Cornell students have received 21 Fulbright U.S. Student awards and four Fulbright-Hays fellowships in the 2007-08 academic year. Cornell tied with Harvard University for sixth place among American universities for the number of Fulbright U.S. Student awards received this year.

Established in 1946 and administered by the U.S. State Department, the Fulbright programs increase understanding between the United States and other countries through exchange of people, knowledge and skills. Fulbright-Hays doctoral dissertation research abroad awards support six to 12 months of research abroad.

At Cornell the program is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. The winners, their majors, project titles and host countries:

Fulbright U.S. Student Fellows

Emily Bielecki, public health: Intergenerational Changes in Body Mass Index in Polish Schoolchildren; Poland.

Allison Conti, sociology: The Impact of Development on Traditional Kazakh Textiles in Mongolia; Mongolia.

Kevin DeStefan, psychology: Nonconscious Mimicry of Handwriting Styles of Stigmatized and Esteemed Others; Netherlands.

Novella Elam, history: The Other Great Wall: Historical Social Interactions on Hunan's Frontier; China.

Olivia Hall, anthropology: Slow Food, Big Cheese: Poland in the Europe of Regions; Poland.

Lisa Hanley, urban development and planning: Urban Heritage Management: Integrating Social, Economic and Democratic Strategies; Ecuador.

Matthew Hoffman, sociology: Community and Stewardship in the Norwegian Landscape; Norway.

Lydia Hwang, teaching English as a foreign language: English teaching assistantship; South Korea.

Hannah Kim, painting and printmaking: A Visual Dialect: Landscape and Portrait in Contemporary Namibia; Namibia.

Amanda Koltz, oceanography: Development of Detection Procedure for Acoustic Signals by Ziphius Cavirostris; Italy.

Peter Lavelle, history: Imperial Nature: Environment and Geography in Nineteenth Century China; China.

Marcie Middlebrooks, anthropology: Rupture and Reunion: Making National Buddhist Traditions in Korean and Japanese Modernity; Japan.

Lisa Onaga, science and technology studies: Crafting the Silkworm: Tracing Japan's Science of Selective Breeding; Japan.

Larissa Paschyn, film studies: The Folly of Ukranian China; Ukraine.

Jessica Rosman, business management: Mexico Binational Business Grant -- Creating International Brand Equity From Mexico; Mexico.

Benjamin Seligman, public health: HIV/AIDS Awareness and Behavior Among Japanese Homosexuals; Japan.

Dana Shapiro, environmental studies: Sustainable Agriculture in Israel: Exploring Private Sector Involvement in Rural Development; Israel.

Tarah Sullivan, biology: Microbes and Metals of the African Dust Clouds Impacting Trinidad and Tobago; Trinidad and Tobago.

Jason Tran, language and literature: Nguyen Binh Khiem in Vietnamese Cultural Memory; Vietnam.

Elizabeth Triche, public health: Master's Degree in International Public Health; Australia.

Luat Vuong, physical sciences: Nonlinear Optics with Nanohole Arrays; Netherlands.

Fulbright-Hays Fellows

Rachel Dunn, biological and environmental engineering: Integrated Water Management Model for the Viability of Northern Thai Hill Tribe Communities; Thailand.

Dietrich Christian Lammerts, Asian religions: Dhammasat Manuscripts, Written Law and Buddhist Legal Culture in Myanmar (Burma), c.1100-1600 C.E.; Burma.

Annmaria Shimabuku, area studies: Transpacific Colonialism: Politics of the Ethnic Minority, Sexuality and Mixed-blood in Okinawa; Japan.

Rebecca Tally, history: Development Discourse Reconsidered: Agriculture in Colombia, 1930-1966; Colombia.