The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Yezu Woo of State University of New York Stony Brook has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Germany in Performing Arts/Violin. Yezu will conduct research at Hochschule für Musik und Darstel- lende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and the Isang Yun Foundation Berlin as part of her project ‘Discovering Isang Yun and his World’. She will spend a year in Frankfurt, as an academy member of Ensemble Modern and in Berlin, working at the foundation dedicated to the Korean-German composer Isang Yun.
Yezu is one of over 2,100 U.S. citizens who will conduct research, teach English, and provide expertise abroad for the 2019-2020 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, as well as their record of service and leadership potential in their respective fields.