Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Kathryn Hay from Kāpiti will research how neurodivergent learners can be supported to succeed in their work-integrated learning experiences at Drexel University, Philadelphia. Kathryn is an Associate Professor in Social Work, and Associate Dean Work-Integrated Learning in the College of Health at Massey University.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Ashley Shearar, living in Rotorua, will research the emerging field of young adult justice at Columbia University in New York. Ashley is a Principal Inspector at the Office of the Inspectorate, Te Tari Tirohia, for the New Zealand Department of Corrections, Ara Poutama Aotearoa.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Mahsa McCauley from Auckland will explore transforming bee welfare with secure AI-enhanced precision apiculture at the Farm Security Operations Centre (FSOC) at North Carolina AandT State University, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Mahsa is a Senior Lecturer in School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Science at Auckland University of Technology.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Mei Peng from Dunedin will research parental decision-making on plant-based food choices at the University of California, Davis, and Washington State University, Pullman. Mei is a Senior Lecturer in Sensory Science in the Department of Food Science at the University of Otago.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Jason Ingham from Auckland will research heritage and sacred architecture with a focus on vulnerability assessment and remediation at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Jason is a Professor of Structural Engineering and the Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Auckland.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Jesse Pirini from Wellington will research how innovative data visualization can support Indigenous development at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst and Boston). Jesse is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Te Kahu o Te Ao–The Atom Innovation Space at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Siautu Alefaio-Tugia from South Auckland is researching Pacific-Indigenous and urban diasporic resilience across disaster and humanitarian contexts, at the National Disaster Preparedness Training Centre (NDPTC) University of Hawai’i, and the Centre for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies (CHRandR) at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Siautu is Professor of Psychology at the University of Otago.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Gill Bonnett from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland will research the Migration 5 collaboration between New Zealand, the US, UK, Canada and Australia at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Gill is a graduate in politics and French from the University of Liverpool and is the Immigration Reporter at Radio New Zealand.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Annie Te One from Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington will research connections between Māori and Hawai’ian political philosophies and the ways they inform political practice in the Indigenous Politics Programme at the University of Hawai’i in Mānoa. Annie is a Lecturer in Te Kawa a Māui, the school of Māori Studies at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Murdoch Stephens from Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington will research how countries respond to global humanitarian emergencies at California State University Northridge in Los Angeles, California. Murdoch is the Senior Policy Advisor at New Zealand Red Cross and a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Asia Pacific Refugees Studies at the University of Auckland.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Siân Halcrow from Ōtepoti Dunedin will research the bioethics of the use of anatomical human remains in Aotearoa and the United States at the University of California, Berkeley. Siân is a Professor in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Otago.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Alice Chang-Richards from Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland will research building recovery trajectories following the Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Alice is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Auckland.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Apo Aporosa from Kirikiriroa will investigate both the hepatotoxicity linked to kava consumption, and culturally informed therapeutic interventions to reducing post-traumatic stress disorder amongst post-combat soldiers at various institutions in Hawai’i. Apo is a lecturer and researcher at Te Huataki Waiora School of Health and Te Kura Whatu Oho Mauri School of Psychology at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato – University of Waikato.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Tago Mharapara from Auckland will study the integration of research evidence into health policymaking process at Brown University’s Policy Lab in Providence, Rhode Island. Tago is a Research Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Rachel Simon-Kumar from Auckland will research a feminist political science project called the ‘Ethnic Minority Women in New Zealand Politics Project’ at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Rachel is an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Karen Barbour from Waikato will investigate somatic dance practices and action competence in responding to environmental change at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Karen is an Associate Professor in the School of Arts at The University of Waikato.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Shona Munro from Wellington will research supporting justice reform through Police learning and development at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, North Carolina. Shona is a Teaching and Learning Advisor at the Royal New Zealand Police College in Porirua.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Prof Stuart Young from Dunedin will conduct research at the Verbatim Performance Lab at New York University (Steinhardt) in New York City, New York. Stuart is Professor of Theatre Studies in the School of Performing Arts at the University of Otago.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Dianne Sika-Paotonu from Wellington will research rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Dianne is Associate Dean (Pacific) and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at the University of Otago, Wellington.