition, including the 2019 Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science for Safeguarding Australia.

Michael is a co-inventor on a number of patents, with four commercial products at market, and in 2022 was made a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).

Michael's Fulbright research aims to develop a new dry, solid-state platform with which to measure important molecules for personalised medicine, environmental analysis, forensic science and industry process monitoring and control.

Alicia is an obstetric anaesthesiologist and the first Director of Anaesthesia Research at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Parkville. As a clinicianresearcher, and following on from her PhD work using heart ultrasound in the high blood pressure condition of preeclampsia in pregnant people, she leads a unique program of obstetric cardiac research in people with preeclampsia. Alicia has academic appointments at The University of Melbourne and Deakin University, and has held an NHMRC Fellowship in obstetric perioperative medicine. She has been awarded the President’s Medal from the Australian Society of Anaesthetists for extraordinary service to the Society.

Alicia will use her Fulbright Future Scholarship to undertake The Hopeful Hearts Project at The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. This project will create a collaborative platform to advance understanding of the mechanisms of high blood pressure (using heart ultrasound) in people with preeclampsia.

Australian Scholar Awards

I'm working to develop a new dry, solid-state platform with which to measure important molecules for personalised medicine, environmental analysis, forensic science and industry process monitoring and control."

PROFESSOR DIANE FATKIN

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

Host: Harvard Medical School

Field: Cardiovascular Genetics

Diane is a molecular cardiologist and leads a research group at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney. She also holds appointments as Professor (conjoint), at St Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, and Honorary Medical Officer in the Cardiology Department at St Vincent's Hospital. Diane's research is focused on understanding the genetic underpinnings of inherited heart muscle and rhythm disorders and spans from studies in families to zebrafish models.

Diane will use the Fulbright Scholarship to undertake a sabbatical study visit to the Seidman Laboratory at Harvard Medical School in Boston. She plans to gain experience in cutting-edge techniques for studying heart function at the molecular level. These innovative research tools promise to provide unprecedented insights into causes of genetic heart disease, opening new opportunities for disease treatment and prevention.

"My time at Harvard Medical School will equip me with cuttingedge skills for investigating how genes cause heart disease.

" Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations."

- Sen. J. William Fulbright ProspectsfortheWest

PROFESSOR NAOMI SUNDERLAND

Fulbright Indigenous Scholarship

Funded by the National Indigenous Australians Agency

Home: Griffith University

Host: University of New Mexico

Field: Community Music and Social Work

PROFESSOR SIMON YOUNG

Fulbright Scholar Award

Funded through Fulbright Australia General Funds

Home: University of Southern Queensland

University of Western Australia

Host: University of Wisconsin

Field: Law and Justice

Naomi is a proud descendant of the First Nations People of Australia alongside her family's diverse European heritage. Naomi works at the interface of arts and health disciplines to develop internationally recognised theories, models and approaches for trauma-informed and arts-based research, teaching and practice. She is an Australian Research Council Fellow investigating First Nations music as a cultural determinant of health.

Naomi’s Fulbright Scholarship at the University of New Mexico aims to examine the potential of collective community music activities in responding to mass experiences of collective trauma in First Nations and other communities.

Simon is a Professor of Law and Justice and Deputy Director of the Centre for Heritage and Culture at the University of Southern Queensland; and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia. Specialising in public law and First Nations law and policy, and having published several books in these fields, provides expert advice to government, non-government and law reform bodies in Australia and Canada, and collaborates widely with First Nations colleagues and communities in the fields of law and legal education.

Simon’s Fulbright research at the University of Wisconsin’s Global Legal Studies Center and Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center will involve a comparative examination of First Nations’ water rights – seeking new insights on how law and policy can best support First Nations’ economic and management participation in this important context. He will be working with leading U.S. scholars, learning and building collaborations for the future in both substantive law and legal education.

"My research on First Nations’ water rights will seek new insights, particularly from the U.S. experience, on how law and policy frameworks can best support First Nations’ aspirations for participation in water management and economic resilience.

PROFESSOR JANETTE BOUGHMAN

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Michigan State University

Host: Monash University

University of New South Wales

Field: Biology

Janette is a full Professor of Integrative Biology with over 30 years' experience asking fundamental evolutionary questions about fish, bats, birds and people. She is a leading expert on speciation, the part of biology that seeks to understand how biodiversity is created and maintained, and studies how adaptation to novel environments contributes to speciation.

Janette's Fulbright research focuses on the evolutionary processes that generate and maintain biodiversity, and how anthropogenic change undermines these processes. If we can protect those processes, we can help protect biodiversity itself.

PROFESSOR JEFF BURGESS

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of Arizona

Host: Monash University

Field: Public Health

Jeff is Director of the Firefighter Health Collaborative Research Program at the University of Arizona. He has worked as an Emergency Medicine physician, Medical Toxicologist and Occupational and Environmental Medicine physician. Jeff has served as Principal Investigator for multiple Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funded research grants with firefighters and is a co-lead of the Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study (FFCCS).

Jeff's Fulbright project is to establish a bush/ wildland/wildland-urban interface (WUI) firefighter health research collaborative between Australia and the U.S. and to identify high-priority research necessary to formulate policies to protect the health of bush, wildland and WUI firefighters.

U.S. Scholar Awards

Bush or wildland fires are an increasing threat worldwide due to climate change and population growth in areas prone to fires, and a particular problem for Australia and the U.S.

The major goal of my Fulbright research is to conduct policy-related research on wildland firefighter health and safety."

DR. SARAH K. CALABRESE

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: George Washington University

Host: University of New South Wales

Field: Psychology and Public Health

Sarah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Department of Prevention and Community Health at George Washington University (GWU). She earned her PhD in psychology from GWU and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University. Her research focuses on stigma, sexual health, HIV prevention and healthcare inequity.

As a Fulbright Future Scholar, Sarah will explore the perspectives of Australian and U.S. healthcare providers and sexual minority men with HIV regarding stigma and patient-provider communication about new HIV biomedical prevention and treatment options to inform an intervention.

My Fulbright research aims to illuminate the perspectives of Australian and U.S. healthcare providers and sexual minority men with HIV regarding stigma and patient-provider communication about HIV."

“The Program aims, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship..

- Sen. J. William Fulbright

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PROFESSOR DANIEL CONWAY

Fulbright Scholar Award

Funded through Fulbright Australia General Funds

Home: Texas A&M University

Host: Deakin University

Field: Philosophy

PROFESSOR JOHN DILLES

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Oregon State University

Host: Curtin University

Field: Geoscience

Daniel is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Affiliate Professor of Religious Studies and Film Studies, and Courtesy Professor in the School of Law and the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He has lectured and published widely on topics in post-Kantian European philosophy, aesthetics (especially film and literature), religion, critical theory and genocide studies.

Daniel's Fulbright research project will involve a study of innovative efforts to repair relations with First Nations peoples and Indigenous communities.

John is Geology Professor at Oregon State University and has supervised 40 postgraduate studies of mineral deposits in North and South America, Africa and Asia. He obtained degrees at California Institute of Technology and Stanford University, and uses structural geology, geochemistry and petrology to understand formation of metallic mineral deposits. He received the Society of Economic Geologist’s Silver Medal for research on “porphyry deposits” that supply much globally mined copper, molybdenum and gold.

For his Fulbright Future Scholarship, John will collaborate with researchers and use state-of-theart laboratories at Curtin University to investigate sulfur in magmas that supply hydrothermal fluids, metals and sulfur to mineral deposits.

"Metallic mineral resources for the global transition to carbon-neutral economies includes copper, which must increase for electric energy generation and vehicles.

John’s Fulbright research at Curtin University will improve theory of porphyry deposits formation, with applications to metal exploration, mining and environmental remediation.

PROFESSOR CARLOS HILLER HIDROVO CHAVEZ

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Northeastern University

Host: RMIT University

Field: Microfluidics

DR. LEKELIA JENKINS

Fulbright Scholar Award

Funded by the Regional Universities Network of Australia (RUN)

Home: Arizona State University

Host: University of the Sunshine Coast

Field: Marine Sustainability

Carlos is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at Northeastern University. He earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to joining Northeastern University, Carlos held professional appointments at MIT, Stanford University and the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award from the Fluid Dynamics program, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award from the Microsystems Technology Office, and an American Society of Mechanical Engineers Robert T. Knapp Award.

The overarching goal of Carlos' Fulbright Future Scholarship research is to integrate and implement a surface acoustic wave (SAW) control methodology into pneumatic based gas-liquid droplet microfluidics (GasLiD-µ) generation systems. The premise is that SAW control could lead to enhanced liquid droplet generation in terms of smaller size, higher generation rate and homogeneity.

Lekelia (“Kiki”) is a marine sustainability scientist and Associate Professor at Arizona State University. She researches the human dimensions of marine sustainability solutions, including fisheries conservation technologies and marine renewable energy. Her work has led to regulatory changes for more sustainable fisheries, has advised international fisheries diplomacy, and has informed renewable energy policy. An award-winning choreographer, she also studies science dance as a means of science engagement and social change.

Kiki's Fulbright Scholar Award at the University of the Sunshine Coast will see her researching how science art can improve uptake of fisheries sustainability and safety practices.

"I plan to explore how art can create powerful messaging to help save fishers’ lives from accidents at sea, and help them to continue to provide sustainably-caught fish to meet the nutritional needs of Australia and the world.

PROFESSOR MARGARET E. JOHNSON

Fulbright Scholar Award

Funded by the University of Technology Sydney

Home: The University of Baltimore

Host: University of Technology Sydney

Field: Law

Margaret is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center on Applied Feminism at The University of Baltimore School of Law. She has published many articles regarding law and menstruation, including Menstrual Justice. She has advocated successfully for laws providing free access to menstrual products and better policies for menstruators. She is a “Menstruation to Menopause” expert for Our Bodies Ourselves Today. Margaret is a graduate of Wisconsin Law School, cum laude and Dartmouth College. Margaret's Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Technology Sydney will involve conducting comparative research of menstruation, law and policy between Australia and the United States.

