The University of South Carolina has a big campus with diverse colleges, research units and many activities for students, faculty and the general public. [...] I particularly enjoyed the sense of community inside the university, everybody being helpful and polite, and the structure that made the work process clear and easy to follow. It's been a great pleasure to get to know better a society which functions well as a whole, which invests in research and earns in innovation.
Livia Elena Nica-Rus
Fulbright Visiting Scholar, 2023-2024
Home Institution: “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest
Host University: University of South Carolina
Field: Design Education
Type of Grant: Research
The Fulbright program was my first physical contact with the United States’ society, and it was a wonderful experience for me and my family. We stayed in the South Carolina state. I worked in its main university, and the kids went to a very nice local school, where they made friends and learned a variety of things. The University of South Carolina has a big campus with diverse colleges, research units and many activities for students, faculty and the general public. While being there I interacted with some of the colleges’ departments and with two User Experience Labs. I particularly enjoyed the sense of community inside the university, everybody being helpful and polite, and the structure that made the work process clear and easy to follow.
It’s been a great pleasure to get to know better, not just through the media or the film industry, a society which functions well as a whole, which invests in research and earns in innovation. A big “thanks” to the Fulbright program.
Romanian Alumni Stories
"Writing about my Fulbright experience in the past tense is probably one of the hardest things I had to do in my adult life, not because I am unable to, nor am I the type of person who easily becomes overly nostalgic, but simply because it was an experience I would have never wanted to end. The further in time I get from it, the more I feel how it has changed me, how spending forty-five days immersed in such a transformative environment turned me into an even more focused professional, a better teacher and overall, an improved human being."