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Fulbright-Finland for the Future

Miten Fulbright-stipendiaatit valitaan

International Vision

It is difficult to comprehend the scope of change over the past 60 years. Not merely has every facet of our lives been impacted by technology in ways that only science fiction writers dared to predict, but the acceleration in the rate of change has forced us to accept adaptive and disruptive thinking as the new norm. Apply the scope and speed of change to a world population that has almost tripled since the founding of the Fulbright program and it is immediately clear that the amplitude of change is unrivaled in human history.

Sixty years ago, United States Senator J. William Fulbright unflinchingly stared into the future and saw both its challenges and its opportunities. He said, “We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly chang-ing world.” His namesake program was es-tablished to create global citizens – those who dare to address universal problems with inno-vative solutions.

The Finnish-American Fulbright program has become an exemplar of those goals. It has been recognized for its remarkable suc-cesses, the strength of its partnerships and its broad alumni support. Having already grown, on a number of measures, among the largest worldwide, the Finnish-American Program holds the immodest aim of expanding its reach even further to better respond to global chal-lenges and shape the minds that will find the solutions.

You can be a part of this future. I urge you to recognize your potential to change the world around you, and I urge you to become a partner of the Finnish-American Fulbright Program. I dare you to think “unthinkable” thoughts and confront this changing world. The need

Fulbright Finland...for the Future

From the Executive DirectorAccording to a statistic recently released by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Finland has the 11th largest U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program in the world. Among 155 countries participating in the international Fulbright program globally, this is no minor achievement. It is important, how-ever, to recognize the reason for this success: the cooperation and partnership with Finnish universities. All Finnish universities partici-pate in the funding of the U.S. scholars that they host through the Finnish-American Fulbright Program, and many have signed a long-term agreement with the Fulbright Center on exten-sive sponsorship. Additionally, private founda-tions have joined forces with the Fulbright Cen-ter and higher education institutions to provide additional support.

This principle of cooperation holds true throughout all programs and activities of the Fulbright Center. The Finnish-American Fulbright Program is unique because it is so fundamentally a joint effort. As the year 2013 draws to a conclusion, I want to sincerely thank every institution, every individual, and every alumnus and friend who during this past year has generously donated their time, talent, and treasure for the benefit of our program. We are deeply grateful. It is thanks to you that our program is among the largest around the world. And it is together with you that we can and will build the program even bigger.

I am very pleased to announce Fulbright Finland…for the Future — a three-year campaign with the immodest aim of expanding our program’s reach even further to better respond to the global challenges. The campaign runs from January 2014 through December 2016 and offers more opportunities than ever before to support the program and to be a part of the activities… details will be unveiled in January 2014.

We are honored to set off our campaign with the words from our Honorary Chair, Ambassador Bruce J. Oreck (p. 2), who so rightly concludes, “the opportunity has never been greater”.

Be a part of our story and invest in the future… invest in Fulbright Finland.

With my sincere thanks and best wishes for the Holiday Season!

Terhi Mölsä

H.E. Bruce J. OreckAmbassador of the United States

to the Republic of Finland

has never been more compelling and the opportunity has never been greater.

Let 2014 be the year for you to shape the future.

Fulbright Center News on Fulbright Centerin asiakaslehti, joka ilmestyy kaksi kertaa vuodessa. Lehdestä julkaistaan myös verkkoversio osoitteessa www.fulbright.fi/fi/fulbright-center/fulbright-center-news. Seuraava numero ilmestyy keväällä 2014. Artikkelit ja muu aineisto pyydetään toimittamaan 31.3. mennessä. Artikkeleissa ilmaistut mielipiteet ovat kirjoittajien omia.

The Fulbright Center News is a biannual newsletter 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 Spring of 2014. The submission deadline for articles and other materials is 31 March. 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 GairnHeidi Lehmuskumpu

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)

Kansipaperi/Cover paper: Maxigloss 200 g/m2

Paperi/Paper: G-Print 115 g/m2

Levikki/Circulation: 1 300Painopaikka/Printed byErweko Oy

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4 Fulbright Center Grants to the United States 2013–2014

6 Miten Fulbright-stipendiaatit valitaan? Stipendit graduate-tason opintoihin Yhdysvaltoihin

6 Yhdysvaltalaisprofessoreiden neuvo uusille Fulbright- stipendiaateille: Älä valitse yliopistoa pelkän nimen perusteella

7 The John Morton Center: New Directions for the Study of North America

8 Bridging Disciplinary Divides: The Finnish Model at Work

9 The Strengthening and Widening of a Finnish-American Network

10 Teknologiateollisuuden 100-vuotissäätiö ja Fulbright Center Yhteistyöllä korkeatasoista koulutusta insinööritieteilijöille

11 Fulbrightereiden matkassa

12 Tutkija Leasa Weimer ja asiantuntija Charles Mathies Korkeakoulututkimuksen asiantuntijoiksi Jyväskylään

14 An International Vision

16 Lue Environmental Stewardship -stipendiaatin tarina verkossa

16 Suomalaisten opiskelijoiden määrä yhdysvaltalaisissa yliopistoissa kasvanut

17 Canadian Student Life

18 Highlight of the American Fall in Finland

20 Alumni News ASLA-Alumni Association Anniversary Reception FinnFest: Festival for Finnish Culture Lovers Fulbright Arctic Workshop

21 Connections Corner

22 News / Uutisia

23 Fulbright Center

24 Kalenteri / Calendar of Events

In This Issue

Cover: Fulbright Finland for the Future is the Fulbright Center’s new campaign brand adopted to promote the Finnish Fulbright program’s mission. The campaign will be launched in January 2014 but the alumni took a headstart already and created a project to make the slogan visible on a T-shirt.

U.S. Fulbright grantees are wearing the T-shirt at the American Voices Seminar in Turku. Read more about the American Voices Seminar on p. 19.

Photo: Sonja Kuosmanen, Fulbright Center

Minneapolis, MN

Houston, TX

San Francisco, CA

Santa Barbara, CA

San Diego, CA

Bloomington, IN

Boston and Waltham, MA

New Haven, CTNew York, NY

Philadelphia, PA

Washinton, D.C.

Charlo­e, NC

Atlanta, GA

Sarasota, FL

Ann Arbor, MI

Nashville, TN

Bal�more, MD

Princeton and New Brunswick, NJ

Worcester, MAAmherst, NY Rochester, NY

North Mankato, MN

Madison, WI

Manha­an, KS

Fulbright Center Grants to the United States 2013-2014

ASLA-Fulbright Research Grants for Senior Scholars

Björn, PiiaEducationUniversity of JyväskyläVanderbilt University, Nashville, TNCost-shared with the University of JyväskyläASLA-Fulbright Alumni Ambassadorial Awardee 2013

Kirkkopelto, EsaTheaterUniversity of the Arts Helsinki, Theatre AcademyJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MDCost-shared with the Theatre Academy

Lehtimäki, HannaBusiness AdministrationUniversity of Eastern Finland, KuopioGeorge Mason University, Fairfax, VACost-shared with the University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio

Lönnberg, TuomasChemistryUniversity of TurkuJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MDCost-shared with the University of Turku

ASLA-Fulbright Research Grants for Junior Scholars

Heikkilä, PauliHistoryUniversity of TartuStanford University, Palo Alto, CA and University of Minnesota, MN

Herrala, MeriPolitical HistoryUniversity of HelsinkiGeorgetown University, Washington, DC

Piippo, IrinaAnthropologyUniversity of HelsinkiUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Fulbright-Schuman Research Grants

Pietilä, PäiviLinguisticsUniversity of TurkuCity University of New York, NY

More detailed list at www.fulbright.fi/en/grantees/fulbright-center-grantees-2013-2014

ASLA-Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Research Fellows

Koskimaa, VesaPolitical ScienceUniversity of TampereUniversity of Houston, TXCost-shared with the University of Tampere

Marttinen, AleksiEngineeringAalto UniversityWorcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MACost-shared with Aalto University

Siitonen, AriMedicineUniversity of OuluNational Institute of Health, Bethesda, MDCost-shared with the University of Oulu

Tawah, SannaAnthropologyUniversity of JyväskyläIndiana University, Bloomington, INCost-shared with the University of Jyväskylä

ASLA-Fulbright Mid-Career Professional Development Grant

Lampinen, JohannaBusiness AdministrationAmerican Red Cross National Headquarters, Washington, DC

Mäenpää, TeemuEducationVaasa Vocational InstituteCentral Piedmont Community College, Matthews, NC and South Central College, North Mankato, MN

Distinguished Fulbright Awards In Teaching

Kallio, MaijaTiirismaa School, LahtiUniversity of Maryland, College Park

Rahikka, MikkoHelsingin yhteislyseoUniversity of Maryland, College Park

Ritvanen, InkaMyllypuro SchoolUniversity of Maryland, College Park

Fulbright-Technology Industries of Finland Grants

Antikainen, AkuPhysicsTampere University of TechnologyUniversity of Rochester, NY

Broas, MikaelEngineeringAalto UniversityGeorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

ASLA-Fulbright Graduate Grants

Cheas, Kirsi-MariCommunicationsUniversity of HelsinkiNew York University, NY

Eskola, JyriArchitectureAalto UniversityHarvard University, Cambridge, MACost-shared with Aalto University

Haara, HeikkiHistoryUniversity of HelsinkiUniversity of California, Berkeley, CACost-shared with the University of Helsinki

Hämäläinen, JoonasEconomicsUniversity of TurkuPrinceton University, NJCost-shared with the University of Turku

Takkinen, JaakkoReligious StudiesUniversity of HelsinkiUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Vanhanen, TeroLiteratureUniversity of HelsinkiUniversity of California, Berkeley, CA

Vasko, PetraChemistryUniversity of JyväskyläUniversity of California, Davis, CACost-shared with the University of Jyväskylä

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Minneapolis, MN

Houston, TX

San Francisco, CA

Santa Barbara, CA

San Diego, CA

Bloomington, IN

Boston and Waltham, MA

New Haven, CTNew York, NY

Philadelphia, PA

Washinton, D.C.