PROFESSOR VALERIE K. JONES

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Host: Swinburne University of Technology

Field: Public Health and Emergent Technologies

Valerie is curious about what’s next. That curiosity fueled a career at media agencies from Chicago to San Francisco, the creation of her own digital media consultancy, and a move to academia. She is now a Fred and Gladys Seaton Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications, and Director of the Public Insight Lab.

For her Fulbright Future Scholarship, Valerie will be working with the Social Innovation Research Institute at Swinburne University of Technology, exploring how emergent technologies, specifically voice assistants, activate social connection and influence loneliness among ageing adults.

COVID-19 vividly demonstrated how devastating loneliness and social isolation can be, particularly among aging adults.

My research will explore how voicepowered AI assistants may help, by activating face-to-face and virtual social connections. "

PROFESSOR AKHIL KUMAR

Fulbright Scholar Award

Funded by Central Queensland University

Home: Pennsylvania State University

Host: Central Queensland University

Field: Information Systems

PROFESSOR YAN LI

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Claremont Graduate University

Host: University of New South Wales

Field: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Akhil is a Professor of Information Systems at the Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include business process management, supply chain and business analytics, blockchain technology and health information technology. Kumar has received funding from the National Science Foundation and many corporations. He is an Associate Editor for the Association for Computing Machinery Transactions on Management Information Systems. His book, Business Process Management, was published by Routledge in 2018.

Akhil's Fulbright Scholarship at Central Queensland University will be spent working on an anti-money laundering project.

Driven by an intellectual curiosity for data and emergent information technologies, and a passion for designing and building things, Yan has oriented her career in a direction that integrates research, teaching and practice in the realm of information science. She aspires to conduct impactful scholarship to advance scientific knowledge and make the world a better place.

Yan's expertise in machine learning and AI, digital inclusion, mobile health and design science research will see her lead a Fulbright project that aims to ensure the digital inclusion of an AI-enabled digital cognitive assessment tool for the early detection of dementia.

My Fulbright research aims to improve money laundering detection using graph databases and machine learning techniques that will allow fast path analyses across chains of transactions among related fraudulent accounts."

PROFESSOR MARANDA MCBRIDE

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

Host: University of New South Wales

Field: Human Machine Systems Engineering

PROFESSOR GRETCHEN E. MINTON

Fulbright Scholar Award

Funded through Fulbright Australia General Funds

Home: Montana State University

Host: James Cook University

Field: Theatre

Maranda is a Professor of Supply Chain Management and Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Mobility at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, North Carolina. Her research focuses on investigating people’s trust in and willingness to utilise shared autonomous shuttles/buses to increase the likelihood of implementation and help decrease traffic fatalities.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Maranda will study factors that impact acceptance and adoption of shared autonomous vehicles particularly by vulnerable road users. Findings will be relevant to road users in the U.S. and Australia where traffic fatalities are one of the leading causes of non-natural/accidental death.

Gretchen is Professor of English at Montana State University. She has published extensively on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including several critical editions. She is the co-founder of Montana InSite Theatre, which is dedicated to sitespecific performances that use classical texts to address environmental issues. Gretchen also serves as dramaturg and script adaptor for Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, which participated in the 2021-22 international project called Cymbeline in the Anthropocene.

Gretchen will travel to James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland for her Fulbright project entitled Applied Theatre for Shakespeare and the Environment. She is writing and workshopping an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night that speaks to local environmental concerns in North Queensland.

"My collaboration with UNSW will increase our understanding of the roles trust and dispositional factors play in influencing acceptance and adoption decisions pertaining to shared autonomous shuttles, especially for vulnerable road users, in order to develop interventions that can increase the likelihood of widespread adoption of these technologies.

SUSAN A. NOLAN Fulbright Scholar Award

Funded through Fulbright Australia General Funds

Home: Seton Hall University

Host: University of New South Wales

Field: Psychology

DR. LATHA PALANIAPPAN

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Stanford University

Host: CSIRO

Field: Internal Medicine, Pharmacogenetics, Precision Health

Susan is a Professor of Psychology at Seton Hall University, New Jersey. She is a past President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology and a former representative from the American Psychological Association to the United Nations, both experiences that contributed to her strong interest in fostering international dialogue about higher education in psychology.

As a Fulbright Scholar in Australia, Susan will research perceptions of psychology higher education and assessment, as well as develop an international collaboration on core outcomes for undergraduate psychology. Susan previously conducted related research as a Fulbright Scholar in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Latha is an internist and clinical researcher focused on the study of diverse populations, chronic disease and prevention. She piloted the first pharmacogenomics clinic at Stanford University and serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Personalized Medicine.

The Fulbright Scholarship builds upon Latha's previous accomplishments by supporting her interest in the implementation of pharmacogenomics in health systems around the world. In Australia, she will partner with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to explore pharmacogenomic testing in a universal health care system. This effort is crucial to strengthening global health.

It is vital to incorporate precision health into our everyday clinical interactions in order to improve health outcomes for all populations."

PROFESSOR TRAVIS RIDOUT

Fulbright Scholar Award

Funded through Fulbright Australia General Funds

Home: Washington State University

Host: Monash University

Field: Political Science

PROFESSOR CAROLYN ROSS

Fulbright Scholar Award

Funded by Deakin University

Home: Washington State University

Host: Deakin University

Field: Food Science

Travis is the Thomas S. Foley Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Policy, and Director of the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at Washington State University. He also serves as Co-Director of the Wesleyan Media Project, which tracks political advertising. His research on political campaigns, political advertising and campaign finance has appeared in dozens of journal articles, books and book chapters.

Travis' Fulbright project examines the rise of digital political advertising in Australia, using that lens to understand its consequences for citizens and democratic politics.

Carolyn is a Professor in the School of Food Science at Washington State University (WSU), Affiliate Professor in the WSU School of Medicine, and Director of the WSU Sensory Science Center. The overall objective of Carolyn's research is to understand the theoretical basis underpinning the sensory perception of foods and beverages, and to correlate these attributes with quantifiable characteristics. This research has resulted in numerous scientific research articles and scientific presentations.

Building upon her previous research, the focus of Carolyn's Fulbright project is to explore food texture sensitivities in children, with a focus on children with Down syndrome.

"My Fulbright Project aims to advance the field of feeding in children with food texture sensitivities, including children with Down syndrome. By working with research leaders in food texture perception at Deakin University, we will address feeding challenges early in life to improve the health and well-being of these children over their lifespans.

DR. RITA SHAH

Fulbright Scholar Award

Funded by The Australian National University

Home: Eastern Michigan University

Host: The Australian National University

Field: Criminology

PROFESSOR ELIZABETH A. STONE

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of Iowa

Host: CSIRO

Field: Atmospheric Chemistry

Rita is a cultural criminologist who combines textual analysis with qualitative and visual methods to understand the ways in which correctional systems are socially and legally constructed. Her work has been published in the British Journal of Criminology and Contemporary Justice Review and is supported by National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation grants. Her most recent book, The Meaning of Rehabilitation and its Impact on Parole: There and Back Again in California (2017), queries the concept of "rehabilitation" to determine how, on a legislative and policy level, the term is defined as a goal of correctional systems. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in communications, legal institutions, economics and government from American University and her Master of Arts degree in social ecology, and her PhD in criminology, law and society, from the University of California, Irvine.

Rita's Fulbright research aims to understand whether the implementation of human rights principles within a prison can lead to change, or if the ideals legitimise existing practices.

Elizabeth is an atmospheric chemist and Professor in the in the Department of Chemistry, and the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on understanding the sources, transformations and environmental impacts of particulate matter in the atmosphere through fieldbased and laboratory measurements.

Elizabeth's Fulbright project will examine the occurrence and size distributions of biological particulate matter in the atmosphere, and the role of pollen and pollen fragments in thunderstorm asthma epidemics that recur in Victoria, Australia.

My Fulbright research aims to understand whether the implementation of human rights principles within a prison can lead to change or if the ideals legitimise existing practices."

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NEAL P. SULLIVAN

Fulbright Scholar Award in Resources and Energy

Funded by Curtin University

Home: Colorado School of Mines

Host: Curtin University

Field: Green Hydrogen

XIXI WANG

Fulbright Scholar Award

Funded by the University of Canberra

Home: Old Dominion University

Host: University of Canberra

Field: Geoscience

Neal is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. His research is focused on production of green hydrogen. As Director of the Colorado Fuel Cell Center, Neal seeks to advance new electroceramic materials that harness renewable electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, enabling long-term energy storage. Green hydrogen is a key feedstock in green steel, green ammonia and other large-scale industrial products.

As the 2023 Fulbright Scholar in Resources and Energy, Neal will work with John Curtin Distinguished Professor Zongping Shao of Curtin University, a world expert in electroceramic materials.

Xixi is currently Professor and Graduate Program Director in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Old Dominion University, Virginia. He has extensive teaching and research experience in hydrology, hydraulics and water resources. His research interests include effects of climate change versus human activity on water resources, water-soilvegetation nexus and equilibrium, and hydrologic modeling and stormwater management. He has authored/co-authored numerous journal papers, conference presentations, reports, books and book chapters. He has been a registered Professional Engineer in North Dakota since 2003, and in Texas between 2007 and 2011, and has obtained various honors and awards.

Xixi's Fulbright research aims to validate existing algorithms and also develop new ones that are universally applicable for modelling dryland hydro-ecosystems.

"My Fulbright research seeks to enable green hydrogen production at the cost of today’s brown hydrogen.

I seek to learn of new materials being developed by the worldleading experts at Curtin University, and scale them up to meet the demands of large-scale manufacturing, including green steel, green ammonia and more.

