"One of the lasting experiences of the year at Yale was meeting a large number of remarkably interesting and interested people from all over the world, some of who have become good personal friends. I have rarely had the chance to discuss topics ranging from current affairs to international cuisine with such an illustrious group of people. A feeling of shared trust and humor developed over these months. The fact that all of us, while coming from distinctively different backgrounds, had something in common as Fox Fellows facilitated this. If building international friendships was one of the aims of the Fox Fellowship, it has succeeded admirably." Jan Rüger, 2002-03, from Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University to Yale