UR achieves its 75th student Fulbright award

The university celebrated a milestone academic achievement in spring 2022 with the naming of its 75th student to receive a Fulbright. Congress created the Fulbright Program just after World War II, in 1946, to “increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship,” said its namesake, Sen. J. William Fulbright.

Fulbright, the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program, sends U.S. students, teachers, and scholars abroad and brings foreign students, teachers, and scholars to the U.S. Participants are chosen for academic merit and leadership potential and travel around the world to study, teach, conduct research, and engage in other activities. Approximately 2,000 U.S. students are chosen for the program annually. More than 160 countries currently participate.

Richmond’s first Fulbrighter, Leonard Greenspoon, R’67 and G’70, used his award in 1967 to study in Italy for a year. He went on to earn a doctorate at Harvard and has taught classics for 40 years, 
currently at Creighton University. Here’s a look at Spiders who followed him.