State Alumni is an interactive website by and for alumni of selected Department of State Exchange programs. State Alumni is an online community that helps alumni stay in contact with one another and with us at the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. State Alumni is open to all current and past participants of State Department exchange programs.

Notes from Undergrad, Winter 2009 issue is now available for download.
Notes not be more printing, so please use the electronic version.

Online Research Center subscriptions

The State Alumni team is pleased to announce the continuation of the Online Research Center subscriptions at https://alumni.state.gov/online-resources/online-research.center. This includes:

• InfoTrac: Gale"s InfoTrac Custom Journal Database for State Alumni, Academic OneFile, and InfoTrac OneFile, offer researchers a broad range of peer-reviewed content, trade publications, and more.  InfoTrac contains over 18,000 sources, from Accounting Today to Zoology.
• eLibrary: ProQuest"s eLibrary contains full-text and multimedia reference essentials including more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts--plus thousands of maps, pictures, educator-approved websites from Homework Central®, and audio/video files.  Preview the new eLibrary interface by clicking "Check It Out!" from the main eLibrary page. 
• COS Funding Opportunities: by popular demand, STATE ALUMNI"s newest addition to the Online Resource Center will continue to be available throughout 2009!  COS Funding Opportunities is the largest, most comprehensive database of available funding, containing more than 25,000 records representing over $33 billion in funding. 

See what alumni are saying about COS Funding Opportunities:

• "Will use it again, for it gives a very user friendly search system, searches can be filtered in various ways and even has a search history. Perfect!"
• "I think the COS Funding Opportunities database is fantastic… I wasn"t even aware that there was such a lot of funding out there for people like us, in the Third World. It is really useful and I"ll definitely be visiting the database again."
• "This is a brilliant opportunity for me as a scholar to be able to find useful funding when I want to go back to the US or other countries to participate in conferences or other relevant studies or research seminars worldwide. It is crucial that this resource is available for every State Alumni, so that he or she can expand on the experience had while on a US Dept. of State-grant in the past. It is of great value and importance that such experiences [are not just] once-in-a-lifetime, but also something one could use as a platform for later studies and research as well..."  

 Announcing the New International Visitors Community

There is now an International Visitors Community on State Alumni! The International Visitors Community (https://alumni.state.gov/ivlp) is a place for alumni and current participants of the International Visitor Leadership Program to connect, share ideas, post news stories, share pictures, and engage with alumni from across the globe.  To navigate to the International Visitors Community, log in to State Alumni at https://alumni.state.gov, locate the "Communities" menu on the right side of the page, under the region map, and select "International Visitors Community."

FulbrightWeb.org Becomes the Fulbright Community on State Alumni

We are pleased to announce the transition from FulbrightWeb.org to a new Fulbright Community on State Alumni. The community will bring together current Fulbright program grantees and Fulbright alumni, and will serve as the program"s professional support network for the nearly 300,000 Fulbright alumni worldwide. All Fulbrighters past and present are invited to register for State Alumni and may go to http://exchanges.state.gov or https://alumni.state.gov to do so.

FulbrightMail.org email accounts, replacing existing FulbrightWeb.org email accounts, will also be available to Fulbrighters registered for the State Alumni website. Alumni who previously had FulbrightWeb accounts and existing State Alumni members should have been notified of their new address already. New State Alumni registrants will be processed on a rolling basis once their accounts are verified. Questions may be sent to webmaster@alumni.state.gov. Use of FulbrightWeb and FulbrightWeb.org email accounts has been extended until March 31, 2008. 

Social Networking

STATE ALUMNI now has a presence on two social networking websites to reach out to both alumni and potential alumni.  The State Alumni groups are open for anyone to join on the following websites:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=31684659276

and

ExchangesConnect: http://connect.state.gov/group/statealumni.

We invite you and your alumni to connect with State Alumni on both Facebook and Exchanges Connect!  If you have any difficulties connecting your post"s social networking page to State Alumni, please send your group link and questions to Candice Ward-Ferris at: WardFerrisCB@state.gov.