This image from Nepal on an unusually clear day looks north toward the Annapurna Massif , just peeking through the clouds . A soccer pitch is in the foreground and Machapuchare ‘ Fish Tail ’ peak is in the background on the left .
Applications are accepted once each year in the late summer and early fall and are deliberated in Washington , D . C ., later in the same year with awards announced the following March . Egan was notified of his Fulbright Scholarship in March 2020 .
Then came the pandemic .
All Senior Fulbright Scholar Awards were postponed indefinitely . Egan and his fellow Peace Corps volunteers were evacuated from the Philippines in March 2020 shortly after he was notified of his Fulbright award .
“ The original plan was for me to depart on my award in the fall of 2020 ,” Egan said . “ For a while , it looked like the Fulbright Commission , which falls under the U . S . State Department , might have to cancel the worldwide Fulbright Scholar cohort that I was a part of for the 2020 annual awards cycle .
The students here are extremely curious , grateful and funny . I enjoy every minute of those interactions , just as I do with ABAC ’ s forestry students .”
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