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Newsletter Celebrating 27 Years of Service to the Fulbright Program, 1977 2004 Volume XXV, No The Fulbrighters' Fulbright ASSOCIATION Newsletter Celebrating 27 Years of Service to the Fulbright Program, 1977 2004 Volume XXV, No. 3 Fall 2004 Fulbright Association 27th Annual Conference in Athens Enjoys Support of Co-Sponsors and Contributors "Celebrating the Fulbright features is The Greek Key: research, and analysis of foreign Ethos," the first annual conference Language in a Cultural Landscape , policy and international relations. held abroad, has attracted the a six-credit course designed to help Recent conferences have focused on support of co-sponsors and students unlock the door to cross­ democracy in Russia, the Clinton contributors in Greece and in the cultural understanding during a administration, and presidential­ United States. The conference was semester in Athens. congressional roles in foreign policy, planned for Athens at the invitation Austin Peay State University and each has resulted in an edited of the Hellenic Association of (APSU) supports a variety of volume. Future studies will include Fulbright Scholars. The Fulbright academically rigorous study abroad the changing American South, Association's partners have programs with a broad base of including the region's impact on contributed in important ways to the cultural experiences as a means of foreign policy, and democracy and success of our first international preparing students for life and work Islam. Further information about the conference. We are proud to share around the world. For more Institute' s activities is available at information on co-sponsors' information, please visit www.uark.edu/-fiir. The lnstitute's programs and to acknowledge our www.apsu.edu. APSU Study Office of Study Abroad and contributors. Abroad to Greece offers the International Exchange conducts The Arcadia University opportunity for students to earn numerous exchange programs, Center for Education Abroad seven hours of credit and spend five including the Classics in Greece advances the university's mission to weeks in Greece studying the art Summer Program. Please see prepare students for life in a rapidly and archaeology of ancient Greece www .uark.edu/studyabroad for changing global society. Because and the language of modern Greece. details. international learning is an essential Program information is available at The United States Educational component of an effective www.apsu.edu/winterst. During the Foundation in Greece, established undergraduate education, the Center program , directed by Timothy F. (Continued on page 11) for Education Abroad is committed Winters (Greece 1986), students to providing high-quality, spend two weeks on the island of academically-sound , experientially­ Crete, then travel to approximately In this Issue: rich study abroad programs and 40 archaeological sites from all Fulbright Association Members support services to a wide range of periods of Greek history. Sites Selected to Receive Fulbright students and institutions. The include Knossos, Mycenae , Scholar Alumni Initiative Awards 2 center may be contacted through Corinth, Pylos, Mystra, Delphi, Institutional Members 4 cea@arcadia .edu or Olympia, and many others. Chapter Enrichment, Programs & www.arcadia.edu/cea. Participants also hike the Samaria Outreach 6 The Arcadia Center for Gorge and pursue other activities in Southeast Virginia Chapter Helps Hellenic, Balkan and connection with modern Greek Improve Fulbright Program Mediterranean Studies and culture . The program is designed to Outreach with State Dept. Grant 7 Research is home to Arcadia's demonstrate that Greek culture is Planned Giving Options 9 programs in Greece. It offers a important not only in the ancient Fulbright Association Donors 9 broad range of undergraduate world but in the modern as well. Global Fulbright Network 10 classes in modern, Byzantine, and The Fulbright Institute of Fulbright Alumni Achievements 12 classical Greek studies during both International Relations at the Books for Baghdad Project 15 semesters of the academic year and University of Arkansas, Calendar of Events 16 in the summer. Among its unique Fayetteville, is a center for study, Fulbright y·i-. F lb . h , N, 1 . h , N, l Fulbright The F u1 bng ters ews etter Assoc1u10N AssocuT10N 11e u ng ters ews etter ----------------------------- --- ------------------------ University, will develop with Grace Ors. Olaniyan and Trager in the Fulbright Association Members Selected to Receive Nambozi , Mbarara University of spring of 2005. It is expected to Science and Technology , Uganda , a contribute to the Fulbright Scholar Alumni Initiative Awards "Community Based University internationalization of curriculum Nursing Education Program" to development at both institutions . Six Fulbright Association