On July 2-4, 2012, the Society for Romanian Studies (SRS) is organizing the 2012 International Congress on Romanian Studies at Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu. The theme of the congress is “Europeanization and Globalization: Romanians in Their Region and the World.” As members in the national board of SRS, U.S. Fulbrighters Paul Sum, Matthew Ciscel and Jill Massino are among the organizers of the event.

On March 22, 2012, the American Corner Timișoara hosted an event which reunited American Studies scholars at the West University of Timișoara with colleagues teaching at the King Khalid University (Abha, Saudi Arabia). Guest lecturers Sorin Ciutacu (Associate Professor, PhD) and Joseph Frank Uddo III (Lecturer, MS) spoke about two different hypotheses of the American metropolis: New Amsterdam. The Dutch Tradition of 17th Century New York and, respectively, Post 9/11 New York. Places and People. Romanian Fulbright alumna Cristina Chevereșan (Assistant Professor, PhD) and American Junior Fulbright Lecturer Jessica Miller used their own experiences to introduce the Fulbright Awards to the audience and encourage enrolment in this year’s competition. Their interactive presentation entitled Dreaming of New York? Fulbright Can Make It Happen proved particularly interesting for the BA and MA students who attended the meeting.

Ovidiu Cocieru, Fulbright Student Alumnus, has let us know about his most recent presence in the media, that is on Radio Romania 3Net online channel. He was invited to Intamplator, a broadcast session moderated by actor Adrian Paduraru, where he had the opportunity to speak about his master’s program in Sports Management, as a Fulbright grantee at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Ovidiu is also one of the team members carrying out Voci pentru Romania/Voices for Romania a project which tries to promote the Romanian professionals in different fields who asserted themselves at national level and abroad. http://radio3net.ro/dbvideos/categorie/45 

Bogdan Dospinescu, Fulbright researcher in the field of Political Communication at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey wrote an analysis on Super Tuesday for the Romanian newspaper Evenimentul Zilei. Two articles appeared in the online version of the newspaper:

- http://www.evz.ro/detalii/stiri/exclusiv-analiza-super-tuesday-goliat-vsdavid-romney-isi-confirma-statutul-de-favorit-970247.html

- http://www.evz.ro/detalii/stiri/profesorul-richard-lau-sunt-sigur-ca-obama-se-roaga-ca-santorum-sa-castige-970326.html