Charlo­e, NC

Atlanta, GA

Sarasota, FL

Ann Arbor, MI

Nashville, TN

Bal�more, MD

Princeton and New Brunswick, NJ

Worcester, MAAmherst, NY Rochester, NY

North Mankato, MN

Madison, WI

Manha­an, KS

Fulbright Center Grants to the United States 2013-2014

Vuolajärvi, NiinaSociologyUniversity of Eastern Finland, Joensuu and University of HelsinkiRutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

Fulbright Finnish Language and Culture Teaching Assistants

Räsänen, ElisaLiteratureUniversity of JyväskyläIndiana University, Bloomington, IN

Soikkeli, KatjaFinnish Language and LiteratureUniversity of HelsinkiUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Virtanen, AijaFinnish Language and LiteratureUniversity of JyväskyläUniversity of California, Berkeley, CA

Yliniemi, VeeraFinnish Language and LiteratureUniversity of HelsinkiUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, WI

Fulbright Center’s Undergraduate Grants

Hakanpää, MilenaInternational RelationsUnited World College Costa RicaBrandeis University, Waltham, MA

Lundstedt, JussiEconomicsTurku International SchoolUniversity of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA

Nuutinen, OlgaDeaf StudiesUniversity of JyväskyläGallaudet University, Washington, DC

Ruohonen, AkiAerospace EngineeringUniversity of Glasgow, Scotland, UKUniversity of California, San Diego, CA

Fulbright Center Partnership Awards for Undergraduate Students

Kurki, NiinaEconomics and CommunicationsRessu Upper Secondary SchoolVanderbilt University, Nashville, TNCornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship

Summer Institutes for European Student Leaders

Kansas State University, Manhattan, KSTo be selected in early 2014

Fulbright Center Renewal Grants

Häkkinen, SiljaASLA-Fulbright Graduate Grant 2012-13Chemical EngineeringColumbia University, NY

Juutinen, JasminFulbright Center’s Undergraduate Grant 2011-12IllustrationRingling College of Arts and Design, Sarasota, FL

Karjalainen, JoonasFulbright Center’s Undergraduate Grant 2010-11Environmental EngineeringJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Saajola, NinniFulbright Center’s Undergraduate Grant 2012-13Writing for Film and TelevisionThe University of Arts in Philadelphia, PA

Salminen, ElinaASLA-Fulbright Graduate Grant 2011-12ArcheologyUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Salo, JanneFulbright Center’s Undergraduate Grant 2010-11Art HistoryYale University, New Haven, CT

Worcester• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

New Haven• Yale U

New York• Columbia U• CUNY• New York U

Philadephia• The U of the Arts• U of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School

Baltimore• Johns Hopkins U

• Georgia Institute of Technology

• UC Berkeley• UC Davis• Stanford U

• Ringling College of Art and Design

• Indiana U, Bloomington

• U of Minnesota

• UC Santa Barbara

• UC San Diego

• Kansas State University

• U of Michigan

• U of Houston

• Central Piedmont CC• Vanderbilt U

• U of Wisconsin

• South Central C• Daemen C • U of Rochester

• Brandeis U• Harvard U

• American National Red Cross• Gallaudet U• Georgia Mason U• National Institute of Health• U of Maryland College Park

• Princeton• Rutgers

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Fulbright Centerin graduate-stipen-deillä tuetaan koko maisterin- tai tohtorintutkinnon tai yhden lukuvuo-den kestävien, määräaikaisten opin-tojen, kuten kurssien tai tutkimuk-sen suorittamista Yhdysvalloissa. Graduate-opintoja Yhdysvalloissa suunnittelevat opiskelijat hakevat Fulbright-stipendiä yli vuosi ennen suunniteltua opintojen aloittamista yhdysvaltalaisessa yliopistossa.

Ennen stipendihakemuksensa jättä-mistä hakijat ovat alustavasti kartoit-taneet itselleen parhaiten soveltuvia yliopistoja. Ehdokkaiden ei edellytetä kuitenkaan vahvistaneen isäntäyliopis-topaikkaansa ennen stipendin hakua.

Miten Fulbright-stipendiaatit valitaan?Stipendit graduate-tason opintoihin Yhdysvaltoihin

Lukuvuoden 2014-2015 ensimmäiset Fulbright Graduate -stipendi-aatit. Takana (vas.) Stefan Baumeister, Matias Kalm, Paula Saari, Maija Mattila, Lotta Junnilainen, Jesse Lastunen, Matti Heinonen. Edessä (vas.) Antti Makkonen, Mila Oiva, Johan Munck af Rosenschöld, Eeva Siivonen, Emil Kurvinen.

Lue artikkeli kokonaisuudessaan osoitteessa www.fulbright.fi/fi/stipendiohjelmat-maisteri-ja- tohtoritason-opintoihin-ja-tutkimukseen/asla-fulbright-graduate-grants/valintaprosessi

Orientaatiossa käsiteltyihin aiheisiin voi syventyä tutustumalla orientaatio-oppaaseen: www.fulbright.fi/fi/orientaatio-opas

Planning for the Fulbright Year

Seminar for the Finnish

Fulbright Graduate Students 2014-2015

Program • Monday 23. 9. 2013

8:45 Coffee

9:00 Welcome & Introductions

9:20 Fulbright Center and Your Fulbright Network:

What’s in It for You?

9:50 The Roles and Responsibilities of the Fulbright

Center and the Grantee During the Coming Year

10:15 Break

10:30 Admission Categories in a U.S. University

10:45 Choosing the Right Institution and Program

11:00 Panel Discussion: What Do Academic

Departments Look for in an Applicant?

The Student-Mentor Relationship

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Applying for a Degree Program

(Degree & non-degree students)

13:00 Connecting with Your Academic Host

(Visiting student researchers)

14:30 Coffee break

14:45 Financing Your Studies in the U.S.:

Additional Funding Sources

15:15 Preparing for TOEFL

and GRE Tests

16:00 Q&A

Yhdysvaltalaisprofessoreiden neuvo uusille Fulbright-stipendiaateille:

Älä valitse yliopistoa pelkän nimen perusteella

Fulbright-orientaatiossa stipendiaat-teja valmennetaan yliopistopaikan va-linnassa, hakumenetelmissä ja paikan vahvistamisessa.

Fulbright-stipendiohjelma on suun-nattu monenlaisille ihmisille. Ohjel-maan ei haeta ainoastaan akateemiselle uralle suuntaavia tutkijoita, vaan myös yhteiskunnan eri aloille sijoittuvia oman alansa asiantuntijoita.

Hakemusten tekninen tarkastusHakemusten arviointi alkaa teknisellä tarkastuksella: tällä varmistetaan ha-kijan täyttävän hakuohjeissa ilmoitetut vähimmäishakuehdot ja hakemuk-sen sisältävän vaadittavat asiakirjat. Ohjelmassa ei ole kiintiöitä tiettyjen

tieteenalojen tai maantieteellisten alu-eiden hakijoille. Stipendit myönnetään arvioinneissa parhaiten menestyville ehdokkaille alasta tai opiskelupaikasta riippumatta. Ainoastaan määräaikaan mennessä saapuneet, kaikki asiakirjat sisältävät hakemukset otetaan valin-noissa huomion.

...jatkuu verkossa.

Stipendiaatit

Fulbright Center valitsi syyskuussa ensimmäiset suoma-laisstipendiaatit lukuvuodelle 2014-15 ja jo muutaman päivän kuluttua valinnasta 12 uutta maisteri- ja tohtori-opiskelijaa kokoontuivat Hakaniemeen ensimmäiseen val-mennustilaisuuteen. ...jatkuu verkossa.

Lue koko artikkeli osoitteessa www.fulbright.fi/fi/stipendiaateille/orientaatiot/planning-fulbright-year-2013

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The John Morton Center:

New Directions for the Study of North America

Finland and the United States share a long common history. In recognition of the influence of the United States throughout the world, it was proposed in 2011 that there should be an insti-tute in Finland dedicated to the study of the United States. In spring 2012, with support from the University of Turku Foundation, a survey was drawn up charting teaching and research on the United States at Finnish universi-ties. This survey revealed that although both teaching and research are fairly active on American topics, the field is fragmented.

At present, there is no single insti-tution in Finland dedicated to carrying out teaching and research on the United States in a wide variety of fields; nor is there any institution regularly partici-pating in public debate about the United States. In Turku, research into the Unit-ed States has been actively pursued for many decades, and it would therefore seem appropriate to establish in Turku, in close association with the University, a national institute for the study of the United States.

In August 2012, the Rector of the University appointed a commission to draw up plans for the funding, organi-zation, and profile of a "US Institute" to be established in Turku. The members of the commission were Keijo Virtanen (Chair), Kristiina Helenius (AmCham Finland), Markku Henriksson (Uni-

versity of Helsinki), Risto Hiltunen (University of Turku), Auvo Kostiainen (University of Turku), Ossi V. Lindqvist (University of Eastern Finland), Ismo Söderling (Institute of Migration), Tapani Vaahtoranta (Uongozi Institute, Dar-es-Salaam), Jukka Valtasaari (The League of Finnish-American Societies) and Jarmo Virmavirta (Finland Soci-ety), with Markus Kantola and Kimmo Elo (University of Turku) as Executive Secretaries. We also consulted with ex-perts on American Studies, including Terhi Mölsä, Executive Director of the Fulbright Center.

We presented the implementation plan and the draft for the statutes of the Institute to the Rector in May, 2013. We recommended the establishment in as-sociation with the University of Turku of an institute dedicated to research and teaching on North America, and suggested that its name should be the John Morton Center for North Ameri-can Studies (John Morton -keskus). John Morton (1725–1777) was a Finn-ish-American signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776. During his lifetime, John Morton held many important public offices in colonial Pennsylvania. Morton's great grandfather was Finnish and settled the New Sweden Colony on the Delaware River in the middle of the 17th century. Morton's mother as well as his wife also had family ties to Finland.

The purpose of the John Morton Cen-ter is to carry out high-quality research and to promote a better understanding of North America both among the gen-eral public and among decision makers, within Finland and internationally. The Center will offer training for research-ers, and other teaching; will participate in public debate; and will offer assis-tance and support to Finnish decision makers. The Center should be a forum for academic and civic debate and dia-logue, functioning as a link between the academic community, civic society, and the corporate world. The task of its researchers is to explore the ways in which the Unites States and Canada have influenced and continue to influ-ence developments in Finland and the rest of the world, with a particular focus on the politics, economy, culture, histo-ry, and international relations of North

American societies. How all this can be achieved remains to be seen in the years to come.

The crucial prerequisite for the es-tablishment of the Center is a function-al and adequately broad-based funding model. Funding needs to be sought for from the widest possible spread of po-tential sources, with the first approach-es being made to local government, the corporate sector, and private founda-tions both within Finland and abroad. Over the next few years, the goal will be to obtain Finnish government funding for the Center's core budget. Launch-phase funding for the Center has been promised by the City of Turku, the Uni-versity of Turku Foundation, and the University of Turku.

