In August 2007, the Fulbright Board held its quarterly meeting on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. One of the highlights of the meeting was the reception for Fulbrighters hosted by the University. In attendance were many distinguished Fulbright alumni, including Dr. Charles H. Townes, professor emeritus at Berkeley and Nobel Prize winner in 1964 in Physics for his role in the invention of the maser and the laser. During 1955 and 1956, Townes was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Lecturer, first at the University of Paris and then at the University of Tokyo. The Board meeting began with greetings from the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Dr. George Breslauer. Sessions included four panel discussions, with Fulbright administrators, Fulbright scholars, Fulbright students, and a panel of Berkeley scholars engaged in research. Dr. Sonjia Redmond, the President of the Northern California Chapter of the Fulbright (Alumni) Association also gave a presentation to the Board. A Fulbright Scholar alumna (Bahrain, 1991), Dr. Redmond is Vice President for Student Affairs at California State University, East Bay. Discussions with the panel members focused on outreach to diversify the program and increase the applicant pool, how to enhance the 'multiplier' effect of grants, and ways in which the perceptions of grantees had been changed by their experiences in their host countries.

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