PROFESSOR JACQUELINE ALDERSON

Fulbright Professional Alliance Scholarship

Funded by the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia

Home: The University of Western Australia (UWA)

Host: Stanford University

Field: Bioengineering, Technology Regulation and Governance

DR. GAYAN BENEDICT

Fulbright Professional Coral Sea Scholarship (Business/Industry)

Home: University of Technology Sydney Salesforce Australia & NZ

Host: Georgetown University

Field: Blockchain Governance and Regulation

Jacqueline is Co-Director of the UWA Minderoo Tech & Policy Lab and Professor of Biomechanics at The University of Western Australia. She has over 200 publications in the fields of biomechanical modelling, wearable technologies, applied machine learning, injury prevention, and pro-public technology development. Her 27 PhD graduates can be found in leading heath, academic and high-performance and professional sport institutions around the world.

For her Fulbright, Jacqueline will be embedded at Stanford University to extend her research stream on the development of ‘digital human twins’, with a specific focus on the urgent need for technology regulation and governance in this domain.

Gayan is an industry research fellow at the Faculty of Engineering and IT at UTS, and Chief Technology Officer for Salesforce Australia & NZ. Previously, Gayan was the Chief Information Officer for the Reserve Bank of Australia. Gayan is a member of Standard Australia’s and the International Organization for Standardization's Committees for Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Standards. His research focuses on the governance of blockchain systems.

Gayan’s Fulbright Scholarship will allow him to research solutions that address the regulatory and governance challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI)enabled decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs). His research will contribute to Australian and U.S. efforts to adapt regulatory and broader governance regimes to accommodate emerging AIenabled blockchain innovations.

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At Stanford, I'll be working to develop and interrogate critical governance and legalethical frameworks that are necessary to appropriately and safely explore aspirational visions for ‘digital human twins’."

SAM PATRICK CROSBY

Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Non-Profit Leadership

Supported by the Australian Scholarships Foundation

Home: St Vincent de Paul Society

Host: Center for American Progress

The Justice Center

Field: Recidivism

Sam is the Executive Director of the St Vincent de Paul Society where he oversees welfare distribution to tens of thousands of families and individuals each year, including during times of disaster recovery. Previously, Sam was the CEO of McKell Institute, a progressive Australian think tank; and has worked as an advisor to Australian Government ministers, a Treasurer and briefly for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. In 2016 he published The Trust Deficit (Melbourne University Press), a book about how to restore trust in Australian politics.

Sam will use his Fulbright Scholarship to examine recidivism reduction programs in prisons across the United States.

DR. COURTNEY J. FUNG

Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Australian-American Alliance Studies

Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Home: Macquarie University

Host: Georgetown University

Field: International Relations

Courtney is Associate Professor in the Department of Security Studies & Criminology, Macquarie University; Associate Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; and Associate Fellow at the Lowy Institute. Her research focuses on emerging powers and global security governance. Currently, Courtney studies why emerging powers contribute to peacekeeping and how these states shape the norms and rules governing cyberspace. She is committed to policyfacing scholarship in international relations.

Courtney’s Fulbright research examines how Australia and the United States can best cooperate, as emerging powers reshape the United Nations agenda. Her work contributes to strengthening the Australia-U.S. Alliance, which is underpinned by a commitment to a robust United Nations.

“Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange.

- Sen. J. William Fulbright ProspectsfortheWest

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Children’s Cancer Institute

University of New South Wales

Host: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Field: Cancer Research and Imaging

Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship

Funded through Fulbright Australia General Funds

Home: The University of Newcastle

Host: Scripps Research Institute

Field: Structural Biology

Aria is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Imaging Scientist at Children’s Cancer Institute and Katharina Gaus Light Microscopy Facility at the University of New South Wales. Aria uses fluorescence imaging to study the complex environment surrounding aggressive solid childhood tumours such as brain cancer.

As a Fulbright Future Scholar, Aria will collaborate with research clinician Professor Jan Grimm and his team at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where she will employ an imaging technique called "Cerenkov luminescence" to visualise the uptake of cancer drugs into solid tumours. Her aim is to use this information to design more effective, less toxic treatments that improve the outcomes for children with these deadly diseases.

Jennifer is a medicinal chemist, with her research focusing on the computational design of new molecules that target particular proteins in the body that are associated with different cancers. In 2020 she gained her PhD in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Newcastle.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Jennifer will travel to the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California to work with Prof Gabriel Lander, aiming to solve the structure of a protein that is crucial to many different roles within the body and is associated with breast, renal and pancreatic cancer, among others.

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DR. ARIA AHMED-COX

DR. JENNIFER BAKER

My Fulbright research aims to extend the applications of Cerenkov luminescence imaging to study drug delivery for aggressive, solid tumours like those in the brain.

This technology has untapped potential for research and clinical use and can enhance the translation of targeted therapies for cancers in adults and children."

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

Host: Harvard Medical School

Field: Medicine

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The University of Sydney

Host: Massachusetts General Hospital

Field: Physics

Nicole is a clinician-scientist. She is Clinical Faculty at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute where she leads the Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy Laboratory. She is also a heart failure and transplant cardiologist looking after some of the sickest patients in Australia.

For her Fulbright Scholarship, Nicole will be travelling to Harvard Medical School to further her skills in cardiac genetics.

Thomas is an experimental quantum physicist with a keen interest in building prototype devices, and in the intersection of quantum physics with medical imaging. He received his Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science (Hons I) and PhD from the University of Sydney, where he currently works as a quantum systems engineer. His recent research has focused on developing a quantum magnetometer based on fluorescent defects in diamond.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Thomas will collaborate with researchers at the Martinos Center in Boston to explore how the application of novel quantum sensors in medical imaging can enable new imaging modalities for improved disease diagnosis and treatment.

DR. THOMAS BOELE

DR. NICOLE BART

"The combination of MEG and MRI can provide electrophysiological and haemodynamic information simultaneously, opening unprecedented possibilities for studying healthy and diseased brains noninvasively with high temporal and spatial resolution.

DR. ALEXANDER BRYSON

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health

Host: Columbia University

Field: Neuroscience

DR. ROCCO CAVALERI

Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship

Funded by Monash University

Home: Western Sydney University

Host: University of Southern California

Field: Neurophysiology

Alex is a neurologist specialising in epilepsy, and a Research Fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. His research focus is on understanding the mechanisms of neurological disorders for the purpose of developing more effective therapies.

Alex will use his Fulbright Scholarship to gain expertise in optogenetic techniques within the laboratory of Professor Rafael Yuste at Columbia University, New York. His project will use two-photon holographic optogenetics to characterise and manipulate epileptic brain networks. It is hoped that insights gained from this approach will lead to novel treatment strategies.

Rocco leads the Brain Stimulation and Rehabilitation (BrainStAR) Lab at Western Sydney University. His research is dedicated towards understanding the mechanisms underpinning musculoskeletal and neurological disorders. Rocco uses non-invasive brain stimulation techniques to explore the ways in which the nervous system responds to processes such as pain.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Rocco will work with researchers at the University of Southern California in establishing new methods to predict whether individuals will develop chronic pain following an acute injury. He will also be investigating emerging techniques to prevent the onset of chronic pain.

My Fulbright research will apply cutting edge techniques in optogenetics to understand the causes of epilepsy: a common neurological disorder that is incompletely understood and suboptimally treated."

DR. MITCHELL GIBBS

Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship

Funded by Monash University

Home: The University of Sydney

Host: Western Washington University

Field: Ecology

Mitchell is a proud Dunghutti man through kinship, and Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Sydney in the Schools of Geosciences and History, and Philosophy of Science. From Indigenous traditional owners and knowledge holders, he learns about our environments and ways to manage those environments using shellfishassociated practices handed down through oral and lived histories.

Mitchell's Fulbright project is a collaboration between Australian First Nations and Coast Salish people to share their respective knowledge of shellfish. The aim is to improve understanding of the mechanisms and protocols that have been set in place to initiate and continue cultural revitalisation in association with community-driven habitat restoration.

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of New South Wales

Host: Tufts University

Field: Cardiovascular Medicine

Dr. Sara Hungerford is a former professional athlete and now early career cardiologist who specialises in structural heart disease and cardiac imaging. Her postdoctoral research seeks to improve our understanding of cardiac hemodynamics in patients with heart failure who are undergoing interventions.

Sara's research at Tufts seeks to improve understanding of and predict outcomes in sick patients with valvular heart disease who were previously deemed inoperable. It is her mission that more Australians with valvular heart disease can live free of symptoms of heart failure.

DR. SARA HUNGERFORD

"My research aims to Learn methods and protocols from restoration projects being initiated and already established which incorporate cultural revitalisation from the Coast Salish people, and Share First Nations knowledge between Australia and America.

DR. PRASANTI KOTAGIRI Fulbright

Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of Melbourne

Host: Stanford University

Field: Medicine

Santi is a Nephrologist and early career researcher with a strong interest in B cell immunology. On completion of her renal specialist training, she undertook a PhD at Cambridge University in Professor Smith’s laboratory. Her work involved studying the immune cell transcriptome and B cell receptor repertoire in autoimmunity, infection and vaccination. She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne.

As a Fulbright Future Scholar, in collaboration with Professor Eoin McKinney from Cambridge and Professor Boyd from Stanford, Santi seeks to understand the changes occurring in the immune system with age rendering it less equipped to contain infection, less responsive to vaccination but also more likely to attack the body itself.

The exchange program is not a panacea, but an avenue of hope.

- Sen. J. William Fulbright ThePriceofEmpire

My Fulbright research aims to understand the changes occurring in our immune system

as we age, rendering it less equipped to contain infection, less responsive to vaccination but also more likely to attack the body."

