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Reaching Out Through Music

Fulbright Center Grantees 2014–2015

Changing World? Changing Fulbright.

Fulbright Programs Paving Ways for Partnerships

From the Executive DirectorChanging World? Changing Fulbright.

The world around us is changing, and 21st century challenges are becoming increasingly global and complex. The Finnish-American Fulbright program continually evolves, incorporating innovative ideas and technologies to respond to our changing world and to meet the needs of this century.

At its recent strategic planning meeting, the Ful-bright Center Board of Directors underlined the Cen-ter’s vision of empowering the minds that will find global solutions to tomorrow’s challenges by foster-ing academic and professional expertise and excel-lence in leadership. The Board articulated several new initiatives, including establishing a short-term grant program in key fields that would fill a gap iden-tified by universities in Finland, and organizing a U.S. study tour focused on online education to facilitate a broader virtual exchange between Finland and the United States.

The Finnish-American Fulbright program focuses on areas that are of key importance to both countries, such as education and the environment: especially the Arctic. The Minister of Education and Commu-nications, Ms. Krista Kiuru underlines the mutual benefit of education exchanges in building a knowl-edgeable and successful nation (p. 2). U.S. teachers bring elements of Finland’s chart-topping education program home to improve the U.S. education system. In cooperation with the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright Center will double the number of Ameri-can teachers coming to Finland next year on the Ful-bright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program.

In a globalized world, the Fulbright program is be-coming increasingly multilateral. The expansion of cooperation and joint initiatives among Fulbright com-missions from different countries provides concrete examples of this development, and Finland’s alumni are making real contributions not only bilaterally but around the globe. One Finnish graduate is currently working for a Finnish NGO to advance the position of disabled people in Africa, and another is part of an am-bitious international consortium establishing a music institute in Afghanistan (p. 10-12) – each drawing on Fulbright contacts and experiences. Our alumni net-work, both in Finland and the United States, is growing increasingly robust and connected, sharing knowledge and expertise in areas of global concern in order to transform ideas into concrete action.

Join us in our exciting work building tomorrow’s Fulbright. Join us for Fulbright Finland…For the Future! (p. 22)

Terhi Mölsä

Krista KiuruMinister of Education and Communications

Finland has worked systemati-cally for several decades to advance quality and equality in education. Our nine-year basic education sys-tem guarantees equal access to high quality education for all students, safeguarding good competence for further studies and working life. The OECD PISA studies show that quality and equality are not oppo-sites in the context of education. Often they are in fact complemen-tary, with greater parity tending to increase the quality of education and learning outcomes. This is one of the most important lessons for every country.

Civilized nations build their structures and national economy on the ability to acquire learning. Learning remains at the heart of everything, but the way we learn and the channels we use for learn-ing today are much faster, more flexible and more dynamic than before. This can be seen in the way youth today use mobile ICT as a tool in learning.

Education systems must be able to integrate these new forms of learning, but schools are still too much focused in their old ways of teaching. To change this, Finland will be introducing an educational cloud service that supports teach-ing and learning, gives access to teaching materials and allows users to share learning experiences.

The cloud service equips teach-ers with a wide range of educa-tional material and encourages them to discuss, exchange views and develop teaching strategies together. Easily available materi-als will hopefully inspire teachers to use various digital services more diffusely, allowing teachers to dedicate more time to interacting with students. These new learning environments are also expected to create a more positive attitude to-wards school work among students.

Cloud services offer excel-lent opportunities for producers to promote and disseminate their educational material and services, perhaps even receive expert re-views. Moreover, it makes market-ing easier for entrepreneurs, and

can eventually also help companies become international. New learn-ing environments, new educa-tional materials and new services are useful just as long as they re-spond to the challenges in learn-ing and generate better learning outcomes. This challenges teachers and teaching too. For this reason, we believe it is important to en-courage research in learning and pedagogical studies, both on the national arena and in international partnerships. Finns and Americans face much the same research chal-lenges, so it is good to see that our two nations are working together in many areas of research. Last year, for instance, several joint research projects were launched, financed by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Academy of Finland and the Finnish Funding Agency for In-novation (Tekes).

There is no denying that re-search cooperation between the United States and Finland has al-ways played an important role in making the Finnish research and innovation system more interna-tional. I believe we should continue to promote collaboration in scien-tific research between Finnish and American research organizations, and especially in the public, private and third sector, where existing opportunities have not been fully utilized.

Broad collaboration flourishes where people meet. Fulbright pro-grams, well established yet con-stantly evolving, pave the way for such partnerships. Teacher exchange, which is increasing, is a good example of how the Ful-bright cooperation keeps abreast of things, encouraging mobility and collaboration in a field that is importantfor both countries in building a knowledge-able and successful nation.

Fulbright Center News on Fulbright Centerin sidosryhmälehti, joka ilmestyy kaksi kertaa vuodessa. Lehdestä julkaistaan myös verkkoversio osoitteessa www.fulbright.fi/fi/fulbright-center/fulbright-center-news. Seuraava numero ilmestyy syksyllä 2014. Artikkelit ja muu aineisto pyydetään toimittamaan 30.9. mennessä. Artikkeleissa ilmaistut mielipiteet ovat kirjoittajien omia.

The Fulbright Center News is a biannual magazine published by the Fulbright Center in Finland. The Fulbright Center News is also available online at www.fulbright.fi/en/fulbright-center/fulbright-center-news. The next issue will come out in the Fall of 2014. The submission deadline for articles and other materials is 30 September. Opinions expressed by authors are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Fulbright Center.

While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the material in this publication, the Fulbright Center does not accept liability for any errors or omissions.

Aineisto vapaasti lainattavissa, lähde mainittava.Reproduction allowed, source must be cited.

Päätoimittaja/Editor-in-ChiefTerhi MölsäExecutive Director

Toimittajat/EditorsJohanna Lahti (toimituspäällikkö)Tanja MitchellSuzanne Louis

Ulkoasu ja taitto/LayoutTanja Mitchell/Fulbright Center

Avustajat/ContributorsLouisa Gairn

Toimituksen yhteystiedot/Contact InformationThe Fulbright CenterHakaniemenranta 6FI-00530 HelsinkiFINLANDTel. +358 44 5535 286E-mail: office@fulbright.fi

ISSN-L 1456-0461ISSN 1456-0461 (Painettu)ISSN 2242-4245 (Verkkolehti)

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4 New Finnish Fulbright Ambassadors

5 Fulbright Centerin stipendiohjelmat suomalaisille 2015–2016

6 American and Finnish Fulbright Center Grantees 2014–2015

8 Fulbright Forum 2014: Education, Innovation, Science, and Art

9 Roth-Thomson Award to Boggs and Storm

9 European Connections

10 Reaching Out Through Music

12 American Resource Center Awards Kontkanen

13 Biofilm Standard Methods Development Building Bridges Between Turku, Finland and Bozeman, Montana

14 Study Tour on Communications and Community Relations Exchanging Ideas with American Colleagues

14 A Decade of North American Studies Roundtable

15 Korkeakouluopinnot numeroina

16 Fulbright Runs in the Family!

18 Fulbright Germination: Conversation Analysis, Autism, and Cross National Cooperation

19 Alumni Ambassadorial Awardee Ville Taajamaa: Be Proactive and Contribute

19 Interning at the Fulbright Center

20 Alumni News

21 Connections Corner

21 Fulbright-ohjelmalle arvostettu Prince of Asturias Award

22 News / Uutisia

22 Fulbright Finland...For the Future

23 Fulbright Center

24 Kalenteri / Calendar of Events

In This Issue

Cover: Fulbright Grantee Brings Music to At-risk Girls

In addition to exploring the influence of folk music on Jean Sibelius’ piano music, Fulbright Graduate Student Olivia Ja-mandre is sharing her skills and passion for music with young Finnish and immigrant girls at the Girls’ House in Helsinki. In efforts to empower at-risk girls, the Girls’ House offers counseling, peer groups, workshops, and social activities for girls between 14-28 years.

Since last fall, Olivia has been giving piano lessons for girls who would not otherwise have opportunities for piano lessons. Making a difference in these girls’ lives has further enriched Olivia’s Fulbright experience in Finland.

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New Finnish Fulbright Ambassadors“Fulbright was established to create glo-bal citizens – those who dare to address universal problems with innovative so-lutions, and create meaningful change,” said Fulbright Center Executive Director Terhi Mölsä at the 2014 Award Cere-mony at the Helsinki City Hall in May, reminding the new grantees of their responsibilities as Fulbright ambassa-dors. “Through their research, studies, and both professional and personal involvement during the grant year and thereafter, the grantees’ ultimate goal is to be able to yield a wide impact in the society of both countries”.

Earlier in the day, a pre-departure orientation seminar provided the grantees with important information

The Finnish Fulbright Center Grantees 2014-2015 in their Award Ceremony at the

Helsinki City Hall.

and welcomed the grantees into the Fulbright community and for their time in the U.S. They attended sessions with

Olivia Jamandre, Alistair Hayden, and Nancy O’Neill, all 2013-2014 U.S. Fulbright Grantees in Finland, performed Finnish music by Järnefelt, Linsén, and Sibelius.

Director General Jouni Mölsä (on the right) from the Department of Communication and Cul-ture of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs delivered remarks on behalf of the Finnish government at the Award Ceremony. Remarks on behalf of the U.S. government were delivered by Jeffrey K. Reneau, Counsellor for Press and Cultural Affairs from the U.S. Embassy. Greetings were brought by the host of the event, Deputy Mayor Laura Räty of the City of Helsinki (second from right), and the Executive Director of the Fulbright Center Terhi Mölsä.

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experts on matters such as visas, Finn-ish social security and taxation, as well as discussions with Finnish Fulbright Center alumni who met with the new grantees to share their experiences and practical tips from their time in the United States.