The actual starting date of the Center is January 1, 2014. The Executive Board and the Chair of the Supervisory Coun-cil were appointed by the Rector of the University of Turku in November, 2013. The other members of the Supervisory Council should be appointed over the course of the fall of 2013 and early 2014. The public application period for ap-pointing the first Director and the Re-search Coordinator ends on December 20, 2013.

As Ambassador Jukka Valtasaari, who is also the first Chair of the Supervisory Council of the John Morton Center, has pointed out, the Center will carry out broad-based research, thereby enhanc-ing understanding of American politics, economy, and ways of life in Finland as well as awareness of Finland in the United States. Active participation in public discussion by those involved with the Center will contribute to bringing North America to its rightful place in Finnish political and other discourse. This is a task of national importance for the Center.

Keijo Virtanen Rector Emeritus and Professor of Cultural History, University of Turku. Fulbright Re-searcher, University of Michigan 1988–1989

The article is based on Keijo Virtanen's address at Fulbright's annual American Voices Seminar on October 12, 2013 at the University of Turku.

Rector emeritus Keijo Virtanen of the University of Turku introduced the new John Morton Center at the American Voices seminar in Turku.

North American Studies

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Within higher education, there is both the high aspiration and often elusive goal of bridging the divide between two or more academic disciplines. There are various terms for this—in-terdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary seem to be the most common. Although each term has a slightly different meaning, there are common ways that outcomes are pursued at colleges and univer-sities. These include joint degree programs, joint or courtesy faculty appointments, team teaching, cross-registered courses and collaborative research projects. Moreover, as areas of inquiry require multiple perspec-tives, there is considerable interest in making educational institutions more open to broader approaches for teach-ing and research.

A principal interest of mine—broad-band development—is a case in point. OECD countries, including Finland and the United States, have previously agreed upon key areas of broadband policies, which have been incorporated into National Broadband Plans (NBPs). There has been continued growth in de-mand for broadband services, at a time when many other sectors experienced a decline. Some governments injected funds, either directly or through support for loans, to help the geographic expan-sion of broadband access networks, the upgrading of existing networks to high-er speeds and also through measures to encourage adoption among social and economic groups with limited use of broadband. Governments assessed these interventions based on their costs, benefits and effects on markets.

The provision of broadband to schools and universities also is impor-tant in many NBPs, especially where there are high costs in reaching schools in remote areas and where commercial offerings are limited. In such cases, a school may act as an anchor for an opti-cal fibre connection and may offer out-of-hours use to those without their own broadband access.

One of the significant challenges in crafting NBPs has been to devise policies that overcome the barriers to broadband adoption for those with no experience of computers, perhaps

lacking in digital literacy and who may see no reason to use broadband. This has required governments to develop a range of new programs and interven-tions to complement the technological and economic measures for broadband infrastructure provision.

In short, Finland, the US and over 50 other countries are developing new digital ecosystems that require those studying and teaching about them to view Broadband through multiple dis-ciplinary lenses-- technology, econom-ics, political science, social research and policy, and law and regulation are at the core. Among the questions that flow from a broad analysis of this area are:

• What are the cost-benefit tradeoffs of fixed wired broadband and mobile wireless broadband?

• How have governments engaged in co-ordination between ministries and agencies, and with other stakeholders?

• How have investments in broadband as an economic stimulus, together with the economic effects of broadband access, been measured?

• What is the impact of broadband access for educational and research establishments?

• How quickly can high-speed broadband be extended to rural and remote areas?

• Can broadband utilization be increased through greater digital literacy?

• How effective are e-government and e-health initiatives and how can they be improved?

My appointment last year as the Ful-bright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in In-formation and Communications Tech-nologies was especially useful because it enabled me to experience first-hand how different disciplines are eager to speak with each other because they recognize that broadband development requires more analytic horsepower than any single discipline can offer. While based in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki, for example, I was able to develop productive profes-sional relationships with colleagues at the Faculty of Law. A short ride to Espoo brought me in contact with professors

and graduate students in the Depart-ment of Communications and Network-ing at Aalto University, and with various executives at the Nokia Corporation.

This fluidity in disciplinary bound-aries holds much promise for broad-band development, with Finland as a leading model for what our digital fu-ture may look like. Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for all its citi-zens, entitling them to a one megabit per second broadband connection now, with a 100-Mbit/s connection to become a right by the end of 2015. Broadband access now is included in basic commu-nication services, such as telephone or postal services. And an estimated 95 per cent of Finland’s population of around 5.3 million already is online.

My time in Finland also afforded me the opportunity to see how well individ-uals with different disciplinary back-grounds can work together, and how productive this approach can be when it creates a whole larger than the sum of its parts. This is a larger lesson that should interest American academe writ large. Breaking down disciplinary bar-riers is one way to go, but I have learned that promoting an academic culture which welcomes multiple contributors also is important to translate a concept into something that works in practice.

I’ll be back for sure—both to see how broadband development in the living laboratory of Finland is progressing, and to develop ideas about fostering stron-ger interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary relationships be-tween Finland and the United States.

Stuart N. Brotmanteaches at Harvard Law School. During the 2012-13 academic year, he served as the Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in In-formation and Communications Technolo-gies at the University of Helsinki. Just re-cently he was a nominee for the 2013 World Technology Awards.

Bridging Disciplinary Divides: The Finnish Model at Work

From Alumni

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My decade long engagement with Finland and the Fulbright Commission is an extraordinary example of an academic and social exchange network. Experiences and interactions with Finnish colleagues have generated new ideas and exchanges of valuable information, enriched academic careers, cultivated friendships and opened up multiple circles of collaboration and opportunity.

Beginnings of a networkDr. Liisa Husu, previously of the Uni-versity of Helsinki, and I participated together on panels at several interna-tional conferences. As a result of this interaction, in 2004 I asked her to cont-ribute to a book, Women, Universities and Change: Gender Equality in the European Union and the United States. As I read, re-read and edited her work on the Univer-sity of Helsinki and Finnish universities I gained greater understanding and res-pect for the social and political values and culture of Finland that enabled wi-der access and more equality than most countries. So, when my daughter, Mary Kathryn Sagaria, was exploring options for a student Fulbright I suggested she look at Finland.

Development of an intergenerational network When Mary Kathryn traveled to Finland to begin her Fulbright studying Inter-national Development at the University of Helsinki in August 2006, Executive Director Terhi Mölsä graciously invited me to sit in the American grantees’ orientation. There I met the superb staff at the Fulbright Center and learned more about the research processes and struc-tures of the country. A couple of years later, as a Fulbright Scholar in Austria, I had the good fortune of visiting the Helsinki Collegium as a Fulbright Inter-country grant awardee. While giving a seminar and observing a focus group of academic women in Helsinki I met leading Finnish social scientists whom I connected with my Austrian colleagues.

Widening networksDuring an email exchange with Dr. Lea-sa Weimer (American Fulbright student to Finland, 2011-2012) in 2011, I learned that Dr. Johanna Hakala, (Finnish Ful-

bright Mid-career Grantee 2013) would be going to North Carolina State Uni-versity, where I would soon be a pro-fessor and Head of the Department of Leadership, Policy and Adult and Higher Education. Johanna and I met on SKYPE where we agreed that I would co-host her along with our provost, Dr. Betsy Brown. This enabled Dr. Hakala to de-velop insights about our strategies for increasing university research activity from both the macro university level and micro level---my department, where she could immerse herself in the daily academic work culture and grant development processes.

Dr. Hakala was an admirable Finnish ambassador at North Carolina State University. She offered new understan-dings and insights about Finnish higher education by lecturing in my Interna-lization of Higher Education graduate level course and participating in a pre-departure orientation for a delegation of North Carolina State University faculty researchers I would lead to Finland.

Facilitating new networksMy trip to Finland with eight US collea-gues in April, 2013 is already strengthe-ning and widening Finnish-American networks. First, several new bilateral collaborative research projects are ta-king hold with colleagues from the Universities of Helsinki, Jyväskylä and Tampere and North Carolina State. Second, our last appointment before returning to the US was at the Fulbright Center in Helsinki. There we learned and saw firsthand the possibilities of the global Fulbright program through

The Strengthening and Widening of a Finnish-American Network

Mary Ann Danowitz (center in the back) visited Finland and the Fulbright Center in the spring of 2013 with a North Carolina State University delegation.

a Finnish lens; an especially rare privi-lege for US faculty members. Our time at the Center was transformative and already two of the Americans are pre-paring Fulbright grant applications.

I have gained immensely from this network. I now see each new interna-tional connection in which I participa-te or facilitate as giving back to others as others have generously given to me. More importantly, I believe the respon-sibilities of a Fulbrighter never end. We must continuously strive to engage and extend our global synergetic network of scholars and leaders—for these re-lationships and partnerships are one of our greatest hopes for addressing the pressing problems we share on both sides of the North Atlantic and around the globe.

Mary Ann DanowitzFulbright Scholar Indonesia, 1990-1991 Fulbright Scholar Austria and Fulbright Finland Inter-country Grant recipient, 2007maryanndanowitz@ncsu.edu

The responsibilities of a Fulbrighter never end. We must continuously strive to engage and extend our global synergetic network of scholars and leaders.

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Fulbright Center on lähettänyt yhteistyökumppaninsa Teknologia-teollisuuden 100-vuotissäätiön kans-sa vuodesta 2007 lähtien 19 stipen-diaattia Yhdysvaltoihin. Nykyisin Fulbright-Technology Industries of Finland -ohjelman alumnit työsken-televät professoreina, apulaisprofes-soreina ja tutkijoina niin Suomessa kuin ulkomaillakin.

Säätiö perustettiin kymmenen vuotta sitten, vuoden 2003 lopussa, kun Tek-nologiateollisuus ry täytti sata vuotta. Teknologiateollisuuden 100-vuotis-säätiön tarkoituksena on teknologia-teollisuuden edustamien toimialojen osaamista, kehittämistä ja kilpailuky-kyä tukevan koulutuksen, tutkimuksen sekä alalle suotuisan ja innovatiivisen

toimintaympäristön edistäminen.Yhteisstipendi Fulbright Centerin

kanssa on yksi Säätiön tavoista tukea osaamista, kehittämistä ja kilpailuky-kyä. ”Yhteistyö palvelee Säätiön pää-määrää yleisestikin kansainvälistymi-sen lisääntymiseksi”, sanoo Säätiön asiamies Mervi Sibakov.