DR. KALYN MCDONOUGH Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Virginia Commonwealth University

Host: The University of Melbourne

Field: Sport for Development

DR. JACOB SHAPIRO Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of Dayton

Host: The University of Melbourne

Field: Mathematics

Kalyn McDonough earned her doctorate from the Joseph R. Biden Jr. School of Public Policy & Administration, is a UNESCO Core International Faculty at Pennsylvania State University, and is a Visiting Scholar at The University of Melbourne. Her research interests focus on sport for development, sport as a social determinant of health, and the role of social policy and practice in achieving health equity among justice-affiliated youth. In collaboration with colleagues at The University of Melbourne, Kalyn's Fulbright research project focuses on understanding opportunities and overcoming barriers to sport access among youth who are incarcerated in Australia.

Monitoring and interpretation of waves as they travel through their environment is essential to a range of fields. For example, seismic waves from earth tremors can be used to image the interior of the Earth, while hospital imaging devices such as Magnetic Image Resonance (MRI) machines use waves in magnetic fields as a basis for medical diagnosis.

During his Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Melbourne, Jacob will work with Dr. Jesse GellRedman to develop new differential equation models of waves in complex environments. These models will help to improve performance of remote sensing technology.

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"My research focuses on using differential equations to model wave propagation in complex environments.

Such models form the basis of medical imaging such as MRI and geological remote sensing. My work will help to improve these critical health and safety technologies.

BRITTANY M. ST. JOHN Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Host: La Trobe University

Field: Occupational Therapy

DR. LYNEA WITCZAK OLDFATHER Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of California, Davis

Host: Flinders University

Field: Behavioral Neuroendocrinology

DR. TRAVIS YOUNG Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Pennsylvania State University

Host: University of Tasmania

Field: Geography

Brittany is a researcher and pediatric occupational therapist with expertise in feeding challenges. She recently completed her PhD in Kinesiology: Occupational Science and dual Master of Occupational Therapy and Public Health degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As both a researcher and clinician, she is passionate about the health and well-being of families with autistic children, and the efficient translation of research into evidence-based changes in clinical practice.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Brittany will collaborate with leading autism researchers at the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre. The goal will be to adapt and deliver the Engaged Eaters Program, a caregiver-mediated intervention for autistic children, for use in Australia.

Lynea earned her PhD from the University of California, Davis where she studied the neurobiology of social bonds in a monogamous primate.

Lynea’s Fulbright project builds on her PhD research, focusing on one of the world’s few confirmed monogamous reptiles, the Australian sleepy lizard (Tiliqua rugosa). Lynea aims to determine whether neurobiological mechanisms promoting pair bonding may be generalised to other taxa - the evolutionary origins of pair bonding not currently being well understood. She will also teach students behavioral neuroendocrinology methods and engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to understand their experiences and support their further interest in the sciences.

Travis is an experienced researcher and community planner with a focus on issues of vulnerability, energy and environmental justice, and disaster recovery. He has been recognised as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Fellow. His work focuses on how recovery policies reproduce community vulnerabilities and socioeconomic disparities. During his Fulbright, Travis will work with researchers at the University of Tasmania to examine the role house and contents insurance plays in community recovery after a hazard event. This work will shed light on household- and community-level factors impacting disaster recovery and place change in Australia and the U.S.

ERIC ALVES

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The University of Western Australia

Host: Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Field: Immunology, Genetics and Bioinformatics

PRIYANKA BANERJEE

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The University of Melbourne

Host: To be confirmed

Field: Law

Eric is a BioZone PhD candidate at The University of Western Australia (UWA) developing stateof-the-art gene editing technologies for cancer immunotherapy, with a particular focus on breast cancer. Bridging the School of Human Sciences (UWA), Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, and the Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases (Murdoch University), Eric’s research uniquely links world-class research teams across Western Australia to tackle cancer in a transdisciplinary approach.

Eric’s Fulbright Future Scholarship will see him travel to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and undertake a project developing new genomic approaches to investigate how cancer cells are able to evade our immune defences. Eric’s time spent at VUMC will allow him to extend his technical laboratory skills and bioinformatics training alongside leading experts in the field, while enhancing existing partnerships and establishing new collaborations between Western Australia and VUMC.

Priyanka is a lawyer passionate about designing and enforcing frameworks for regulating data to ensure everyone benefits equitably from the exciting opportunities created by technological innovation. She holds a Juris Doctor and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in Economics. Priyanka has worked as a commercial litigation lawyer at Allens and as an Associate at the Federal Court of Australia. She has previously worked in public policy analysis at the Grattan Institute.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Priyanka will undertake a Master of Law degree, focusing on how law and policy can hold corporations and governments accountable for their collection and use of data.

BRANDON CURTIS COLELOUGH Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of New South Wales

Host: To be confirmed

Field: Computer Science

Brandon is a Signals Corps Officer in the Australian Army. He is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy, the Royal Military College of Duntroon; and of the University of New South Wales (First Class Honours). Brandon is committed to leading the exploration of ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI). He has researched the trustworthiness of AI for the human-machine teaming domain.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Brandon will pursue a PhD in Computer Science, specialising in symbolic-driven explainability to generate trust in the human-AI interaction space.

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THIBAULT DE VILLENOISY Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of New South Wales

Host: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Field: Materials Science

ANTHONY

COXETER

Fulbright Western Australia Scholarship

Funded by the State Government of Western Australia

Home: Leiden University

Host: To be confirmed

Field: International History

Thibault is a PhD candidate researching the different applications of Metal-Organic Framework (MOF)derived materials at the University of New South Wales. In 2017, he received the New Colombo Plan Scholarship to research at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. There, he worked on colour changing windows and nanofibers for uranium extraction from seawater. He has since worked on applying MOF-derived materials towards numerous new applications including renewable hydrogen generation and improving battery capacities.

Thibault will use his Fulbright Scholarship to develop MOF-derived materials tailored specifically for microbial fuel cells. The novel application seeks to transform waste management from an expense to a future energy source.

Anthony’s research, born of a decade of research at the University of Sydney and more recently Leiden University, focuses on the tangible and intangible heritage of the history of the Right to Self-Determination, combining scholarship in literary studies, anthropology, philosophy, and intellectual histories of international law. He is concurrently the working authorised biographer of Dr. José RamosHorta, the incumbent President of East Timor (20222027) and co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize. As the Fulbright Western Australia Scholar, Anthony will be engaged alongside renowned historians and legal scholars in investigating new ‘invisible histories’ of de facto diplomacy at the United Nations Headquarters and the U.S. Congress during the 20th century creation of the 'corpus juris' of decolonisation, with key implications for 21st century perspectives on international justice, trusteeship and diversity in the right to self-determination.

"My Fulbright research aims to develop microbial fuel cell technology which draws electrical energy directly from decomposition of organics.

By applying my research on Metal-Organic Framework-derived materials to the microbial fuel cells technology developed at UCLA, the next generation of energy harvesters from organic waste can be achieved."

DR. OLIVER CRONIN Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Westmead Hospital

Host: NYU Langone Health

Field: Interventional Therapeutic Endoscopy Gastroenterology

MADI DAY

Fulbright Sir John Carrick New South Wales Scholarship

Funded by the State Government of New South Wales

Home: Macquarie University

Host: Southern Connecticut State University

Field: Gender Studies and Indigenous Studies

Oliver graduated from James Cook University in 2012 with a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (Honours). He completed Basic Physician Training at St Vincent’s Hospital before entering the Gastroenterology Advanced Training programme in 2018. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2021. Oliver is currently completing additional subspecialty training in Therapeutic Interventional Endoscopy at Westmead Hospital under the mentorship of Professor Michael Bourke. Oliver has been awarded a postgraduate National Health and Medical Research Council scholarship to undertake a PhD on The Science of Cold Snare Polypectomy through the University of Sydney. He has published extensively, and his manuscripts have been featured in the world’s leading Gastroenterology journals. His other research interests relate to improving the safety, quality and efficacy of endoscopy as well as advanced resection techniques for the treatment of pre-malignant and early gastrointestinal cancers.

With the support of a Fulbright Future Scholarship, Oliver will to continue this research at NYU Langone Health, under the mentorship of Professor Greg Haber.

Madi is a career researcher who works across Indigenous studies, trans studies and gender studies. They are completing their PhD by publication in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. Their thesis title is Coloniality, gender and heterosexuality in so-called Australia. Madi is also a co-investigator on a national study funded by the Australian National Research Organisation for Women's Safety, Mapping Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led healing programs that respond to family violence, and the Meta-funded international study The impact of racist and violent content and threats towards Indigenous women and LGBTQI+ people on social media: a comparative analysis of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States alongside Professor Bronwyn Carlson. They are lead author on the forthcoming report Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQIASB+ people and mental health and wellbeing in collaboration with Black Rainbow for the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Madi's Fulbright research will offer a comparative study of coloniality, gender and heterosexuality across Australia and the United States of America as settler colonial nation states. It will also examine how anti-colonial approaches are integrated into gender studies departments in the United States, and whether this could be improved in gender studies in Australia.

"My Fulbright research aims to improve the efficacy and safety of polypectomy, to reduce rates of polyp recurrence and resultant morbidity and additional healthcare costs. "

VINURI DISSANAYAKE

Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship in Public Policy

Funded by the Department of Education

Home: University of New South Wales

Host: To be confirmed

Field: Public Policy

MELODY DOBRININ

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Queensland University of Technology

Host: The Rockefeller University

Field: Biotechnology

Vinuri graduated from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Commerce and is currently undertaking postgraduate studies in data analytics. She has spent her career exploring social policy issues from a range of perspectives, including as a lawyer, management consultant at McKinsey & Company, and intern at organisations such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the Grameen Foundation. Vinuri is currently working as a Policy Manager at The Smith Family, focusing on improving the educational outcomes of disadvantaged Australian children. Vinuri is interested in the intersection of data-driven decisionmaking and policy.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Vinuri will be studying a Master of Public Policy with a specific focus on exploring the impacts of algorithmic bias on areas such as education and welfare. Vinuri aims to help to design interventions that better protect the rights of minority groups in AI-driven social innovation.

