Fulbright Teaching and Excellence Achievement Program
Six-week professional development opportunity for international secondary-level teachers
Six-week professional development opportunity for international secondary-level teachers
Program offers grants to Slovak students interested in Master’s programs or Ph.D. research at accredited universities all over the United States.
Opportunities for highly qualified U.S. academics and professionals from all fields to share their expertise with Slovak institutions.
Nikola Beim studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where she is currently also a doctoral student under the supervision of Professor Mario Carpo, focusing on the theory and history of architecture. In her dissertation, she deals with the research of memory and monuments from the Industrial to the Digital Age. As part of a Fulbright scholarship, she studies at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University (New York), where she researches the most up-to-date technologies and processes applicable to the digital and experimental preservation of architecture.
Saylar Epperson was born and raised in Maynardville, Tennessee, a small town about forty minutes outside of Knoxville, Tennessee. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Tennessee. During her time at UTK, she also minored in History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Additionally, she was involved in the Alternative Breaks Program, the Baker Scholars Program, and Alpha Chi Omega Sorority. Next August, she will start law school and hopes to work in public policy after receiving her law degree. In her free time, she loves to read, travel, go to the lake, and spend time with family and friends.
Peter Mikula received his PhD. at the Department of Zoology of Charles University in 2020. During his doctoral studies, he completed a several-month internship at the Max Planck Institut für Ornithologie in Seewiesen, Germany. He currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Vertebrate Biology in Brno. He took part in several field expeditions, mainly to regions of sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya and Cameroon). In his professional life, he is mainly interested in the research of bird behaviour across large spatial and taxonomic scales, urban ecology and biodiversity, conservation culturomics and iEcology, and the use of big data from publicly available databases.