”Säätiö haluaa houkutella myös pe-rinteisesti vähemmän liikkuvien tek-niikan alojen opiskelijoita ja tutkijoita mukaan kansainväliseen vaihtoon.” Sibakovin mukaan Fulbright-yhteistyö auttaa Säätiötä tarjoamaan erityisen lahjakkaille insinööritieteilijöille hei-dän kykyjään vastaavia paikkoja, joita ei aina löydy kotimaasta. ”Mahdolli-suus korkeatasoiseen koulutukseen yhdysvaltalaisissa huippuyliopistoissa ja pääsy erittäin hyviin tutkimusryh-miin ei hyödytä pelkästään stipen-diaatin omaa uraa vaan koituu myös yhteiskunnan hyväksi”, Sibakov sanoo. ”Opiskelijat ja tutkijat tuovat Yhdys-valloista uusia suuntauksia ja ideoita kotimaahan ja nämä hyödyttävät myös teknologiateol lisuuden toimialaa.”

Yhteistyö Teknologiateollisuuden 100-vuotissäätiön kanssa on tärkeää myös Fulbright Centerille. ”Fulbright-ohjelmaan haki aiemmin varsin vähän tekniikan alan opiskelijoita. Se hei-jasti yliopistoissamme yleisemmin-kin havaittua insinööritieteilijöiden vähäisempää kiinnostusta ulkomailla opiskelua kohtaan verrattuna monien muiden alojen opiskelijoihin. Keinoja kiinnostuksen lisäämiseksi pohdittiin

yhdessä teknillisten yliopistojen rehto-reiden kanssa. Yhteistyön aloittaminen Teknologiateollisuuden 100-vuotissää-tiön kanssa oli ratkaisevaa, sillä yhteis-stipendin perustamisen jälkeen myös tekniikan alan opiskelijat ja tutkijat on saatu Fulbright-ohjelmaan mukaan”, Fulbright Centerin toiminnanjohtaja Terhi Mölsä kertoo.

Fulbright-Tehnology Industries of Finland -stipendiohjelman alumneis-ta osa viimeistelee väitöskirjaa joko Yhdysvalloissa tai Suomessa, osa on työelämässä. Jukka-Pekka Onnela vietti lukuvuoden 2008–2009 stipendi-aattina Harvard Universityssä ja toimii nyt biostatistiikan apulaisprofessorina Harvardissa. ”Fulbright-kaudella on keskeinen osa uraani ajatellen, sillä il-man Fulbright-Technology Industries of Finland -stipendiä en todennäköisesti olisi lähtenyt Yhdysvaltoihin ja sitä kautta päätynyt nykyiseen työhöni”, Onnela toteaa.

Yksi ensimmäisistä lähtijöistä, Antti Oulasvirta, vietti lukuvuoden 2007–08 University of California, Berkeleyssä post doc -tutkijana. ”Fulbright-stipendi oli uraani ajatellen hyvin tärkeä. Se on toki vaikuttanut positiivisesti ihan jo prestiisinsä takia; Fulbright ja Berkeley, jossa post doc -vuoden olin, tunnetaan molemmat hyvin myös Euroopassa. Hauissa tällä on paljon merkitystä. Mi-nut palkattiin post doc -vuoden jälkeen Senior Researcheriksi HIITtiin (Helsinki Institute of Information Technology), jonka jälkeen vastaavaan asemaan Max

Teknologiateollisuuden 100-vuotissäätiö ja Fulbright Center

Yhteistyöllä korkeatasoista koulutusta insinööritieteilijöille

Kauteni on toistaiseksi kestänyt vasta vajaa kaksi kuukautta, mutta jo nyt voinee luotettavasti sanoa tämän olevan parasta, mitä minulle on ikinä tapahtunut.

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saanut mukavasti huomiota. Minulla on Yhdysvaltain vuodelta myös kontak-teja, joihin olen edelleen yhteydessä”, Oulasvirta sanoo. Maaliskuussa 2014 Oulasvirta siirtyy apulaisprofessoriksi Aalto-yliopistoon.

Virpi Turkulainen vietti lukuvuo-den 2011–12 Stanford Universityssä niin ikään post doc –tutkijana. Tätä nykyä hän työskentelee Suomen Akatemian tutkijatohtorina Aalto-yliopiston Tuo-tantotalouden laitoksella. ”Fulbright-kausi oli urani kannalta loistava. Olin Stanfordissa ensiksi vuoden Fulbright-tutkijana ja sain sen jälkeen vielä lisä-rahoitusta Teknologiateollisuudelta ja jatkoin vaihtoani yhden lukukauden. Tutkijavaihdon aikana pystyin olemaan päivittäisessä vuorovaikutuksessa alani huippututkijoiden kanssa. Teim-me yhdessä tutkimusta ja kirjoitimme tieteellisiä artikkeleita. Kävin paljon erilaisissa seminaareissa ja laajensin tietämystäni useilta eri aihealueilta. Li-säksi loin kauden aikana muiden vaih-totutkijoiden kanssa erittäin arvokkaita yhteistyösuhteita ja niistä on käynnis-tynyt uusia yhteisprojekteja”, Turkulai-nen kertoo.

”Kauden aikana pystyin keskitty-mään lähes puhtaasti tutkimukseen”, Turkulainen toteaa. ”Se on luonnolli-sesti näin urani alussa ollut erittäin tär-keää. Ilmapiiri Stanfordissa on kaiken kaikkiaan loistava ja nautin sekä am-matillisesti että muutenkin saadessani olla osa tätä huippuyliopistoa”, Turku-lainen sanoo.

Fulbright-stipendit jaetaan perinteisesti Säätytalolla. Vuoden 2012 juhlatilaisuudessa Teknologiateollisuuden 100-vuotissäätiön hallituksen puheenjohtaja, vuorineuvos Jorma Eloranta ja asiamies Mervi Sibakov sekä stipendiaatit Tuomas Haarnoja (ylh. vas., University of California, Berkeley) ja Tuukka Verho (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT).

Tutkijavaihdon aikana pystyin olemaan päivittäisessä vuorovaikutuksessa alani huippututkijoiden kanssa.

Fulbright Centerin yhteistyökumppanit

Tänä syksynä Yhdysvalloissa aloitti kaksi stipendiaattia. Aku Antikainen tekee optiikan alan tohtoriopintojaan University of Rochesterissa New Yor-kissa. ”Oloni on kuin teinillä suosikki-bändinsä backstagella näiden alallaan maailman kuuluisimpien professorien keskellä”, Antikainen hehkuttaa. Anti-kaisen sanojen myötä toivotamme on-nea ja menestystä kymmenvuotiaalle Teknologiateollisuuden 100-vuotissää-tiölle: ”Kauteni on toistaiseksi kestänyt vasta vajaa kaksi kuukautta, mutta jo nyt voinee luotettavasti sanoa tämän olevan parasta, mitä minulle on ikinä tapahtunut.”

Teksti: Johanna Lahti, Fulbright Center

Fulbright–Technology Industries of Fin-land Grant -stipendiohjelmasta rahoite-taan stipendejä teknologiateollisuuden edustamien toimialojen kehitystä tuke-viin maisteri- ja tohtoriopintoihin sekä tohtorintutkinnon jälkeiseen tutkimuk-seen Yhdysvalloissa.

35 000–50 000 USD suuruisen stipen-din hakuaika lukuvuodelle 2015–2016 päättyy opiskelijoille keväällä 2014 ja väitelleille tutkijoille syksyllä 2014.

Lisätietoja: Karoliina Kokko, puh. 044 5535 268www.fulbright.fi/fi/stipendiohjelmat-maisteri-ja-tohtoritason-opintoihin-ja-tutkimukseen/fulbright-technology-industries

Planck –instituuttiin Saksaan”, Oulas-virta kertoo. Tätä nykyä hän johtaa Max Planckissa Human – Computer Interaction (HCI) –ryhmää.

”Oman kehittymiseni kannalta vuo-si oli tärkeä, sillä tutustuin paremmin amerikkalaisen HCI-ryhmän toimin-taan John Cannyn Berkeley Institute of Design:issa ja toin monia käytänteitä Suomeen ja Saksaan”, Oulasvirta kertaa Fulbright-kautensa merkitystä. ”Myös muutama siellä tekemäni julkaisu on

kontaktien olleen parasta antia.Väitöskirjatutkijana aerosoli- ja ympäristöfysiikan alal-

la Columbia-yliopistossa ollut Häkkinen kertoo Fulbright-kauden luoneen perustan tulevalle yhteistyölle Columbia-yliopiston ja Helsingin yliopiston välillä. Häkkinen kiittelee myös laajempia verkostoitumismahdollisuuksia: ”Sain tavata muita Fulbrightereita ympäri maailmaa New Yorkissa sekä muualla Yhdysvalloissa orientaatio- ja enrichment-semi-naareissa. Seminaarimatkat tutustuttivat myös muiden kuin oman isäntäkaupungin elämään.”

Haapajärvi toimii parhaillaan vierailevana tutkijana Hel-singin yliopistossa sosiologian laitoksella, Häkkinen jatkaa väitöskirjatyötään Yhdysvalloissa vielä toisen lukuvuoden: ”Tämän osittain mahdollisti Fulbright Centerin myöntämä Renewal Grant -stipendi”, Häkkinen kertoo. Renewal-stipen-diä voivat hakea kaikki Fulbright Centerin stipendiaatit, jotka jatkavat stipendivuotensa jälkeen samoja opintoja, joihin var-sinainen stipendi myönnettiin.

Lähitulevaisuudessa molemmilla on tähtäimessään tohtorin tutkinto. ”Palaan ensi syksynä Helsingin yliopistoon viimeiste-lemään jatko-opintoni ja kokoamaan väitöskirjani, joka koos-tuu tekemästäni tutkimuksesta Helsingin yliopistossa sekä Columbia-yliopistossa”, Häkkinen kertoo suunnitelmistaan.

Fulbrightereiden matkassaFulbrightereiden matkassa on sarja, jossa on seurattu vuoden 2012-2013 ASLA-Fulbright Graduate Grant –stipendiaattien, Linda Haapajärven (vas.) ja Silja Häkkisen valmistautumista Fulbright-vuoteensa ja stipendikauttaan Yhdysvalloissa. Sarjan viimeisessä osassa stipendiaatit tekevät yhteenvedon Fulbright-vuodesta ja pohtivat tulevaisuutta.

Yhdysvaltain vuosi mahdollisti Haapajärvelle ja Häkkiselle paitsi tutkimuksen teon huippuyliopistossa, myös tilaisuuden monipuoliseen verkostoitumiseen.