Originally a trained linguist, Melody oversaw the linguistic development of Google Australia’s voice. Later, inspired by her own experiences, she began a project helping people with restrictive diets navigate restaurants and supermarkets. Today, Melody works to alleviate digestive disease directly through her PhD at the Centre for Microbiome Research. Here, she uncovers novel gut bacteria for use as probiotics to treat inflammatory bowel disease. Away from study, Melody makes entertaining science YouTube videos.

Through her Fulbright Future Scholarship, Melody will isolate new bacterium-derived molecules to treat inflammatory bowel disease at the Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Genetically Encoded Small Molecules, supervised by Professor Sean Brady.

" My Fulbright research aims to identify and isolate molecules produced by novel gut bacteria that could be used to treat inflammatory bowel disease."

SHANE FERNANDEZ

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Edith Cowan University

Host: Indiana University

Field: Statistical Genetics

ZOE GARDNER

Fulbright South Australia Scholarship

Funded by the State Government of South Australia

Home: Flinders University

Host: University of California Irvine

Field: Green Chemistry

Shane is a PhD candidate at the Edith Cowan University Centre for Precision Health, Perth. Holding an Honour’s Degree in Psychology from Curtin University and nearing completion of a Master of Biostatistics degree from the University of Sydney, Shane also has a long professional background in Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Shane will visit Professor Andrew Saykin’s world-leading team at Indiana University where he will learn cutting-edge approaches to modelling Alzheimer’s disease trajectories and apply these in the discovery of genetic and epigenetic factors contributing to the significant variability currently seen in the clinical course of Alzheimer’s disease.

Zoe is a PhD researcher at Flinders University who is passionate about how green chemistry techniques can be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

As a Fulbright Scholar she will work with her collaborators to research a process for enzymes to break down waste chemicals using a cuttingedge technology, the vortex fluidic device, as well as specific enzymes which have been enhanced and prepared for this purpose. In the future Zoe hopes that her research can contribute to closing the carbon loop in chemical processes and be part of a solution to one of the biggest challenges facing humanity today.

"My Fulbright research will develop a process to close the carbon loop by reusing waste carbon dioxide gas and carboxylic acids as chemical feedstocks.

Building on previous research, I will use the Vortex Fluidic Device in a multi-step system with specifically enhanced enzymes to recycle the waste carbon-based materials.

DANIEL SEQUOIA HACKETT

Fulbright Tasmania Scholarship

Funded by the University of Tasmania and the State Government of Tasmania

Home: University of Tasmania

Host: Pennsylvania State University

Field: Management of Wilderness and Wild Places

NOZHAT TABASSUM HASSAN

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The University of Adelaide

Host: University of California, Berkeley

Field: Evolutionary Genetics and Bioinformatics

Daniel is a twenty-year veteran of the Tasmanian tourism industry, and is known for his Tasmanian and Australian tourism award-winning protected area and wilderness operations. Daniel is currently undertaking a PhD in Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania, investigating theoretical and policy frameworks behind the mapping, designation and management of wild places and soundscapes as wilderness.

Daniel's Fulbright Scholarship will further his studies with host Pennsylvania State University, and will include new data collection and research relating to the experience of remoteness in wilderness areas featuring air access and overflights.

Nozhat is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Adelaide where she is currently pursuing her PhD. Nozhat’s research focuses on the evolution and distribution of mobile genetic elements (transposons) across Avian genomes with a particular focus on the underlying principles of adapting transposons into new-generation gene editing tools.

As a Fulbright Future Scholar, Nozhat will be spending some time at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Professor Kathleen Collins where she will be combining bioinformatics with biochemical techniques to investigate the evolutionary history and impact of transposons in both the genome and the cell.

I will investigate some factors that drive genome evolution by focusing on mobile genetic elements and how they can be adapted to advance biomedical technology.

At UC Berkeley, I hope to shed some light on the complex and compelling mysteries of genomic data."

ELLA SOPHIA HILDER

Fulbright Tasmania Scholarship

Funded by the University of Tasmania and the State Government of Tasmania

Home: University of Tasmania

Host: To be confirmed

Field: International and Technology Law

MARTYNA JUDD

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The Australian National University

Host: Northwestern University

Field: Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Ella is pursuing a career in international and technology law, with a particular focus on policy in the Asia-Pacific region. Ella graduated in 2021 with a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in International Relations) and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Tasmania; and was admitted to practice in the Victorian Supreme Court in 2022. Her passion for technology law was sparked while completing her First-Class Honours thesis which focused on the European Union's world-leading General Data Protection Regulation.

For her Fulbright Scholarship, Ella plans to undertake a Master's degree in Technology Law and Policy.

Martyna is completing a PhD in magnetic resonance spectroscopy at the Australian National University under the supervision of Associate Professor Nick Cox. She uses microwaves and magnets to study the microscopic machinery underpinning human health and disease. Her research focuses on using Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy (EPR), a technique similar to MRI, to develop new tools for visualising the sub-nanometre interactions of proteins with candidate drug molecules.

Through her Fulbright Future Scholarship, Martyna will be visiting the lab of Professor Songi Han at Northwestern University to learn and use the cutting-edge technology of Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP), a complementary technique to EPR, to further develop and optimise these novel drug-screening approaches. The design of such tools will harness the unique expertise in high-resolution and ultra-sensitive magnetic resonance technologies across Australia and the U.S., and has important applications in improving the scope and efficiency of early-stage pharmaceutical research.

"My Fulbright research aims to improve the scope and efficiency of early-stage drug development and contribute to global scientific efforts of combating antimicrobial resistance.

I will be developing novel magnetic resonance spectroscopy tools to enable visualising the structures of disease-implicated proteins and studying their interactions with potential drug molecules.

TYSON KLINGNER

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The University of Adelaide

Host: To be confirmed

Field: Mathematics

BENJAMIN LAU

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The University of Sydney

Host: Johns Hopkins University

Field: Medicine

Tyson is an inquisitive scholar obsessed with abstract patterns that permeate the natural world. He completed a Bachelor of Mathematical Sciences (Advanced) degree in 2020, majoring in pure mathematics, then a Master of Philosophy degree in Pure Mathematics at the University of Adelaide. He is researching Higgs bundles, which are rich geometric objects relevant to different areas of mathematics and physics.

As a Fulbright Future Scholar, Tyson will pursue a PhD in the United States, aiming to explore further algebro-geometric aspects of his current work.

Benjamin is a PhD candidate at the Australian Cancer Research Foundation Image X Institute and the University of Sydney. His doctoral research focuses on developing the next generation of 4D imaging systems for radiotherapy. The initial research stage will be targeted to lung cancer, the leading cause of cancer death and amongst the most difficult areas to treat. This technology aims to reduce radiation exposure and imaging time whilst improving patient outcomes.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Benjamin will join the Advanced Imaging Algorithms and Instrumentation Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. Benjamin will collaborate with leading biomedical researchers to bolster binational research by harmonising Australia’s strong track record in clinical research with U.S. expertise in artificial intelligence.

My Fulbright research aims to develop new insight into the algebrogeometric aspect of mirror symmetry, which is a concept conceived in physics and has since found applications to string theory and enumerative geometry.

In particular, I hope to verify some cases of the famous 'SYZ conjecture' from mathematical physics."

OWEN AUSTIN LENNON

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The Australian National University

Host: To be confirmed

Field: Materials Science

NEUTON LI

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The Australian National University

Host: California Institute of Technology

Field: Physics/Optics

Owen completed a Bachelor of Philosophy (Science) with Physics Honours at the Australian National University in 2020 in the Department of Fundamental and Theoretical Physics. He is interested in renewable energy, condensed matter physics and materials science, with the aim of researching next-generation semiconductors for solar cell applications. Owen has volunteered at the climate change think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions, and is passionate about climate action.

As a Fulbright scholar, Owen will begin a PhD in the United States on organic-inorganic halide perovskites for applications in photovoltaic cells.

Neuton is a PhD candidate in the Research School of Physics at the Australian National University (ANU). Upon graduating with a Master of Science (Physics) with Distinction from The University of Melbourne, he commenced his PhD at ANU under the supervision of Professor Andrey Sukhorukov and Professor Dragomir Neshev, who is currently the Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS). The mission of Neuton’s PhD research, as part of TMOS, is to develop and innovate miniaturised optical devices that will translate to technological advances in light generation and sensing.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Neuton will undertake research with renowned groups at the California Institute of Technology. There, he will enhance optical devices already developed at ANU, while exchanging knowledge of the field. He is passionate about bringing a positive impact in polishing this technology for industry back to Australia.

"Perovskite photovoltaic cells represent the next step forward in solar panel technology, promising to be lighter, cheaper and more efficient than current silicon based panels.

My Fulbright research aims to contribute towards developing stable and efficient perovskite cells, aiding in providing an essential tool in the fight against climate change.

TREVES LI

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of New South Wales

Host: University of California, Berkeley

Field: Geotechnical Engineering

CALUM MCCONVILLE

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The University of Melbourne

Host: To be confirmed

Field: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Treves is a geotechnical engineer who is excited about using artificial intelligence to solve complex ground engineering problems. His industrial experience in mining has spanned from Interior Alaska to Outback Queensland, where he has been responsible for upholding and raising the standard of safety in challenging underground environments. He received his Bachelor of Mining Engineering from UNSW, and graduated with the University Medal and the prize for Best Thesis for using microseismic data to forecast underground rockbursts. He intends to expand on this work by developing more robust prediction algorithms that could be applied across varied geomechanical contexts.

Through his Fulbright research at University of California, Berkeley, Treves aims to deepen his technical expertise and explore how advances in machine learning can be used to represent, understand and mitigate geotechnical hazards in mining and tunnelling - industries that underpin Australia’s economy and cities.

