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Greetings!
This is the seventeenth issue of the Fulbright Academy's electronic
newletter. It is sent to Fulbrighters, hosts of Fulbrights, Fulbright
administrators, educational innovators and leaders in scientific and
technical fields in the US and around the world. Back issues are on our
website: www.fulbrightacademy.org
Please refer to our webpage or the end of this bulletin for additional
information about the Academy and its mission. We can be reached at info@fulbrighter.org
If you are not a member, please consider joining. We look forward to
your involvement in the Academy.
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Upcoming Programs |
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The Fulbright Academy will be represented by
staff and board members at several meetings this fall and winter.
- International Fulbright Symposium and the Fulbright
Association Annual Meeting in Athens, Greece, October 7-10.
- 27th Annual Midwest Environmental Chemistry Workshop, Madison,
WI, October 15-17.
- Tour and Reception at the California Academy of Sciences,
organized by the Fulbright Association- Northern California
Chapter, San Francisco, October 24
- Saving our Planet: Environmental Decision Making in an
Uncertain World - the Third Annual Shasha Seminar on Human
Concerns at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, November 4-6
- FAST Seminar & Networking Event, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, OH, November 8
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual
Meeting, Washington, DC, February 2005
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Program at Case Western Reserve University,
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| The Academy is planning a reception for Monday,
November 8 in Cleveland, Ohio to celebrate the work of local
Fulbrighters and local hosts of visiting scholars. Cleveland and
Northeast Ohio is an important center for scholarship and it is also
home to a number of innovative science & technology-based
corporations.
The program will be held at Case Western Reserve University,
which is located in University Circle, a 550- acre, park-like
concentration of approximately 50 cultural, medical, educational,
religious, and social service institutions located at the eastern
edge of the city center.
The program follows a similar event held at Harvard University
earlier this month. The Cambridge event at the Museum of Comparative
Zoology was attended by nearly 50 Fulbrighters and friends of
Fulbrighters.
Our contact at CWRU is Dr. Nahida Gordon of the Department of
Bioethics at the School of Medicine. Dr. Gordon is a current
recipient of a Fulbright Alumni Initiatives Award, to facilitate her
work with faculty at Birzeit University in Palestine. If you are
interested in our Cleveland program, please call Eric Howard at the
Academy's office: 207-799-3098.
Case Western
Fulbright Alumni Incentives Website »
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International Fulbright Conference in Greece |
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| Fulbrighters from around the world will be
gathering for meetings in Athens early in October. In preparation
for the conference, the Academy has been in contact with some of the
registered participants.
"I am invited to give a little presentation in the workshop
Global Fulbright Network and speak of the plans to celebrate Senator
Fulbright's 100 birthday next April 9th. Have you made any plans yet
to join in the celebrations? I think it would be a dream come true
if every Fulbright association who bares his name would do something
on April 9th to commemorate his vision and program that has made
such a change in all our lives."
Wiltrud Hammelstein, member of
the French Fulbright Association
"It would be great to meet you in person...Without a doubt,
Panamanian Fulbrighters would be interested to be part of the
Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology."
Dr. Mayte Mitre,
Panamanian Fulbright Alumni Association.
"Many thanks for your letter and I look forward to meeting with
you in Athens, Greece.... I am most interested in your proposals and
suggestions for collaboration and I think the US- Sri Lanka
Fulbright Commission is keen to get involved with you."
Tissa
Jayatilaka, U.S.-Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission
Some of
the people going to Greece »
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Member Creates A New Stock Index for Alternative
Energy |
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| Investing in a portfolio of companies involved
in alternative energies such as wind, solar, and hydrogen fuel cells
has been challenging, but it is now getting easier. Last month saw
the launch of the WilderHill Clean Energy Index (ticker: ECO), a
benchmark comprised of publicly traded companies involved in
alternative energies that is published by the American Stock
Exchange (Amex).
Academy member, Dr. Rob Wilder, was instrumental in creating the
index through his San Diego-based firm, WilderShares. "As smart
energy alternatives including wind, solar, and hydrogen fuel cells
have reached billion dollar markets and gain increasing demand, we
believe the WilderHill Clean Energy Index is the right product at
the right time."
The ECO index was set at $100 on 12/30/2002 and is currently
trading at about $135. Like the Dow Jones Index, the ECO index is
constituted on a modified equal weighting basis, meaning that it
seeks to balance company representation in the benchmark according
to their dollar value. In addition, the index predetermines sector
representation. The cleaner fuel sector represents 20 percent of the
index (7 companies), energy conversion 21 percent (8 companies),
energy storage 10 percent (4), greener utilities 11 percent (4),
power delivery and conservation 20 percent (11), and renewable
energy harvesting 18 percent (6).
