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“Fostering these – leadership, learning, and empathy between cultures – was and remains the purpose of the international scholarship program … It is a modest program with an immodest aim – the achievement in international affairs of a regime more civilized, rational and humane than the empty system of power of the past…” (Senator J. William Fulbright)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: ECA Press Office
Date: 08/15/18 Telephone: 202-632-6452
Latoya Nelson Kamdang
Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award
to Taiwan for Research and Teaching on Indigenous Architecture
The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Latoya Nelson Kamdang of Brooklyn, NY has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to Taiwan in Urban Planning and Architecture. Kamdang will teach and research at National Taiwan University as part of a project to expand architectural documentation on indigenous architecture in Taiwan.
Latoya Kamdang, Registered Architect and Visiting Associate Professor, is one of over 800 U.S. citizens who will teach, conduct research, and/or provide expertise abroad for the 2018-2019 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement as well as record of service and demonstrated leadership in their respective fields.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to build lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the Program, which operates in over 160 countries worldwide.
Since its establishment in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program has given more than 380,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists, and scientists the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas, and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.
Fulbrighters address critical global in all disciplines, while building relationships, knowledge, and leadership in support of the long-term interests of the United States. Fulbright alumni have achieved distinction in many fields, including 59 who have been awarded the Nobel Prize, 82 who have received Pulitzer Prizes, and 37 who have served as a head of state or government.
For further information about the Fulbright Program or the U.S. Department of State, please visit http://eca.state.gov/fulbright or contact the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Press Office by telephone 202-632-6452 or e-mail ECA-Press@state.gov.
This blog is not an official site of the Fulbright Program or the U.S. Department of State. The views expressed on this site are entirely those of Latoya Nelson Kamdang and do not represent the views of the Fulbright Program, the U.S. Department of State, or any of its partner organizations.”