Congratulations to Barbara Piperata on her Fulbright grant, awarded by the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board, for her research in Brazil in Autumn, 2015. The aim of her research is to advance understanding of how economic change, including the injection of cash from the Bolsa Família Program, the world’s largest conditional cash transfer program, is influencing the livelihood strategies of rural Amazonian households and, in turn, how these changes are associated with changes in dietary patterns and individual health status – often referred to as the nutrition transition. To achieve this goal, she will work with colleagues at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) and the Federal University of Para (UFPa) at their long-term field sites in the Amazon Basin. They will collect new biological, economic, and ethnographic data to create a longitudinal database to track economic shifts, livelihood strategies and health over time. They will also compare these findings to longitudinal data Piperata had previously collected in communities located in and around the Caxiuanã National Forest. By training and integrating students from both universities in this research and working closely with staff at the newly opened (2014) OSU Gateway in Sao Paulo, this Fulbright sponsored research also aims to create lasting, collaborative research opportunities for OSU and Brazilian scholars.