The Fulbright Center wants to sin-cerely thank everyone who helped or-ganize the 2014 orientation seminar for the new Finnish grantees, and espe-cially the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and the City of Helsinki for hosting the award ceremony and the reception at the beautiful Helsinki City Hall.

The 2014 ASLA-Fulbright Alumni Ambas-

sadorial Awardee conveyed the words

of thanks on behalf of all of the Finnish

Fulbright Center grantees at the Award

Ceremony. Read more on page 19.

See the Orientation program at

www.fulbright.fi/fi/stipendiaateille/

orientaatiot.

Orientation

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2015–2016Kenelle Stipendiohjelma Stipendikausi Stipendisumma Hakuaika päättyy

Opiskelijoille

Kandidaattitason opinnot Summer Institutes for European Student Leaders

Kesä 2015 Stipendi kattaa kesäohjelman kustannukset

Julistetaan hakuun loppuvuodesta 2014

Kandidaattitason opinnot Fulbright Center Undergraduate Grant

Lukuvuosi Enintään USD 10 000 Julistetaan hakuun helmikuussa 2015

Maisteri- ja tohtoritason opinnot tai tutkimus

ASLA-Fulbright Graduate Grant Lukuvuosi Enintään USD 30 000 15.5.2014 klo 10.00

Teknologiateollisuuden edus-tamien toimialojen kehitystä tukevat opinnot ja tutkimus

Fulbright-Technology Industries of Finland Grant

Lukuvuosi Maisteri- ja tohtoritason opintoihin USD 35 000–50 000

15.5.2014klo 10.00

Suomen kielen ja kulttuu-rin opetustehtävät ja omia opintoja täydentävät kurssit ja tutkimus

Fulbright Finnish Language and Culture Teaching Assistant Program

Lukuvuosi Stipendi kattaa peruselinkustannukset. Stipendisumma määräytyy sijoituspaikan mukaan.

14.10.2014klo 10.00

Väitöskirjatutkimus ASLA-Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows Program

Vähintään 6 kk USD 12 000 14.10.2014klo 10.00

Tutkijoille

TutkimustyöAlle neljä vuotta sitten väitelleille

ASLA-Fulbright Research Grant for a Junior Scholar

4–12 kk Enintään USD 15 500

14.10.2014klo 10.00

Cost-share4–12 kk

Enintään USD 30 000

Teknologiateollisuuden edus-tamien toimialojen kehitystä tukeva tutkimusAlle neljä vuotta sitten väitelleille

Fulbright-Technology Industries of Finland Grant

Lukuvuosi Enintään USD 36 000 14.10.2014 klo 10.00

TutkimustyöYli neljä vuotta sitten väitelleille

ASLA-Fulbright Research Grant for a Senior Scholar

3–12 kk Enintään USD 15 000

14.10.2014klo 10.00

Tutkijoille, asiantuntijoille, opiskelijoille ja kv-liikkuvuuden kanssa työskenteleville

Kaikkien alojen hakijoille Euroopan Unionia tai EU:n ja Yhdysvaltojen suhteita käsittelevät opinnot, tutkimus tai luennointi

Fulbright-Schuman Program 3–12 kk Enintään USD 30 000

Julistetaan hakuun syksyllä 2014, haku päättynee joulukuussa

Ensimmäisen ja toisen asteen opettajille, opettajankouluttajille sekä hallintohenkilöstölle

Ammattitaidon täydentä-miseen ja kehittämiseen tarkoitettu projekti

Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching

Lukukausi Stipendi kattaa peruselinkustannukset, lukukausimaksut ja matkat

Julistetaan hakuun syksyllä 2014

Luennoitsijoille

Luennointi. Vastaanottava yliopisto hakee apurahaa.

Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program

3–9 kk Vähintään USD 2 700 / kk 15.10.2014

Työuransa keskivaiheilla oleville ammattilaisille ja asiantuntijoille

Ammattitaidon täydentämiseen ja kehittämi-seen tarkoitettu projekti

Mid-Career Professional Development Grant

3–12 kk Enintään USD 13 500

3.11.2014 klo 10.00

Yhdysvaltoihin liittyvän opetuksen, tutkimuksen ja oppimateriaalien kehittämi-seen tarkoitettu ohjelma

Study of the U.S. Institute for Scholars and Secondary School Educators

5–6 viikkoa Stipendi kattaa akateemisen ohjelman, peruselinkustannukset ja matkat

Julistetaan hakuun syksyllä 2014

Fulbright Centerin stipendiohjelmat suomalaisille

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American Grantees to Finland 2014–2015

Jamali, MoshinFulbright-Tampere University of Technology Scholar University of Toledo, OH Engineering Real-Time Birds/Bats Tracking for Windfarm Applications Tampere University of Technology Spring 2015

Lee, LukeFulbright-VTT Grant in Science, Technology and Innovation University of California, Berkeley, CA Biomedical Engineering Intelligent Paper Optoelectronics for Global Healthcare VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Oulu Summer 2014 and Fall 2014

Major, DavidColumbia University, NY Economics Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation; Cross-cultural Guidelines for Coastal Cities University of Helsinki Fall 2014 (Flex grant for academic years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016)

Michaeli, ShalomFulbright-Saastamoinen Foundation Grant in Health and Environmental Sciences University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN Biomedical Engineering MRI Contrasts in High Rank Rotating Frames University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Fall 2014

Pullins, EllenFulbright-HAAGA-HELIA Scholar University of Toledo, OH Marketing Professional Sales and Sales Management Alignment and Curriculum Enhancement HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences Spring 2015

Self, JohnFulbright-HAAGA-HELIA Scholar California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA Business Visiting Faculty, Teaching at HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences Fall 2014

U.S. Students

Barthelemy, RamónFulbright-CIMO grantee Western Michigan University, MI Science Education Educational Pathways of Women in Finnish Physics Programs University of Jyväskylä

Boehringer, BradleyFulbright-CIMO grantee Drexel University, PA Medical Sciences To Assist in Establishing and Implementing a Mobile Simulation Center that Will Aid in the Outreach in Nursing Education Both in Rural Finland and Beyond Laurea University of Applied Sciences

Fulbright Distinguished Chairs

Gillette, JayFulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies Ball State University, IN Information Sciences “ICT for ICD”: Information and Communications Technologies for Intelligent Community Development University of Oulu Spring 2015

Miller, MarkFulbright Bicentennial Chair in American Studies Clark University, MA Political Science The Supreme Court in U.S. History University of Helsinki Academic year

Ruiz-Torres, AlexFulbright-Aalto University Distinguished Chair University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico Business Modeling Regional Logistics Capabilities: A Study of Nordic and Caribbean Basin Countries Aalto University, School of Business Fall 2014

Core Fulbright Scholars

Alexander, Martha LeeCollege of William and Mary, VA

Literature Many Runes the Cold Has Told Me: Finnish Influence on the Works of Tolkien University of Turku Academic year

Bostian, AJFulbright-University of Tampere Scholar University of Virginia, VA Economics Intertemporal Choices of Finnish Households: Empirical Analysis and Policy Implications University of Tampere Academic year

Bostian, MoriahFulbright-University of Turku Scholar Lewis and Clark College, OR Economics Productivity Change and Environmental Performance Under Finland's Agri-Environmental Program University of Turku Academic year

Bräuer, Suzanna Fulbright-Saastamoinen Foundation Grant in Health and Environmental Sciences Appalachian State University, NC Biology Linking Microbial Community Composition to Methane and Carbon Dioxide Flux: Assessing Climate Change from Boreal to Arctic Regions in Finland University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Spring 2015

Cowles, RobertHobart and William Smith Colleges, NY Music A Study of Finnish Choral Music and Culture Sibelius Academy Academic year

Going, AaronSaint Martin’s University, WA History Finnish American Social and Labor History University of Jyväskylä Academic year

Brooks, MelanieSaint Olaf College, MN Conducting The Art of Wind Orchestra Conducting and Pedagogy in Finland University of the Arts, Sibelius Academy

Brown, MichaelUniversity of Washington, WA International Relations The Rovaniemi Process Today: a Comparative Study of American and Finnish Arctic Policies University of Lapland

Donovan, MitchellFulbright-CIMO grantee University of Maryland – Baltimore County, MDEnvironmental Studies Decedal-Scale Catchment and Bank Erosion and Their Impact on Eutrophication in Southwest Finland University of Turku

Lai, KennethFulbright-University of Helsinki Graduate Award University of California, Irvine, CA Theology and Religion Master’s degree in Religious roots of Europe: Religious critique in Gnosticism University of Helsinki

Parekh, KrishnaFulbright-University of Turku Graduate Award College of New Jersey, NJ Ecology Gene Expression in Marine, Brackish, and Freshwater Threespine Stickleblack in Finland University of Turku

Salama, OliviaFulbright-University of Turku Graduate Award University of Scranton, PA Law Economic Crime Policing in Post-Global Financial Crises in Finland University of Turku

Schwartz, MollyUniversity of Maryland, College Park, MD Information Sciences User-Centered Design for Digital Cultural Heritage Portals Aalto University and National Library of Finland

Semler, ElizabethFulbright-CIMO grantee University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN History Got milk?: Dairy Advertising and Heart Disease in the U.S. and Finland 1970–2000 University of Helsinki and the National Institute for Health and Welfare

Tyger, TaylorFulbright-CIMO grantee Georgia Institute of Technology, GA Urban Development and Planning Environmental Health Benefits of Urban Aquatic Environments Aalto University and University of Helsinki

Some grants are pending confirmation and are not yet listed here. See the Fulbright Center Grantee lists for 2014–2015 at

www.fulbright.fi/en/grantees/fulbright-center-grantees-2014-2015

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Finnish Grantees to the USA 2014–2015

