{"84641":{"#nid":"84641","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Tech Student to Travel to Budapest on a Fulbright Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELast spring, computer science and applied mathematics major David Eger left Budapest, Hungary, after studying math in a semester abroad program.  He\u0027s been trying to find his way back ever since. So he did what any enterprising student would do: he applied for a Fulbright Fellowship.  This spring, Eger found out he\u0027ll be returning to Budapest courtesy of the U.S. State Department, making him the second Tech student in two years to win the fellowship.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If you go to a country where the food is wonderful and the people are awesome, you just can\u0027t wait to get back.  There is a great candidness to the people and to the country. Their mathematicians are second to none.  It\u0027s just beautiful ,and I want to go back,\u0022 said Eger.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Fulbright program was created in 1946 with legislation sponsored by Sen. J. William Fulbright.   A fervent believer in cultural exchange, he reasoned that nations would be less likely to go to war against each other if people could study abroad and learn about each other\u0027s culture, a philosophy Eger has taken to heart.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There are a lot of far off places that we may hear about on the news, but we have no concept of what they are really like,\u0022 said Eger.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn his first trip, Eger rented a room from an 85-year-old Hungarian woman.  Eger didn\u0027t speak much Hungarian and she didn\u0027t speak much English, so they spoke to each other in the only language that was mutual - German.  Living with her was an amazing experience, Eger said. Her husband was in the military, and she had lived through several wars.  She was an eyewitness to history.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFulbright advisor Amy Bass Henry said Eger\u0027s enthusiasm made him the perfect Fulbright candidate.  \u0022I\u0027m so glad he was awarded the Fulbright.  He is very passionate about Hungary and math.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEger will spend a year taking graduate-level math in Budapest and then plans to return to the states to pursue a Ph.D. in computer science.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There\u0027s a beauty to math.  There\u0027s a bit of finality.  Once you\u0027re done proving something in math, you\u0027re done,\u0022 said Eger.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Fulbright Fellowship will pay for his travel, tuition, books, as well as room and board. Sponsored by the U.S. State Department, the domestic component of the international program awards about 1,000 grants for American students to pursue international research. More than 140 countries participated in the program this year.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Last spring, computer science and applied mathematics major David Eger left Budapest, Hungary, after studying math in a semester abroad program.  He\u0027s been trying to find his way back ever since. So he did what any enterprising student would do: he applied for a Fulbright Fellowship.  This spring, Eger found out he\u0027ll be returning to Budapest courtesy of the U.S. State Department, making him the second Tech student in two years to win the fellowship.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2003-05-06 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:06","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"84651":{"id":"84651","type":"image","title":"Fulbright Fellow David Eger","body":null,"created":"1449178102","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:28:22","changed":"1475894704","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:04"}},"media_ids":["84651"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iie.org\/fulbright\/","title":"Fulbright Fellowship Program"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}