Calum is a biochemist and informatician with a focus on utilising multi-omics technologies to identify more precise targets for the diagnosis and treatment of human disease. He has conducted research at institutions such as Bio21, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and CSL Ltd., developing a keen interest in working at the interface of academia and industry to bring outcomes of fundamental research into a clinical setting.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Calum will undertake a PhD program in the United States, seeking to characterise human-microbiome interactions implicated in inflammatory bowel diseases. These insights will have important clinical applications, both as therapeutic targets and early diagnostic factors, ultimately improving treatment outcomes for patients in both Australia and the United States.

Harnessing technologies at the interface of data science and biomedicine, my research will seek to characterise novel metabolites and microbiome-patient interactions capable of driving inflammatory bowel diseases, thus leading to the identification of novel diagnostics tools and targets for precision medicines."

TANNER NOAKES

Fulbright Queensland Scholarship

Funded by the State Government of Queensland

Home: Griffith University

Host: To be confirmed

Field: Social Impact Investment

ALEXI POLDEN

Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship

Funded through Fulbright Australia General Funds

Home: The University of Sydney

Host: To be confirmed

Field: Law

Tanner is a finance professional advising impact investors on social impact and financial modelling. Having experience with not-for-profit funding from an early age, he is deeply passionate about addressing funding challenges for social impact. Tanner graduated from Griffith University in 2020 in Finance/Accounting and achieved 30+ awards.

Currently he is based in Singapore and South-East Asia where he has helped raise hundreds-of-millions of dollars for social impact organisations and initiatives.

Tanner's Fulbright program aims to build upon innovative approaches to fund social outcomes that otherwise would not have been funded. Specifically, to take impact tools learnt from leading philanthropic and international development universities in the U.S. and apply them to the Australian and Asian contexts.

Alexi is a Senior Solicitor at the NSW Crown Solicitor’s Office with experience in constitutional law, administrative law, and regulatory prosecutions. He is passionate about understanding and improving how public and criminal law reflect the balance between public power and individual rights. Alexi was previously Associate and Tipstaff to Justice Payne of the NSW Court of Appeal and holds a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from the University of Sydney.

For his Fulbright Scholarship, Alexi will study a Master of Laws degree with a focus on how American law prevents government officials from resiling from their statements, and explore what this means for faith in government.

BRYCE ROBINSON

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The Australian National University

Host: Georgetown University

Field: Law

Bryce is a solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills, specialising in intellectual property litigation, and has a particular interest in health and pharmaceuticals. He graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Laws (Hons), a Bachelor of Science and a Diploma of Languages (French). Bryce has previously held positions in legal research, science education, and government research policy.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Bryce will undertake a Master of Laws degree to study key intersections between law and public health. He intends to investigate legal barriers to the accessibility and affordability of essential medicines, in areas including patent law and international trade law.

BRANDON SMART

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The University of Adelaide

Host: To be confirmed

Field: Machine Learning

EMILY

SPILLER

Fulbright Victoria Scholarship

Funded by the State Government of Victoria

Home: RMIT University

Host: Georgetown University

Field: Diplomatic History, Nuclear Weapons, U.S Foreign Policy

Brandon is a data science and machine learning student eager to develop computational tools that can allow machines to have comprehensive understanding of 3D environments. He has previously focused on robust 2D computer vision research at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning and the University of Adelaide, where he was awarded a University Medal for his studies.

As a Fulbright Future Scholar, Brandon hopes to undertake a PhD where he will combine and simplify methods that learn to model the geometry, objects, materials and semantic information present in a scene, providing interpretable information for researchers, roboticists and 3D artists.

Emily is pursuing her PhD in History at RMIT University. Her research examines transitions in American nuclear policy and strategic thought with an exclusive focus on the President as the ultimate authority on decisions regarding nuclear weapons. Previously, she has completed research on the ratification of arms control agreements during the Obama Administration and spent time as a Research Associate at the Federation of American Scientists, Washington D.C. Emily holds a Bachelor of International Relations, a Bachelor of Journalism and a Master of Public Policy and Management.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Emily will conduct her field research at American Presidential Libraries and Archives, as well as undertake a series of interviews with key policymakers, analysts, academics and nuclear specialists.

In the U.S. I will develop tools that allow computers to have robust, comprehensive understanding of 3D scenes. I hope to combine and simplify methods that learn to model the geometry, objects, materials and semantic information present in a scene, providing interpretable information for researchers, roboticists and 3D artists."

DAVID SWEENEY Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The University of Sydney

Host: University of California, Irvine

Field: Astronomy

SARA TANOVIC Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The Australian National University

Host: To be confirmed

Field: Chemical Machine Learning

David completed a Bachelor of Science (Advanced) degree with First Class Honours in Physics at the University of Sydney. Currently completing his PhD, also in Physics, his research focuses on applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to problems in Astronomy, particularly in the area of gravitational lensing. David is a passionate teacher, both designing and tutoring many units across data science, computer science and physics.

David is taking his interests with him as a Fulbright Scholar to the University of California Irvine where he will be identifying lensed quasars and, hopefully, uncovering some secrets of the cosmos.

Sara graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Philosophy (Science) and the University Medal, conducting her Honours research in the applications of machine learning to chemistry. She previously completed a variety of research projects spanning physical and computational sciences. She has been an active leader in chemical education, having worked as Head Mentor for the Australian Chemistry Olympiad, and as a laboratory demonstrator and video producer for the Research School of Chemistry.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Sara will pursue a PhD in the United States in the field of chemical machine learning, using data-driven techniques to uncover the hidden rules of nature and accelerate chemical discovery. Her project will be primarily focused on the application of this technology to drug discovery and design.

"Quasars are the radiant hearts of galaxies. When we look at their light sometimes we find that it has been bent by the gravity of an intervening object.

By identifying and studying lensed quasars we can infer fundamental truths of our universe.

This is what my Fulbright research aims to do.

HILARY THURLOW

Fulbright Victoria Scholarship

Funded by the State Government of Victoria

Home: Monash University

Host: The University of Chicago

Field: Art History

VANESSA TURNBULL-ROBERTS

Fulbright Indigenous Scholarship

Funded by the National Indigenous Australians Agency

Home: University of Technology Sydney

Host: University of Pennsylvania

Field: Human Rights Law

Hilary is a PhD candidate in Art History and Theory at Monash University, Naarm/Melbourne. Her research centres on the life and work of the internationally renowned Cuban artist Tania Bruguera. In 2018, Hilary completed her Bachelor of Arts (Art History) degree at the University of Queensland, Meanjin/Brisbane with First Class Honours. In addition to her research, Hilary is actively involved in Melbourne’s art community. She sits on the Editorial Advisory Committee for the arts publication un Magazine; is a board member for the city’s foremost site for art criticism, MeMO Review; and is an Editor of Index Journal, a peer-reviewed journal published in partnership with The University of Melbourne. Hilary is a regular contributor to ArtAsiaPacific magazine, reviewing exhibitions across Australia and internationally.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Hilary will spend six months undertaking research in the Department of Art History at The University of Chicago - a key institution and city for understanding Bruguera’s oeuvre at large - under the guidance of Professor Matthew Jesse Jackson.

Vanessa is a proud Bundjalung Widubul-Wiabul woman who is passionate about human rights and law. She is a survivor of statutory Out of Home Care and continues to drive national discourse in this area. Vanessa's passion stems from understanding the way the law has disproportionally impacted her community and herself. Vanessa is an advocate for Human Rights, and a storyteller and writer; and has completed a Bachelor of Law degree and a Bachelor of Social Work degree at the University of New South Wales, graduating with First Class Honours. Vanessa won the Australian Human Rights medal in 2019, with her acceptance speech receiving global recognition. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Technology Sydney where her research is centred around decolonising the child protection regime in the lives of First Nations people, and ensuring the rights of children and families are protected and supported. Vanessa is currently writing her first book entitled Long Yarn Short: We Are Still Here, for the children that didn’t get to come home, those yet to come home and the ones who saw neither. Vanessa comes from a long line of activists, and continues this work with all she does.

Vanessa's Fulbright research aims to develop new, revolutionary ways of changing the child protection system we have here in Australia

My journey to Pennsylvania Carey Law will connect me with international scholars who are leading abolition, human rights and decolonising approaches to Out Of Home Care statutory bodies and developing greater knowledge throughout this field.

This work is fundamental to connecting our international and national knowledge systems in order to address the alarming rate of forcible child removal that disproportionally impacts First Nations people."

BENJAMIN TURNER

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: The University of Western Australia (UWA)

Host: University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Field: Offshore Engineering and Numerical Modelling

TIFFANY VERGA

Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship

Funded through Fulbright Australia General Funds

Home: Curtin University

Host: To be confirmed

Field: Environmental Policy

Ben is an engineer with experience delivering sustainable infrastructure throughout Australia and is currently pursuing a PhD with the UWA Oceans Graduate School. His research uses a range of field data, laboratory testing and numerical modelling, and has spanned across various fluid-structure interaction problems from subsea pipeline design to open water swimming performance.

Ben’s current research will form a timely connection between Australia and the U.S., with the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management recently awarding the Carolina Long Bay with an offshore wind energy lease, set to become the first offshore wind development constructed in a region with calcareous sediment. The prevalence of calcareous sediments throughout Australia also means that offshore wind development planned in Victoria and Tasmania will likely be installed into these soils too.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Ben will collaborate with the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth on experimental investigations of offshore calcareous sediments collected from the Northwest shelf of Australia and North Carolina. These tests, in conjunction with imaging analyses, will be used to calibrate Ben’s model of calcareous sediment, which aims to reduce design uncertainty and improve reliability of offshore foundation design.

Tiffany graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing from Curtin University in 2021. Currently she is a Communications Associate at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva and previously interned at the United Nations as a Podcast and Multimedia Producer. In 2020, she was selected as a New Colombo Plan Scholar, and a Global Voices United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Scholar, where she was first introduced to environmental policy.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Tiffany plans to commence a Master of Public Administration in Energy and Environment to help her shape the Australian climate dialogue to support effective environmental policy and increase climate literacy.

