UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Ana Enriquez, copyright officer and head of scholarly communications and copyright at Penn State University Libraries, has received a 2025–26 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to teach and research intellectual property law in India.
Enriquez will teach and research at the National Law School of India University in Bengaluru during the spring 2026 semester, focusing on a project theme of "Copyright Law, Libraries and Access to Knowledge." She will co-teach one course and offer another course for librarians. Her award was granted as part of the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Awards.
In her project abstract, Enriquez noted that copyright is often a barrier to teaching and research, adding, “I will create course materials to enrich my future teaching and share them for broad reuse by copyright teachers, including teachers in CopyrightX, a global network of copyright courses. I will advance my research on copyright law and access to knowledge, with a particular focus on copyright’s impact on libraries, archives and museums under Indian and U.S. law.”
Fulbright U.S. Scholars are faculty, researchers, administrators and established professionals teaching or conducting research in affiliation with institutes abroad. Fulbright Scholars engage in cutting-edge research and expand their professional networks, often continuing research collaborations started abroad and laying the groundwork for forging future partnerships between institutions. Upon returning to their home countries, institutions, labs and classrooms, they share their stories and often become active supporters of international exchange, inviting foreign scholars to campus and encouraging colleagues and students to go abroad.
Since 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided more than 400,000 talented and accomplished students, scholars, teachers, artists and professionals of all backgrounds with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research abroad. Fulbrighters exchange ideas, build people-to-people connections, and work to address complex global challenges. Notable Fulbrighters include 62 Nobel Laureates, 90 Pulitzer Prize winners, 82 MacArthur Fellows, 41 heads of state or government and thousands of leaders across the private, public and nonprofit sectors.
More than 800 individuals teach or conduct research abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program annually. In addition, more than 2,000 Fulbright U.S. Student Program participants — recent college graduates, graduate students and early career professionals — participate in study/research exchanges or as English teaching assistants in local schools abroad each year.
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