Two Institute members among the 40 Irish Recipients Awarded Prestigious Fulbright Award

Fulbright Commission. Picture Conor McCabe Photography.

The six NUI Galway Fulbright Awardees

Two members of the Whitaker Institute received Fulbright Awards this year: Dr. Emer Mulligan (Performance Management research cluster) and Ms. Alena Yuryna Connolly (Work, Society and Governance research cluster).   Since 1957, the Fulbright Awards are given annually by the Irish and U.S. governments and provide Irish students, scholars, and professionals with the opportunity to study, lecture, and research at top universities and institutions throughout the United States. Dr Emer Mulligan will visit the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as a Fulbright-CRH Scholar, and her research activities will focus on taxation in practice in US multinational corporations and US tax policy and administration. Lena Connolly is currently undertaking a PhD in Information Systems Security at NUI Galway. While at the University of California Berkeley, Lena will be researching socio-cultural measures that promote security-cautious behaviours of employees in organisational settings. Read about the other Irish recipients here.