10 Years of Fulbright Iceland-NSF Arctic Celebration

 Joe Roman´s lecture at the Ambassador´s residence.                        Belinda with Ambassador Svanhildur Hólm Valsdóttir

In September Fulbright Iceland celebrated the ten-year anniversary of this mutually beneficial partnership, or more precisely 10 years since the first Fulbright-National Science Foundation grantees arrived in Iceland. The agreement between Fulbright Iceland and NSF was signed in 2014 and the first grantees were selected for the following year. To mark the occasion, Fulbright Iceland teamed up with the Icelandic Embassy in Washington to host a talk by Fulbright Iceland-NSF alum Dr. Joe Roman who discussed his latest book, Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World, part of which focuses on Iceland and the research he did there.

Before the talk, Ambassador Svanhildur Hólm Valsdóttir and Fulbright Iceland ED Belinda Theriault greeted the guests, who included representatives of the National Science Foundation and the State Department, as well as Fulbright Iceland alumni from the DC area and Arctic experts.

With State Department Colleagues.                                               With current and former NSF Colleagues