3 TXST students named Fulbright award recipients

Three Texas State University students have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to pursue English Teaching Assistantships or conduct independent research during the 2025-2026 award year.

Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected in an open, merit-based competition that considers the quality and feasibility of the applicants’ proposals, academic and professional achievement, and the extent to which the candidates and their projects will help advance the Fulbright mission of cultural exchange.

The TXST awardees listed below join an international network of esteemed recipients, as Fulbright alumni include 62 Nobel Prize laureates, 93 Pulitzer Prize recipients, 82 MacArthur Fellows, 44 heads of state or government, and thousands of leaders across the private, public, and non-profit sectors.

Pranesh Aswath, Ph.D., provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, commended this year’s Fulbright grantees, stating, “I am very proud of our Fulbright awardees. Yet, we are not only deeply proud of these Texas State students, but we are also honored to have them serve as cultural ambassadors for the United States, our institution, and our campus community.”

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is administered at TXST by the Fulbright Program Advisers (FPAs). Students and recent alumni interested in applying should contact the FPA corresponding to their degree level.

Each year, about 2,000 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grantees—recent college graduates, graduate students, and early career professionals—pursue graduate study, conduct independent research, or teach English in schools abroad. These awardees are recognized alongside hundreds of faculty, researchers, administrators, and established professionals who teach or conduct research abroad annually through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program.

The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. Since 1946, the program has provided more than 400,000 talented and accomplished students, scholars, teachers, artists, and professionals of all backgrounds with international opportunities to study, teach, and conduct research. Fulbrighters form ongoing collaborations and lay the groundwork for future partnerships between institutions and nations, through which grantees exchange cultural ideas, build people-to-people connections, and work to address complex global challenges.

Fulbright is a program of the U.S. Department of State, with funding provided by the U.S. Government. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the Program, which has operated in over 160 countries worldwide. In the United States, the Institute of International Education implements the Fulbright U.S. Student and U.S. Scholar Programs on behalf of the U.S. Department of State.