Penn State Intercom......July 12, 2001

New Fulbright program offers
opportunity for international research

The 2001-2002 Fulbright New Century Scholars Program (NCS), a high-level, three-year multidisciplinary research program recently launched by the U.S. Department of State and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), will focus on "Challenges of Health in a Borderless World" in the first year of the program. Applications are due Aug. 1.

Designed to build on the strengths of the Fulbright Scholar Program by extending its mission and outreach, NCS plans to bring together 25 to 30 outstanding research scholars and professionals from the United States and around the world to engage in multidisciplinary collaboration on a topic of substantial global significance. The objective of the first project is to facilitate a deeper understanding of the social context within which societies, nations and the global community shape their responses to disease in a period of increased global interdependence and rapid socio-economic change.

Ilona Kickbusch, director of the Division of Global Health in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale University School of Medicine, will serve as this year's New Century Scholar distinguished scholar leader. Kickbusch was selected for her expertise and standing in the area of the program theme, as well as her ability to approach the topic from an interdisciplinary perspective.

New Century Scholars will be expected to pursue research activities related to the NCS research theme throughout the program year; to maintain contact with one another as a means to expand their own research directions; and to participate in all activities of the program.

Faculty interested in applying should visit the CIES Web site at http://www.iie.org/cies/NCS/. For more information, contact Janet Haner at (814) 865-0771 or jah3@psu.edu; or John M. Keller at (814) 863-6035 or jmk13@psu.edu.

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