
The University of New Mexico
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Contact: Carolyn Gonzales 277-5920;
cgonzal@unm.edu
Dec. 8, 2006
UNM Fulbrights to Research and Lecture Across the GlobeThe University of New Mexico sends six researchers abroad in 2006-07 as part of the Fulbright Scholar Program. UNM also receives three visiting scholars.
Kenneth D. Carpenter, associate director, International Programs and Studies, will participate in a U.S.-Japan international education administrators program with visits to various institutions.
Robert Glew, professor, biochemistry and molecular biology, School of Medicine, will conduct research on the assessment of bone quality of semi-nomadic Fulani women in northern Nigeria with Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria.
Chester Liebs, adjunct professor in historic preservation and regionalism, School of Architecture and Planning, will conduct research and lecture on lessons for livable communities from the everyday intangible cultural heritage of Japan, with the University of Tokyo.
Lorraine Malcoe, associate professor and coordinator, Department of Family and Community Medicine, will lecture and conduct research on the study of gender and other socio-structural influences on population health, with Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
Shannon Reierson, doctoral candidate, Department of Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies in the College of Education, will lecture on constructing positive practices for English language development, with National Pedagogical University, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Gary Scharnhorst, distinguished professor, English, will lecture on 19 th century American literature at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany.
Among the visiting Fulbright scholars is Sagrario Del Carmen Cruz Carretero, professor, University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Mexico, who will lecture on historical and contemporary ethnic groups in Mexico as part of the Scholar-in-Residence program.
Roberto Javier Gernandez Alduncin, adjunct CONICET researcher and interim assistant professor, Faculty of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Plant Physiology and Ecology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, will research water-use niche breadth in North and South American sister species of Larrea Desert shrubs.
Yoshiko Kayano, associate professor, Department of International Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Meisei University – Hino, Tokyo, Japan, will research exploring an interface between literature and the grassroots environmental justice movement in the American Southwest.
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