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Michigan State University is typically an enthusiastic participant in various Fulbright programs. These programs were created through the efforts of Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas in the aftermath of World War II to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries through educational and cultural exchanges.
The U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program, perhaps the most widely known Fulbright program, sends nearly 800 scholars and professionals each year to more than 130 countries, where they lecture or conduct research in a wide variety of academic and professional fields. According to the spring 2000 issue of the Fulbright Scholar Program News, MSU was tied for second place nationally in the number of U.S. Fulbright Scholar awards for 1999-2000.
During the 2000-2001 academic year:
• MSU is sending four faculty members abroad through the Fulbright
Scholars Program. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. These four individuals will
be hosted by institutions in Mozambique, Nepal, Tanzania, and Turkey.
• MSU is also hosting five Visiting Fulbright Scholars representing
institutions in Armenia, Gaza, India, Pakistan, and the Netherlands.
• Two MSU faculty members have been selected for prestigious Fulbright-Hays
Faculty Research Abroad Fellowships. This program is sponsored by the
U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education/Higher
Education Programs. These professors will be conducting their research
at institutions in Ethiopia and South Africa.
• Three MSU graduate students received awards through the Fulbright-Hays
Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program. Also sponsored by the U.S.
Department of Education's Office of Post-secondary Education/Higher Education
Programs, this program provides grants for individual doctoral students
to conduct research in other countries, in modern foreign languages, and
in area studies.
• Five 2000 MSU graduates and graduate students are studying abroad
on Post-baccalaureate Fellowships awarded through the Fulbright Student
Program. This program, sponsored by the State Department, "is designed
to give recent BS/BA graduates, master's and doctoral candidates, and
young professionals and artists opportunities for personal development
and international experience."
• MSU welcomes 12 new international graduate student Foreign Fulbright
Fellows through the Fulbright Student Program.
| U.S. Fullbright Scholars |
| • Richard William Hill, Professor, Department of
Zoology; LECTURING & RESEARCH: Classroom and Field Study of Marine
Biology, Physiology and Global Change, Sulfur Compounds of Symbiont
Origin in Reef Corals and Giant Clams; University of Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania; September 2000-July 2001
• William Peter Rougle, Visiting Assistant Professor,
Department of Romance Languages; LECTURING: Comparative Literature;
Catholic University of Mozambique, Beira, Mozambique; August
2000-June 2001
• James Curtis Stalker, Professor, Department of
English; LECTURING: Master's Program in TEFL; Bilkent University,
Ankara, Turkey; September 2000-September 2001
• Madan (Matt) G. Syal, Associate Professor, Building
Construction Management Program; RESEARCH: Social and Consumer
Acceptance of Industrialized Technology for Urban Housing in South
Asia; Council of Architecture and National Institute of Urban
Affairs, New Delhi, India, and Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Kathmandu, Nepal; December 2000-May 2001
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| Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowships |
| • Grover Hudson, Professor, Department of Linguistics
and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages; RESEARCH: Current
Change in Amharic; Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa
University, Ethiopia September 2000- December 2000
• Okechukwu Iheduru, Associate Professor, James
Madison College; RESEARCH: Economic Empowerment in South Africa:
The Role of the Nonprofit Sector, the State and Corporations; Rhodes
University, South Africa; July 2000-June 2001
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| Visiting Fulbright Scholars |
| • Mushtaq Ahmad, Senior Subject Matter Specialist,
Entomology Section, Central Cotton Research Institute, Multan, Pakistan;
RESEARCH: Determination of Mechanisms for Insecticide Resistance in
Crop Pests; Hosted by Robert Hollingworth, MSU Department of Entomology;
January 2001-October 2001
• Bianca Beersma, Department of Work and Organizational
Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; RESEARCH:
The Functional and Dysfunctional Aspects of Conflict in Teams; Hosted
by John Hollenbeck, MSU Department of Management, Eli Broad Graduate
School of Management; August 2000- December 2000
• Yasser El-Nahhal, Vice Chairman, Environmental
Protection and Research Institute, Gaza; RESEARCH: Interaction
of Inorganic Molecules with Clays; Hosted by Stephen Boyd, MSU
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, School of Environmental Soil
Sciences; October 2000-June 2001
• Mahantappa Jogad, Senior Lecturer, Department
of Physics, Sharanabasaveshwar College of Science, Karnataka, India;
LECTURING & RESEARCH: Improving Undergraduate Teaching in India;
Hosted by Wolfgang Bauer, MSU Department of Physics and Astronomy;
August 2000-August 2001
• Suren Martirosyan, Lecturer, Department of Ecology
and Chemical Technologies, Laboratory of Electrochemistry, State
Engineering University of Armenia, Yerevan; RESEARCH: Advanced
Electrochemical CdSe Solar Energy Converter; Hosted by H. Ti
Tien, MSU Department of Physiology; September 2000-December 2000
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| Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research
Abroad Program |
| • Hilary Jones, Senegal and France
• Gina Lambright, Uganda
• Shannon Vance, Senegal
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| Fulbright Student Program |
| • Kimberley Butler, Malawi
• Pam Galbraith, Bulgaria
• Mark Holbert, Germany
• Tom Smucker, Kenya
• Mark-Andre Timinsky, Germany
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| Foreign Fulbright Fellows, Graduate Student
Fellowships Program |
| • Nader Abedrabbo, Jordan
• Ioana Algiu, Romania
• Rafael Antonio Auras, Argentina
• Fernando Balsevich, Paraguay
• Alejandro Costamagna, Argentina
• Maria Alejandra Ferenczi-Gardini, Uruguay
• Yovita Gwekwerere, Zimbabwe
• Michael Kellner, Germany
• Felicity Mawila, South Africa
• Juan Penaherrera, Ecuador
• Grace Ukasoanya, Nigeria
• Glenda Valero, Venezuela
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