”Pääsin hyvin laitoksen jäseneksi ja osallistumaan semi-naareihin ja tapahtumiin sekä tapaamaan valtavan määrän mielenkiintoisia ihmisiä”, kertoo Harvardissa sosiologian jatko-opintoja tehnyt Haapajärvi ja toteaa keskusteluiden ja

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Tutkija Leasa Weimer ja asiantuntija Charles Mathies

Korkeakoulututkimuksen asiantuntijoiksi JyväskyläänYhdysvaltalaiset Leasa Weimer ja Charles Mathies ovat juuri sellaisia kansainvälisiä asiantuntijoita, joita suomalaiset yliopistot ja korkeakoulut haluavat. Pelkkä vilkaisu molempien ansioluetteloihin herättää kunnioitus-ta. Kumpikin on pitkälle koulutettu ja kansainvälinen korkea-asteen kou-lutukseen erikoistunut tutkijatohtori. Pariskunnan toi alunperin Suomeen Fulbright-stipendi ja he ovat asuneet maassa syksystä 2011 lähtien.

Kiinnostus korkea-asteen koulutukseen heräsi opiskeluaikanaWeimerin kiinnostus korkea-asteen koulutukseen heräsi jo opiskeluaikana hänen ollessaan oppilaskunta-aktiivi-na. Weimer työskenteli 10 vuotta erilai-sissa suhdetoiminnan tehtävissä ennen hakeutumistaan maisteri- ja tohtori-opintoihin vuonna 2008.

”Sain työskennellä lukuisten eri sidosryhmien, kuten opiskelijoiden, alumnien ja vanhempien kanssa. Mi-

nulla oli loistavia mentoreita, jotka kannustivat jatkamaan yliopistouralla. Kiinnostuin siitä, miten yliopisto toimii koneistona. Jokainen yliopisto on erilai-nen, ja ala on jatkuvassa muutoksessa”, Weimer kuvailee kiinnostustaan.

Erasmus Munduksen ja Fulbrightin vertailuaErasmus Mundus -maisteriopiskelijana Weimerin reitti kulki Norjan, Portu-galin ja Suomen halki. Lopputyössään Weimer vertasi Fulbrightin ja Erasmus Munduksen eroja: millainen historia näillä eri-ikäisillä ohjelmilla on ja miten ne ovat päässeet nykyiseen asemaansa.

”Asiakirjojen teoreettinen analy-sointi osoitti, että Fulbrightin syntyyn liittyy myös onnellista sattumaa. So-tien jälkeen Yhdysvalloilla oli ympä-ri Eurooppaa paljon sotatarvikkeita, joita se ei voinut kuljettaa takaisin. Fulbright ideoi, että tarvikkeet myy-dään Euroopassa. Tällä rahoitettiin koulutusvaihtoa.”

Vuonna 2004 käynnistynyt Erasmus

Mundus kehitettiin puolestaan nosta-maan eurooppalaisen korkea-asteen koulutuksen tasoa ja houkuttelemaan kansainvälisiä opiskelijoita.

Paljon puhututtavat yliopistojen lukukausimaksutKipinä Suomea kohti jäi kytemään. Aloitettuaan tohtoriopintonsa Georgian yliopistossa Weimer päätyikin hakeu-tumaan takaisin Suomeen, Jyväskylään.

Väitöskirjassaan Weimer käsitteli yhtä tämän hetken kuumimmista ai-heista: yliopistojen lukukausimaksuja. Weimer kiinnostui aiheesta jo vuonna 2007 opiskellessaan Tampereella osana Erasmus-maisteriohjelmaa.

”Siellä väiteltiin paljon siitä, pi-täisikö kansainvälisiltä opiskelijoilta periä lukukausimaksuja. Kiinnostuin aiheesta, ja jatkoin sen seuraamista Yhdysvalloista käsin. Kun yliopis-tolakia uudistettiin vuonna 2009, ehdotin aihetta amerikkalaiselle väitöskirjaohjaajalleni.”

Weimer valittiin Fulbright-

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stipendiaatiksi ja hän sai keskittyä tut-kimukseen yhdeksän kuukauden ajan.

”Ylioppilaskuntien voimas rooli yllätti minut. Ylioppilaskunnat vas-tustavat eniten lukukausimaksuja. Ti-lanne on mielenkiintoinen, sillä moni tulevaisuuden johtaja kasvaa rooliinsa nimenomaan ylioppilaskunnassa. Sa-masta syystä moni poliitikko on hel-posti samaa mieltä ylioppilaskuntien kanssa.”

Weimer näkisi lukukausimaksutto-man vaihtoehdon Suomen kannalta hy-vänä. Hän ei kuitenkaan usko, että malli kestää. Suomi on taipuvainen nyökyt-telemään sekä muiden EU-maiden että Pohjoismaiden kehitykselle.

Talo myyntiin ja SuomeenMathiesin kiinnostus korkea-as-teen koulutukseen juontaa juurensa lapsuudesta.

”Kasvoin kampuksella. Äitini lap-sivesi meni, kun hän oli tilastotieteen kurssilla tohtoriopiskelijana. Ja minä teen tilastotiedettä työkseni. Puhumme äitini kanssa nykyäänkin puhelimessa korkea-asteen koulutuksesta”, Mathies nauraa.

Mathiesille tulo Suomeen merkitsi kaikin puolin hyppyä tuntemattomaan. Suhde Weimerin kanssa oli vielä tuo-re, mutta mies lopetti kokopäiväisen työnsä, myi talonsa ja autonsa ja lähti ennakkoluulottomasti rakkaansa mat-kaan – asumaan ensimmäistä kertaa ulkomailla.

Riskinotto kannatti, sillä Jyväs-kylän yliopisto palkkasi Mathiesin osa-aikaiseksi erityisasiantuntijaksi. Suomessaan ollessaan pariskunta myös avioitui.

”Aloin olla myös lähellä loppuun pa-lamista, sillä työskentelin Amerikassa 50-60 tuntia viikossa. Kaipasin uutta näkökulmaa.”

Yliopiston sisäistä analysointiaMathies on keskittynyt yliopistojen analysoimiseen organisaation sisäl-tä. Juuri tämä erityisosaaminen auttoi Mathiesia saamaan asiantuntijan tehtä-vän Jyväskylän yliopistosta. Institutional Research -nimellä tunnettu tutkimusala on Suomen yliopistoissa vielä uutta.

”Institutional Research tuli Pohjois-Amerikkaan 60-70 vuotta sitten. Idea-na on tutkia yliopistoja sisältä käsin ja tarjota johdolle työkaluja strategiseen päätöksentekoon.”

Mathiesin vastuulla on luoda Jyväs-kylän yliopistoon toimivat sisäisen tut-kimuksen käytännöt: tehdä yliopistosta

tehokkaampi kaikilla mittareilla. Tämä on ollut entistä keskeisempää vuoden 2010 voimaan tulleen yliopistouudis-tuksen jälkeen.

”Aiemmin yliopistojen ei tarvinnut tehdä juuri mitään itse. Yliopistolain uudistuksen jälkeen yliopistot joutuvat olemaan aktiivisempia. Myös kilpailu on kiristymässä. Uusi rahoitusmalli korostaa lopputuotoksia, ja toimintaa täytyy tehostaa. Tietojärjestelmien kehittäminen on ollut aivan keskeis-tä parin ensimmäisen vuoden aikana. Järjestelmistä piti luoda sellaiset, että saamme analysoitavaa tietoa strate-gisen päätöksenteon tueksi. Aiemmin yliopistolla ei ollut tarpeeksi tietoa esi-merkiksi siitä, miten opiskelijat edisty-vät opinnoissaan.”

Äitiyspakkaus ja muita hyvinvointivaltion ihmeellisyyksiäTyökiireiden lisäksi Weimer ja Mathies elävät muutenkin ruuhkavuosiaan. Heille syntyi kesäkuussa Aspen-tytär, mikä on tuonut Suomessa asumiseen aivan uuden näkökulman. Ilmainen terveydenhuolto äitiyspakkauksineen, pitkä äitiysvapaa ja muut suomalaisen hyvinvointivaltion edut saavat mo-lemmilta kiitosta. Ero Amerikkaan on selkeä.

”Myös Aspen on nukkunut öitään äitiyspakkauslaatikossa”, Mathies hymyilee.

Yksi ihmetyksen aihe oli tutki-jan paikan saaminen Jyväskylän yli-opistosta, Student Life - ohjelman tutkimusryhmässä.

”Tämä tapahtui pari kuukautta en-nen laskettua aikaa, ja olen nyt yhdek-sän kuukauden äitiysvapaalla. Näin ei ikinä tapahtuisi Yhdysvalloissa, sillä siellä raskaana olevia naisia yleensä syrjitään.”

Äitiysvapaa saa Weimerin tuntemaan jopa katkeransuloisia tuntemuksia.

”Se on samaan aikaan sekä kirous että etuoikeus. Myös kirous, sillä osa minusta on amerikkalaisen mallin mu-kaisesti tottunut työskentelemään ja tavoittelemaan koko ajan jotakin.

Aivan toimettomana Weimer ei pysy äitiyslomallakaan. Hän on Erasmus Mundus opiskelija- ja alumniyhdis-tyksen johtaja sekä Fulbright Centerin alumniyhdistyksen hallituksen jäsen Suomessa.

Kohti korkeakoulumaailman johtotehtäviä”Minulla ei ole yksittäistä tavoitetta uraani koskien. Voisin olla korkeissa

hallintotehtävissä amerikkalaisessa tai kansainvälisessä yliopistossa. Myös johtotehtävät esimerkiksi alumniasioi-den parissa kiinnostavat. Haluaisin jat-kaa myös tutkimusta”, Weimer toteaa.

Mathies uskoo niinikään jatkavansa työtään ja tutkimustaan korkea-asteen koulutuksen parissa.

Onko myös arkenne täynnä korkea-asteen koulutusta?

”Tämä on hyvä aihe illallispöytään”, molemmat vitsailevat, mutta vaka-voituvat: ”Kun toiselta pyytää palau-tetta, saa oikeasti hyvää ja rakentavaa palautetta.”

Riittääkö aika muuhun ja miltä Suo-mi maistuu?

”Harrastan ja opetan joogaa. Tätä on äitiysloman aikana ikävä. Molemmat pidämme matkustamisesta ja muihin kulttuureihin sukeltamisesta. Ja rakas-tamme suomalaista talvea”, Weimer toteaa.

Myös Mathies korostaa viihtyvänsä hyvin Suomessa.