ASLA-Fulbright Research Grants for Senior Scholars

Mikkonen, SimoHistory University of Jyväskylä University of California, Berkeley, CA Soviet Transnational Networks: Informal East-West Connections During the Cold War Era Cost-shared with the University of Jyväskylä Academic year

Rannila, PäiviGeography University of Turku Syracuse University, NY Cities, Law and Public Spaces in the Contexts of the USA and Finland. Cost-shared with the University of Turku Spring 2015 ASLA-Fulbright Research Grants for Junior Scholars

Lehtivuori, HeliBiological Sciences University of Jyväskylä University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Controlling Primary Reactions of Photoswitchable Proteins by Site-Selective Mutations Cost-shared with University of Jyväskylä Fall 2014

Malinen, Olli-PekkaEducation Niilo Mäki Institute University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Culturally Responsive School-Wide Positive Behavior Support in United States and Finland Fall 2014

Miihkinen, AnttiAccounting Aalto University University of Florida, FL Multifaceted Aspects of Corporate Governance and the Reporting of Supplementary Accounting Information Cost-shared with Aalto University Academic year ASLA-Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows

Alahuhta, KirsiBiology University of Oulu Tufts University, MA Do Good Things Come to Plants Who Wait? Life History Consequences of Prolonged Dormancy in Northern Orchid Cost-shared with the University of Oulu Fall 2014

Karjalainen, MaijaPolitical Science University of Turku Harvard University, MA Democratic Innovations in Local Politics: Determinants and Impacts Cost-shared with the University of Turku Fall 2014

Oksanen, MinnaMedical Sciences University of Eastern Finland University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Modeling Alzheimer’s Disease with Disease-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cells – Special Emphasis on Astrocytes and Cholinergic Neurons. Cost-shared with the University of Eastern Finland Fall 2014

Rantanen, TyttiLanguage and Literature University of Tampere University of Maryland,

College Park, MD Sabotage of Narrative and Narrative of Sabotage in French Literature and Cinema Before 1968 and After Cost-shared with the University of Tampere Fall 2014

Saxén, HeikkiHistory University of Tampere Harvard University, MA The History and Future Directions of Bioethics Cost-shared with the University of Tampere Academic year ASLA-Fulbright Mid-Career Professional Development Grant

Lukin, KimberlyComputer Science University of Helsinki George Washington University, DC Technical Counter Acts Against Cyber-Attacks and Multinational Cooperation Model Spring 2015

Taajamaa, VilleEducation University of Turku Stanford University, CA Creation of Interdisciplinary Engineering Excellence Fall 2014

Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching

Granat, Tero PetteriVaskivuori High School, Vantaa Indiana University, Bloomington Cooperation with an American School and Material (Printed/Online) for a Multidisciplinary Class Fall 2014

Wewer, TainaTeacher Training School of Turku University Indiana University, Bloomington Academic Language in Basic Education: Raising Awareness of Subject-Specific Literacies Fall 2014

Fulbright-Technology Industries of Finland Grants

Kalm, MatiasBusiness Graduate of Aalto University Arizona State University Doctoral Degree in Business

Kurvinen, EmilEngineering Lappeenranta University of Technology University of Virginia, VA Rotordynamics in Electric Machines

Lastunen, JessePublic Policy Barcelona Graduate School of Economics University of Chicago Doctoral Degree in Public Policy ASLA-Fulbright Graduate Grants

Baumeister, StefanBusiness University of Jyväskylä University of California, Los Angeles, CA Corporate Environmental Management Cost-shared with the University of Jyväskylä

Heinonen, MattiPhilosophy University of Helsinki City University of New York From Mindreading to Collective Intentionality: a

Model-Based Perspective Cost-shared with the University of Helsinki

Junnilainen, LottaSociology University of Helsinki New York University New Urban Poverty and the Forms of Local Social Order – a Comparative Ethnography in Two Finnish Neighborhoods

Makkonen, AnttiLaw University of Lapland University of Pennsylvania, PA Master’s Degree in Law Cost-shared with the University of Lapland

Mattila, MaijaPolitical Science University of Tampere The New School, NY Conditions of Democratic Representation – Analyzing Case Talvivaara

Munck af Rosenschöld, JohanEnvironmental Policy University of Helsinki Cornell University, NY Addressing Time in Environmental Governance: A Study of Environmental Projects and Their Capacity for Spurring Innovations

Oiva, MilaHistory University of Turku University of California, Berkeley, CA Creating Action Space: Marketing Practices of Polish Ready-to-Wear Clothes in the Soviet Market, 1956-1982 Cost-shared with the University of Turku

Saari, PaulaHistory University of Helsinki University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Wild Nature Created: The U.S. National Park Idea and National Parks in Canada and Finland

Siivonen, EevaFilm Aalto University Syracuse University Master’s Degree in Fine Arts

Fulbright Finnish Language and Culture Teaching Assistants

Repo, ElisaFinnish Language University of Tampere Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Mäki, MaritaFinnish Language University of Tampere University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Varjo, MikaelFinnish Language University of Turku University of California, Berkeley, CA

Fulbright Center Undergraduate Grants

Herranen, Henna Psychology Kuopion lyseon lukio Brown University, Providence, RI

Rauhala, OnniBiology Helsingin normaalilyseo Boston University, Boston, MA

As of June 2014

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Rector Matti Manninen of the University of Jyväskylä delivered opening words at the Forum.

Fulbright Forum 2014Education, Innovation, Science, and Art

The first Fulbright Forum took place at the University of Jyväskylä in April 2014. The Fulbright Forum 2014: Educati-on Innovation, Science and Art, a two-day research seminar, brought together all

Holly Emert (second from left), Assistant Director of the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program at the Institute of International Education (IIE), traveled to Finland specifi-cally to attend the Fulbright Forum, and to meet with the current teacher grantees and their hosts at the University of Jyväskylä. There is a growing interest in the Finnish education system in the United States. In cooperation with the U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright Center will double the number of U.S. teachers coming to Finland on the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program in 2014–2015.

U.S. Fulbrighters from around country and provided a unique opportunity to hear current American Fulbright scho-lars, teachers and graduate students present on their research in Finland.

The first seminar day was followed by an im-promptu jamming session by the sun-lit Matti-lanniemi campus by lake Jyväsjärvi as grantees Justin London and Alistair Hayden grabbed their guitar and violin. They were joined by fellow Ful-brighters who soon started singing along!

The first seminar day focused on education, teacher training and music. The second seminar day included a wide array of topics from climate change and organic agriculture to aesthetics and innovations in healthcare. The semi-nar was open to the public and free of charge. The Fulbright Center also pro-vided an exhibition table throughout the seminar with staff advising visitors on FC grants and services. From now on the seminar will be organized annually.

“The Fulbright Forum provided a great over-view on the work of excellent researchers and teachers coming to Finland from different parts of America”, says professor Piia Björn, who served as moderator of the Fulbright Fo-rum seminar. Björn is a Fulbright Center alum-na and 2013–2014 ASLA-Fulbright Alumni Am-bassadorial Awardee. She spent her Fulbright term at Vanderbilt University comparing spe-cial education in Finland and the United States. “My Fulbright term was fruitful in many ways”, Björn says. “And as a result of the collabora-tion enabled by the grant, professors Lynn and Douglas Fuchs will visit Jyväskylä as keynote speakers in a seminar next August.”

More information on the seminar:

www.fulbright.fi/en/grantees/

fulbright-forum

Before the Forum the grantees had a chance to discover the Alvar Aalto Museum in Jyväskylä with the ASLA-Fulbright Alumni Association that organized the visit. The grantees learned about Aalto's internationally acclaimed work and met with local alumni.

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U.S. Grantee News

Christin Boggs and Karli Storm, Fulbright U.S. student grantees, received this year’s Roth-Thomson Award.

Roth-Thomson Award to Boggs and Storm

the Association of Borderland Studies’ conference held in Finland and Russia as well as participate as a presenter in a conference on Sociolinguistics in Jyväs-kylä, Finland.

The Lois Roth Endowment supports exchanges across national and cultural boundaries to enhance international communication and understanding. The Roth Endowment was set up in memory of Lois Wersba Roth, who made an in-ternational career in various positions, such as in the American Scandinavian Foundation. The Endowment commem-orates the life of Lois Roth by supporting selected people who work in the places and fields of enquiry that she loved. The Fulbright Center has cooperated with the Lois Roth Endowment for several years, and U.S. Fulbright students in Finland focusing in arts, humanities and social sciences have been annually granted the Roth Endowment Award.

European Connections

Team Finland is all smiles at the 60th annual Fulbright Berlin Seminar. Beth Mundy (left), Rob Davis, Sophia Albov, and Karen Martin joined roughly 300 other American Fulbright grantees in Berlin for 4 days of seminars and cultural immersion.

Three Fulbrighters represented Finland at the 2014 EU-NATO Seminar: Fulbright Scholar Paul Flikkema (left), Fulbright Teacher Crystal Polski, and Fulbright Student Sophia Albov.

“Visiting the European Court of Justice and hearing a case on transatlantic trade made me realize that a simple trip to the grocery store can illustrate complex trade agreements,” Crystal told of her experiences at the seminar.

Christin Boggs is a photographer. Dur-ing her Fulbright period in Finland, she has built a photographic project that documents both traditional wild food foraging and recently developed sus-tainable food practices, such as urban gardening and farming. Her project goals include encouraging community development, providing Finland with a valuable historic photographic record and increasing international awareness of positive Finnish gastronomic culture.

“Viljellä: A Photographic Record of Finn-ish Food Practices”, was held at Aalto University’s Gallery Atski in Helsinki.

Karli Storm is currently studying in a doctoral program at the University of Eastern Finland in the Russian and Border Studies program. Her specific research concerns the intersection of language and politics in Georgia and its implications for the ethnic Azeri minor-ity there. The Roth-Thomson Award will allow her to participate as a panelist in

In addition to the various seminars and events that U.S. Fulbrighters par-ticipate in during their time in Fin-land, they also have a chance to con-nect with Fulbrighters elsewhere in Europe – and learn more about Euro-pean topics at the same time!

