Four 麻豆影院 faculty and staff have received Fulbright Scholar grants to pursue research, teaching and training abroad during the 2014-15 academic year.
The recipients and their destination countries are: Larry Bell, executive director of CU-麻豆影院鈥檚 Office of International Education, India; Adam Levy, research associate at the Institute of Behavioral Science, Moldova; Richard Regueiro, associate professor of civil, environmental and architectural engineering, United Kingdom; and Lisa Severy, director of Career Services and assistant vice chancellor of student affairs, France.
Levy is teaching a number of graduate-level courses at Moldova State University and the State Institute for International Relations in the city of Chisinau. One of the classes takes students into the field to visit border checkpoints and migrant processing and detention centers. The course brings in guest lecturers including migrant managers and nongovernmental organization partners. One theme studied in Levy鈥檚 courses is the effects of border control efforts in the 鈥渋conic inter-zone鈥� -- the contact or sometimes conflict zone -- between great powers, he said.听
鈥淭he very small country of Moldova is a learning laboratory for border and migration management,鈥� said Levy, who鈥檚 been in the country since Sept. 1. An estimated one-third of working-age citizens in Moldova labor abroad and send home about 40 percent of the country鈥檚 gross domestic product, making it a model for migrant management issues.
With his Fulbright award, Regueiro is conducting research at the University of Oxford on computational mechanics of the eye. The work involves creating computer models and conducting simulations to study how a prosthetic inserted into the inner lens of the eye during cataract surgery, for example, works mechanically with the rest of the eye and restores vision.听The research also could extend to treatment of trauma from foreign bodies penetrating the eye.
One thing Regueiro is struck by at Oxford, where he鈥檚 been since late August, is its ancient and diverse academic environment, he said.
鈥淎 fascinating characteristic of the University of Oxford, which is said to have been founded in the 1200s, is its age,鈥� said Regueiro. 鈥淎lso, college admissions in certain disciplines are limited and students are provided small-group tutorials with a faculty member multiple times per week. There are 38 colleges at Oxford whose atmosphere leads inevitably to interdisciplinary research ideas spawned over lunch, coffee or tea.鈥�
Severy received a Fulbright grant for a two-week seminar this month in Paris and Lyon, France, designed to familiarize U.S. higher education administrators with France鈥檚 higher education and research system. The program will include campus visits, meetings and briefings with government officials and French international education professionals, and networking and cultural activities.
Bell also received a seminar grant and was in India in March to visit with the Indian Ministry of Education and other Indian government officials, U.S. consular officials and a variety of Indian higher education institutions. Other participants in the seminar included provosts, vice chancellors and directors of international offices from U.S. colleges and universities.
The Fulbright program, which is sponsored by the U.S. State Department and chooses participants based on academic merit and leadership potential, operates in more than 155 countries. Roughly 800 U.S. scholars and 800 international visiting scholars receive awards each year.
Five CU-麻豆影院 students were offered Fulbright Student grants this past spring to pursue teaching, research and graduate studies abroad during the 2014-15 academic year. For more information about the winning students visit .
For more information on the Fulbright Scholar Program visit . For more information on international programs at CU-麻豆影院 visit .
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