”Läheisyys luontoon viehättää. Täällä asiat ovat myös järjestyksessä.”

Mathies suunnittelee jopa jään ylitse luistelemista töihin.

”Aion ehdottomasti tehdä sen, sillä pääsen melkein ovelta ovelle luistimil-la. Mikä mahdollisuus!”

Teksti ja kuvat: Heidi Lehmuskumpu

Leasa Weimer valmisteli väitöskirjaan-sa suomalaisten yliopistojen lukukausi-maksuista Fulbright-stipendillä vuonna 2011–2012.

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Newly-appointed University of Helsinki Rector and Fulbright alumnus Jukka Kola talks about the value of the Fulbright program, his view of Finland’s international future, and preparing to celebrate the 375th birthday of Finland’s oldest university.

Fresh from welcoming almost two hundred new international resear-chers to the University of Helsinki, Professor Jukka Kola speaks enthu-siastically about his new role as Rector, to which he was formally ap-pointed in August of this year.

A professor of agricultural policy and economics who comes from a farming family, Kola has built a long and successful career as a resear-cher, as well as a highly-regarded university teacher and administrator at the University of Helsinki. Kola served as Dean and Vice-Rector before being chosen for the top spot at Finland’s top university earlier this year. Now starting his five-year term of office, Kola says he has an ambitious vision for the future of the university, that of an international research institution amongst the best in the world.

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Alumni in Focus

“The University of Helsinki is in the top 100 worldwide, but we’re aiming at the top 50. The new members of staff I spoke to this morning are excellent examples of international talent who have chosen to come to Finland to con-tinue their careers, and they’re already fulfilling our strategy,” he explains.

Apart from high quality science and education, it’s not easy to generalise the reasons behind Helsinki’s increasing popularity, says Kola. “Some people come because of family or romance, but for many others Finland is an attractive place to live and work. Nowadays if you are a stable, safe and secure country it matters more and more. This hasn’t been a marketing issue for Finland in the past, but now it’s quite decisive, es-pecially when you look at other Europe-an countries that are suffering the ef-fects of the financial crisis, particularly in youth employment.”

At the moment, approximately ten per cent of the university’s most seni-or professors are international, rising to a figure of twenty per cent across the whole academic staff. Of course, a greater percentage of international staff means the university scores fi-gures more prominently in the global rankings. However, Kola calls improved rankings a “side effect” of the broader vision for the university he and his col-leagues are working to develop. Ran-kings are not the objective, but rather the evidence of work already well done.

“We need to ask ourselves, are we advancing science and new knowledge, or just rankings? I believe that having a community of international staff and students improves the quality of our research and teaching. It brings new ideas, new points of view, and more open-minded thinking. Finland is a small country, and we need new ideas to challenge us. We want to attract more international people at all levels, not only academics, but also the infrastruc-ture that supports them – administra-tion, decision making, fund-raising and so on. Hiring a consulting firm to do this isn’t as effective as integrating someo-ne into the permanent staff – this has much longer-term impact.”

Working Towards a More International SocietyKola says that this need for interna-tionalisation is not limited to Finland’s higher education. “Finland should also be much more international. At the moment we don’t have a very inter-national society, but we need people

to come and work here, and because of our ageing population, we are going to need even more in future. Universities have a role to play, as we already attract a lot of international talent. One of the big challenges we now face is encoura-ging students to stay on after they have graduated.”

However, universities cannot do this alone, says Kola. “We also need the cooperation of other organisations, particularly employers. Sometimes the-re is an expectation that foreigners will be ready-made workers who are comp-letely integrated into Finnish culture, but that’s unrealistic. I would like to see more companies and organisations of-fering the possibility to work in English, and to taking into account that people come from different cultures. We need more flexibility, more freedom. Finland has been successful creating a society where it’s good to live, but we can still make it easier for international people to adjust to living here.”

Universities also have a role to play in developing international research and knowledge transfer, Kola suggests, noting successful collaborations with partners such as the Finnish Fulbright Center and the US Embassy in Helsinki, led by Ambassador Bruce J. Oreck. ”The US Ambassador has been very active and supportive. He helped to organize common activities with the university library, signing a new agreement with the University of Helsinki in 2010 for access to the Embassy’s collection of books and other materials through the American Resource Center. The ARC moved to Helsinki University’s Main Library in 2012. We’ve also worked to-gether on seminars about politics, cul-ture and industry.”

Kola adds that Finnish scientists have also contributed expertise on energy-saving and environmental is-sues for the US Embassy’s new Inno-vation Center in Helsinki – one of the most energy efficient buildings in the Department of State’s portfolio. “We have a lot of know-how in green and clean technologies in Finland,” says Kola, “This is an economic area that will become increasingly important for us in future.”

Finnish educational institutions have much to offer to international partners, Kola suggests, including sha-ring knowledge and expertise regarding Finland’s highly-respected education system. “In recent years, especially in the education sector, there has been a great deal of interest in our school sys-

tem, due to its reputation as being in the top three worldwide.” Kola attributes this in part to Finland’s teacher-centric education policy. “All teachers are edu-cated to at least Master’s-level, and it’s a highly respected profession in Finland. There’s also a lot of freedom for teach-ing staff at all three levels of education. Of course they have to meet curricular goals within certain budget constraints, but how they make those goals happen is up to them.”

Kola feels passionately about equa-lity of educational opportunities, and prior to his appointment as rector, he worked as part of Finland’s Council for Lifelong Learning, which aims to enable people from all walks of life and all ages to access learning opportunities. This inclusive educational philosophy also means encouraging students to expand their horizons through opportunities such as the Fulbright program. “If you go to study abroad you have to make some sacrifices, but these are worth it. It can definitely help to develop your ca-reer later on.”

In the past, a lot of Finns went to the States during their university studies, but this has diminished to some extent since Finland joined the EU. If we didn’t have Fulbright, the focus would now be even stronger on Europe.

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Forging Links through FulbrightKola, as a former Fulbright grantee, is convinced of the importance of the Ful-bright program as part of his vision of internationalisation, and particularly for further strengthening Finnish-American relations. “It’s very impor-tant to have this kind of international exchange, and Fulbright is particularly significant as a point of connection with the US. In the past, a lot of Finns went to the States during their university stu-dies, but this has diminished to some extent since Finland joined the EU. If we didn’t have Fulbright, the focus would now be even stronger on Europe.”

Kola’s own first experience of study

It’s typical that when someone goes to a new place and enjoys it there, they come back home and talk about their ex-perience. That’s the best way to build a re-putation, by enabling people to experience it for themselves, and then talk about it.

abroad was in Canada, where he under-took practical farm training alongside several other Finnish students. “It was really hard work,” he recalls, smiling. “We drove tractors and were involved hands-on in day to day farming tasks.” Later, in the mid-1980s, he studied at the University of Arkansas, Fayettevil-le. “Of course, that’s where Fulbright was from, and I can still remember his statue on the University Campus. Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas then. It was a really interesting time to be there.”

This early experience of study abroad – something of a grass-roots effort, largely organized by the Finnish Agri-cultural students’ association Sampsa – piqued Kola’s interest in pursuing in-ternational study. In 1989-1990, he was awarded an ASLA-Fulbright scholarship to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, investigating agricultural economics and policy as part of his doc-toral research project.

“Illinois was one of the possible partner institutions offered by Ful-bright at the time, and it turned out to be an excellent opportunity for me,” Kola explains. “There were some young professors in agricultural economics working there, who had come from the University of Chicago – one of the top economics universities in the world, with a lot of Nobel prize-winners on the faculty. These young professors and researchers at Illinois were eager to de-velop their research and ideas, and I felt

Lue Environmental Stewardship -stipendiaatin tarina verkossa

Päivi Pirhonen vietti kesällä viisi viikkoa Kansas State Universityssä, missä hän osallistui Summer Institute for European Student Leaders on Environmental Stewardship -ohjelmaan. Kesän 2014 Summer Institute -stipendi tulee hakuun alkuvuodesta 2014. Tarkemmat tiedot julkaistaan Fulbright Centerin verkkosivulla.

Lue Päivin kirjoitus ”Kesästipendiaattina Kansasista” osoitteessa www.fulbright.fi/ fi/stipendiohjelma-kandidaattitason-opintoihin/summer-institute/pirhonen.

like I had joined a very active and high-quality research community.”

Part of an International Research Community The links Kola forged during his Ful-bright year continue to this day. Kola has collaborated with former colleagues at the University of Illinois on joint ar-ticles and projects, and his own stu-dents benefit from contact with these international research networks.

“It led to a kind of community,” he explains. “When you meet interesting people, you follow where they go and see how they develop.”

That’s the vision Kola has for inter-national staff who visit the University of Helsinki. “It’s typical that when someo-ne goes to a new place and enjoys it the-re, they come back home and talk about their experience. That’s the best way to build a reputation, by enabling people to experience it for themselves, and then talk about it.”

This sense of community, Kola ex-plains, is a characteristic of top-level universities, particularly those with a long tradition. “At 373 years old, we fit nicely into that category,” Kola says, “Long term development is how you create universities; it cannot happen overnight. We want our university to be well known, and we want to continue telling our story not only within Finland but also around the world.”

Text: Louisa Gairn

Suomalaisten opiskelijoiden määrä yhdysvaltalaisissa yliopistoissa kasvanutYhdysvaltalaisissa korkeakouluissa opiskeli kaikkiaan 691 suomalaista lu-kuvuonna 2012-2013. Lukumäärä on noin kahdeksan prosenttia edellisvuo-den määrää (640) suurempi. Suomessa puolestaan opiskeli 256 yhdysvaltalais-ta lukuvuonna 2011-2012. Tiedot käyvät ilmi kansainvälistä liikkuvuutta käsit-televästä Open Doors 2013 –raportista, jonka on julkaissut yhdysvaltalainen Institute of International Education (IIE).

Englanninkielinen lehdistötiedote Open Doors 2013 –raportista on saata-villa osoitteessa www.fulbright.fi.

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Canadian Student Life

Canada

With over ninety Canadian universi-ties and even more colleges, it’s a near impossible task to define what exactly is the quintessential Canadian student life experience. In a nutshell, Canadi-an student life is defined by the mere fact that there are differences among the different schools in Canada. Much like the pieces of a puzzle, there are no two schools alike.

Below are just a few of the many pos-sible realms for students to carve out their own experiences. In the end, your life at a Canadian university is the re-sult of what you truly want. The sky is the limit and it’s up to you to define how you want your four, five, or so years in Canada to be.