From Classroom to Bedside" to establish the discipline in Uganda. The Alumni Initiatives Awards members have received grants improve clinical education on Students at Mbarara will rotate to Program is funded by the U.S. under the Fulbright Scholar Alumni tuberculosis and smoking -related the center as part of the curriculum Department of State's Bureau of Initiatives Awards Program which diseases for students from both of the bachelor's and master 's of Educational and Cultural Affairs enables Fulbright scholar alumni to institutions. Dr. Ali also directs the nursing science programs , and the Institute of International sustain institutional partnerships LSU Chest and TB Clinics and the providing students at Mbarara Education (IIE), which serves as initiated while they were on their LSU-Wetmore TB Clinics . opportunities to learn new coordinator for both the Fulbright Fulbright grants . They are among techniques and methods. The Scholar and Fulbright Student 29 Fulbright scholar alumni in the project will also establish a global programs. IIE has established a United States and in eight other element in the nursing program at $3.5 million fund to support countries to be selected for grants Florida Atlantic University . Fulbright program enrichment ranging from $13,200 to $25,000 . activities. The Council for Nearly 200 scholar alumni who International Exchange of Scholars participated in the Fulbright Michael Handelsman (Ecuador 2002) (CIES), a division of IIE, program during the 2000-01, administers the Fulbright Alumni Neil Diamant (China 2001) Achievement Awards Program. 2001-02, and 2002-03 academic workshops and photographic For information on other award years applied . exhibits concerning the visual Neil Diamant (China 2001), recipients or on the program, please The Fulbright Association memory of Afro -Ecuadorian assistant professor of Asian law and see www.cies.org/aia. • salutes its member recipients for culture at Dickinson College, will communities. Four one-week their dedication to the principles of work with Yiha i Li of the Shanghai workshops for curriculum mutual understanding and of Academy of Social Sciences development in the disciplines of academic and professional (SASS) on the project "Patriotism global studies, Latin American excellence. Brief descriptions of in the U.S. and China ." studies, Latin American literature, The F ulbrighters' Newsletter is a publication of the Fulbright their projects follow. Dr. Diamant will instruct a and Africana and diaspora studies will be offered on the campuses of Association . Material for publication freshman seminar at Dickinson on on the subjects of international Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar contemporary patriotism in the exchange , international education, and United States and China. The and at the University of Tennessee . alumni activities, as well as news and Rolando Arrieta (Portugal 2001). project will include development of reports from partner countries and Photograph courtesy of the Council for a Dickinson-SASS symposium institutions, should be e-mailed to International Exchange of Scholars. involving scholars from SASS and [email protected] , faxed to Dickinson faculty and students . To (202) 347-6540, or mailed to: Rolando Arrieta (Portugal further discussions about Sino-U.S. Lillian Trager (Nigeria 2000) 2001), National Public Radio relations and the role of patriotism The Fulbrighters' Newsletter 666 I Ith Street, NW, Suite 525 producer, will collaborate with in both cultures, two Dickinson Lillian Trager (Nigeria 2000), Washington, DC 20001 Alvaro Barbosa of the Portuguese faculty members and three students who directs the Center for Catholic University on the project will travel to China to visit SASS. International Studies at University Visit the Fulbright Association on the "Next Generation Radio of Wisconsin-Parkside, will web at www .fulbright.org. E-mail Worldwide." Visiting faculty from Michael Handelsman collaborate with Richard Olaniyan your questions, comments, or concerns ]uzar Ali (Turkey 2002) receives the Portuguese Catholic University (Ecuador 2002), distinguished of Obafemi Awolowo University, to [email protected] or call us at certificate from U.S. Ambassador to will participate in NPR' s flagship professor of the humanities, the Nigeria, on the project "Nigerian (202) 34 7-5543. Turkey W. Robert Pearson (2000-03). training programs and will create a University of Tennessee, will work and American Perspectives on Fulbright Association Staff 10-minute audio postcard to be with Catherine Walsh of the Juzar Ali (Turkey 2002), Contemporary Africa." The project Jane L. Anderson, Executive Director featured on Catolica' s BIT Radio Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Lisa Chapin, Director of Chapter professor of clinical medicine at the will
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