Dr. Wilder earned his PhD in political science from University of
California, Santa Barbara in 1991, and his Fulbright experience was
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Other News from Members & Affiliated
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| Dr. Allen Taylor of the Jean Mayer USDA Human
Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University received a
Johnson & Johnson Focused Giving Award to study relations
between long-term nutrient intake and risk for age-related eye
diseases such as age related macular degeneration and cataract. A
ceremony will mark the award. Dr. Taylor was a Senior Fulbright
Scholar in 1999-2000 in Israel where he studied roles of the
ubiquitin pathway in Ataxia Telangiectasia.
The Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
(CASTL) announces a call for participation in the 2005-2006 Carnegie
Scholars Program. Faculty members from any discipline or
professional field and from all institutional types are invited to
propose a scholarship of teaching and learning inquiry project that
addresses the cohort theme of undergraduate integrative learning.
Applications must be received electronically no later than 15
November 2004. www.carnegiefoundation.org
The Fulbright-OAS Ecology Initiative offers grants to individuals
from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada for master's and
doctoral level study at U.S. universities. Grantees in the natural
sciences, social sciences, and public policy study multidisciplinary
approaches to environmental preservation and sustainable
development. The goal of the initiative is to develop a
well-prepared cadre of environmental professionals who, upon
completion of their studies, will return to their institutions to
share their expertise with colleagues while maintaining contact with
each other. The program is administered by LASPAU is a nonprofit
organization affiliated with Harvard University.
www.laspau.harvard.edu
The International Science & Engineering office at NSF
announces the Summer Institutes in Asia and Australia 2005 program.
In 2004, 150 US graduate students became internationally experienced
researchers by spending eight weeks conducting research and
experiencing life in Australia, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The
deadline for applying to the 2005 program is December 10, 2004.
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Selected New Members |
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 To promote growth in the Academy, we will be
giving a special gift to a randomly chosen new member each month for
the rest of the year. We have some very nice pens make of white
birch and some "first-day- of-issue" envelopes of the US Postal
Service stamp commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Fulbright
Program, issued on February 26, 1996. As reported in last month's
newsletter, Dr. Maurice Weinrobe of Clark University was the winner
of our gift for the month of August.
Atlanta Technical College has joined the Academy as an
institutional member. A 35-year old institution that offers more
than seventy programs of study, ATC is the leading technical
institution serving a diverse student body of 4,000 in Atlanta, GA.
Unlike many schools, ATC has a two-year guarantee: If a graduate
educated under a standard program finds that he/she is deficient in
one or more competencies as defined in the standards, the technical
college will retrain him/her at no instructional cost.
Dr. Melvin Jameson is Professor of Finance and Associate
Dean for Graduate Programs and Research at the University of Nevada
College of Business. In 1999, he went on a Fulbright to lecture at
the National University in Costa Rica and conduct research on Costa
Rica's financial markets and their reform.
Dr. Dominick Casadonte of Texas Tech University was a
Fulbrighter to France in 1999 for Franco-American collaboration in
variable frequency sonochemistry. In May of this year, he was
awarded a NSF Fellowship to connect senior citizens in the Lubbock,
Texas, area with elementary and middle school students in the local
public schools. "There is something that works magically between
seniors and young children," he says. Call it "the grandparent
effect": the seniors are engaged and intellectually stimulated,
while the children, who are often from distressed homes, gain a
positive adult role model. Casadonte's strategy is to train a group
of senior citizens, aged 65 and up, in both pedagogy and general
chemistry principles. The seniors will then volunteer as teacher's
aides, mentors, or resource persons in the schools. During the
course of the program, Casadonte will work with gerontologists,
sociologists, and other specialists to evaluate the classroom
effectiveness of the senior volunteer, the educational outcomes for
the students, the attitudinal, physical and cognitive outcomes for
the seniors, and the overall efficacy from the perspective of the
classroom teacher.
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Your Organization and Your Membership |
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| The Fulbright Academy is an independent
non-profit organization based in the United States. We receive
organizational and financial support from institutional and
individual members, selected Fulbright alumni groups and
commissions, corporations, foundations, and other entities
interested in developing an international network of leaders in
science and technology. We are not affiliated with the (US)
Fulbright Association, the US State Department or the Board of
Foreign Scholars.
The Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology uses the
expertise of our network of Fulbrighters and leaders in science to
address critical problems in education, scientific innovation and
economic development. Our database has over 10,000 Fulbrighters and
scientists around the world.
Our projects are funded by contracts, grants, or donations from
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