The annual Berlin Seminar, organized by the Fulbright Commission in Ger-many, gives grantees the opportunity to experience Berlin and to participate in a variety of events, lectures, and dis-cussions which focus on political, eco-nomic, and cultural topics; and the EU-

NATO Seminar, organized annually by the Fulbright Commission in Belgium, offers the Fulbrighters an in-depth in-troduction into European institutions and current issues.

With the help of the Roth-Thom-son Award, she has been able to ar-range an exhibition about her work. The exchibition,

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As a Fulbright scholar, all the doors were open for me.

Reaching Out Through Music

Violinist and music educator Grazyna Zeranska-Gebert knows that music can make a difference. Born in Poland and educated at the Tchaikovsky Conserva-tory in Moscow, Grazyna is head teacher of violin at Finland’s respected Espoo Music Institute. Awarded a Fulbright Mid-Career Professional Development Grant in 2008 (a unique program in-vented by the Finnish Fulbright Center and fully funded by its Trust Fund), she spent six months in the United States researching violin teaching methods and holistic music education, particu-larly community outreach programs. After working alongside staff at some of the most prestigious music institutions in the United States, Grazyna came back energized with ideas on how music can change lives for the better, both in Fin-land and around the world.

“My Fulbright experience was won-derful – actually the best time in my life,” Grazyna explains. “As a Fulbright scholar, all the doors were open for me. I visited the Jacobs School of Music in Indiana, the Longy School of Music in Massachusetts, the New England Con-servatory in Boston and the Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles. I also spent three months at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, which I absolutely loved. I vis-ited different classes, and participated in teaching and outreach programs. Whenever I said I’d like to visit an insti-tution, take part in a project or meet a musician, they said, ‘OK, come with us!’ It felt like I had unlimited possibilities.”

Simply observing teachers and stu-dents at work was a valuable learning experience in itself, Grazyna recalls. “The staff at Juilliard were superb. I became friends with the vice-president Karen Wagner, one of the most influen-tial people there. At the Jacobs School, Mimi Zweig was a wonderful host, and I was also lucky to observe 72 hours of

violin masterclasses with Pamela Frank there, as well as re-placing Mimi in some of her classes. Later, I gave some master-classes of my own at

the Longy School.”“I learned a lot. One of the best

experiences was meeting the violin-ist Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory. Her dedication towards her students is so inspiring. The loy-alty and honesty in teaching was what impressed me most everywhere I went. The teachers work very hard, and ev-erything they do is very solid. I’m still

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using the ideas and techniques I learned there in my own work.”

Outreach with Children in New York and JapanHowever, it was the outreach activities organized by US musical institutions that made the most profound impact on Grazyna’s personal and professional development. During her six-month scholarship, she participated in around twenty outreach programs, including that of the New York Philharmonic, the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Midori and Friends foundation.

Each of these organizations handle outreach in different ways, Grazyna says, but they have all proved inspiring for her own practice. “As a result of my Fulbright, I’m now doing outreach here in my institution. I think I’ve succeeded in applying many things I learned in the US to my work in Finland.”

“In the New York Philharmonic’s outreach program, the focus is on cre-ating new music. They invite children as young as seven or eight to participate in their young composer programs. The kids make original compositions and then come to the Philharmonic to pre-pare the performance with the orches-tra.” Carnegie Hall, meanwhile, focuses on organizing concerts with different schools, Grazyna explains. “They teach a subject for a whole year at a school, then in the spring, the students meet with the symphony orchestra and prac-tice playing recorder with them. When I was there, the theme was musical variations. They started with Mozart’s ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ and ended with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with variation.”

Perhaps the most personally in-fluential experience during Grazyna’s Fulbright period was with “Midori and Friends”, the New York music education organization led by Midori Goto, the Japanese-born violin soloist. “Midori really is a wonderful person. Her pro-gram goes to different public schools, in neighborhoods like Brooklyn, Chi-natown and Harlem. I went with them and played with the children there. The project provides great basic teaching at schools that have no music educa-tion program, for kids with no prior training.”

Grazyna’s acquaintance with Midori during her Fulbright scholarship led to further outreach collaboration. In 2010, Midori invited Grazyna to join her In-ternational Community Engagement

Program in Japan, where a string quar-tet of young musicians completed a con-cert tour of unconventional public ven-ues. “After two weeks of preparation, we toured the whole of Japan, giving concerts in hospitals, jails, orphanages, and schools. We played at an institute for young mothers, and in Sendai, at a hospital that was lat-er destroyed by the tsunami. We even played at a school for children of the royal family and govern-ment officials. The tour covered the whole spectrum of Japanese culture. It was a wonderful experience, and we saw so many amaz-ing reactions to the music.”

At a hospital for children with severe disabilities, Grazyna recalls, the group witnessed a moving moment where a young girl who was unable to communicate cried for the first time during one of the con-certs. “There was also a seven year old boy who needed a machine to help him breathe. When we played, he started to breathe on his own in rhythm to the music. We cried too, of course.”

Grazyna explains that she is try-ing to apply Midori’s principles to her own work as a music educator. “I have learned the most from Midori’s out-reach programs. Her philosophy is that if people can’t come to the music, then the music must come to the people. When I came back to work at the Espoo Music Institute, we gave 90 concerts outside of our institution. I always knew outreach is important, but until work-ing with Midori I didn’t realize how big a difference it can make.”

Safeguarding the Future of Music EducationFor Grazyna, such community engage-ment is not only important for making music more accessible, or for inspir-ing public interest and involvement in musical culture. She believes it is also crucial for safeguarding the future of musical institutions and the arts.

“After seeing the outreach programs during my Fulbright, I learned it’s im-possible to be in an arts institution and expect the audience to come by them-selves, or the money to flow in from the government. You have to reach out to

the community, and bring music into people’s everyday lives. In the U.S., out-reach philosophy and practice is highly developed – it’s the only way to survive. I think in Europe we also have to do outreach to survive. Culture is always dumbing down, and children have so many hobbies competing for their at-

tention. If we don’t do anything, very soon no-one will be interested in classi-cal music.”

Finland has some successful musical outreach programs in operation, says Grazyna. The Hel-sinki Philharmonic’s ‘godchildren’ project is a good example, with outreach activi-ties open to all chil-dren born in Helsinki

within a particular year. “It starts when they are babies or toddlers, and contin-ues until they are ready to go to school. The relationship takes seven years, in-volving concerts and different forms of music games and workshops. At the end, most of the kids make an applica-tion to join a music school. The whole family is involved – parents, siblings, and grandparents. Ultimately it impacts hundreds of people.”

Grazyna says that outreach is also important for the student perform-ers themselves. “We have a lot of fun but we also work hard. For us, outreach means concerts in elderly care homes, hospitals, and kindergartens. I want my students to know they are needed and appreciated. Often when you have a performance by very young students, nobody comes. It’s demoralizing when the concert hall is empty. But when we go to perform in kindergartens, we have a wonderful audience who are very happy we are there!”

Musical Opportunities for Children in Afghanistan and ArmeniaGrazyna continues to work on interna-tional outreach programs, focusing on initiatives which enable poor or mar-ginalized children and young people to access advanced musical training. She and her colleagues are currently working as part of a larger consortium contributing to the new Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), an ambitious project which aims to provide world-class musical education to chil-

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dren and young people from all walks of life. Developed and led by Afghan music educator Dr Ahmad Sarmast, the new institute is supported by an impressive array of global organizations including the United Nations and the World Bank, as well as contributors in the U.S., Fin-land, Australia, and other countries.

“The idea is fantastic. This is the only music institute in Afghanistan – and it’s also one of the very few schools that includes orphans and poor children from the street as well as young girls,” says Grazyna. “The institute is trying to balance teaching national folk mu-sic with western classical music. This is definitely not musical imperialism at work.”

Grazyna explains that the Espoo Music Institute became involved with ANIM through collaboration with the Embassy of Finland, the Finnish Min-istry of Culture and School Education, and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. “The proposal came and we immedi-ately agreed to participate. Our teacher Rebekka Angervo went to Afghanistan, and four Afghan students came to Fin-land.” Grazyna worked with a young violinist, Hojatullah, whose dream is to become a professional musician or mu-sic educator. “We showed them every-thing, and taught them all we could. Each of the students received one-to-one music lessons.”

The Finnish-Afghan links are set to continue, with Grazyna’s Institute com-mitted to sending materials and musi-cal instruments. However, questions remain about the longer-term outcomes for the students. “It will be a challenge for these young people, learning how to organize their life with music, how to build on it to make it a sustainable livelihood,” says Grazyna. “Hopefully more music schools will spring up, but these are uncertain times.” However, it is also important to recognize that the

role of the music school is more than just musical education. “They are taking in children from the streets, and giving them food and regular schooling. The goal is to make music education open for everyone, including girls. Some people question the value of educating girls in music rather than other skills. But even if the girls ultimately become mothers rather than working musicians, they will have a different outlook for the rest of their lives.”

The value of music schools and musi-cal education is something that is under scrutiny everywhere, Grazyna notes. “Here in Finland, only around 2% of music school students become profes-sional musicians. Of course, some crit-ics then question why we continue with this form of education. But what they forget is that involving people in arts – any of the arts – can help them to lead a better life.”

A Small Drop Makes a Big DifferenceWhile large-scale projects such as ANIM undoubtedly play an important role, Grazyna does not underestimate the impact of grassroots outreach by passionate individuals, affirming that “outreach needs to be based on people who just want to do it.” This philosophy is apparent in her own work with mu-sic students in Nagorno-Karabakh, a contested region on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

“I found them by chance, when I was invited there to give violin masterclass-es in 2011 following the TNJRE Youth Music Festival. The students wanted to play, but the condition of the musi-cal instruments was very poor. One boy came to his violin lesson, and his bow

had only two hairs, held together with sticky tape. I decided when I got home that I would like to do something for these people.”

