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Greetings!
This is the
eighteenth issue of the Fulbright Academy's electronic newletter. It
is sent to educational innovators and leaders in scientific and technical
fields in the US and around the world,
including Fulbrighters, hosts of Fulbrights, commissions, and program
administrators. Back issues are on our website: www.fulbrightacademy.org
For additional
information about the Academy and its mission, please refer to our webpage
or the end of this bulletin. The Academy 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
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The
Fulbright Academy will be represented by
staff and board members at several meetings this fall and
winter.
- 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<.i>
- Second Fulbright Academy Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, February
2005
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Program
at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland |
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The
Academy is planning a program and reception for Monday, November 8
in Cleveland,
Ohio to celebrate the
work of local Fulbrighters and local hosts of visiting scholars.
Special
guests include Mr. Fahrettin Ergin - a Fulbrighter from
Turkey who is
earning his PhD in mechanical & aerospace engineering at Case
Western, and Professor Fischer of the Psychology Department at
Hiram College who will be bringing a guest -
Kudzai Shava, the Director of the Disability Resource Center at Midlands State University in Gweru, Zimbabwe. Other
participants will be coming from Kent State, Cleveland State and the University of
Akron.
The program will start
at 5:00 pm in Sears
Tower of the Medical School, Room T-501, at Case
Western Reserve
University
(which hosted the Vice Presidential Debate a few weeks ago).
Cleveland and Northeast Ohio is an important center for
scholarship, and it is also home to a number of innovative science
& technology-based corporations.
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 wish to attend our Cleveland program, please email or
call Eric Howard at the Academy's office: 866-327-4448 for
directions.
Case Western Fulbright
Alumni Incentives Website
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Follow-up
from the International Fulbright
Conference |
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Fulbrighters
from some 30 countries gathered earlier this month in for Athens for a
series of seminars and lectures and to build ties among Fulbrighters
worldwide. The previous international conference had been held in
Hungary in 1996.
There
were three important outcomes for the Academy. First, we
strenghtened ties with national alumni groups and commissions. For example, groups
in the UK, Ireland,
Morocco, and the
Middle East have promoted the
Academy to their members through announcements in their bulletins.
Second,
the Academy was asked to play a leading role in the Fulbright
Centennial Celebrations. Senator Fulbright was born on April 9,
1905, and we will be working with Harriet Mayor Fulbright (his
widow), alumni groups, Fulbright commissions, and others on
organizing an array of events throughout the coming year. The
Centennial webpage - www.Fulbright100.org - will be up and running
shortly.
Lastly,
the Academy was asked to serve on the organizing committee for the
next international Fulbright conference, with the goal of bringing
more individuals from the sciences and the business community to
Beijing around the time of the 2008
Olympics. The Fulbright Association (US) and the Hellenic
Association of Fulbright Scholars did an excellent job with the 2004
conference, and we look forward to building on their success.
Some of the people who
were in Greece
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Other
News from Members & Affiliated
Organizations |
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The
Fulbright Commission in Chile is pleased to announce that the
new US Ambassador
to Chile, Craig A. Kelly is
a Fulbrighter. He was confirmed as Ambassador by the U.S. Senate in
May 2004, and presented his credentials to Chilean President Ricardo
Lagos at the La Moneda Palace on September 9, 2004. As Fulbrighter
1982, in Bologna, Italy, Ambassador Kelly did research
on the underground resistance in Italy. Also in September,
President Lagos named Ignacio Walker Prieto to be Minister of
Foreign Affairs. In the early 1980's, Minister Prieto completed his
doctoral degree in Political Science as a Fulbright grantee at
Princeton University.
The
Moroccan American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange
is pleased to announce the formation of the Moroccan Fulbright
Alumni Association. Their inaugural meeting in September brought
together some 100 participants for a program on environment and
sustainable development. Several young engineers who are on the
alumni group's board attended the conference in Athens.
The
Fulbright Commission in Portugal is pleased to announce the
formation of Fulbrighters Portugal, the alumni association of
the Fulbright Program in Portugal. Among the
members of the Board are Dr. Helena Granja, a coastal gologist in
the Department of Sciences, University of Minho and Rafaela Arriaga De
Oliveira, who studied Transportation Engineering as a student
Fulbrighter to MIT in 1999.
Earlier
this month, the Academy met with Mr. Dale Medearis, a Fulbright
& Humboldt Scholar at the US EPA Office of International
Activities, to discuss an initiative that will help US businesses
and agencies recognize that the US is not always a
leader. There are times when we can adapt and adopt environmental
best practices that have been developed in other countries - in
areas such regional planning, green building design, and non-point
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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. For September the gift
goes to Dr. Jan Hendrickx, professor of hydrology at the New Mexico
Institute of Mining & Technology in Socorro, NM.
The
University of Wisconsin-La Cosse has
joined the Academy as an institutional member. With 8,746 students,
the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is one of 13 comprehensive
universities in the UW System. The University has Colleges of
Business Administration; Liberal Studies; Education, Exercise
Science, Health and Recreation (EESHR); Science and Allied Health;
and a School of Arts and Communication. The
UW-L Office of International Education is directed by Dr. Jay
Lokken, who manages programs for incoming and outgoing students and
faculty.
Dr.
Robert Wei is
Assoc. Professor of Chemistry at Cleveland State University, and his research
focus is environmental pathology and free radicals. In 2000, he was
a Fulbright lecturer/researcher on environmental chemistry at the
University of
Kelaniya in Sri
Lanka. He is one of 50 CSU faculty
and staff who will be recognized by Dr. Michael Schwartz, the
President of CSU, at a special dinner in November for bringing
"honor and presitige to the University as Fulbright scholars."
Dr.
Stephen M. Smith is head
of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at
Pennsylvania State University. He divides his
research between the study of rural economic change in the
US. and agricultural
development in third world countries, working in Bolivia, Chile,
Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Venezuela. He was among the
first researchers to examine the role of service industries in the
rural US. Current research includes rural development policy,
economic transitions of rural communities, rural employment,
agrarian reform, and markets for traditional crops. He was a Peace
Corps Volunteer and in 1998-99, he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at
the Institute for Peruvian Studies in Lima, Peru.
Please join these
Fulbrighters as members of the Academy
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Organization and Your
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Fulbright Academy is an independent non-profit
organization based in the United States. We receive
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individual members, selected Fulbright alumni groups and
commissions, corporations, foundations, and other entities
interested in developing an international network of leaders in
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Association (US), the US State Department or the Board of Foreign
Scholars.
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Fulbright Academy of Science &
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leaders in science to address critical problems in education,
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