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A Rich and Fulfilling Fulbright Experience in Taiwan, China and Hong Kong

Monica Yang 楊雅淳 April 22, 2016

    This paper contains reflections on my stay in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China as a Fulbright Senior Scholar from May to July 2015.   Research-Wide Reflections      Because the Fulbright Scholar Award is prestigious in supporting activities and projects that promote educational exchange and international understanding, I

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My Fulbright Journey in Taiwan: Language-Discordance as a Social Phenomenon

Elaine Hsieh 謝怡玲 April 22, 2016

    Social worlds and social relationships are created, maintained, and resisted through human communication. The best of communication scholarship emerges through researchers’ willingness and ability to listen, by recognizing the perspectives of others, and learning through the nuances and complexities of communication practices. This is particularly important when working

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James Winkler: A Computational Infrastructure for Understanding Tolerance

Fulbright Taiwan April 8, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBrdljFhe2g Currently, our ability to understand how microbes tolerate different environmental conditions, antibiotic treatments, and other insults is limited by the lack of a centralized resource containing genetic and gene expression data. Dr. James Winkler introduced the creation of a tolerance-focused database (the “Resistome”) and present preliminary analysis of trait

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Sarah DeMola & Emily Quade: My ETA TEFL Training Experience

Fulbright Taiwan April 6, 2016

Sarah DeMola and Emily Quade work within the ETA advisory team which provides training and advice to the English Teaching Assistants (ETAs) and Taiwan local English teachers (LETs). Through weekly reports, bi-weekly workshops, class observations, and annual ETA conference, the team provides agile response and thorough training to enhance teaching

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My Fulbright Year in the Oregon State University

Wen-I Chuang 莊文議 January 21, 2016

     First of all, I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to the Fulbright Program for offering me the generous research grant to conduct a joint research program with Professor Jimmy Yang at Oregon State University (OSU). Not only did this unique opportunity advance my professional knowledge

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Reflections on Palace Plays in the Digital Age

Ariel Fox 樊艾睿 January 21, 2016

        During the past academic year (2014-2015), I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at Academia Sinica. Academia Sinica is a tremendous place to do research—it is such a vibrant intellectual community, with near-constant talks, symposia, conferences, and exhibitions. I was particularly excited to make

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Fulbright Reflections: Forging New Connections in Taiwan

James Winkler 商詹姆斯 January 20, 2016

In many ways, Taiwan is very familiar to me: I have traveled through most of its cities, have many Taiwanese friends, and have worked here previously as a visiting researcher. I enjoy the sights, sounds, people, places, and most aspects of life here. Of course, there are everyday challenges: finding

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