With this aim in mind, Grazyna or-ganized three charity concerts in Finland, comprising a mix of western classical and traditional Armenian music. “I managed to raise enough money to send violins, bows, shoulder rests, and

strings.” She returned to teach in the region last summer, bringing two of her Finnish students to perform at the annual TNJRE Festival, which included young performers from fourteen dif-ferent countries. “Developing culture is one of their ways of peace-keeping,” she notes. Grazyna is now planning a proj-ect to purchase traditional Armenian instruments for local schools, funded by a series of cultural events organized in cooperation with the Finnish-Arme-nian Association.

“No one is investing there because of political instability. But children are children! It’s better to give young people instruments instead of Kalashnikovs. The main idea is that when the muses are singing, the tanks are silent,” she explains.

“My favorite fairy tale is set in In-dia. The forest is burning, and all the animals are running away. But then they see a small bird flying towards the flames with a drop of water in her beak. The other animals tell her she’s crazy, but she replies ‘I’m doing what I can’. I can sympathize with that bird! Music outreach can sometimes feel like a small drop, but it can also make a big difference in children’s lives.”

Text: Louisa Gairn

“From Sweat Lodge to Sauna” American Resource Center Awards Kontkanen“From Sweat Lodge to Sauna” won this year’s American Resource Center (ARC) grant competition. The ARC grant was established in 2006 and every year the ARC grants a scholarship of 1,000 eu-ros to a student whose Master’s Thesis studies a topic related to the United States. Students of Finnish national-ity, enrolled at a Finnish university are

eligible to apply. The application period runs from October to November. Fol-low this page for the grant application announcements: http://finland.usem-bassy.gov/arc_grant.html.

This year’s American Resource Cen-ter (ARC) grant was awarded to Panu Kontkanen in April by jury members Jeffrey Reneau, Counsellor of Press

Our main idea is that when the muses are

singing, the tanks are silent,” she explains.

and Cultural Affairs from the American Embassy and Terhi Mölsä, Executive Director of the Fulbright Center. More on Panu Kontkanen’s research “From Sweat Lodge to Sauna” in which he com-pares the Lakota sweat lodge traditions to the Finnish sauna culture at www.fulbright.fi/en/read-online/kontkanen.

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Bozeman is a small university town located in the Rocky Mountains of southwest Montana, USA. Generally known for excellent skiing, hiking, fishing and close proximity to Yellow-stone National Park, Bozeman is also home to the Center for Biofilm Engi-neering.

This internationally recognized re-search facility is dedicated to the study of self-organized, cooperative commu-nities of microorganisms encased in a slimy matrix, known as biofilm. Bio-film is found all around us. Biofilm is what makes our teeth a bit slimy each morning, is the reason why we clean our toilets each week and is responsible for making river rocks extra slippery when we are going for a hike and do not want our feet to get wet.

In fact, research has shown that bac-teria prefer to live as part of a biofilm rather than as indi-vidual cells because the biofilm provides protection for bac-teria, making them much more difficult to kill. Disinfectants, biocides and antibiotics are the weapons used to in the war against bacteria. Be-fore these compounds are commercially available, their ability to effectively kill bacteria must be verified. The problem,

Biofilm Standard Methods Development

Building Bridges Between Turku and Bozemanthough, is that the testing is currently done using methods that grow the bac-teria as cultures of single cells. If the goal is to kill a biofilm, then these tests are not providing the correct answer, which puts the public’s general health at risk. As Principal Investigator of the Standardized Biofilm Methods Labora-tory at the Center for Engineering, my professional career focuses on the de-velopment and validation of standard methods which describe how to grow and efficacy test biofilm bacteria.

Drawn to Finland by Research Team Turku is also a university town located in southwest Finland. Although it is also possible to cross country ski, hike and fish in Turku, what brought me here

was Docent Adyary Fallarero, and the research team she leads in the Depart-ment of Biosciences at Åbo Akademi Uni-versity. Docent Fal-larero researches the inclusion of natural compounds in phar-maceuticals for use in killing and prevent-ing the growth of bio-film bacteria. She re-

peatedly states the importance of using biofilm in drug development and testing. In practice, if an antibiotic will be used to kill biofilm bacteria responsible for a chronic infection, then the efficacy of

the antibiotic must be validated using biofilm in the laboratory.

Although geographically Turku and Bozeman are almost half the world apart, with such similar research goals, a collaboration between our two labs made complete sense. A grant from the Ful-bright Center in Finland made it possible for me to pack up six large suitcases and move to Turku with my husband and two daughters, ages 12 and 9, for six months.

Collaboration Will ContinueThe intent was for me to teach the stan-dard biofilm methods that are currently in use in the U.S. to the researchers in Docent Fallarero’s lab, while learning the biofilm methods that have been devel-oped and used for screening large chem-ical libraries at Åbo Akademi. The bridg-ing of the U.S. and EU biofilm methods is critical because we live in a global market and bacteria do not recognize international boundaries. Ultimately we need harmonized methods that will re-sult in in the same answer whether the testing is done in the EU or U.S. This is a lofty goal, and my visit really just falls within the collaboration between Docent Fallarero and myself that will continue after I return back to Bozeman thanks to the internet and future laboratory visits. The next exchange will occur when Suvi Manner, a PhD candidate in Docent Fal-larero’s lab, will visit Bozeman in 2015. And, with any good news from the fund-ing agencies, more student exchanges will follow.

Darla Goeres with her family Mike, Emily and Anna Wiseman traveling across the Aura River on the Föri this past winter in Turku.

Although geographi-cally Turku and Boze-man are almost half the world apart, with such similar research goals, a collaboration between our two labs made complete sense.

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During their one-week study tour the delegation met with expert speakers and visited universities to learn and discuss about marketing and recruitment, in-formation sharing, content production, promotion of science and research, brand management, and other related topics.

L–r Marjo Loisa, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Tanja Paananen, University of Helsinki, Susanna Rautio, University of Helsinki, Johanna Lahti, Fulbright Center, Katja Ayres, Tampere University of Technology, Katja Kannonlahti, University of Tampere, Hannamaija Helander, University of Helsinki, Maria Mäkelä, University of Vaasa, Terhi Mölsä, Fulbright Center, Anu Mustonen, University of Jyväskylä, and Marja Pemberton, University of Helsinki.

Facilitating New Connections

Study Tour on Communications and Community Relations

Exchanging Ideas with American Colleagues

Discovering New Perspectives with the FamilyThe time in Finland has been produc-tive. A biofilm originating from an EU bacterial strain is happily growing in reactors designed and built in the U.S. My girls have enjoyed learning Finnish while attending the Turku International School. Although they remain a bit shy about speaking any Finnish in public, they freely throw out Finnish phrases at home. They have enjoyed the freedom of riding public transportation on their own, and although they remain hesitant

about some of the school lunches, espe-cially those that have fish anywhere in the title, they have fully embraced all the wonderful breads, pastries and lico-rice. My oldest daughter has even made a BFF (Best Finnish Friend). My husband and I have enjoyed opening up the girls’ world view to new perspectives. Al-though we will all definitely appreciate having a second bathroom, clothes drier and our own transportation back in our lives, I will miss the undistracted time we have had together as a family and the practical sensibility of the Finnish

culture. The last six months have been a time of personal growth for each of us, as well as for our family.

And so in June I will repack those suitcases, but my family and I are not planning on saying “good-bye” to the wonderful people we have met and city we have come to call home, but rather we will say “until our next visit.”

Text: Darla M. GoeresFulbright Scholar Grantee 2013–2014 at the Åbo Akademi University.

A Decade of North American Studies RoundtableGathering at the Fulbright Center for the tenth time, the annual Fulbright North American Studies Roundtable brought together program coordinators, lectur-ers and professors of North American Studies at Finnish universities to dis-cuss and enhance cooperation amongst the programs, develop new initiatives to support the teaching of North Ameri-can Studies in Finland, and update and share information about U.S. Embassy,

Canadian Embassy, and Fulbright re-sources. The Roundtable was also at-tended by the staff of the newly founded John Morton Center for North American Studies, and the Center for U.S. Politics and Power of the Finnish Institute of In-ternational Affairs (UPI/FIIA). The par-ticipants at the Roundtable emphasized the growing importance and value of collaboration and sharing of informa-tion in the field.

The Study Tour on Communications and Community Relations was the sixth study tour to the U.S. for Finnish higher education experts organized by the Ful-bright Center since 2008.

The Fulbright Center wishes to sincerely thank its U.S. partners, the

excellent seminar speakers, and our insightful and welcoming colleagues at all five host campuses: Johns Hop-kins University, American University, George Washington University, Uni-versity of Maryland, and George Mason University, and a special thank you to the Finnish Embassy in Washinton, DC.

The full study tour program and background

materials as well as the group’s blog and

tweets are available at www.fulbright.fi/fi/

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and-community-relations.

A delegation of nine Finnish university communications professionals travelled to Washington, DC at the end of March to explore best practices and trends in communications and university relations with constituent audiences.

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Herschel D. Rowe mastering wintry pasttimes.

In 1961-62, Phyllis Rowe wrote a year-long journal “To See the Baltic in the Sunshine of a Summer Day” docu-menting her family’s stay in Turku. Her husband, Herschel D. Rowe was on a Fulbright grant lecturing on Ameri-can Literature at the University of Tur-ku and Åbo Academy University. Ac-companying the Rowes were their two young children, Shannon and Kelly. 50 years later Kelly accompanied her husband, Paul Flikkema, 2013 Ful-bright-Aalto University Distinguished Chair, back to Finland, this time to Helsinki.