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Tyron Love from Christchurch will examine the exclusion and exploitation of Indigenous academics in universities at the University of California Los Angeles and the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Tyron is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies at the University of Canterbury.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Huia Jahnke from Palmerston North will research the nature of Indigenous community/higher education partnerships and resultant strategic initiatives at the University of California Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California and the Salish-Kootenai Tribal College in Pablo, Montana. Huia is a Professor of Māori and Indigenous Education at Massey University, Palmerston North.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Timothy Stern from Wellington is researching mountain building processes in Antarctica using a suite of computer codes that simulate viscous instability growth in the earth’s mantle at University of Colorado, Boulder. Timothy is a Professor of Geophysics at Victoria University of Wellington.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Steven Ratuva is researching horizontal inequality, affirmative action and Pacific Island minorities at UCLA, Duke University and Georgetown University. Steven is Director of the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies and professor at the University of Canterbury.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Ruth Empson from Dunedin is participating in research to understand how brain activity controls movement at the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University. Ruth is an Associate Professor in Physiology at the University of Otago.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Rachel Spronken-Smith from Dunedin is researching doctoral training systems in the US and NZ, and ascertaining how well the different systems are preparing graduates for the workplace. Rachel is Dean of the Graduate Research School at the University of Otago, and a researcher in the university’s Higher Education Development Centre.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award John Overton from Wellington is researching the political geography of the Pacific Islands at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa. John is Professor of Development Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Elizabeth Broadbent from Auckland is researching the design of companion robots to improve health at Tufts University in Boston. Elizabeth is an Associate Professor in Health Psychology at the University of Auckland.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Rob Keyzers from Wellington will use his 2016 Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award to research the use of microbial imaging mass spectrometry to fast-track the discovery of new antibiotics at the Skaggs Institute of Pharmacy, University of California in San Diego. Rob is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Nigel Isaacs, from Wellington, is using his 2016 Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award to research the development of the first USA national building code (1922) and its impact on the first New Zealand national building code (1924) based at the University of Illinois with visits to archives in Minnesota, Iowa and Maryland. Nigel is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Matthew Stott from Taupō is using his Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award to undertake research into the ecological, functional and taxonomic similarities of microorganisms that populate geothermal ecosystems in New Zealand and Yellowstone National Park, Montana. Matthew leads the Extremophiles Research Group in the Department of Geothermal Sciences at GNS Science, Wairakei.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Julia Horsfield from Dunedin will use single-cell sequencing to research how cell fate decisions are controlled in the Zebrafish animal model at the University of California, Davis in Davis, California and the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, California. Julia is an Associate Professor and Director of Genetics Otago at the University of Otago.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Annette Palliser from Invercargill will research urban food security and food sovereignty at Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. Annette is a Lecturer in Environmental Management at the Southern Institute of Technology.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Karin Bryan from Hamilton will research the role of the fringing forest environment in controlling the development of global mangrove forests at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. Karin is a Professor and Assistant Dean (Research) at the University of Waikato.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Bronwyn Kivell from Wellington will research the development of better medications to treat pain and addiction at the Scripps Research Institute and Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter, Florida. Bronwyn is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Susan Schenk from Wellington will develop a Zebrafish model of drug addiction and determine brain changes that accompany repeated exposure to drugs of abuse using this vertebrate model at the University of Utah in Salt lake City, Utah. Susan is Professor of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Fiona Amundsen from Auckland will research relationships between documentary photographic and video artworks and the socio-political realities of military capitalism at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), in Santa Clarita, California. Fiona is Senior Lecturer at the School of Art and Design at Auckland University of Technology.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Neil Gemmell from Dunedin will research the utility of new €œgene drive€ technologies for the control of predatory pests at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Neil is a Professor and AgResearch Chair at the University of Otago.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Tony Merriman from Dunedin will research the genetic basis of urate control and gout in African-Americans at the University of Alabama Birmingham in Birmingham, Alabama. Tony is a Research Professor at the University of Otago.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Nicola Daly from Hamilton will teach and research multilingualism in children’s literature at the University of Arizona in Tuscon, Arizona. Nicola is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato.

Fulbright New Zealand Scholar Award Richard Arnold from Wellington will research mathematical models for repair times in complex and repairable ageing systems, such as computers or aircraft, at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Richard is an Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington.