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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Country

United States

State

Illinois

City

Champaign

Institution IPED

170976

Liaison(s)

Sammer Saleh Jones

Title

Director for Global Relations

Address

Champaign, IL
United States

Phone

Email

salehjo1@illinois.edu

Sammer Saleh Jones

Phone

1 (217) 300-5031

Email

salehjo1@illinois.edu

U.S. Grantees

Name Sort ascending	Home Institution	Host Institution	Discipline	Program Country	Academic Years	Program
Richard Wilcock	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	The Johns Hopkins University , University of Genoa	Labor/Industrial Relations	Italy	1957-1958	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
John Wheatley	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Institute of Physics	Physics	Argentina	1961-1962	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Timothy Weiss	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	University of Tunis	Linguistics	Tunisia	1988-1989	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Marvin Weinbaum	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	University of Peshawar	Political Science	Pakistan	1989-1990	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Marvin Weinbaum	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	University of Cairo	Political Science	Egypt	1981-1982	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Harold Wanless	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	The University of Sydney	Geology	Australia	1958-1959	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Allison Walter	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	The German-American Fulbright Commission	Education	Germany	2007-2008	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Juliet Walker	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	University of the Witwatersrand	History	South Africa	1995-1996	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Hugh Wales	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	University of South Africa	Marketing	South Africa	1961-1962	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
William Wagner	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Institute for Animal Husbandry Research	Animal Science	Germany	1984-1985	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Mara Wade	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	University of Goettingen	Language	Germany	1997-1998	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Mara Wade	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Various Institutions	Language	Denmark	1989-1990	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Edna Viruell-Fuentes	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	University of Guadalajara	Public Health	Mexico	2017-2018	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Venugopal Veeravalli	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Aalto University	Engineering	Finland	2023-2024	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Oscar Vazquez	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	National Autonomous University of Mexico , San Fernando Royal Academy Fine Arts	Art History	Mexico, Spain	2023-2024	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Harry Upshaw	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Technical University of Berlin	Psychology	Germany	1978-1979	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Edward Tyner	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	University of the West Indies	Agriculture	Trinidad and Tobago	1965-1966	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Thomas Turino	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	University of Zimbabwe	Music	Zimbabwe	1992-1993	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Deoki Tripathy	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Indian Institute of Science	Medical Sciences	India	1995-1996	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Harry Triandis	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Various Institutions	Psychology	India	1983-1984	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Visiting Grantees

Name Sort ascending	Home Institution	Host Institutions	Discipline	Program Country	Academic Years	Program
Chung-Yu Wu	National Chiao Tung University	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Education	Taiwan	2004-2005	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Piotr Wrobel	Institute for Low-Temperature and Structure Research	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Physics	Poland	1994-1995	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Marek Wojtaszek	University of Lodz	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Area Studies	Poland	2014-2015	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Justyna Ewa Wlodarczyk	University of Warsaw	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Humanities	Poland	2016-2017	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Margaret Welton	University of London, Research Unit, King's College	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Biology	United Kingdom	1967-1968	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
David Warburton	Massey University	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Engineering	New Zealand	1977-1978	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Feng Wang	northwest university in China	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Economics	China	2017-2018	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Ji Zu Wang	Nankai University	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Economics	China	1982-1983	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Keng-Ling Wang	Government Information Office	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Law	Taiwan	2003-2004	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Friedhelm Waldhausen	Mathematical Institute of Bonn	Institute for Advanced Study , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Mathematics	Germany	1967-1968	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Aileen Wade	Sheffield City Polytechnic	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Library Science	United Kingdom	1991-1992	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Pauli Vuolle	University of Jyvaskyla	Boston University , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Education	Finland	1982-1983	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Radojka Vukcevic	Institute for Foreign Languages	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Language	Montenegro	1991-1992	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Filip Vukajlovic	Boris Kidric Institute of Nuclear Sciences	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Physics	Serbia	1989-1990	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Olga Vorobyova	Kiev Linguistic University	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Linguistics	Ukraine	1995-1996	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Thanousorn Vongpraseuth	National University of Laos	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Urban Planning	Laos		Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Gesa Von Essen	Georg-August University Gottingen	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Language	Germany	2002-2003	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Peter Vogl	University of Graz	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Physics	Austria	1977-1978	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Patrick Vittet-Philippe	National Center for Scientific Research	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Language	France	1979-1980	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program
Alexander Vinogradov	National University of Kiev	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Psychology	Ukraine	1999-2000	Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program