Six faculty members have earned grants from the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program for the 2015-16 academic year, making NC State one of the nation’s leading Fulbright producing institutions.
The Fulbright Scholar Program sends American faculty members, scholars and professionals abroad to lecture and/or conduct research for up to a year. The program, founded by Sen. J. William Fulbright in 1946, operates in 125 countries worldwide under the aegis of the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
This year’s Fulbright U.S. Scholars are:
- Michelle Schroeder-Moreno
Department of Crop Science
Project title: Enhancing Curriculum and International Collaborations in Agroecology between North Carolina and Croatia - Patricia Marshall
Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Counselor Education
Project title: Multicultural Education in the U.S. and Ecuador; Teacher Education Students’ Investment in Cross-Cultural Study of Race and Economic Class Disparities in Schools - Darrell Britt
Department of Mathematics
Project title: High-Order Computation of Solutions to the Helmholtz Equation in 3D - Robert Kochersberger
Department of English
Project title: Journalism Today: Writing and Editing for Media - Lucian Lucia
Department of Forest Biomaterials; Department of Chemistry
Project title: Environmentally-Based Approaches for Sustainable Human Development - Michael Bustle
Office of International Affairs
Project title: U.S.-Japan International Education Administrators Seminar
In addition, NC State had one Fulbright Specialist this year. Heidi Hobbs, associate professor of political science in the School of Public and International Affairs, will spend a month at the University of Economics in Bratislava in the Slovak Republic, where she will work with the Center for North American Studies to develop curricula for a specialized certificate program and teach a short course titled “American Society in Global Perspectives.”
Since its inception, the Fulbright program has provided more than 360,000 participants with the opportunity to exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.
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