USA – ONE-YEAR DOCTORAL STUDENT FELLOWSHIP 2011 – FULBRIGHT
Fulbright One-Year Doctoral Student Fellowships 2011 in USA
About Fulbright:
The US Government’s Fulbright Program is one of the world’s most prestigious and widely-known academic exchange programs. The main goal of the Fulbright Program, initiated in 1946 by Senator J. William Fulbright, is to strengthen the basis for peace by strengthening mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the peoples of partner countries around the world. Student and faculty exchanges at the highest possible level of academic excellence are the principal means employed by the Fulbright Program to achieve this goal.
Detail:
The United States – Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF) intends to award about two grants to Israeli students, enrolled in a doctoral program at an accredited Israeli university, who are about to undertake a year of activity at a US university within the framework of their Israeli program of study. Program grants provide $12,500 in support of the recipient’s year of study in the United States.
Eligibility criteria:
1. Candidates must be enrolled as students in a doctoral program at an accredited Israeli university.
2. Candidates must be Israeli citizens. Dual American-Israeli citizens or permanent residents of the United States are not eligible to apply.
3. Candidates must be resident in Israel at the time of application and must continue to be resident in Israel until the beginning of their doctoral studies in the United States as Fulbright Fellows. Students who have already begun their program in the United States or who are planning to begin study in the US before the Fall 2011 semester are not eligible to apply.
4. Students in medicine, dental medicine, veterinary medicine, nursing and other programs which involve treatment of patients are not eligible for Fulbright grants.
5. Prior to activation of grants awarded, candidates selected must give proof of affiliation to an accredited university in the United States.
6. Candidates must be in good health. All applicants selected for a Fulbright grant are required to submit a Medical History and Examination Report before their grants can be activated.
7. Candidates selected must give proof of having obtained adequate financial support for their stay in the United States prior to activation of grants awarded.
8. Prior conviction or current indictment for a felony may result in disqualification.
Evaluation criteria:
1. Academic excellence is the primary criterion for the evaluation of candidates.
2. English language proficiency is an important evaluation criterion.
3. Leadership qualities are an important evaluation criterion.
4. Preference will be given to applicants who have not had a substantial, recent, academic experience in the United States, or other English speaking country.
5. Preference will be given to candidates under 30 years of age.
6. Possession of skills required to promote mutual understanding between the United States and Israel is an important evaluation criterion.
Grant benefits:
1. $12,500 award
2. limited health insurance for grantee only
3. pre-departure orientation meeting
Conditions of award:
1. Funding is for one year only.
2. Grantees are responsible for making their own travel arrangements.
3. Grantees must travel on a J-1 Exchange Visitor visa sponsored by the Fulbright program.
*It is a condition of the visa that after completion of their Fulbright program, including any transfer of visa sponsorship, grantees must return to Israel and reside in the country for two years before being eligible to immigrate to the US, to take up permanent residence there, or to enter the US with a work permit. The purpose of the two-year home residency requirement is to ensure that exchange visitors return home and fulfill the exchange objectives of the Fulbright program.
*Holders of J-1 student visas who have departed from the United States after a stay of six or more months may be required to remain abroad for up to twelve months before being allowed to re-enter the United States with a J-1 professor/research scholar visa.
*The above restrictions do not apply to re-entry to the United States as the holder of a J visa in another category (short-term scholar, specialist, international visitor), or as the holder of a student or tourist visa.
*Dependents of grantees will enter the US as holders of J-2 visas. Many conditions applying to the grantees as holders of J-1 visas, such as the two-year home residency requirement and other restrictions, also apply to the holders of J-2 visas.
*Unless they have received a waiver of the two-year home residence requirement, Fulbright Students, holding J-1 visas, are ineligible to change their status from J-1 to J-2 while in the US. Similarly, accompanying dependents, who possess J-2 visas, are ineligible to change their status from J-2 to J-1 while in the US, unless they have received a waiver of the home residence requirement.
4. Grantees must begin their studies in the United States no later than the spring semester, 2012. Awards cannot be deferred to the following academic year.
Application Deadline : December 1, 2010
Contact:
United States-Israel Educational Foundation
Ben Yehuda 1
P.O. Box 26160
Tel Aviv 61261
Fax: +972-(0)3-516-2016
