During the celebrations for the 65th anniversary of the Fulbright Program in Austria held in New York last week, WU Rector Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger awarded the WU Pin of Honor to Kathryn Hall, former US ambassador to Austria, and her husband Craig Hall, in recognition of their long years of generous support to the Fulbright Program and the foundation of the Fulbright-Hall Distinguished Chair for Entrepreneurship in Central Europe at WU.

“The experiences we, at WU, have had with the Fulbright exchange program and the Fulbright-Hall Chair at WU have always been excellent. Particularly the Fulbright-Hall Chair provides unique opportunities to our researchers, faculty, and students by facilitating the exchange of expertise and knowledge with distinguished professors from the US. Thanks to the support of the Hall Foundation, US researchers can spend not just a couple of days but an entire semester at WU, and for that we are very grateful. It is my great pleasure to present the WU Pin of Honor to Kathryn and Craig Hall to thank them for generously supporting the Fulbright Program and WU’s Fulbright Chair for so many years,” said Rector Hanappi-Egger.

The Fulbright Program and the Fulbright-Hall Chair

For 65 years, the American-Austrian Fulbright exchange program has been providing mobility grants to up to 80 Austrian and US students and faculty members per year. Seven years ago, the Fulbright-Hall Distinguished Chair for Entrepreneurship in Central Europe was established at WU to strengthen academic research on a broad range of entrepreneurship-related topics. In November 2015, the Chair was renewed for another three-year period. With this extension, the Craig & Kathryn Hall Foundation continues to support academic mobility by allowing US researchers to teach and do research at WU.

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