Avenida Houston
Feeling at home in the U.S.

As an international student, coping with homesickness has been something I’ve had to do frequently, even now as a senior graduate student.

Elsa Acosta de Anda, Rice University
Elsa Acosta de Anda

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish

Houston, TX at twilight
Grad School 101: The Houston Experience

Houston is the fourth largest city in the country and the largest in the Southern US.

Cell phone showing different options for online social networking
Networking at a (virtual) conference

Since the start of the pandemic, I have had the opportunity to attend two virtual conferences on August and early October.

Emily Elia, Rice University alumni ambassador
Emily Elia

Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: USA 🇺🇸 | Program: Political Science | Languages: English, Spanish

Victoria Granja, Rice University Alumni Ambassador and Postdoc
Victoria Granja

Alumni Ambassador | Home Country: Ecuador 🇪🇨 | Program: Mechanical Engineering | Languages: English, Spanish

Rosa Selenia Guerra Resendez of Rice University
Rosa Selenia Guerra Resendez

Home Country: Mexico | Program: Systems, Synthetic & Physical Biology | Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese

A student with her adviser
Becoming a Fulbrighter - Part III

In the last post we talked about the two central questions you should answer in your statement of purpose: why

Student writing at a desk
Blog Series: Becoming a Fulbrighter – Part II

As a Colombian hired by a German company and assigned to a US outsourced project in Argentina, I began to experience the opportunities of global integration very early in my professional career