City versus TownSometimes, your experience as a stu-dent in Canada will be largely crafted and influenced by where your school is geographically located. Some towns are considered ‘university towns’ due to the fact that a huge majority of its inhabit-ants for most of the year are students. These towns often have many services and stores catered largely for the stu-dent population.

Bigger cities, on the other hand, are a different story. For example, Toronto is a city with over 187,000 students. But this number is miniscule in compari-son to its total population of about 2.6 million people. Two other cities with a similar scene would be Vancouver and Montreal. In such cities, you are a stu-dent first, and whatever you choose to be. Your life as a student in these cities is not restricted or defined by campus borders. Oftentimes, students will find themselves falling into lifestyles that extend beyond the campus.

Clubs, Councils, and SocietiesGetting involved with the different types of clubs, councils, and societies on campus is often as easy as writing down your contact information on a sign-up sheet.

If you’re looking for people who share the same interests as you, there’s a very good chance that there will already be a student group for you. However, if that is not the case, it is pretty easy to set up and receive support for starting your own club. Many student unions will have money set aside for clubs; all you have to do is sort out the operat-

ing details of your club before receiving funding.

Residence LifeMany schools will give first-year stu-dents a guaranteed residence offer. Liv-ing on residence allows new students to immerse themselves in a community that cannot be replicated with living off-campus. For many, being able to live with other first-year students is a crucial factor in getting accustomed to living and studying in university.

Since most students will have to move off-campus after their freshman year, living in residence is an excellent way to meet others and foster relation-ships with potential roommates. Plus, many communities in student housing will be lead by a residence advisor (RA). Your RA is an important figure in set-tling into the community. Oftentimes, if you have any pressing questions or inquiries, your RA will be the first per-son you get in touch with since they are always an upper year student with a strong understanding of how your school works.

Volunteering AbroadLately, the option of completing volun-teer projects abroad has been a popular option for many university students. Similar with going on a study exchange, there are a number of services available for students to use in order to help sim-plify the overall process of arranging for volunteer trips abroad.

There are a number of different or-ganizations out there with the purpose of helping you plan your volunteer trip abroad. In the end, it’s all about doing the research in selecting the right pro-gram for you.

SportsStudent athletics are an integral, but completely optional, part of being a stu-dent in Canada. This is often a concept that simply does not exist among Eu-

ropean schools. In Canada, being both a participant and/or spectator is a great way of immersing yourself in school pride.

The athletes who are chosen to rep-resent a school in a particular sport are often referred to as ‘varsity athletes.’

However, you do not have to be a stellar athlete in order to be active in sports.

Intramural sports allow students of varying skill levels to participate in a variety of sports in a friendly, some-what competitive manner. In many schools, the type of sports offered on an intramural may vary. You could ex-pect your usual activities such as soccer and basketball, but then you might have more unconventional sports such as Quidditch — a modified version of the same activity made popular through the Harry Potter series — and flag football to name a few.

More InformationTo learn more about the different ways to get involved, take a look at your pro-spective university. Information would often be organized under sections titled e.g. ‘Campus Life’ or ‘Get Involved’. Be-low are several websites of interest:

Association of Universities and Colleges Canada (AUCC)www.aucc.caMaclean’s On Campus bloghttp://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/Citizen and Immigration Canadawww.cic.gc.ca/english/study/

Text: Sophia Luuis an undergraduate student at the Univer-sity of Toronto and, as a part of her Hart House Exchange in Finland, she interned at the Fulbright Center during summer 2013.

Photo: Hart House, a student activity center at the University of Toronto (wikipedia.org)

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Highlight of the American Fall in FinlandAugust arrival orientation marks the beginning of a Fulbright grant term for those American grantees, who arrive in Finland in late summer. After receiving their Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, upon completing the orientation, the grantees headed over to their Finnish host institutions around the country.

In mid-October Fulbrighters gathered in Turku at the American Voices seminar organized now for the 21st time. Since their fall arrival Fulbrighters have en-gaged themselves, in addition to their studies and research, in numerous activi-ties giving talks and lectures at different events, and visiting interesting sites.

State Secretary for the Minister of Education and Science Pilvi Torsti (left), Ambassador Bruce J. Oreck, and Executive Director Terhi Mölsä greeted Fulbright grantees and guests at the reception in honor of the 2013–14 Ful-bright grantees hosted by Ambassador Oreck at the U.S. Embassy Innovation Center.

The Department for Communications and Culture at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs hosted the final orientation day, which concentrated on Finnish society, economy, foreign policy and the Finnish language. Director General of Communication Mr. Jouni Mölsä welcomed Fulbright scholars and students and gave an overview of Finnish foreign policy.

“I usually do not like orientations,” a grantee began his feedback after the orientation in Helsinki, only to continue that, to his big surprise, he had immen-sely enjoyed the seminar and regretted that it was over!

The orientation consisted of three

and a half intense days, during which Fulbright scholars and students get to know each other and start network-ing with their hosts, Fulbright alumni, Fulbright Center’s partners and friends, and many others. Furthermore, they get an introduction to Finnish educa-tion and science, economy, history, for-eign policy, language as well as culture and communication styles. In addition to program arranged by the Fulbright Center, scholars and students are also hosted by the U.S. Embassy, the ASLA-Fulbright Alumni Association, Sibelius Senior Secondary School, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland as well as Ateneum, the National Art Museum.

Connecting and Networking at the Orientation

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Coordinator Janne Korkka of the North American Studies Program at the University of Turku thanked the Fulbrighters for a won-derful seminar. “Once again, Fulbright visi-tors lend their expertise to create the high point of the season for the North American Studies Program.” In the picture Korkka (left) with Fulbright student Marja Mundy.

In October, the American Fulbrighters came together for the annual American Voices seminar, organized in cooperati-on by the Fulbright Center and the Uni-versity of Turku North American Studies Program. The two-day event in Turku was an opportunity to share and reflect on experiences in Finland with fellow Fulbrighters and with Fulbright Center staff, to do a bit of sightseeing in the historical city of Turku, and to gather for a wonderful dinner in a restaurant boat by the beautiful River Aura.

During the seminar itself, each Ful-

Executive Director Terhi Mölsä of the Fulbright Center (left) and Vice-Rector Tapio Reponen of the University of Turku opened the twenty-first American Voices seminar.

Fulbrighters Turku

Thanksgiving in Finland: Parliament and a Chocolate Factory...?

brighter presented on a topic of their own choosing to an audience of nearly a hundred students and faculty, with this year’s presentations ranging from mar-ching bands and fiddle music to toxic homes and alternative food practices. Fulbright student Marja Mundy noted that “participating in the American Voices Seminar was a wonderful experi-ence, especially because it gave all of us Fulbrighters an opportunity to gather. I enjoyed getting updates on everyone's work, life, and hearing them speak on topics that they feel passionately about - I learned so much about so many dif-ferent things!”

The newly established John Morton Center, meant to become a Finnish hub for multidisciplinary research on North America, was introduced at the semi-nar by Rector emeritus Keijo Virtanen of the University of Turku, who led the planning committee for the center. More on page 7.

The Fulbright Center traditionally ar-ranges several enrichment events for the U.S. grantees around the time of American Thanksgiving. This year Thanksgiving in Finland included a visit to the Finnish Parliament and a chocolate factory.

Guy Lindström, Deputy Director of the International department hosted Fulbrighters on their visit to the Par-liament and introduced the Finnish Parliamentary system to the grantees. Fulbrighters also had an opportunity to hear an update on current affairs in EU matters during the lunch hosted by MP Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Chair of the Grand Committee, which serves as Parliament’s EU Committee. Mr. Rami Kurth took the group to follow the Plenary Session and gave an informati-ve guided tour of the Parliament House.

A visit to Fazer’s confectionary fac-

tory is a dream come true to anyone who likes chocolate and sweets. The dream came true to Fulbrighters on Thanks-giving Thursday when they visited the over 100 year-old company in Vantaa, watched informative and entertaining introductory films, were taken on a gui-ded tour and above all, had a chance to eat as much chocolate as they liked!

The Thanksgiving enrichment ac-tivities included also a visit to the mu-seum of contemporary art, KIASMA, and a Thanksgiving dinner hosted by Fulbright Bicentennial Chair Frederick Wasser.

Perhaps not your most traditional Thanksgiving but certainly something to talk about!

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FinnFest: Festival for Finnish Culture LoversThe Fulbright Center and alumni of the Finnish Fulbright program participated generously in the 2013 FinnFest held in Hancock, Michigan. There were over 5,000 people in atten-dance, and some 200 lectures, Sámi-themed programming, musical performances, films, exhibits, tours, events of various types, and a Tori marketplace with 100 vendors selling Finnish crafts, design items, books, CDs, and giving away information on Finnish education and Fulbright grant opportunities!

Read the entire story and see the full list of Fulbright pre-senters and their topics at www.fulbright.fi/en/read-online/finnfest-festival-finnish-culture-lovers.

The ASLA-Fulbright Alumni Association's 60th Anniversa-ry Year culminated at a celebration at the Korjaamo Culture Factory. The event was organized together with a longtime cooperation partner, the League of Finnish American Socie-ties, which celebrated its 70th anniversary. Reception opened the evening, and continued with a concert by UMO jazz or-chestra and an American artist Jamie Davis.

In the photo, Ambassador Jukka Valtasaari, Chair of the LFAS and President of the ASLA-Fulbright Alumni Associati-on Marianna Sydänmaanlakka.

ASLA-Fulbright Alumni Association Anniversary

Alumni News

Fulbright Arctic WorkshopInternational Fulbright Arctic Workshop held at the Abisko Scientific Research Station in northern Sweden gathered to-gether some of the world's brightest scientists focusing on resilience, climate change, governance, and security in the Arctic. The findings of the workshop “Shaping Arctic Change through Conscious Choices” will be summarized into a syn-thesis paper on the key issues identified as being necessary to shape Arctic change in a conscious and deliberate manner.

The Finnish-American Fulbright program was represented by seven alumni and grantees (pictured above, left to right): Tim Frandy from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (Fulbright in Finland 2009-2010), Christopher

Nelson (University of Oulu beginning 2014), Executive Director Terhi Mölsä from the Fulbright Center in Finland, Matt Ayres from Dartmouth College (Fulbright in Finland 1985-1986), Sophia Albov from University of Montana and the University of Helsinki (Fulbright in Finland 2013-2014), Amy Lauren Lovecraft from University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fulbright Inter-Country in Finland 2011), Paul Burgess from Tulane University (Fulbright in Finland 2011-2012), and Bruce Forbes from the University of Lapland (Fulbright in Finland 1994-1995). More information about the workshop at www.fulbright.fi.

