By Diana Milkova The A250 Regional ETA Seminar to prepare Fulbrighters to highlight America’s 250th anniversary in 2026 is a wrap—and what an inspiring celebration of U.S. culture, history, and teaching it was! This year’s seminar, held in Sofia, brought...
Interview by Maria Kostova Many international performers dream of making it to New York—for Izabel Mitkova, a talented young Bulgarian actor, dancer and choreographer who won a Fulbright/Thanks to Scandinavia Scholarship, this dream has come true! In Fall 2025,...
Interview by Iliana Dimitrova A national champion beach wrestler, award-winning writer, and dedicated educator—these are just a few of the many roles Samantha “Sam” Hauff embraces as this year’s Fulbright | America for Bulgaria English Teaching Assistant at the...
By Iliana Dimitrova Facing a classroom full of teenagers can be daunting, almost as scary as walking across hot coals for the uninitiated. Luckily for the new cohort of Fulbright English Teaching Assistants (ETAs), the Commission staff planned a week of fun and...
Interview by Viktoria Dailova Although she set foot for the first time in Bulgaria just a month ago, California native Hayden Hill has been hearing about the country since she was a child, thanks to her Bulgarian-American grandmother. This family connection inspired...
Interview by Maria Kostova Meet Nikolay Kolev, a 2024–25 Fulbright Scholar from the University of Food Technologies in Plovdiv. His home institution is a particularly exciting partner for us, as its strong focus on food science and meat technology is not the most...
By Dr. Svetoslava Toncheva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and AY2024-25 Fulbright Bulgarian Scholar at the University of California Santa Barbara The US is a country of contrasts, encompassing both some of the first and largest protected areas – where wilderness is...
Interview by Viktoria Dailova A cozy town an hour outside Sofia, Pravets is famous in Bulgaria for being the birthplace of two things: the communist-era leader Todor Zhivkov and the country’s first personal computer, aptly named the Pravetz (and suspiciously similar...
Interview by Rada Kaneva Dr. Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones has lived not just one extraordinary life, but several. A two-time Olympic athlete in beach volleyball (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004), she later pivoted to an entirely different frontier — astrophysics. Today, as...
By Filip Lyapov Could you introduce yourself in a few words? As a Bulgarian-American (shoutout Ruse!) and francophone, having attended a French immersion school for seven years and studied abroad twice in high school, my decision to move across the Atlantic for...
