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Contact: Ken Carpenter 277-4032 |
January 20, 2004 UNM HOSTS THREE VISITING FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS UNM will host three international Fulbright Scholars during the 2003-04 academic year. Dieter Schulz, professor of Modern Languages at the University of Heidelberg, will be combining teaching and research at UNM on 19 th Century American Literature and Southwestern Writing. Schulz is at UNM in an exchange with Gary Scharnhorst, UNM professor of English, who will present lectures on American Realism and Naturalism, Mark Twain and 19th Century Women's Writing at Heidelberg and other German institutions. Professor Cengiz Hakan Aydin from the School of Communication Sciences at Anadolu University in Turkey is currently in residence at UNM working on a project to develop online learning communities in distance education. Sandra Lazarus, professor of education at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, has been working with the UNM College of Education to research community-based education support systems. Ken Carpenter, associate director of UNM International Programs & Studies and the campus Fulbright representative, said, “UNM has benefited greatly from Fulbright grants, by giving our faculty opportunities to teach and do research abroad, and by bringing top international scholars to UNM.” He added, “In the past few years, UNM has consistently been in the top 75 U.S. universities in the number of Fulbright grantees.” The Council for International Exchange of Scholars, which administers the Fulbright program on behalf of the U.S. State Department and Congress, announced the awards in December. Fulbright grants are among the most prestigious awards available to U.S. and international scholars and teachers. The Fulbright Program began in 1946 with the aim of increasing scholarly exchanges between the United States and the rest of the world. The Fulbright Program has given grants to nearly 100,000 U.S. scholars and professionals to work overseas and sponsored nearly 160,000 international scholars coming to the United States to teach and conduct research. For more information, contact Ken Carpenter, Office of International Programs & Studies, Mesa Vista 2111, telephone 277-4032, email: oips@unm.edu . # # # |
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