Fulbright diplomas ceremony - a graduate of Silesian University of Technology among scholarship holders 

The Fulbright Scholarship has enabled them to study or conduct research at American universities and research institutions – more young scientists have joined the ranks of graduates of this prestigious program, which includes 60 Nobel Prize winners, 86 Pulitzer Prize winners and thirty-seven heads of state. Krzysztof Przybyło, a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture of the Silesian University of Technology, obtained a master’s degree from the University of Washington thanks to the scholarship.

The Fulbright scholarship is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious in the world. To receive it, candidates must meet very high requirements and present a convincing plan for scientific development. The scholarship opens the door to the best American universities and research institutions, enabling the scholarship holder to gain unique experience in areas such as new technologies, sustainable architecture, cultural studies, aviation and aerospace, political science, art history, and biological and medical sciences. Graduates and scientists who spent the previous academic year in the United States received their diplomas from the hands of the ambassador of that country. Mark Brzeziński himself was a Fulbright scholarship holder and in 1991-93 he studied in Poland, which opened unexpected career paths for him. Andrzej Szeptycki, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Science and Higher Education who was present during the ceremony, emphasized the uniqueness of the Fulbright program and the bilateral nature of Polish-American exchange, at the same time thanking the scholarship holders for their contribution to science, as well as for the development of Polish-American relations.  

The Fulbright program grants scholarships in eight categories. In recent years, three people associated with the Silesian University of Technology took part in this prestigious program. Sandra Przepiórkowska, also a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture and the Doctoral School, received a scholarship for doctoral students in the Fulbright Junior Research Award category. She is the first implementation PhD student in Poland to receive this distinction, in the academic year 2022-23 she studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. Prof. Anna Skorek-Osikowska from the Department of Power Engineering and Turbomachinery at the Faculty of Energy and Environmental Engineering has been awarded the Fulbright STEM Impact Award, thanks to which she completed a scientific internship at Princeton University on modelling of energy systems and energy transformation. Krzysztof Przybyło after graduating his first-degree studies from the Faculty of Architecture, as one of six people in Poland won a scholarship in the Fulbright Graduate Student Award category. As a result, in 2022-2024 he studied at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he earned a master’s degree in architecture.