"My Fulbright program aims to ensure Australians are included in their climate future. My MPA will equip me with the skills I need to translate environmental science and policy into accessible communications to allow the public and leaders to think about interdisciplinary solutions to environmental challenges.

CHRISTINA WHITE

Fulbright Northern Territory Scholarship

Funded by Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory Government and Blackboard Pty. Ltd.

Home: The University of Sydney

Host: To be confirmed

Field: Law

Christina is a criminal defence lawyer at the Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons)/Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Sydney. She has also worked as a Tipstaff at the Supreme Court of New South Wales and as a Senior Solicitor at the Crown Solicitor’s Office in New South Wales.

With her Fulbright Scholarship, Christina will pursue a Master of Laws (LLM) specialising in criminal justice. She will examine the criminalisation of mental health issues and solutions to mass incarceration. Her research will focus on the nexus between mental illness and intoxication in criminal law.

DR. NICOLE WONG

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Monash Children's Health

Host: To be confirmed

Field: Public Health

JAMIN WU

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Monash University

Host: To be confirmed

Field: Biomedical Informatics

Nicole is a consultant paediatrician who also holds a Master of Bioethics and a Diploma in Philosophy. Alongside her clinical work with families, Nicole has conducted research into vaccine delivery and healthcare access equality. She has a passion for addressing issues in healthcare delivery that promote poor health and developmental outcomes in children subject to socioeconomic disadvantage.

Nicole will use her Fulbright Scholarship to undertake a Master of of Public Health degree to gain a deeper understanding of different models of healthcare delivery. She intends to leverage her academic and clinical background to conduct research that will ultimately drive policy change.

Jamin is a junior doctor in Melbourne interested in researching novel computational techniques for analysing biomedical data. He graduated from Monash University with a Doctor of Medicine (MD) and subsequently worked at the Royal Melbourne Hospital as a medical resident. During his medical training, Jamin developed an interest in programming and undertook a broad range of projects to gain experience in data analysis, image processing and machine learning.

Through the Fulbright Scholarship, Jamin hopes to explore the ways in which modern computational research can be applied to multi-omics data to refine our taxonomy of disease and develop new avenues for precision medicine.

RADHIA ABDIRAHMAN

Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship in Public Policy

Funded by the Department of Education

Home: The University of Kansas

Host: The University of Melbourne

Field: Public Health

NINA ALEXANDRA CAMPANO

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Vanderbilt University

University of Colorado at Boulder

Host: Queensland University of Technology

Field: Environmental Engineering

Radhia graduated from the University of Kansas with dual degrees in Human Biology and Global and International Studies with a minor in African and African Diasporic Languages. Service has been an integral part of her undergraduate experience and has considerably influenced her future career goals. Throughout her undergraduate career, Radhia has served as the Executive Director of the Center for Community Outreach, in various campus-wide leadership positions, and most recently as an intern with the White House Gender Policy Council.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Radhia is looking forward to connecting her education and research experiences to the ways that public health and policy intersect to serve the global community.

Nina has an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. She has five years of experience in optical systems, including roles as the Chief Engineer for a satellite camera and an Engineering Program Manager for next generation iPhone cameras. She also volunteers for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund as an Advisory Council Member, speaker and mentor.

Nina's Fulbright research will focus on a low-cost indoor air quality sensor system. She will study under Professor Lidia Morawska, recognised by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2021.

U.S. Postgraduate Scholarships

“We must dare to think about unthinkable things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.”

- Sen. J. William Fulbright March 27, 1964

2LT WILLIAM GEORGE FRANGIA

Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship in Public Policy

Funded by the Department of Education

Home: The U.S. Military Academy at West Point

Host: The Australian National University

Field: Strategic Studies

VIRGINIA GILLILAND

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Davidson College

Host: Macquarie University

Field: Marine Science

William a Bachelor of Science (Engineering Psychology) with Honours, and a minor in Terrorism Studies, from the United States Military Academy at West Point. From 2018 to 2020, he paused his studies to serve as a missionary in Singapore and Malaysia. This experience sparked his interest in security policy in Southeast Asia, an interest he cultivated through internships at the Combating Terrorism Center, the U.S. Army War College, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Through his Fulbright Scholarship, William will complete a Master of Strategic Studies (Advanced) at the Australian National University, exploring the impact of communal factors on radicalisation.

Virginia is a recent graduate of Davidson College, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology. As a Hollings Scholar with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), she researched artificial reefs, which contributed to her senior thesis and informed state management decisions. She is passionate about outreach and engaging members in issues relevant to their community.

During her Fulbright Scholarship, Virginia will work with Dr. Jane Williamson at Macquarie University in Sydney. She will use cutting edge technologies, including aerial drones and remote underwater vehicles, to understand the effects of reef degradation on fish in the Great Barrier Reef.

My Master of Strategic Studies at The Australian National University will enable me to foster

US-Australian security policy and operations in the Pacific with specific focus on strengthening developing communities to discourage radicalisation."

ELIZABETH GRIST

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Washington and Lee University

Host: Monash University

Field: Addiction Research

LILLIE

MARIE HADDOCK

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of Arkansas

Host: The University of Melbourne

Field: Environmental Sciences

Elizabeth received her double degree in chemistry and classics, minoring in poverty and human capability studies, from Washington and Lee University. Her research focuses on opioid use disorder (OUD). Elizabeth's initial interest in addiction and the opioid crisis stemmed from her poverty studies minor, having had the opportunity to conduct research with Dr. Caitlin Martin, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Richmond, Virginia, who runs a clinic that predominantly sees pregnant and parenting women with OUD.

Elizabeth will study the stigma and barriers associated with receiving medication for OUD under Dr. Suzanne Nielsen, a leading addiction researcher in Australia.

Lillie earned her Bachelor and Master of Science in Biological Engineering from the University of Arkansas College of Engineering. Lillie’s work and research have centred around water quality, environmental science, and water resources engineering. With experience at Argonne National Laboratory, the Joint Global Change Research Institute, and the Arkansas Water Resources Center, Lillie is dedicated to promoting collaboration between industry, academia and government through interdisciplinary research.

For her Fulbright project, Lillie will work with the Managing Climate Variability and Change Lab group at The University of Melbourne to conduct a comparative policy and hydrological modeling analysis of water market management and accessibility between Australia and the United States. Through her research, Lillie aims to improve our understanding of the relationships between water policy and large river basin management as these basins continue to experience reduced water availability due to climate change challenges.

"My Fulbright research aims to improve knowledge of how water markets enable or hinder the outcomes of different sectors and water users that are impacted by reduced water availability under climate and anthropogenic changes

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CARTER HISSAM

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of Massachusetts Amherst

Host: The University of Melbourne

Field: Genomics

CADE N. KANE

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Purdue University

Host: University of Tasmania

Field: Botany

Carter completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2022. During his time at UMass, Carter developed an interest in molecular genetics and genomics, specifically in their potential to treat and cure many human diseases.

The Fulbright Future Scholarship will enable Carter to pursue a Master's degree in Genomics, as well as to study the public and private initiatives which are embedding genomics into routine clinical practice in the Australian health care system. Carter hopes to return to the United States as a genomic specialist, being able to advance the ethical applications of genomics.

Cade was born and raised in West Lafayette Indiana, where he completed his undergraduate degree in botany from Purdue University in 2018, after which he began his PhD in plant physiology.

For his Fulbright Future Scholarship, Cade's main research focus is on the drivers of leaf senescence and what causes leaves to die each year in deciduous environments. A major question is: 'Will deciduous forests be able to capture more carbon annually as climate change extends spring and autumn growing seasons?' To test this, Cade will travel to Tasmania using the rich ecosystems there as proxies for what his home forests in Indiana may experience in the distant future under climate change.

My research aims to uncover the effect of climate change on leaf lifespan and how much carbon global forests will absorb in the future as out atmosphere warms and winters become milder.

To do this I am using a global network of genetically identical trees planted in major cities across the world."

JESSICA SUZANNE LIVNEY

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Georgetown University

Host: The University of Sydney

Field: Psychology

JO PALAZUELOS-KRUKOWSKI

Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship

Funded through Fulbright Australia General Funds

Home: University of California, Santa Barbara

Host: Arts Centre Melbourne

Field: Drama, Theatre Arts

Jessica earned her Bachelor of Science in Global Health at Georgetown University in 2022. During her time there, she worked at a research laboratory focusing on eating and weight behaviours that addressed the risks and consequences of disordered eating and obesity.

For her Fulbright Scholarship, Jessica will be working with Dr. Sarah Maguire and Professor Nick Martin on the Australian branch of the Eating Disorder Genetic Initiative project to analyse the genetic predispositions that contribute to a person’s risk of developing anorexia nervosa. With this research, she hopes to contribute to the body of science aimed at improving the treatment and prevention of eating disorders.

Jo is a Chancellor’s Fellow and PhD candidate in theatre at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she teaches acting and playwriting. She has served as producer for the storytelling nonprofit the Moth, assistant director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and consultant for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Jo’s Fulbright project grew out of her doctoral work, which aims to promote greater international appreciation for the incredible history of mid-century Australian horror radio. Her research explores how we perform ghost stories to better understand ourselves and each other.

"I have the great fortune of collaborating with the Arts Centre

Melbourne, the National Film and Sound Archive, the State Library of Victoria, and The University of Melbourne to commemorate Australia’s hundredth anniversary of radio broadcasting.

JOHN ROBERTSON SCHAEFER

Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship

Funded by Western Sydney University

Home: Harvard University

Host: Western Sydney University

Field: Environmental Education

CAMILLE KILAYKO SICANGCO

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: University of Florida

Host: Western Sydney University

Field: Ecology

Hailing from Michigan, John received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in History and Science, focusing on the history of botany. His current research at the University of Cambridge examines the use of machine learning models in communitybased citizen science and humanities projects. As a Fulbright Scholar, John will work with Professor Tonia Gray to develop a series of interactive lesson plans and online resources exploring Australian floral biodiversity. He hopes this work will support both students and teachers in rural areas through an integrative environmental-evolutionary approach to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) topics topics, emphasising the importance of outdoor experiential education.

