Faculty and students are working to make connections on an international scale, and three more are continuing the hard work of collaboration this academic year as part of the prestigious Fulbright Program.

Established by the U.S. Congress in 1946, the Fulbright Program aims to increase the mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries through research, study, teaching and other collaborative opportunities. The program provides funding for university faculty, staff and students to teach, study and conduct research projects abroad.

The award winners for the 2025-26 academic year include Julie Leventhal ('07 M.S.), a principal lecturer in the Honors College, who taught a course on interpersonal relationships at the West University of Timisoara in Timisoara, Romania, in the spring. This is her second time going to Romania as part of the Fulbright Program.

Feifei Pan, professor of geography and the environment in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and director of graduate studies, was in Türkiye last fall establishing a collaborative relationship between the Izmir Institute of Technology and UNT to develop an irrigation scheduling tool.

Lily Stone ('25), a German and marketing major, was as an English teaching assistant at a high school in the North Rhine-Westphalia state in Germany last fall.