The story told by Phyllis Rowe is one of surprise, excitement, frustra-tion, learning, and coffee! Here are a few memorable moments from the Rowe family 1961-62.

In August 1961, a family left Greenvil-le, North Carolina, heading to Finland, a completely new experience for them all. Crossing the Atlantic on shipboard, there were some 70 Fulbrighters and fa-mily members bound for Finland. Food is a prominent theme in the story, right from the beginning, up until the last coffee and pulla wistfully shared with Finnish friends. Phyllis’ time in Turku

Fulbright Runs in the Family!

From Greece through Norway to Finland!

The 2013-2014 grant year is remarkable in that four grantees have quite signifi-cant family history that includes the Fulbright experience. Short stories follow!

was very sociable, visiting with many Finnish and American friends and drin-king a good deal of coffee.

Finnish language classes caused some anxiety, though both children received their teachers’ praise by the year’s end for their conversational achievements. Skiing was another family accomplish-ment, starting from beginners level. A holiday in Lappi for the Fulbrighters during April allowed for trail skiing for hours on end, and many frozen toes, countered by “a sauna and a climb into the hole cut in the ice outside.” The cold took some getting used to. Phyllis com-ments that “…a year ago I would have thought someone who thought -10°C and

crowds. And Finnish children were duti-ful and respectful to a surprising degree when compared with American young-sters. Phyllis learned to visit all around to the various small shops in town using a variety of communication strategies and discovered that on occasion, holi-days actually meant shops were closed, so planning ahead was a necessity. And some things considered quite a treat in the U.S., like having your hair done or getting a dress tailor-made, was quite routine amongst the ladies of Turku.

By the end of the year, the Rowes were fledged into Finnish life, so much so that in early May 1962 Phyllis writes, “I do not like even thinking of leaving.” This is a common theme amongst our Fulbright grantees, and sure enough Kelly has returned!

Excerpted by Suzanne Louis, 2001 ASLA-Fulbright MCPD grantee

I got the Fulbright bug very early in life. When I was two years old my father ap-plied for Belgium. He was an American literature professor at CCNY.

The Fulbright office offered Greece instead. He balked but my mother in-sisted since she had lived in the Balkans prior to the war. Now she confesses that they were unprepared for how devastated Greece was but it led to a lifelong love of the people, the history and the music. I have only one original memory of staring down a goat my size in the backyard but many memories from subsequent trips.

When I was nine, my father wanted

to work with Sigmund Skard in Oslo, and got another Fulbright. I was placed in a Norwegian school and had to learn the language. Despite my childish op-position we stayed on a second year.

This, of course, was a life altering experience, since we traveled through western Europe and so I basically com-pleted my grand tour by the age of eleven. I soon lost touch with my play-mates but continue to read Norwegian literature and did keep up with my school teacher. I am not sure what we did for Europe, but Europe has done plenty for us and is a constant inspira-tion for me.

Frederick Wasser, Fulbright Bicentennial Chair 2013, University of Helsinki

a foot of snow ‘beautiful’ was crazy.” But the pleasures of winter snowfall were soon highly valued.

Scratch cooking was a newly redis-covered pleasure for Phyllis, while the constraints of rented washing machines was not. Life in Finland 20 years after the war was both charming and tiresome, sometimes sad and often exhilarating, though Phyllis comments “there is an abundance of good plain food always.” Holidays seemed subdued and Finns were noticeably quieter than Ameri-cans, especially on the buses and in large

1955 Fulbrighter to Greece, Henry Hirsch Wasser, professor at City College of New York, holding his young son Frederick, the 2013 Fulbright Bicentennial Chair at University of Helsinki (in photo above).

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Father Follows in Son’s Footsteps

Generations of Scientists

Most families don’t bring 30-year-old chemistry textbooks to the table dur-ing Christmas dinner, but I would never go so far as to call my family ordinary. Certain things happen when you gather enough scientists together, especially when they all happen to be former and future Fulbrighters. Growing up I heard stories of how my Aunt Kathy

2011 view of father and son Helling taken from the Suomenlinna Fortress in Helsinki.

Fulbright Now and Then

I must admit that I have wanted to come to Finland since the late 1970s when I was an undergraduate student interest-ed in making ceramics. I was attracted to the unique sense of Finnish design and creativity that was, even then, a calling card for Finland. But that op-portunity never came about, and years passed before Finland next touched my life.

It was my son, John, who actu-ally got to Finland before me. In the fall of 2011, he arrived on a Fulbright Mid-Career Professional Develop-ment Grant to research Finnish na-tional library policy. He was hosted by the Helsinki City Library. Of cour-se, I visited him in Helsinki, and that 10-day visit convinced me that I needed to act on my longstanding dream. As a teacher of information architecture for library science students of Indiana University, I was no longer making pot-tery—but I was designing and creating websites. I saw an opportunity to seek the Fulbright-HAAGA-HELIA Scholar Award at the HAAGA-HELIA University of Applied Sciences—where I was able to teach and research in the fall of 2013.

And, in return, John came to visit me in Helsinki. We could never have imagined beforehand our many similar experi-ences, dealing with some of the same people and situations (I even ended up living within walking distance of where John stayed two years earlier!). John and I greatly enjoyed Finland and the Finns,

and our library careers benefited by our work in Helsinki. We both plan to re-turn. Maybe together next time?

William Helling 2013 scholar and son John Helling 2011 MCPD grantee, both are in the field of Library and Information Science

William H. Landschulz, 1982 student grantee in Biological Sciences at University of Helsinki, Beth Mundy, 2013 student grantee at the Tampere University of Technology, and Janet K. Tallman Landschulz, 1982 student grantee, Biological Sciences at University of Helsinki.

and Uncle Bill met while on Fulbright grants to Finland. They spent a year in Helsinki working at the Meilahti Uni-versity Hospital campus on genetics and developmental biology, respectively. Both of them constantly encouraged my passion for science, especially when it came time to apply for my own Ful-bright. I remember walking in Helsinki

several years ago while on vacation with Aunt Kathy when she turned to me and said, “It won’t be too long until you’re researching here.” Although I managed to land in Tampere instead of Helsinki, it turns out she was right. Hearing their advice about working in a lab, adjust-ing to Finnish life, and remembering the student benefits has been invalu-able. The best part is that some things, including how unbelievable the expe-rience is, haven’t changed a bit in over thirty years.

Marja Beth Mundy, 2013–2014 Fulbright student grantee in Chemistry at Tampere University of Technology

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A remarkable long-term collaboration was set in motion by a Fulbright Fel-lowship in 2006. A culmination of this collaboration is that the phenomena of emotionality in autism have be-come central concerns both at my re-search site in the U.S. and in Finland.

I am a professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. I was fortunate to be a Ful-bright Scholar, teaching a course in Conversation Analysis and Interviewing at the University of Helsinki, in the fall of 2006. My host was Prof. Anssi Perä-kylä in the Department of Sociology. As a Fulbright scholar, the experience of teaching and working with Helsinki conversation analysts was exceptional and outstanding.

Although I had briefly visited Fin-land for various purposes previously, the Fulbright experience was the first sustained engagement with the many scholars and stu-dents who, like me, study the structure of interaction in so-cial settings. Besides Professor Peräkylä in the Sociology de-partment, I was able to engage in joint endeavors with in-teractional linguists who share an inter-est in Conversation Analysis (CA). The University of Hel-sinki has one of the largest concentra-tions of Conversa-tion Analysts in the world. Certainly per capita, its number of CA-oriented faculty members and students outranks many other countries, including other European countries, the USA, Britain, Japan, and elsewhere.

Continuing ExchangesRemarkable as it was, my visit in 2006 turned out not to be a one-time event. It set in motion visits by Helsinki scholars to my home institution. Both Profes-sor Peräkylä, with whom I have co-authored a chapter on Social Psychology and Language Use, and Professor Ilkka

Fulbright Germination: Conversation Analysis, Autism, and Cross National Cooperation

Arminen (also in the Helsinki University Department of Sociology) subsequently

traveled to Madison and gave lectures in my department. In addition, two Finnish graduate students have trav-eled to Madison and taken semester-long courses with me. Because of endeav-ors started with my Fulbright award, I also returned to Fin-land for brief visits in 2008 and 2010.

In 2011, the CA sociologists and in-teractional linguists

at the University of Helsinki combined forces to win a prestigious and coveted award from the Academy of Finland to establish a Centre of Excellence in Re-search on Intersubjectivity in Interac-tion. Its Director is Professor of Finn-ish, Marja-Leena Sorjonen. Professor Peräkylä is its Associate Director. With 45 local researchers (faculty and stu-dents), along with outside visitors like myself, the group studies how people reach mutual understanding (“inter-subjectivity”) when making requests, complaints, or engaging in other social actions together. For example, there is

research at the Centre concerned with customer service interactions at R-kioski outlets and Kela – The Social Insurance Institution of Finland.

Joining ForcesA central concern is with the study of emotions, and here the sociological CA researchers at the University of Helsin-ki are combining forces with colleagues in the Aalto University Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computa-tional Science to measure psychophysi-ological responses in the telling and receiving of stories about favorable and unfavorable experiences. Among other topics they investigate, the Finnish scholars are comparing the emotional content and associations in stories that “neurotypical” individuals tell with stories related by individuals who have Asperger’s Syndrome or are on the so-called autism spectrum.

Fortuitously, it happens also that I am currently funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation to study the testing and diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Dis-orders (ASD) and one of our concerns is with how individuals with ASD process emotions or questions about emotions, compared to neurotypical individuals.

Recently, members of my lab joined forces with the Center of Excellence scholars in an Emotions Workshop held in Helsinki. We not only shared our

It is safe to say that the Fulbright fellowship helped us to plant a seed that germinated into a number of still blooming collaborations during the ensuing eight years and reaching into the future.

