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
Fulbright is not just about research and academic events. At least for me, it was also about meeting new people, experiencing the local food, trying to understand different values. For two months my wife and daughter (she is 9) were in Athens with me, and together we were able to travel to Orlando, San Francisco, and Washington. The experiences we had together were extraordinary, and my daughter was impressed enough to declare that she plans to come to college at UGA, probably around 2032.