Fulbright Starts Efforts to Help Alumni Keep Global Ties

By Ian Wilhelm. Colleen R. O'Neal had what many might call the quintessential Fulbright experience. For years, Ms. O'Neal, who earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology, had studied the emotional health of minority students under duress in the United States. But in 2010 she traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as part of the U.S. State Department's Fulbright Program.
There she discovered a new passion: studying the stresses faced by the 40,000 or so refugee children from Burma and elsewhere—an underserved population she says she had never heard of before she arrived. More...