After visiting the University of Helsinki as a Fulbright Scholar in 2006, Prof. Doug Maynard (r) has returned to Finland many times. During a recent visit in May 2014, he was accompanied by Prof. Waverly Duck (l) from the University of Pittsburgh and graduate student Jason Turowetz from the University of Wisconsin. Their host was Prof. Anssi Peräkylä, Associate Director of the Centre of Excellence in Research on Intersubjectivity in Interaction at the University of Helsinki.

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Alumni Ambassadorial Awardee Ville Taajamaa:

Be Proactive and Contributegrantees 2014–2015, at the grant award ceremony in Helsinki City Hall in May.

The ASLA-Fulbright Alumni Ambas-sadorial Award is a special award grant-ed by the ASLA-Fulbright Alumni As-sociation for one of the following year’s Finnish Fulbright Center grantees.

The award was founded in collabora-tion with the Fulbright Center in 2012 to highlight the importance of the role of the alumni, and the role of the grantees as future alumni and as ambassadors.

More information about the Alumni Associa-

tion and the special award at www.fulbright.

fi/en/asla-fulbright-alumni-association/asla-

fulbright-alumni-ambassadorial-award

Ville Taajamaa received the 2014 ASLA-Fulbright Alumni Ambassadorial Award. Coming from the University of Turku, Taajamaa will travel to Stanford Univer-sity in the fall as a Fulbright Mid-Career Professional Development grantee.

“Let us go to the United States to be proactive, and to contribute, to listen and to learn from the U.S. experience, and respectively to share our own Finn-ish experience. And let us return to Finland having created lasting contacts and linkages, and to bring back what we have learnt to share it broadly with others here,” Taajamaa urged his fel-low grantees in his words of thanks on behalf of the Finnish Fulbright Center

methods and findings, but also made plans for future research endeavors on the topic of emotions, Asperger’s, and Autism Spectrum Disorders. In the context of exponentially rising rates of these disorders both in the U.S. and in Europe, our goals are dual: to un-derstand the social basis of ASD—how they both affect and are affected by the contexts of interaction in which they are manifest—and to provide knowl-edge that is relevant to diagnosis and treatment.

Seeds for the FutureGoing back to 2006, it is safe to say that the Fulbright fellowship helped us to plant a seed that germinated into a number of still blooming collabora-tions during the ensuing eight years and reaching into the future. Having brought two members of my Wiscon-sin lab (in the photo) to the Workshop this year—Visiting Professor Waverly Duck of the University of Pittsburgh, and PhD candidate Jason Turowetz—we are looking forward to more growth and

possibly hybrid inquiries as time goes on. I can safely say that all of us are all extremely grateful to the Fulbright Finland program, to the University of Helsinki, to the United States Embassy in Helsinki, and to the many individu-als and institutions who have made such fruitful relations possible over the years.

Text: Douglas Maynard, Fulbright Scholar 2006 at the University of Helsinki.

Katsia Mikalayeva (left) and Mari Aha-va have been interning at the Fulbright Center this spring. Katsia comes from Belarus, and currently from the Univer-sity of Tampere where she is completing an Erasmus Mundus master’s degree in Research and Innovation in Higher Education (MARIHE). She is writing her master's thesis on “Factors influencing U.S. student program grantees to choo-se Finland as their Fulbright exchange destination”.

Mari is majoring in English Philology at the University of Helsinki.

Are you interested in interning at the Ful-

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Interning at the Fulbright Center

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Alumni News

Commemorating the Boston Marathon Bombing Rainey Tisdale (Fulbright Scholar 2010 to Finland ) was at the center of efforts by Boston-area cultural institutions to com-memorate the one-year anniversary of the 2013 Boston Mara-thon bombing. She lead a consortium of 25 local museums and libraries that planned concerts, talks, exhibitions, workshops, a free admission day, and art-making projects throughout the month of April 2014. She also curated an exhibition of objects from the makeshift memorial that grew organically in Copley Square in the weeks after the bombing. The exhibition, titled “Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial,” was held at the Boston Public Library and received 50,000 visitors during its five-week run. You can find out more about this project at www.bostonbetter.org.

Thea Lindquist’s Fulbright Led to an Award-Winning Partnership ProjectIn 2011, Thea Lindquist of the University of Colorado Boulder spent the fall at Aalto University in Finland exploring how Linked Open Data and semantically rich services can increase the interoperability and usability of digital historical collec-tions. Two years later, her initial Fulbright work had grown into a partnership project with researchers at Aalto University that had received two prestigious awards.

The World War I Linked Open Data (WWI LOD) Project is based on collaboration between Thea Lindquist of the Uni-versity of Colorado Boulder Libraries and the Semantic Com-puting Research Group (SeCo) in the Department of Media Technology at Aalto University. The project aims to improve discovery in digital historical sources on the First World War by providing contextual information about and drawing con-nections between the people, places, topics, and events con-tained within them.

In 2013, the WWI LOD Project received the first History In-novation Award from the American Library Association’s Ref-erence and User Services Section and Gale Cengage, as well as the Primary Source Award for Research from the Center for Research Libraries. Since her Fulbright, Lindquist has visited Finland three times for visits ranging from one to two months to work with her Finnish colleagues at Aalto University, Juha Törnroos, Eetu Mäkelä, and Eero Hyvönen. Most recently, the Aalto University School of Science supported their work by awarding Lindquist a visiting professorship. The next stage of the project will involve user testing, and she hopes that her Finnish colleagues will be able to visit Colorado to undertake this work.

Returning to Finland over time has allowed Lindquist to foster many meaningful professional and personal contacts. She also has been able to discover and do things that are dif-ferent and special, and not simply the top sights and experi-ences one “should have” when visiting. For Lindquist, this has meant, for instance, a quest to find the best coffee and pulla in Helsinki. While there is much that is novel about Finland, she says much is also familiar thanks to her upbringing in north-ern Minnesota. In fact, spending time in Finland has enriched her understanding of her home state, where many Finnish and other Nordic immigrants found a new life.

Thea Lindquist returned to Finland in March 2014 to work in the partnership project with her Finnish colleagues at Aalto University, her third visit since her Fulbright in 2011. They hope to conclude the current phase of the award-winning project later this year, corresponding with the centenary of the war. Before returning to Colorado, Thea enjoyed a late spring evening by relaxing in a very Finnish way: the gentle löyly in sauna and swimming in the sea.

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Karen Kunc (Fulbright Scholar 1995 and Fulbright Specialist 2009) has a new gallery, Constellation Studios, opened January 2014 in Lincoln, Nebraska, www.constellation-studios.net, and her exhibition “Of Process: Drawings, Blocks, Prints”.

Lauren Frankel (student grantee, 2010) Nordic folk music group, Linnunrata, played at the recent Society for the Ad-vancement of Scandinavian Studies conference held in New Haven, CN. Lin-nunrata (the Finnish name for the Milky Way, literally “the path of the birds”) is an ensemble dedicated to contemporary interpretations of traditional Nordic folk music, with an emphasis on dance tunes

Connections CornerFulbright grants open doors! People meet, make connections, and develop coop-

erations with lasting effect. Some connections are scholarly, some personal, and

others of a business nature, possibilities are endless! A few of our grantees offer

examples of their continuing cooperation.

from Finland, Sweden, and Norway. The band members, Nicholas Frankel (gui-tar), Lauren Frankel (chromatic button accordion), Nathalie Levine (fiddle) and John Parejko (fiddle) hail from a variety of departments at Yale University.

Mikko Alanne (FC undergraduate grant 1993) is screenwriter for the new film Los 33 or The 33, telling the story of the Chilean miners who were trapped un-derground for 69 days in 2010.

Finnish Fulbright alum and docent at Åbo Academi University, Dr. Michael Szurawitzki (ASLA-Fulbright Junior Scholar, University of California, Irvine, 2006-07) has been appointed as Profes-

Fulbright Alum Stuart N. Brotman Honored with BEA Law & Policy Division Lifetime Achievement Award

sor of Germanic Linguistics at Tongji University in Shanghai, China, begin-ning in September.

Connecting in New Haven, Washington D.C., and San DiegoFriends of Fulbright Finland (FoFF) come together several times a year in different parts of the U.S. Latest gatherings took place in New Haven and Washington D.C. in March, and in San Diego in May. Fol-low the FoFF mailing list for upcoming gatherings. If you are not on the list yet, contact suzanne.louis@fulbright.fi.

More information on the Friends of

Fulbright Finland (FoFF) network at

www.fulbright.fi/en/alumni/foff

Stuart N. Brotman has been named the recipient of the second Broadcast Edu-cation Association Law & Policy Divisi-on Lifetime Achievement Award. The inaugural recipient in 2012 was former FCC Chairman Richard E. Wiley.

Brotman served as the Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Informa-tion and Communication Technologies

Fulbright Alum Peter MacKeith Honored for Deepening Finnish-U.S. Cultural Ties

in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Rese-arch / Media and Communication Studies, at the University of Helsinki in 2012-13.

Stuart N. Brotman has extensive experience as a global executive, management consultant, international communi-cations and media lawyer, university educator, and govern-ment policymaker. He has served in four Presidential admi-nistrations on a bipartisan basis. Currently Brotman teaches at Harvard Law School.

Stuart N. Brotman’s article, “Bridging Disciplinary Divides: The Finnish Model at Work”, was published in Fulbright Cen-ter News Fall issue, 2013.

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palkinnon saajaksi olivat tukemassa myös monet merkittävät suomalaiset Fulbright-ohjelman alumnit yhdessä Fulbright Centerin kanssa.

Lisätietoa:

www.fulbright.fi/fi/fulbright-center/uutiset/

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Kansainvälinen Fulbright-ohjelma on voittanut vuoden 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation –palkinnon.

