Fulbright grant winners from universities in Morocco and Turkey are conducting research at the University of Colorado at Boulder while five CU-Boulder faculty winners are in Africa, Asia and Europe to teach and do research.
Provost Phil DiStefano said the CU-Boulder faculty, "continue to be recognized throughout the world for their academic expertise, and it is also noteworthy that faculty from other countries want to conduct their research at our campus."
The Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) announced last month in a letter to CU-Boulder Chancellor Richard Byyny that Aytul Kasapoglu, head of the sociology department at Ankara University in Turkey, and Mohamed Ouammou, professor in the science and technology department at Hassan II University in Morocco, were selected to come to Colorado.
Kasapoglu is at CU-Boulder to research ways to mitigate earthquake danger and prepare Turkish citizens for earthquakes. Ouammou concluded his research in June on industrial wastewater purification in Morocco.
Five CU-Boulder faculty members were chosen as 2002-2003 Fulbright scholars and are already overseas. Associate professor of history Robert Ferry is lecturing on U.S. studies in Jalapa, Mexico. Padraic Jeremiah Kenney, also of the history department, is teaching international relations at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.
Distinguished Professor Richard McIntosh of the MCD biology department is at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, to research a sleeping sickness vaccine. East Asian languages and civilization Associate Professor Stephen Snyder is at the University of Tokyo to study the production and international distribution of contemporary Japanese fiction.
Enrico Spacone, associate professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, is lecturing and researching at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, on the rehabilitation of concrete structures. Most of the scholars' assignments run until summer 2003.
Approximately 800 faculty and professionals from the United States received Fulbright grants this year to lecture and conduct research abroad. A similar number of foreign scholars were chosen to come to the United States, primarily to do research. Since the program's inception in 1946, more than 84,000 scholars from around the world have participated.
Sponsors include the U.S. Department of State and participating governments and host institutions here and abroad. The CIES is a private nonprofit organization that manages the Fulbright senior scholar exchange. For more information about CIES, visit the organization's Web site at .