Statistical and Narrative Report Program: Portuguese Scholars and

Statistical and Narrative Report Program: Portuguese Scholars and

Statistical and Narrative Report
Program: Portuguese Scholars and Researchers
AY: 2015/2016
FY: 2015
Officer in charge: Paula Lemos
Date of report: February 23, 2015
Contents
1. Brief description of the Program
Grants:
• Fulbright grant for Portuguese Scholars and Researchers – all fields of study.
• Fulbright / Instituto Camões grant for scholars and researchers - Linguistics,
Communication, Language Teaching Pedagogy and Didactics, History, Contemporary
History, Sociology, Literature, Political Science, International Relations, Distance
Education, Fine Arts, Performing Arts.
These grants enable both lecture and/or research activities.
2. Brief analysis of how the promotion, competition and selection process took place
(planning, outreach, media, calendars, pool of evaluators, etc).
Competitions opened on October 1st and ended on October 31st.
On October 9th we offered a webinar for applicants with full explanation of the grants’
conditions and of the application form. 6 applicants attended this webinar.
36 applications were received, one of them incomplete. The 35 complete applications were
grouped in 10 panels:
• Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
• Art and History
• Chemistry
• Biological Sciences – Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, and
Neuroscience
• Biological Sciences – Marine Biology
• Communication, Literature and Philosophy
• Computer Science and Mathematics,
• Education
• Engineering
• Pharmacology
These panels were reviewed by former Fulbright grantees in the correspondent fields of
study.
Evaluators who did the first review of the applications were:
Adelino Galvão, Universidade de Lisboa
Adriana Nogueira, Universidade do Algarve
Alexandre Aires da Silva, Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
Alfredo Soeiro, Universidade do Porto
António Campos Rosado, Artist
António Moreira, Universidade de Aveiro
António Samagaio, Universidade de Aveiro
Cecília Arraiano, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Elsa Rocha, Universidade do Porto
Francisco Ferreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
João Carvalho, UTAD
John Huffstot, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Mário Filipe, Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
Miguel Tamen, Universidade de Lisboa
Paula Elyseu Mesquita, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Paulo Fontoura, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Roche Pharmaceuticals
Pedro Bizarro, FeedZai
Rafaela Arriaga, Universidade de Lisboa
Raúl Bettencourt, Universidade dos Açores
Ricardo Silvestre, Universidade Lusófona
Rita Mateus, Universidade dos Açores
Tiago Guerra, A4F, Algafuel, SA
Yasser Omar, Universidade de Lisboa
7 candidates were not selected for interview after the peer review. 1 candidate who had
been called for interview did not show up. 27 candidates were interviewed by the following
evaluators:
António Campos Rosado, Artist
Cecília Arraiano, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Charles Park, American Embassy
Curtis Stewart, International Lead & Zinc Study Group
Francisco Ferreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Elliot Repko, American Embassy
Jenny Malheiro, American Embassy
John Huffstot, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Mário Filipe, Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua
Michael Sarmiento, American Embassy
Miguel Tamen, Universidade de Lisboa
Paula Elyseu Mesquita, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Paulo Pereira, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Pedro Bizarro, FeedZai
Rafaela Arriaga, Universidade de Lisboa
Ricardo Silvestre, Universidade Lusófona
Scott Hartmann, American Embassy
Tiago Guerra, A4F, Algafuel, SA
From the interviews phase, 7 candidates were not recommended for selection and the
other 20 were evaluated by the Board of Directors who made the selection of 1 candidate
for the Fulbright/Instituto Camões grant and 5 candidates for the Fulbright grant.
•
3. Statistics
Summary
36
6
17%
Applicants
Grantees
Success Rate
•
By home institution
Applicants
Home Institution
U Coimbra
U Porto
UNL
U Minho
ISCTE
U Algarve
U Aveiro
U Lisboa
Not affiliated with an institution /
working in a private company
IP Leiria
IP Lisboa
IP Porto
U Azores
U Évora
U Lusófona Porto
U York, UK
The Portuguese National Institute
for Agricultural and Veterinary
Research
Total
•
Number
6
5
4
3
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
%
17%
14%
11%
8%
6%
6%
6%
6%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
1
3%
36 100%
Grantees
Home Institution
U Coimbra
U Porto
UNL
U Minho
ISCTE
U Algarve
U Aveiro
U Lisboa
Number
1
%
17%
1
2
17%
33%
1 17%
Not affiliated with an institution /
working in a private company
IP Leiria
IP Lisboa
IP Porto
U Azores
U Évora
U Lusófona Porto
U York, UK
The Portuguese National Institute
for Agricultural and Veterinary
Research
Total
1 17%
6 100%
Success Rates
Home Institution
U Coimbra
U Porto
UNL
U Minho
ISCTE
U Algarve
U Aveiro
U Lisboa
Not affiliated with an institution /
working in a private company
IP Leiria
IP Lisboa
IP Porto
U Azores
U Évora
U Lusófona Porto
U York, UK
The Portuguese National Institute
for Agricultural and Veterinary
Research
Total
%
17%
33%
100%
50%
100%
17%
major academic discipline
Applicants
Major Academic Discipline
Biological Sciences
Engineering
Education
History
Art History
Communication
Computer Science
Environmental Sciences
Pharmacology
Agriculture
Art
Business Administration
Chemistry
Genetics
Literature
Mathematics
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Total
Number
7
4
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
36
%
19%
11%
8%
8%
6%
6%
6%
6%
6%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
100%
Grantees
Major Academic Discipline
Biological Sciences
Engineering
Education
History
Art History
Communication
Computer Science
Environmental Sciences
Pharmacology
Agriculture
Art
Business Administration
Chemistry
Genetics
Literature
Mathematics
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Total
Number
%
2
33%
1
17%
1
17%
1
17%
1
17%
6
100%
Success Rates
Major Academic Discipline
Biological Sciences
Engineering
Education
History
Art History
Communication
Computer Science
Environmental Sciences
Pharmacology
Agriculture
Art
Business Administration
Chemistry
Genetics
Literature
Mathematics
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Total
%
50%
33%
50%
50%
100%
17%
•
geographical area of residence
Applicants
Geographic area of residence
Lisbon
Coimbra
Porto
Braga
Setúbal
Faro
Aveiro
Évora
Viseu
UK
Total
•
Grantees
Geographic area of residence
Lisbon
Coimbra
Porto
Braga
Setúbal
Faro
Aveiro
Évora
Viseu
UK
Total
Number
3
1
%
50%
17%
2
33%
6
100%
Success Rates
Geographic area of residence
Lisbon
Coimbra
Porto
Braga
Setúbal
Faro
Aveiro
Évora
Viseu
UK
Total
%
33%
17%
40%
17%
%
69%
31%
100%
Grantees
Gender
Female
Male
Total
Number
3
3
6
%
50%
50%
100%
Number
%
Success Rates
%
Gender
Female
12%
Male
27%
Total
17%
age
Applicants
Number
Age
20-29
1
30-39
18
40-49
11
50-59
5
60-69
1
Total
36
•
%
25%
17%
17%
14%
11%
6%
3%
3%
3%
3%
100%
gender
Applicants
Number
Gender
Female
25
Male
11
Total
36
•
Number
9
6
6
5
4
2
1
1
1
1
36
%
3%
50%
31%
14%
3%
100%
Grantees
Age
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
60-69
Total
3
2
1
50%
33%
17%
6
100%
Success Rates
%
Age
20-29
30-39
17%
40-49
18%
50-59
20%
60-69
Total
17%
career position
Applicants
Career Position
Assistant Professor
Post-Doc Researcher
Associate Professor
Researcher
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Full Professor
Independent scholar
Partner in a company
Total
Number
14
8
4
4
2
2
1
1
36
%
39%
22%
11%
11%
6%
6%
3%
3%
100%
Grantees
Career Position
Assistant Professor
Post-Doc Researcher
Associate Professor
Researcher
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Full Professor
Independent scholar
Partner in a company
Total
Number
2
3
%
33%
50%
1
17%
6
100%
Success Rates
Career Position
Assistant Professor
Post-Doc Researcher
Associate Professor
Researcher
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Full Professor
Independent scholar
Partner in a company
Total
%
14%
38%
25%
17%
•
host institution
Applicants
Host Institution
Carnegie Mellon
University of Maryland
University of North Carolina
University of Texas, Austin
Arizona State University
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Drexel University
Harvard University
J. Craig Venter Institute
Kansas State University
Kent State University
MIT
National Cancer Institute
New York University
Princeton University
Rutgers, The State University of New York
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural
History
Southern Institute of Forest Genetics
Stanford University
Texas A&M University
University of California, San Diego
University of Connecticut
University of Florida
University of Miami
University of Nevada
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin-Madison
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Yale University
Yeshiva University
Total
•
Number
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
36
%
6%
6%
6%
6%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
3%
100%
Grantees
Host Institution
Carnegie Mellon
University of Maryland
University of North Carolina
University of Texas, Austin
Arizona State University
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Drexel University
Harvard University
J. Craig Venter Institute
Kansas State University
Kent State University
MIT
National Cancer Institute
New York University
Princeton University
Rutgers, The State University of New York
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural
History
Southern Institute of Forest Genetics
Stanford University
Texas A&M University
University of California, San Diego
University of Connecticut
University of Florida
University of Miami
University of Nevada
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin-Madison
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Yale University
Yeshiva University
Total
Number
1
%
17%
1
17%
1
17%
1
17%
1
1
17%
17%
6
100%
Success Rates
Host Institution
Carnegie Mellon
University of Maryland
University of North Carolina
University of Texas, Austin
Arizona State University
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Drexel University
Harvard University
J. Craig Venter Institute
Kansas State University
Kent State University
MIT
National Cancer Institute
New York University
Princeton University
Rutgers, The State University of New York
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural
History
Southern Institute of Forest Genetics
Stanford University
Texas A&M University
University of California, San Diego
University of Connecticut
University of Florida
University of Miami
University of Nevada
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin-Madison
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Yale University
Yeshiva University
Total
duration of the stay
Applicants
Duration of stay
3 months
6 months
12 months
4 months
9 months
10 months
5 months
7 months
10 1/2 months
11 months
Total
Number
%
11 31%
11 31%
4 11%
2
6%
2
6%
2
6%
1
3%
1
3%
1
3%
1
3%
36 100%
Grantees
Duration of stay
3 months
6 months
12 months
4 months
9 months
10 months
5 months
7 months
10 1/2 months
11 months
Total
Number
1
2
%
17%
33%
1
1
17%
17%
1 17%
6 100%
Success Rates
Duration of stay
3 months
6 months
12 months
4 months
9 months
10 months
5 months
7 months
10 1/2 months
11 months
Total
%
9%
18%
100%
100%
100%
17%
%
50%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
17%