Join Global Affairs to learn about Fulbright opportunities and hear this year’s updates and priorities to inform and strengthen your submission. Institute of International Education program staff will discuss the process and answer questions.
As the director of Global Professional Programs at UC Davis Global Affairs, Karen Beardsley has spent more than a decade building connections among UC Davis, international professionals and the local community. Helping facilitate and advance career development, education and mentorship across the world is a mission Beardsley has been deeply devoted to.
UC Davis alumna Priya Talreja has been named the first Aggie to receive the prestigious Fulbright–National Geographic Award, one of only five recipients nationwide. She will travel to Portugal’s Azores to advance electric vehicle infrastructure using geospatial planning tools, while also producing a storytelling component to share her findings.
Fulbright Chile and the University of California, Davis, are pleased to announce the continuation of their joint sponsorship program for Fulbright Chairs, which has been running annually since 2022. Applications will be accepted until December 18, 2025.
Join Global Affairs to learn about Fulbright opportunities and hear this year’s updates and priorities to inform and strengthen your submission. IIE program staff will discuss the process and answer questions.
This year, nine UC Davis students were selected to participate in the 2024-25 Fulbright U.S. Student Program. They join the ranks of program alumni who went on to become presidents, diplomats, Nobel prize winners and distinguished leaders and scholars.
Mary Alurwar, international scholar advisor in Global Affairs’ Services for International Students and Scholars, received a Fulbright International Education Administrator Award for 2024-25.
Eight UC Davis students and alums were awarded prestigious Fulbright grants by the Fulbright U.S. Program. These students are traveling abroad in the 2023-2024 academic year to serve as English Teaching Assistants or international researchers.
From March 1 to June 30, 2022, Marly Augusto Cardoso served as UC Davis’ inaugural Fulbright Chair from Brazil. A senior scientist from the University of São Paulo, Cardoso specializes in child and maternal nutrition in the Amazon—expertise that brought her to the UC Davis Department of Nutrition and helped immerse her in the larger university community.