The Prince of Asturias Award –palkin-toa pidetään “Espanjan Nobelina”. Se palkitsee merkittäviä kansainvälisiä

saavutuksia tieteen, tekniikan, kult-tuurin sekä humanitaarisen työn alalla. Palkinnon ovat aiemmin saaneet Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, kan-sainvälinen Punainen Risti sekä Nelson Mandela. Palkinnon saaja julkistettiin kesäkuussa Espanjan Oviedossa.

Fulbright-ohjelman ehdokkuutta

Ambassador of Finland Ritva Koukku-Ronde presented Peter MacKeith with insignia of Knight, First Class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland in a cere-mony held recently at the Embassy of Finland in Washington D.C. MacKeith is a recognized architectural educa-tor, and a 1989–1990 Fulbright fellow to Helsinki University of Technology,

who has worked for decades to promote Finnish-American relations.

MacKeith recently retired from his professorship at Wa-shington University in St. Louis, upon his appointment as Dean and Professor at the Fay Jones School of Architecture, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville – the same university that Senator J. William Fulbright led before going to the U.S. Senate and initiating the Fulbright Program.

“At the University of Arkansas, I will have the privilege of sitting in Senator Fulbright's university office, which is now the Dean of Architecture's office,” says MacKeith.

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News / Uutisia

Dr. Bruce Forbes from the University of Lapland completed the maximum of two full four-year terms on the Fulbright Center Board. In recognition of his significant contribution over the years in enhancing transatlantic academic exchan-ges and his dedicated service on the Fulbright Center Board of Directors, Dr. Forbes was awarded a special recognition by the U.S. Department of State. The Board Chair Jeffrey Reneau and Executive Director Terhi Mölsä presented the recognition to Dr. Forbes in February.

Bruce Forbes leads the Global Change research group at the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland. He is currently working on Academy of Finland research project on ‘Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems of Northwest Eurasia’ and Nordic Centre of Excellence project ‘How to Preserve the Tundra in a Warming Climate’. Forbes has recently completed his work in research projects funded by the U.S. National Science Founda-tion (NSF) and NASA.

The Center wants to sincerely thank Dr. Forbes for his sig-nificant contribution to the Center and to Finnish-American academic exchanges.

Mr. David Yoken, Senior Music Lecturer, Arts Academy, Turku University of Applied Sciences, has been appointed to the Ful-bright Center Board. The Fulbright Center wishes Mr. Yoken warmly welcome.

Born in New York, David Yoken has been a resident of Turku, Finland since 1993. David was a California Regents Fel-low at the University of California, San Diego’s Department of Music where he completed his graduate music studies. A musician and educator, Yoken has developed a wide range of cross-interdisciplinary arts education curricula, lecturing and teaching in the USA, Scandinavia, the Baltic countries, Greenland, and China. He has worked professionally as a per-cussionist and composer with the American choreographer Carolyn Carlson and other recognized artists of our time. Yoken has dedicated a major portion of his professional ca-reer as an arts pedagogue. He creates and organizes innova-tive university and community arts projects internationally. In the spring of 1991, Yoken was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the former Soviet State Institute of Theatrical Art – GITIS, Moscow, lecturing about American composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham. He was appointed twice as an Educational Specialist by the U.S. State Department's Information Agency (USIA) in the former Yugoslavia.

Mirka McIntire Joins the Fulbright Center TeamMirka McIntire began at the Fulbright Center in June as Manager, Teacher Exchange and Education Programs. Ms. McIntire has a Master’s degree in International Relations and European Studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K., and a Bachelor’s degree in International Business Administration from the Helsinki School of Economics (now part of Aalto University). She has previously worked, among others, at the San Francisco office of the Institute of International Education (IIE), and for the past 10 years at the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki.

Appointment News from the Board

Fulbright Finland…For the FutureFulbright Finland…for the Future is an invi-tation for partnership! This 3-year cam-paign lasting from 2014 through 2016 is a remarkable joint effort that aims to bring the Finnish-American Fulbright program onto a completely new level. There are numerous ways to be involved and to contribute by donating time, tal-

ent, or treasure. Which will you share?

For a list of current partners and for more

information on how to be involved please

see www.fulbright.fi/fi/fulbright-center/ful-

bright-finland-future-kampanja-2014-2016

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Vaihtotoimikunnan jäsenet / Fulbright Center Board of Directors

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Toimikunnan sihteeristö / Fulbright Center Staff

Suomen ja Yhdysvaltain opetusalan vaihtotoimikunta Finland-U.S. Educational Exchange Commission (FUSEEC)

Ms. Karoliina KokkoVastaava ohjelmapäällikköSenior Program Manager(grant program oversight)p. (044) 5535 268• Maisteri- ja

tohtorivaiheen stipendit• Neuvonta opiskelusta

USA:ssa ja Kanadassa• Alumnikoordinaattori

Ms. Sonja KuosmanenOhjelmakoordinaattoriProgram Coordinator p. (044) 5535 275• Distinguished Chairs• Tutkija- ja asiantuntija-

stipendit• Inter-Country-stipendit• Fulbright-tapahtumat• Verkkopalvelut• Rekisterit

Ms. Johanna LahtiApulaisjohtajaDeputy Directorp. (044) 5535 278• Fulbright Center News

(toimituspäällikkö)• Undergraduate-stipendit

suomalaisille• Renewal-stipendit

suomalaisille• Inter-Country-stipendit• Testaus ja testeihin liittyvät

asiantuntijapalvelut• Neuvonta opiskelusta USA:ssa

Ms. Suzanne LouisProjektikonsultti (osa-aikainen)Project Consultant (part-time)• Friends of Fulbright

Finland -verkosto• Alumnikoordinaattori• Fulbright Center News

Ms. Mirka McIntireOhjelmapäällikkö, Koulutus- ja opettajavaihto (osa-aikainen)Manager, Teacher Exchange and Education Programs (part-time)p. (044) 5535 269• Opettajaohjelma• Study of the U.S. Institute

for Scholars and Secondary School Educators

• Asiantuntijastipendit suomalaisille

• Verkkopalvelut• Seminaarit ja koulutustapahtumat

Ms. Tanja MitchellViestintäsuunnittelija (osa-aikainen)Communications Specialist (part-time)p. (044) 5535 277• Verkkopalvelut• Julkaisut• Fulbright Center News• Neuvonta opiskelusta

USA:ssa ja Kanadassa

Ms. Terhi MölsäToiminnanjohtajaExecutive Directorp. (050) 570 5498

Project Assistants• Ms. Mari Ahava• Ms. Katsia Mikalayeva

E-mails:

firstname.lastname@fulbright.fi

Honorary Chair: H.E., Bruce J. OreckAmbassador of the United States to Finland

Finnish Members:

Dr. Heikki RuskoahoProfessor of Pharmacology and Drug development University of HelsinkiVice Chair

Dr. Matti KokkalaSenior Advisor, Smart Cities VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Dr. Bo PetterssonProfessor of the Literature of the United StatesUniversity of Helsinki

Ms. Birgitta VuorinenCounsellor of EducationMinistry of Education and CultureTreasurer

American Members:

Mr. Jeffrey K. ReneauCounselor for Press and Public Affairs American EmbassyChair

Mr. David YokenSenior Music LecturerArts Academy, Turku University of Applied Sciences

Dr. Laura StarkProfessor of EthnologyUniversity of Jyväskylä

Ex-officio: Ms. Terhi MölsäExecutive DirectorFulbright Center

Finnish members:

Mr. Jouni Mölsä Director of CommunicationsDepartment for Communications and CultureMinistry for Foreign AffairsChair

Ms. Jaana PalojärviHead of International RelationsFinnish Ministry of Education

American members:

Ms. Susan ElbowDeputy Chief of MissionAmerican EmbassyVice Chair

Mr. Jeffrey K. ReneauCounselor for Press and Public AffairsAmerican Embassy

Agent / Säätiön asiamies:

Ms. Terhi MölsäExecutive DirectorFUSEEC/Fulbright Center

The Finnish members are appointed by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The American members are appointed by the American Embassy.

TukisäätiöFUSEEC/Fulbright Centerin toimintaa rahoittaa Suomen ja Yhdysvaltain Stipenditoiminnan Tukisäätiö / Säätiön hallitus:The Finland-America Educational Trust Fund / Board of Directors:

Hakaniemenranta 6FI-00530 HELSINKIFINLAND

31. 3.–4. 4.Fulbright Center's Study Tour on Communications and Community Relations

3. 4. INFO:Opiskelemaan ulkomaille -minimessut CIMOssa ja Fulbright Centerissä

11. 4. 2014–2015 hakuaika päättyy:

• Fulbright Center's Undergraduate Grant

12. 5.ORIENTAATIO:suomalaisten stipendiaattien lähtöorientaatio ja stipendien julkistamistilaisuus

12.–16. 5. Fulbright Center Maple Leaf and Eagle -konferenssissa Helsingissä

13.–14. 5. Fulbright Center mukana Korkeakoulujen kansainvälisten asioiden hallinnon kevätpäivillä Tampereella

15. 5. 2014–2015 hakuaika päättyy:

• ASLA-Fulbright Graduate Grant

• Fulbright Techno-logy Industries of Finland Grant

2. 6. 2014–2015 hakuaika päättyy:

• Fulbright Center's Renewal Grant

12. 6.Vaihtotoimikunnan kokousFulbright Center Board Meeting

Syksyn infotilaisuudet ja avoimien ovien

päivät julkaistaan Fulbright Centerin

verkkosivuilla elokuun aikana.

26.–29. 8.ORIENTAATIO:Amerikkalaisten Fulbright-stipendiaattien tulo-orientaatio

Vaihtotoimikunnan kokous syyskuussa

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•Fulbright Center Board Meeting September 2014

22.9.ORIENTAATIO:Suomalaisten Fulbright Graduate -stipendiaattien orientaatio

Syyskuu8th Annual Fulbright Alumni Golf Tourna-ment

10.–11. 10. 2014American Voices -seminaari Turun yliopistossa

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