Photo: Lawrence Hislop

Alumni Julene Johnson (left), Gerry and Margaret Schueman, promote Fulbright at the Fulbright Center Tori booth.

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Connecting in New YorkKirsi Cheas and Päivi Pietilä, current Finnish Fulbrighters in New York City, were taken on an informal tour of the Tribeca neighborhood in Lower Man-hattan and the waterfront by Cheryl J. Fish, Fulbright Lecturer, University of Tampere, 2007 and docent in the De-partment of World Cultures at Univer-sity of Helsinki.

An International Look on National LibrariesJohn Helling has published a book comparing varying national policies on public libraries: “Public Libraries and their National Policies: International Case Studies.” John’s Fulbright proj-ect focused on Finnish national library policy as a model for best practices in the United States, and the book utilizes the work he completed during his time in Finland.

Mid-Career Professional Development Grant, Helsinki City Library, 2011-2012

Surprise Meeting with Mrs. Harriet FulbrightSanna Ojanperä had the honor of meet-ing Mrs. Harriet Fulbright at the Finnish Embassy in Washington, D.C. during a Fulbright Embassy Reception.

ASLA-Fulbright Graduate Grantee American University 2011-2012

Kroc Fellow at National Public RadioRae Ellen Bichell is a Kroc Fellow at Na-tional Public Radio in Washington, D.C. During the one-year fellowship, she will report and produce stories for the web and for broadcast. Right now, she's contributing to NPR blogs, writing about everything from jeans to birds.

Fulbright-University of Helsinki Graduate Award 2012-2013

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.

Fighting BullyingBenjamin Alldritt is working on a startup company for bullying reporting and prevention in school with a team formed mostly with students from the Aalto University. The team is devel-oping an application called BullySpot which aims to be an anonymous report-ing application for use by children. The team is currently collecting votes for their application in a startup competi-tion. See further information at www.bullyspot.co.

Benjamin came to Finland in the Ful-bright U.S. Student Program in 2010 and has lived in Finland since.

U.S. Graduate Student Grantee, HAMK University of Applied Sciences 2010-2011

Solo Exhibition in PoriCherie Sampson’s exhibition Puut Punalle, Maat Sinelle (Red the Trees & Green the Land) runs through January 19, 2014 at the Pori Art Museum, part of a series on international performan-ce art I Perform, Therefore I am. Many of Cherie’s works were created in Koli Na-tional Park in Eastern Finland.

U.S. Graduate Student Grantee 1997-1998 and Fulbright Scholar Grantee 2010-2011

In Helsinki, three Fulbright alumni came together for a minisymposium in devel-opmental biology organized for the one-hundredth birthday of enamel knot re-search and the fiftieth birthday of one of the leading researchers in the field, Pro-fessor Jukka Jernvall (on right)—both anniversaries worth commemorating. Speaking at the minisymposium were Professor John Hunter whose Fulbright visit to Finland inspired Jernvall to in turn visit the U.S., and Katherine MacCord

Connecting in Helsinkifor whom Professor Jernvall served as a host during her Fulbright visit.

John Hunter, Fulbright U.S. Graduate Student Grantee,

University of Helsinki, 1989-1990Jukka Jernvall,

ASLA-Fulbright Graduate Student Grantee, Stony Brook University, 1991-1992

Katherine MacCord, Fulbright-CIMO Graduate Student Grantee,

University of Helsinki, 2012-2013

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News / Uutisia

Appointment News from the Board Fulbright Center numeroina 2013

• Asiakaskontakteja 3 850, joista kansainvälisen alan ammattilaisia n. 26 %

• Infotilaisuuksia ja tapahtumia 78, joissa yhteensä yli 2 300 osallistujaa

• Verkkovierailijoita 46 600

Stipendiohjelmat • Yhteensä 77 stipendiaattia, joista 43

suomalaista ja 34 amerikkalaista stipendiaattia • Yhteisstipendit mukaan lukien jaettu

yli 880 000 euroa apurahoina

Fulbright Centerin rahoitus • 79,5 % Suomesta (Tukisäätiö, Suomen valtio,

yksityiset säätiöt, suomalaiset yliopistot, muut) • 20 % Yhdysvalloista (18 % Yhdysvaltain

valtio, 2 % muut) • 0,5 % Kanadasta (Kanadan valtio)

Vuoden 2013 kohokohtia • ASLA-Fulbright alumni ry:n 60-vuotisjuhlavuosi:

useita juhlavuoden tapahtumia

Uusia stipendiohjelmia • The Fulbright-University of Tampere Scholar

Award • Fulbright Center Partnership Awards for

Undergraduate Students: Vanderbilt University • Summer Institutes for European Student Leaders:

Environmental Stewardship

The Fulbright Center welcomes Mr. Jeffrey K. Reneau who succeeds Mr. David McGuire on the Fulbright Cen-ter Board of Directors. Mr. Reneau is the Counselor for Press and Public Affairs at the American Embassy in Helsinki. In the December 2013 meeting, Mr. Reneau was elected as the Board Chair.

Jeffrey Reneau arrived in Finland in November, 2013. He came from Kolkata, India where he was the Director of the American Center. Prior to his tour in

India, he served at the United States Mission to the United Na-tions (USUN), as the Special Advisor to the U.S. Representative for UN Management and Reform, and Political Advisor to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN.

Before his tenure at USUN, Mr. Reneau served as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of State. Earlier assignments in-clude a one year term as Civilian Observer in the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai Peninsula, verifying Camp David Treaty limits, in addition to Political and Management tours at the U.S. Embassies in Japan and Belarus, respectively.

Mr. Reneau studied International Education and Policy Ad-ministration at Harvard University, earning a Master’s degree in Education. He received a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Georgetown University.

We would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank Mr. McGuire for his dedicated service, and welcome Mr. Re-neau to the Board.

There are altogether eight Board members: four U.S. and four Finnish members. The U.S. members are appointed by the American Embassy and the Finnish members by the Min-istry of Education and Culture.

Mr. Jeffrey K. Reneau

Tilastot ovat FC:n tilikaudelta 1. 10. 2012–30. 9. 2013

Fulbright Center serves as the national EducationUSA center in Finland.

Fulbright Center advises on higher education in Canada.

Alumni and Friends Value Fulbright Through Gifts to Grant FundsThe Friends of Fulbright Finland Alumni Enrichment Fund has seen generous donations over the past months. Gifts have been received from our alumni as acknowledged here: Philip Alperson, Gonzalo Arce, Robert Bannister, Stuart N. Brotman, Elliott Gorn, Carlton Jackson, Jeffrey Kaplan, Kay J. Kohl, Kenneth Kolson, George Matthews, Jeffrey Meikle, Michael Parrish, Andres Resendez, Allan Winkler, John Wunder.

The ASLA-Fulbright Alumni Ambassadorial Award fund has been generously supported by Juha Kopio, Anna Kronlund, Matti Laine, Jennifer Saari, Heidi Lehmuskumpu, Linda Haapajärvi, Pekka Mäkelä, Risto Näätänen, Pekka Salonen, Yrjö Sepänmaa, Jari Yli-Kauhaluoma, Vesa Vihriälä, and an anonymous donor.

Both funds have also been generously supported by a large number of individuals through the alumni T-shirt campaign. The Fulbright Finland...for the Future campaign is visualized on the new T-shirts available for the first time at the American Grant-ee orientation in August in Helsinki, and have since been made available both in Finland and in the United States. Numerous Fulbrighters have not only purchased a T-shirt but in the true “Pay what you can” attitude, offered something more as a gift toward the alumni-sponsored grants. To all those who are now the proud owners of the Fulbright T-shirt, many thanks!

Toimintaamme tukevat mm.: Support comes to us from:

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Vaihtotoimikunnan jäsenet / Fulbright Center Board of Directors

Toimikunnan sihteeristö / Fulbright Center Staff

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

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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• Opettajaohjelma• 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 liittyvä

neuvonta• Neuvonta opiskelusta USA:ssa

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Ms. Terhi MölsäToiminnanjohtajaExecutive Directorp. (050) 570 5498

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 KokkalaVice President, Strategic Rese-arch, Services and the Built Envi-ronment, 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

Dr. Bruce ForbesResearch ProfessorArctic CentreUniversity of Lapland

Ms. Amy HirschAssistant Counselor for Press and Public Affairs American Embassy

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.

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1. 11. 2014–2015 hakuaika päättyy:

• MCPD-ohjelma • Fulbright Grant in

Photojournalism sponsored by Patricia Seppälä Foundation

14. 11. Fulbright Bicentennial Chair in American Studies -professorin virkaanastujaisluento

18. – 22. 11. International Education Week

18. 11. INFO:Opiskelu- ja stipendi-mahdollisuudet Vanderbilt-yliopistossa18. – 20. 11. FC vierailee pääkaupun-kiseudun lukioissa Vanderbiltin kanssa

18. 11. Fulbright Center Aalto yliopiston kv-messuilla

19. 11. International Education ExpoKaisa-kirjastossa

Fulbright Center Tampereen teknillisen yliopiston kv-kahveilla

20. 11. Fulbright Center Lapin yliopiston kv-viikolla

21. 11. Fulbright-alumniCherie Sampsonin vierailuluento FC:ssä

28. 11. Thanksgiving: FC suljettu

Grantees and family visiting the Fazer

chocolate factory on Thankgiving Day

Kevään infotilaisuudet

julkaistaan Fulbright Centerin

verkkosivulla tammikuun

aikana

3. – 4. 12. Fulbright Center Studia-messuilla

12. 12.Vaihtotoimikunnan kokousFulbright Center Board Meeting

17. – 18. 12. Pohjoismaiden Fulbright-komissiot koulutuksessa Fulbright Centerissä

FC suljettu6. 12. Itsenäisyyspäivä23. – 27. 12. Joulu1. 1. Uusi vuosi6. 1. Loppiainen

7. 2.10th Fulbright North American Studies Roundtable

29. 2.Fulbright Center Jyväskylän yliopistolla

Vaihtotoimikunnan kokous helmikuussa

2014

•Fulbright Center Board Meeting February 2014

Fulbright Centerin stipendiohjelmien uudet hakutiedot

julkistetaan helmikuussa

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

12.5.ORIENTAATIO:Suomalaisten stipendiaattien lähtöorientaatio ja stipendien julkistamistilaisuus

12. – 14. 5. Fulbright CenterKorkeakoulujen kansainvälisten asioiden hallinnon kevätpäivilläTampereella

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

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