pune the embassy of united states of america has announced the opening of the annual competition for fulbrightnehru fulbrightkalam and other fulbright fellowships for 2020on behalf of the united states fulbright commission the united statesindia educational foundation usief expects to offer approximately 100 fulbrightnehru and eight fulbrightkalam climate fellowships to indians in 2020 indian students academics teachers policy makers administrators and professionals are being invited to apply for the fellowship officials stated that the fellowships and exchanges have helped bring people of india and united states closer through opportunities that enrich fellows academic research training and professional capacity alumni of exchange and scholarship programmes have demonstrated strong leadership in several fields including agriculture arts business education environment humanities and social sciences public health and science and technology a fulbrightnehru masters fellow kriti sharma said i attended an exclusive programme at stanford university which trains scholars interested in joining legal academia i benefitted from the diverse courses and personal guidance received from some of the leading legal luminaries through this programme i had the opportunity to engage in conversations with native american communities which helped me to compare their sociolegal issues with concerns encountered by indigenous groups in india the application deadline for the first application is may 15 2019