On the fourth episode of the Fulbrighter podcast we talk to Lev Horodyskyj, an astrobiologist and educational innovator from Arizona, currently leading the nonprofit Science Voices, which aims at helping overlooked communities improve their science education using modern and low-cost approaches.
He earned a PhD in geosciences and astrobiology from Pennsylvania State University and has spent ten years working on digital science curricula at Arizona State University. Lev has been granted Fulbright Awards twice: first in Indonesia, in 2020, and then in Brazil, in 2022. He is currently in the country, researching stingless tropical bees and fostering a cross-nation knowledge exchange between both Brazil and Indonesia.
Learn more about his projects at sciencevoices.org and instagram.com/science.voices
On the third episode of the Fulbrighter podcast our team interviews Kathleen Mulligan, a Professor of Voice and Speech at the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Ithaca College.
Kathleen is the Vice President of the Central New York Chapter of Fulbright Association and has been granted Fulbright Awards in India and Pakistan, in which she worked on different projects aimed at supporting local women as well as preserving oral history.
Every year, Kathleen puts together an art project with her students at Ithaca college in order to support the training of women who wish to become auto rickshaw drivers in Kerala, India. The website for the project is http://www.wheels4women.org/. If you wish to support it in any form, reach out to Kathleen at kmulligan@ithaca.edu.
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On the second episode of the Fulbrighter podcast History Professor Jeffrey Lesser discusses his new book, Living and Dying in São Paulo: Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil, published in the U.S by Duke University Press and in Brazil by Editora UNESP.
Jeffrey is a Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History at Emory University and his research focuses on the relationships between immigration, ethnicity, and national identity. His latest book focuses in Bom Retiro, a multi-ethnic, working class, neighborhood in the city of São Paulo, to analyze how the state creates and enacts health policies and to ask why different immigrant groups often generate similar responses to state actions.
Lesser is the author of a number of prize-winning books published in English, Portuguese, Japanese, and Hebrew and is the winner of multiple teaching awards. He has won national and international fellowships from Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the Social Science Research Council, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Research for Living and Dying was supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the University of São Paulo Institute for Advanced Studies, and Emory University’s Global Health Institute, University Research Council, and Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellowship Program.
Jeffrey's book can be downloaded for free in Portuguese here and in English here.
On the first episode of the Fulbrighter podcast our team interviews José Ferraz-Caetano, a Portuguese Chemist, Historian and Philosopher of science. Our conversation aims to answer the many pressing questions about the future implications of Artificial Intelligence in our daily lives and other AI-related topics.
José is a Fulbright Scholar with the University of California and a Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Portugal. He works with Data Science for Computational Chemistry, developing Artificial Intelligence methods towards chemical property and reaction predictions.
José also collaborates as a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in Portugal and writes regularly about science communication and public understanding of science. He is an Assistant Editor of the Fulbright Chronicles, a peer-reviewed periodical featuring the work of Fulbright scholars.