Youth, Students, and Educators: Fulbright Program to Receive Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation
On October 24, 2014, King Felipe VI of Spain will present the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright Program with the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, an annual prize awarded in Spain by the Prince of Asturias Foundation conferred on those whose scientific, technical, cultural, social, and humanitarian work “constitutes an outstanding contribution at the international level.” The Foundation recognizes the Fulbright Program “for enhancing and strengthening links and mutual understanding between the world’s citizens.”
The King, who is an honorary Fulbright alumnus, will present the award at a ceremony in Oviedo, Spain. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Evan Ryan will accept the award on behalf of the Fulbright Program. Two members of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, Chairman Tom Healy and former Ambassador Gabriel Guerra-Mondragon, as well as Senator Fulbright’s widow, Mrs. Harriet Fulbright, will be among the honored guests at the ceremony.
The Asturias Awards ceremony will be broadcast live from Oviedo on Spanish national broadcaster TVE, at 18:30 in Oviedo / 16:30 UTC/GMT / 12:30 EDT. Audiences around the world have an opportunity to watch this historic event via livestream in English or Spanish here: http://eca.state.gov/fulbright/about-fulbright/prince-asturias-award. (Links will go live on October 24.)
Audiences may also follow the event on Twitter at #PrinceAsturiasAwards, #Fulbright, or #premiosprincipe.
Secretary of State John Kerry’s statement in support of the Award can be found here.
The Fulbright Program, established in 1946 by U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright to promote mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries, grants 8,000 scholarships annually for academic exchanges between the United States and over 160 countries. Among the more than 360,000 Fulbright Program alumni are 53 Nobel laureates and 80 Pulitzer Prize recipients.
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Rian Harris, RianRH@state.gov, +34 91 587 2509 (Spain only)
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