Penn State Hosts Six Visiting Fulbright Scholars
9-19-96
University Park, Pa. -- Six international Fulbright scholars will be or are now at University Park this year to teach, consult and conduct research with colleagues under the sponsorship of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the United States Information Agency.
"We are very pleased when international scholars choose Penn State as the university where they carry out research in the United States," said Mary Gage, University Fulbright program adviser. "They come not only as scholars, but as representatives of their countries and cultures, and they enrich Penn State in many ways by their presence here."
The Visiting Scholars Program represents a significant part of the federal government's commitment to international educational exchange. On returning to their home institutions, Fulbright scholars will share their experiences at Penn State through seminars, meetings and publications.
The six scholars, who they are working with and their areas of study are:
-- Hrytsenko, Olexander, Institute of Cultural Policy, Ukrainian Centre of Cultural Studies, Kiev, Ukraine. He can be reached in care of Dr. Michael Naydan, director, Center for Russian and East European, Studies, 211 Sparks Building. He will be in residence January 1997 through August 1997, and his research project is a study of U.S. public cultural policy and private patronage of the arts.
-- Ibarra, Martin, University Teacher, National Autonomous University of Nicaragua in Leon, Nicaragua; c/o Dr. J. M. Lambert, Computer Science & Engineering, 10 Pond Laboratory; August 1996 to July 1997. Research -- programming language.
-- Mohammed, Ismaila Z., Department of Sociology, Bayero University Kano, Kano, Nigeria; c/o Dr. Gretchen Cornwell, Population Research Institute, 613 Oswald Tower; August 1996 to July 1997. Research -- male attitudes towards fertility control and family planning in Nigeria.
-- Osei, Stephen Alfred, lecturer, Department of Animal Science, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana; c/o Daniel Hagen, Chair, Department of Dairy and Animal Sciences, 324 Henning Building; September 1996 through January 1997. Research - animal science.
-- Stefanescu, Bogdan, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, Romania; c/o Dr. Michael Naydan, Dept.Head, Slavic and East European Languages, 211, Sparks Building, August 1996 - July 1997. Research -- the rhetoric of post totalitarian discourse
Ulku, Ayse, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey; c/o Dr. J. L. Duda, Head, Department of Chemical Engineering, 160 Fenske Laboratory, September 1996 through December 1996. Research - water vapor absorption on zealites
Contact: Christy Rambeau (814) 865-7517 (office) cmr7@psu.edu