Former Student Aliza Waxman Receives Fulbright Award.

Aliza Waxman has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarship to South Africa in public health, the US Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.

Waxman graduated from the BU College of Communications in 2007 and completed a certificate at BUSPH in 2009. She went on to complete her MPH at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and has been working in AIDS Research at the NIH since 2011. She will be returning to South Africa in September for a Fulbright public health fellowship at CAPRISA in Durban working on a microbicides clinical trial.

Waxman, of Washington, D.C., is one of more than 1,700 U.S. citizens who will travel abroad for the 2013-2014 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential.

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The primary source of funding for the Fulbright Program is an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations and foundations in foreign countries and in the United States also provide direct and indirect support. The Program operates in over 155 countries worldwide.

Since its establishment in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program has given approximately 318,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists, scientists and other professionals the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.