Camille is an ecologist interested in linking plant form and function to climate change responses. A graduate of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida, with double majors in mathematics and botany, Camille has conducted novel research on mechanical interactions between savanna plants and carbon dynamics following drought and fire.

For her Fulbright research, Camille is hosted at Western Sydney University’s Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment. There she will combine mathematical modelling and empirical data to evaluate leaf-level responses of eucalypt trees to droughts and heatwaves. This work will help to identify drought and heat resilient eucalypt species and educate rehabilitation of vulnerable ecosystems.

My Fulbright project focuses on developing a series of interactive lesson plans and online resources that explore Australian floral biodiversity.

Emphasising an integrative environmental-evolutionary approach to STEM education, I aim to produce engaging and accessible instructional content in close collaboration with rural teachers and students."

ANNA TRUONG

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Duke University

Host: The University of Melbourne

Field: Biochemistry

SYDNEY VACH

Fulbright Future Scholarship

Funded by The Kinghorn Foundation

Home: Harvard University

Host: University of Southern Queensland

Field: Astrophysics

Anna gained a Bachelor of Science (Chemistry), and a Bachelor of Arts (Spanish) from Rice University in 2019, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Chemistry at Duke University. Her dissertation work focuses on investigating the malaria parasite and aims to identify chemical tools that can be used to probe and identify the interaction network of an enzyme that mediates an essential protein modification in the parasite.

Anna’s Fulbright research at The University of Melbourne Bio21 Institute will expand her research interests to the context of malaria drug resistance, which will ultimately reveal fundamental mechanisms underlying this immense global health threat.

Sydney A.B. (Artium Baccalaurens) Astrophysics and Physics (Joint) from Harvard University. Her research thus far has focused on the detection and characterisation of exoplanets as a part of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission. As a part of the first year of her PhD at the University of Southern Queensland's Centre for Astrophysics with Dr. George Zhou, her Fulbright project, titled Exploring the Origins and Evolution of Exoplanets via Transit Observations, will build on this research, now focusing primarily on the detection of young planets in order to understand the processes of evolution within a planet's youth.

"My Fulbright research aims to elucidate mechanisms of malaria parasite development and survival, which will provide insight on the fundamental biological processes underlying antimalarial drug resistance.

The Fulbright Program in Australia is made possible through the generous funding of both the Australian and United States governments, as well as the crucial, ongoing support of the Institute of International Education (IIE), U.S. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), the U.S. Embassy, Canberra and U.S. consulate offices.

The Fulbright Future Scholarships, funded generously by The Kinghorn Foundation, provide fullyfunded opportunities to Australian students, scholars and professionals to go to the United States, as well as for American scholars to visit Australia. This unique, transformational opportunity is available to applicants whose projects have the potential to have a positive impact on the lives, livelihoods, health, well-being or prosperity of Australians.

The Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, funded by the Australian National University, is open to distinguished U.S. academics at the level of Associate Professor and Professor. The aim is to promote collaborative research between faculty in Australia at Australian National University, and faculty from universities in the United States in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

The Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Science, Technology and Innovation, funded by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), enables a U.S. senior academic to conduct innovative scientific research related to critical challenges facing the U.S. and Australia. CSIRO is Australia’s leading multidisciplinary research organisation with a mission to deliver impact for the benefit of industry, society and the environment.

The Fulbright Distinguished Chair and the Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship, funded by The University of Newcastle (UON), were established to support the development of research within UON’s areas of priority (known as Priority Research Centres). Awardees will contribute to various research areas, and assist the building of bilateral links between Australia and the U.S.

The Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and the Fulbright Postdoctoral (ViceChancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow) Scholarship are funded by RMIT University. These enable exceptional Australian and American scholars to undertake research and/or practice of importance to RMIT. The linking of the RMIT University Fellowship is aimed at solidifying the relationship between RMIT University and the host U.S. institution.

The Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Advanced (Defence) Science and Technology, funded by the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), holds the aims of attracting outstanding U.S. researchers, creating ongoing bilateral collaborations and developing skills and capabilities in emerging fields of science and technology.

The Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy, funded by Flinders University and Carnegie Mellon UniversityAustralia (CMU-A), provides for distinguished academics to conduct collaborative research at both Flinders and CMU-A. The position is designed to increase the awareness of the field of applied public policy in Australia, and to promote comparative and collaborative research between Australia and the United States.

The Fulbright Scholar Award in Resources and Energy, funded by Curtin University, enables exceptional U.S. scholars to undertake research of importance to the bilateral relationship between Australia and the United States in the areas of resources and energy. Curtin University is an internationally recognised leader in research related to geosciences and resource engineering.

The Fulbright Scholar Award and Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship, funded by Florida Polytechnic University, provide, respectively, for an Australian postgraduate student to undertake a one to two year Master's program, and an Australian scholar to conduct three to four months of research and teaching at Florida Polytechnic University. The University specialises in engineering, science, technology and mathematics.

The Fulbright Scholar Award, funded by the University of Canberra, enables exceptional U.S. scholars to undertake research in such fields as the environment, governance, health, sport, education and communication. The University of Canberra has a strong commitment to integrated learning and specialises in professional education and applied research.

The Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Agriculture and Life Sciences and Fulbright Scholar Award, funded by Kansas State University, provide unparalleled support to the development of key research areas. These scholarship opportunities allow senior academics to undertake diverse programs of research at Kansas State, leading to ongoing bilateral collaborations and partnerships.

The Fulbright Scholar Award, funded by Central Queensland University Australia, allows one American professional or academic to conduct three to four months of research at one of Central Queensland University Australia’s regional or metropolitan campuses.

The Fulbright Scholar Award, funded by the University of Wyoming, enables one Australian scholar to undertake up to 6 months research and teaching at the University of Wyoming. Focus areas include public policy, political science and environmental science.

Fulbright Scholarship Sponsors

The Fulbright Scholar Award, funded by the Regional Universities Network of Australia (RUN), provides for one American academic to conduct a three to four month research project at any of the network’s member institutions. RUN comprises of seven universities with headquarters in regional/ rural Australia that have a shared commitment to playing a transformative role in their regions.

The Fulbright Scholar Award, funded by University of Technology Sydney (UTS), promotes the development of key research areas important to the bilateral relationship between the United States and Australia, including data science, sustainability and health. UTS is a world-class research-intensive institution with a rapidly growing reputation for its research quality and impact across a wide range of fields.

The Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Non-Profit Leadership, supported by the Australian Scholarships Foundation, is specifically focused on the Not-for-Profit (NFP) sector in Australia. The scholarship provides an enrichment opportunity for an emerging leader in the charitable NFP sector.

The Fulbright Professional Scholarship in AustralianAmerican Alliance Studies, funded by the Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, was established in 2001 to recognise the 50th anniversary of the ANZUS Treaty. The award aims to contribute - in a practical way - to contemporary Australian scholarship on the Australia-United States Alliance.

The Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship, funded by Deakin University, enables postdoctoral candidates from the United States to undertake research that is strategically aligned with Deakin’s research strengths. This Scholarship is for three to ten months and is awarded to outstanding applicants with projects that align directly with Deakin’s aim to make a difference to the community and/or industry.

The Fulbright Scholar Award, funded by the University of Wollongong, enables outstanding academics from the United States to undertake research with University of Wollongong academic teams on areas of mutual benefit to Australia and the United States. The award recipient spends up to four months working in Wollongong, one of Australia's most picturesque university locations and located just one hour from Sydney.

The Fulbright Professional Alliance Scholarship, funded by the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia, was established in 2021 to foster Australian-American collaborations in six key industries that will shape Australia’s future economic prosperity: artificial intelligence, biotechnology, digital economy, energy and clean technology, quantum computing, and space.

The Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship, funded by Monash University, is awarded to outstanding applicants from all disciplines who are undertaking projects that directly address the grand challenges of our age. In addition to academic merit, the projects must help strengthen the Australian bilateral relationship with the United States.

The Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship, funded by Western Sydney University, enables exceptional postgraduate students from the United States to undertake research of importance to the bilateral relationship in areas of focus for Western Sydney University, including in environment, public health, and creative/performing arts.

The Fulbright Indigenous Scholarship, sponsored by the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA), was established to recognise Indigenous leaders of any academic or professional background and to provide opportunities to gain international perspectives and collaboration through study and research.

Fulbright State/Territory Scholarships have been established for each State and Territory in Australia. These scholarships are supported by State/Territory governments, companies, universities and private donors. The aim is to encourage research relevant to the State/Territory, and to assist the building of international research links between each State/Territory and research institutions in the United States.

The Fulbright WG Walker Scholarship is awarded to the top-ranked Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar annually. A proud legacy of the Australian Fulbright Alumni Association (AFAA) and named in honour of Professor Bill Walker, a twotime Fulbright awardee and the first President of AFAA, the WG Walker Scholarship Fund is held in trust and administered by the Commission. This Fund is open for donations by all Fulbright alumni.

The Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Vocational Education and Training, funded by the Australian Government, Department of Education, Skills and Employment, is for professionals within the vocational education and training sector or training leaders in business and industry. It provides skills and knowledge for work through a national training system.

The Fulbright Anne Wexler Scholarship in Public Policy is funded by the Australian Government Department of Education. The award was established in 2009 to recognise the many contributions by Mrs Anne Wexler for her role in fostering Australian-American relations, and supports public policy related study in a number of key areas. The award supports one Australian and one American postgraduate student each year to undertake a full Master's degree at an institution of their choice.

The Fulbright Professional Coral Sea Scholarship (Business/Industry) was established in 1992 by the Coral Sea Commemorative Council to recognise the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea. This scholarship supports bilateral academic or professional opportunities relevant to Australian industry or business.

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