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By Vicki L. Kroll : April 20th, 2010Learn more about the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Wednesday, April 21, in Student Union Room 2591 from 1 to 3 p.m.
Bruce Kennedy at the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
UT faculty members who have received Fulbright awards will discuss their experiences.
Joel Lipman, professor of English, was a senior Fulbright Fellow in Belize during the 1992-93 academic year. He taught American literature to prospective teachers at the University College of Belize.
“Working in an underdeveloped country at its only four-year post-secondary institution was an experience that changed my family’s sense of living on our planet. We all became global citizens during the Fulbright year,” Lipman said. “My students were primarily from the remnant Maya communities, or Garifuna descended from slave rebellions, or the sons and daughters of immigrants who had made it to Belize from Caribbean islands and from what were at that time Central American oligarchies and dictatorships.”
Bruce Kennedy, associate professor of law, traveled to Wuhan, China, where he taught courses on U.S. Property Law and U.S. Legal Research Methods at the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law during spring semester 2009.
“I left China loaded with ‘souvenirs’ — new friends, new colleagues, new insights on my teaching and research, and a much deeper understanding of modern China,” Kennedy said. “I also left China loaded with ‘seeds’ — seeds of future lecture opportunities, research partnerships and other collaborative projects.”
Dr. David H. Davis, professor of political science, was a Fulbright professor last spring at Nanjing University in China, where he taught two courses on environmental policy. His students were enrolled in the School of the Environment.
“I was surprised how many of my students were being recruited into the Communist Party. The party wants to bring in young experts to solve environmental problems,” Davis said.
Lipman, Kennedy and Davis are scheduled to speak at the information session.
Established in 1946, the Fulbright program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. About 1,000 faculty and professionals travel abroad annually through the U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program.
For more information, contact Herdia Hodges of Research and Sponsored Programs at herdia.hodges@utoledo.edu or 419.530.2844, and go to www.iie.org/cies.
