Fulbright Iceland Day in celebration of Fulbright´s 75th anniversary

The year started off with a bang! 2021 is a year of celebration of all Fulbright stakeholders, including Fulbright Commissions and their friends around the world, as we celebrate the 75^th anniversary of the Fulbright Program. Fulbright Iceland is honored to have been the first country highlighted with a “Fulbright Country Day” during the 75^th anniversary year.

Fulbright Iceland Day was celebrated on February 23^rd with the publishing of an anniversary newsletter, the premier of a Fulbright Iceland Grantee Profile Video – a glimpse inside the World of Nick Fry, Fulbright Fellow 2020-21,  and three live events with notable Fulbright alumni; An interview with Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, the Icelandic Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources and Fulbright alumnus; A presentation on Icelandic Academic Vocabulary by Dr. Barbara Laster and her Icelandic host, Dr. Sigríður Ólafsdóttir; and a presentation by two-time Fulbright grantee to Iceland, Dr. M Jackson, author of the Secret Lives of Glaciers. Fulbright Iceland Day was a great success and its live events and newsletter reached hundreds of people as the events were streamed both on Zoom and Facebook Live.