The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Consuelo Waight, Ph.D., of the Technology Division at the University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering has received a Fulbright Specialist Program award.
Waight is a professor of executive human resource development with an extensive history with the Fulbright program. She will complete a project at Instituto Superior de Gestão, Business and Economics School in Portugal that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefiting participants, institutions and communities in the U.S. and overseas through a variety of educational and training activities within human resource development and social work.
Waight is one of more than 400 U.S. citizens who share expertise with host institutions abroad through the Fulbright Specialist Program each year. Recipients of Fulbright Specialist awards are selected on the basis of academic and professional achievement, demonstrated leadership in their field, and their potential to foster long-term cooperation between institutions in the U.S. and abroad.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to build lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the Program, which operates in over 160 countries worldwide.
Waight has taken part in several Fulbright initiatives. Most recently in April 2024, she was appointed to the Fulbright Specialist Roster. She was also a Fulbright graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and in 2016 she was selected for the Fulbright Scholar Award.
Since its establishment in 1946, the Fulbright Program has given more than 400,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists, and scientists the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas, and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.
Fulbrighters address critical global issues in all disciplines, while building relationships, knowledge, and leadership in support of the long-term interests of the United States. Fulbright alumni have achieved distinction in many fields, including 60 who have been awarded the Nobel Prize, 88 who have received Pulitzer Prizes, and 39 who have served as a head of state or government.
Press release courtesy of the Fulbright program, with additional editing and information supplied by the Communications Department of the Cullen College of Engineering. For further information about the Fulbright Program or the U.S. Department of State, visit the program’s website or contact the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Press Office, (202) 632-6452 or ECA-Press [at] state.gov (ECA-Press[at]state[dot]gov).