A generous gift from Ann O. Thomson provides supplementary project support for up to two American Fulbrighters in Finland every year, in cooperation with the Fulbright Finland Foundation. The 2026 award went to Emily Boyett….

In what has been a deeply troubling year, we are very proud to have managed to uphold our values and carry out our projects in honor of Lois’s memory. Last year, we honored eleven…

We stand with the Association of International Educators (NAFSA), its partner institutions, and countless colleges and universities in observing International Education Week as usual, from November 17-21, 2025. This edition of our Lois Letter…

Those of you who have followed us for a long time will know that we occasionally bestow what we have called an “Emeritus Award” for Excellence in Cultural Diplomacy. The idea was to recognize the…

This coming Tuesday, September 30, is INTERNATIONAL TRANSLATION DAY. Organized by the International Federation of Translators since 1990, in 2017 the celebration was recognized as a UN International Day. This year’s events are organized…

The Lois Roth Foundation is honored to present this year’s awardees for Excellence in Cultural Diplomacy at the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Three will attend the celebration: Johnny O. Hishmeh,…

The Lois Roth Foundation is proud to celebrate the continued literary achievement of our MLA-Roth Translation awardee Sasha Dugdale who has been honored with the 2025 Runciman Award for The Strongbox, a powerful poetic…

 Most of the Inuit artworks that are the subject of Dr. Pushaw’s study are not in Greenland, taken and residing in collections in places as diverse as Oslo and Kansas. Dr. Bart Pushaw, of…

Two years ago, we were proud to support Kalyn McDonough through our Project Support Award for Australia. Recently, the Lois Roth Foundation Board had the pleasure of reconnecting over lunch and hearing how this…

Congratulations to Derek Russell, recipient of a 2025 Project Support Award Ecuador! After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree in Architecture, Derek is undertaking architectural…

Marielle Buxbaum is a recipient of the 2025 Project Support Ecuador Award for her exploration of youth social concerns in Theatre for Youth Futures: Engaging Ecuadorian Urban Teens. Marielle’s playwriting-for-social-change program looks to address difficult…

We are pleased to announce the inauguration of the Dick Arndt Prize for an Outstanding Work on Cultural Diplomacy. This biennial award honors Dr. Richard T. Arndt—a distinguished former Foreign Service Officer and founder…

In this last piece before our winter break, we focus on our most recent awards for translations published in English, which we bestow in collaboration with two partner organizations. Our Translation Awards honor Lois…

This fall, our partner the Fulbright Association held its 47th conference, exploring the timely theme “the World at a Crossroads.” Embodying the Fulbright mission, the conferences of this US Fulbright alumni organization underscore the extraordinary potential of Fulbright alumni to…