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Alumnus of the Month: Q and A with Koen Lenaerts
As November 16-20, 2015 is international Education Week, we’d like to feature a Q&A with Fulbright Alumnus Koen Lenaerts. Mr. Lenaerts was elected President of the Court of Justice of the European Union! He was just elected on October 8,…
Fulbright Alumnus Koen Lenaerts Elected President of the EU Court of Justice
We have some very exciting news in the world of Fulbright Belgium this week! Mr. Koen Lenaerts, an alumnus of Fulbright, has just been elected to be the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union on October…
Fulbright Eat and Meet with Belgian Deputy Prime Minister De Croo
On October 6, 2015, current and past Fulbright grantees met with Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development Cooperation, Digital Agenda, Telecom and Postal Services Alexander De Croo in Brussels. After being welcomed by Fulbright Executive Director Erica Lutes,…
Slavin Family Foundation Launches New Fellowship for Student Entrepreneurs
The Houston-based Slavin Family Foundation has launched a new fellowship program that offers support, mentorship, and a scholarship to a limited number of undergraduate and graduate students pursuing potentially world-changing entrepreneurial projects. The Slavin Fellowship program will primarily be run…
Fulbright Belgium & Luxembourg Alumnus of the Month: Jurgen Goossens
This month, the Commission would like to highlight the activities of 2012-2013 Fulbright grantee and Yale Law School alumnus Jurgen Goossens who has been very active this Spring. Mr. Goossens is currently a PhD Candidate in the Public Law Department…
2015 Pre-Departure Orientation for Belgian, Luxembourg and EU Fulbright Grantees
On Tuesday June 2, 2015 many of the Fulbright Belgium & Luxembourg and Fulbright-Schuman grantees who will be pursuing academic studies at numerous U.S. universities beginning this fall, attended a pre-departure orientation led by our one of our Program Managers,…
Interview with Former U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Sam Fox
The Fulbright Commission in Belgium and Luxembourg recently interviewed former U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Sam Fox. Q: How did you apply your extensive experience in the business world to your time as an ambassador? A: Well, of course, in every…
Washington Fulbright Office visits Belgium and Luxembourg
Last week, Fulbright Belgium and Luxembourg welcomed two very special guests from the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) in Washington D.C.: Mary Kirk, Director of the Office of Academic Exchange Programs and Micaela Iovine ,…
Fulbright-NATO Chair of Security Studies Lectures on Transatlantic Relations in Finland
On February 11-12, 2015, Prof. Dr. Mark S. Sheetz, the current Fulbright-NATO Chair of Security Studies at the College of Europe, was invited to give lectures in Finland and did so last week under the partial auspices of Fulbright Finland….
2015 EU and NATO Seminar
Every year, U.S. Fulbright grantees from across Europe gather in Brussels, the capital of Europe, to attend the EU and NATO Seminar hosted by the Fulbright Commission in Belgium and Luxembourg. Participants learn about the structure and function of European…
U.S. Fulbright Grantees Mid-Year Seminar
On January 30, 2015, the 2014-2015 U.S. Fulbright grantees to Belgium and Luxembourg gathered at the Royal Library in Brussels to report on their findings and experiences so far whilst studying and staying in Belgium and Luxembourg.
…Fulbrighter Bart Boets proposes an integrative neurodevelopmental framework to reconcile conflicting theories about dyslexia
The phonological deficit hypothesis of dyslexia proposes that the core deficit of this hereditary reading and writing disorder lies in faulty mental representations of speech sounds. This hypothesis has recently been challenged by Dr. Bart Boets and his colleagues (Science,…